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Quick PSA, if you get one of those "Work scanned, AI use detected" comments on AO3, just mark them as spam.

Some moron apparently built a bot to annoy or prank hundreds of authors.

There is no scanning process, your work doesn't actually resemble AI writing, it's all bullshit. Mark the comment as spam (on AO3, not the email notification you got about the comment!) and don't let it get to you.

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Since the Dashboard correction plugin creator was put off the site, and xkit doesn't yet have the option of fixing it, Im stuck with the new layout for now

This is what desktop users without it have been having to deal with? It's garbage.

@staff can't we roll this back? Reversing all the unwanted changes that happened last year would leave you with a much better website than spending money on another dead end feature like "communities".

We don't need more distance away from what made Tumblr tumblr. We need to fix what doesn't work, and go back to what did.

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I don't really see what this would add though. Is it just a list like myspaces top 8? Tumblr already recommends other blogs to follow based on a number of factors.

Tumblr is testing out a communities feature, but I still think they're missing out on not having much of a social networking system.

Like, adding friends, being recommended friends (based on common interests and whatnot), etc.

Actually,...

Make this gets reblogged a bunch, because I'm genuinely curious what people think

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You should go on some water

You're just a mammal. Let yourself act like it. Your brain needs enrichment. Your body needs rest. You feel hunger and grow hair. You need to pack bond with other sentient things so you don't become unsocialized and neurotic. You are biologically inclined to seek dopamine and become sick when chronically stressed. Outrage about hedonism is made up to place moral value on taking pleasure in sensory experiences. I am telling you that if you don't let yourself be a fucking mammal, as you were made, you will suffer and go insane. No grindset no diets no trying to be above your drive for connection. Pursue what makes you feel good and practice radical rejection of the constructs meant to turn you into a machine. You're a mammal.

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The Australian word for it is whipper snipper

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oh ok word

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I have sorta done this, but their terminus "millennium station" or something like that was really ugly inside.

You need some fuckin whimsy in your life, ride the train to Chicago

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It should be illegal to require that any device or software connect to the internet just to run. I shouldn't need to log in with microsoft to open any of their programs on my local computer. All games should be playable without access to an online server. All media you pay for should be downloadable to local disk as a raw file and if they don't like that because they know you'll share it and upload it, tough shit. They took your money already, they'll live.

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Ranma 1/2 | Shampoo

#ranma 1/2

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Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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Tumblr already has posts dying early because new users aren't being taught to reblog things enough. This just sounds like another additional layer of insularity.

Sure, it might function decently in isolation, but think of the effects it could have in the site at large.

Getting posts to or from specific fandom is what the tags are for. Go and work on those instead.

Communities closed beta is here

Hello again! We’re back with an update on Communities, a big idea we had last year that we’ve been working on steadily since then. We’re abnormally jazzed to announce that we’re beginning a “closed beta” phase of this new feature, which means many of you will get to play with it soon!

We want to build this whole thing together, with as much input from all of you as possible. We’ve read and re-read the feedback from our previous post, and we’ve been surveying and interviewing people about this idea for a few months now. But it’s time to open this up even more for hands-on testing.

We’ve already begun reaching out to most of you who interacted with our previous post, as promised, with a survey asking whether you’d be interested in helping (check your email!). Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be using the results of that survey to narrow down who we’d like to help test Communities in these initial batches.

The process is looking a bit like this:

If you received a Communities survey email to your registered Tumblr email address, fill it out! If you’re interested in helping us in this beta test period, that’s your way of potentially getting early access. If you did not receive an email with the Communities survey, don’t fret! Communities will be rolling out to more people as we expand our testing. 

We’ll go through the results and choose a diverse range of community ideas to gather a wide array of feedback.

Selected testers will receive a second survey with more detailed questions about their proposed community. Very practical stuff, like the name, title, and description, whether it should be public or private, the About page contents, its own community guidelines, and more.

We will create the new Tumblr community on your behalf using the information supplied. We’re building the tools that will let people create and edit communities themselves, so eventually you’ll be able to change them without needing our help. But for now, we’re creating and editing them for you, as needed.

After we’ve created the community, you’ll be made its first admin. Everything from here on out is up to you – Tumblr staff won’t be in your community (unless you invite us, of course). You’ll be able to invite anyone on Tumblr to your community. However, your community will have a population cap to start, limiting how many people can be in it and invited, as a way of keeping this beta test somewhat contained and manageable for us. We’ll be able to raise that population cap for communities that are growing and if we want to test further in that direction.

And throughout, we’ll be asking for feedback, both in some special communities for everyone in the closed beta, and via more surveys and the Support tickets we receive.

This closed beta version of Communities is far from finished, and that’s part of the reason we want to start opening it up to more of you for feedback. There are a lot of rough edges and known issues, but we think it’s far enough along that it’s usable enough for testing. We need feedback in order to feel like we’re building the right thing.

The very first public community is called “Communities Feedback” for this reason! We want everyone helping us test out communities to tell us about it, so people in this closed beta will be in there by default. We want to use that space to be more public and real-time about new pieces we’re building, bugs we’re fixing, things we know are broken, and answers to common questions. There is an additional, private community for community admins, to help shape how administrating and moderating these spaces will work. And if you don’t want to use those spaces, you can always use the “Feedback” category in our Support form.

Stay tuned for more, and keep an eye on that Communities Feedback space if you’d like to see how things are changing over time.

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Donna Noble has never witnessed a regeneration that doesn't result in multiple doctors, at least one of them being David Tennant.

She spends life living with fourteen worried that he's going to fall down the stairs and she'll end up with another one.

#doctor who #14th doctor #10th doctor #he just keeps duplicating #David tenants for everybody #hah. that should be a fan film #someone get me deep fake tech and my friends enough free time to make another one

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Here's someone else's go at restoring the layout, for those that want it

Since the Dashboard correction plugin creator was put off the site, and xkit doesn't yet have the option of fixing it, Im stuck with the new layout for now

This is what desktop users without it have been having to deal with? It's garbage.

@staff can't we roll this back? Reversing all the unwanted changes that happened last year would leave you with a much better website than spending money on another dead end feature like "communities".

We don't need more distance away from what made Tumblr tumblr. We need to fix what doesn't work, and go back to what did.

[myothertardisisonthemun]

[myothertardisisonthemun]

Since the Dashboard correction plugin creator was put off the site, and xkit doesn't yet have the option of fixing it, Im stuck with the new layout for now

This is what desktop users without it have been having to deal with? It's garbage.

@staff can't we roll this back? Reversing all the unwanted changes that happened last year would leave you with a much better website than spending money on another dead end feature like "communities".

We don't need more distance away from what made Tumblr tumblr. We need to fix what doesn't work, and go