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About this theme

Apatis is a minimalistic theme inspired by The New York Times website, featuring a newspaper-like design with subtle lines. It looks great on any type of blog but is particularly well-suited for text-based blogs. It includes a featured article section and the ability to highlight your favorite Tumblr accounts!

Theme options

Customizable colors: up to 6 custom colors

Avatar shape. You can change between a circle or square

Show Tags or not

Show Featured Posts or not

Show Recently Liked post or not

Disqus Shortname

And many more!

Features

Responsive layout and looks good on the mobile screen, dashboard-like reblog chain posts, support NPF posts, unlimited custom links as you want through Tumblr pages, tag lists, Disqus, and featured posts!

How to add a custom link to this theme?

You can add as many custom links as you want through Tumblr pages, and the process is very simple, here’s how:

Go to customize page

Scroll down until you find ‘+Add a page’

Enable ‘Show a link to this page’

Select “Link” from the dropdown menu (for custom links) and if you want to make a custom page (for example, an ‘about’ page), just don’t change anything from the dropdown menu and leave the ‘Standard layout’

Add the URL, page title, and page body text as you wish and save

How do I install this theme?

The theme has been uploaded on Tumblr theme garden which means you don’t have to manually copy-and-paste the code on the customization panel, just go to this link and click the ‘Install’ button and your blog automatically will be changed.

You said that this theme is mobile-friendly, but it shows the default theme provided by Tumblr! How do I disable it?

Easy! Just go customize, scroll down until you find ‘Advanced options’ → disable ‘Use default mobile theme’ → Save

For more information and a theme guide, please visit the link below: https://apatis-theme.tumblr.com/customize-guide

And let me know if you happen to experience the issue or confusion. Thank you.

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I have hacked together a system for automatically emailing a daily digest of my Tumblr posts to two dozen friends. I use the Tumblr RSS feed, and pipe that through the Mailchimp free tier. It works, but it's kind of ugly. I would love it if Tumblr offered its own, native capability to let people subscribe to daily email digests of posts to an individual Tumblr, perhaps with the resulting output looking like the default Tumblr theme or the dashboard. Thanks! P.S. I have been quite enjoying Tumblr for the past year or so. I've had a blog here since about 2011, and always liked Tumblr, but most of that time I just used automated tools to update it in sync with some other service that I considered my primary blog (mainly the late lamented Google+). Lately, however, as Tumblr settled in to Automattic, the service is looking great!

Answer: Hey there, @atomicrobotlive!

We love this idea. We would certainly consider it a paid feature, or a perk of such a paid feature, sometime in the future. It’s worth adding it is not on our immediate roadmap right now, but things can change, so keep an eye on @changes and consider this idea stuck to our drawing board. This is where we want to use that screengrab of Charlie in It’s Always Sunny… you know the one.

In the meantime, thanks for your feedback and keep the questions coming.

Best,

—Bohdan and Cyle (Tumblr Engineering)

p.s.—Thank you for your thank you! It has been such a joy to see some really lovely feedback from you folk recently, and we’re made up to hear good things from you. We hope you continue to enjoy it...

#feature #wip #question #hmmm

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SZA (Feat. Travis Scott) - Love Galore

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Hamhung streets - North Korea by Eric Lafforgue 

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Objects representing 1990s nostalgia in Vietnam. Credit to Tired City.

#art #book #culture #nostalgia

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Orbital - Halcyon And On And On (1993)

#audio #music

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Why “Go Nuts, Show Nuts” Doesn’t Work in 2022

For those who don’t know or remember, Tumblr used to have a policy around porn that was literally “Go nuts, show nuts. Whatever.” That was memorable and hilarious, and for many people, Tumblr both hosted and helped with the discovery of a unique type of adult content.

In 2018, when Tumblr was owned by Verizon, they swung in the other direction and instituted an adult content ban that took out not only porn but also a ton of art and artists – including a ban on what must have been fun for a lawyer to write, female presenting nipples. This policy is currently still in place, though the Tumblr and Automattic teams are working to make it more open and common-sense, and the community labels launch is a first step toward that.

That said, no modern internet service in 2022 can have the rules that Tumblr did in 2007. I am personally extremely libertarian in terms of what consenting adults should be able to share, and I agree with “go nuts, show nuts” in principle, but the casually porn-friendly era of the early internet is currently impossible. Here’s why:

Credit card companies are anti-porn. You’ve probably heard how Pornhub can’t accept credit cards anymore. Or seen the new rules from Mastercard. Whatever crypto-utopia might come in the coming decades, today if you are blocked from banks, credit card processing, and financial services, you’re blocked from the modern economy. The vast majority of Automattic’s revenue comes from people buying our services and auto-renewing on credit cards, including the ads-free browsing upgrade that Tumblr recently launched. If we lost the ability to process credit cards, it wouldn’t just threaten Tumblr, but also the 2,000+ people in 97 countries that work at Automattic across all our products.

App stores, particularly Apple’s, are anti-porn. Tumblr started in 2007, the same year the iPhone was released. Originally, the iPhone didn’t have an App Store, and the speed of connectivity and quality of the screen meant that people didn’t use their smartphone very much and mostly interacted with Tumblr on the web, using desktop and laptop computers (really). Today 40% of our signups and 85% of our page views come from people on mobile apps, not on the web. Apple has its own rules for what’s allowed in their App Store, and the interpretation of those rules can vary depending on who is reviewing your app on any given day. Previous decisions on what’s allowed can be reversed any time you submit an app update, which we do several times a month. If Apple permanently banned Tumblr from the App Store, we’d probably have to shut the service down. If you want apps to allow more adult content, please lobby Apple. No one in the App Store has any effective power, even multi-hundred-billion companies like Facebook/Meta can be devastated when Apple changes its policies. Aside: Why do Twitter and Reddit get away with tons of super hardcore content? Ask Apple, because I don’t know. My guess is that Twitter and Reddit are too big for Apple to block so they decided to make an example out of Tumblr, which has “only” 102 million monthly visitors. Maybe Twitter gets blocked by Apple sometimes too but can’t talk about it because they’re a public company and it would scare investors.

There are lots of new rules around verifying consent and age in adult content. The rise of smartphones also means that everyone has a camera that can capture pictures and video at any time. Non-consensual sharing has grown exponentially and has been a huge problem on dedicated porn sites like Pornhub – and governments have rightly been expanding laws and regulations to make sure everyone being shown in online adult content is of legal age and has consented to the material being shared. Tumblr has no way to go back and identify the featured persons or the legality of every piece of adult content that was shared on the platform and taken down in 2018, nor does it have the resources or expertise to do that for new uploads.

Porn requires different service providers up and down the stack. In addition to a company primarily serving adult content not having access to normal financial services and being blocked by app stores, they also need specialized service providers – for example, for their bandwidth and network connections. Most traditional investors won’t fund primarily adult businesses, and may not even be allowed to by their LP agreements. (When Starbucks started selling alcohol at select stores, some investors were forced to sell their stock.)

If you wanted to start an adult social network in 2022, you’d need to be web-only on iOS and side load on Android, take payment in crypto, have a way to convert crypto to fiat for business operations without being blocked, do a ton of work in age and identity verification and compliance so you don’t go to jail, protect all of that identity information so you don’t dox your users, and make a ton of money. I estimate you’d need at least $7 million a year for every 1 million daily active users to support server storage and bandwidth (the GIFs and videos shared on Tumblr use a ton of both) in addition to hosting, moderation, compliance, and developer costs. 

I do hope that a dedicated service or company is started that will replace what people used to get from porn on Tumblr. It may already exist and I don’t know about it. They’ll have an uphill battle under current regimes, and if you think that’s a bad thing please try to change the regimes. Don’t attack companies following legal and business realities as they exist.

#long post #text #featured

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seeing all my twitter mutuals on tumblr is like nature is healing

anyway heres a new ghibli study i started

#art #ghibli

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Do not talk about your abusive family on tiktok. Do not talk about your closeted identity on tiktok. Do not talk about your traumas and mental illnesses on tiktok. Do not talk about your plans to move out from your abusive household on tiktok. Do not talk about the ways you disagree with your bigoted family on tiktok.

Do not attach your face or voice to anything on tiktok that you do not want your family members, neighbors, coworkers, or classmates to see. Be smart and stay safe.

#text #personal

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咲: Kushimoto, Wakayama.

#art #pixel #gif

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魔人探偵 脳噛ネウロ

#art #Majin Tantei Nōgami Neuro

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An August sunrise with geese.

#video #scenery #sunrise

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Marketplace date.

#amazing #spectacular #art

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Hi there! Question: what are some of tumblr's biggest product in the near future? Obviously there's been a lot of hubub abt recent monetization effort. Any other areas y'all are excited about?

Hi! Thanks for the question.

Well first, we’re all pretty excited about this blog, since it’s really the first time we’ve been able to have a public, open discussion with y’all :)

I dropped your question in our company Slack to see what everyone is most excited about. We’ve got a lot of ongoing projects! Here’s how folks responded:

A time range filter on /search pages (in-progress).

Our move to Elasticsearch: This means big improvements to underlying search capability and better, more consistent search results. In simple terms: Fixing search (in-progress). Keep an eye out for a post on our Engineering blog if you want to know more about this!

Reblog controls: Limit who can reblog your posts (in-progress).

Login via username (in-progress).

Open-sourcing Redpop, our API-powered web client (under consideration).

So that’s what we’re excited about, but what about you? Tell us what you’d like to see. We want to hear from you!

-Kat (Tumblr Support)

#hmm...? #inchteresting #it's been a year so i was wondering about open-sourcing redpop

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Title of a sample post

The biggest possible text!

Some bigger text.

Here’s what regular text looks like.

This is a quote.

A paragraph of indented text.

Speaker: This—

—is what a chat section—

—would look like!

Some bullet points.

These ones are in an unordered list.

Here is a range of very colorful text.

This is another list.

This one’s numbered!

How about the link block below?

And this, below, is what a Read More would look like.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Voluptate suscipit nostrum cupiditate ut minus officia magni, voluptatibus vel. Libero illum iste quos, temporibus iusto officia pariatur eveniet aperiam nemo voluptas!

#example text #here is the tags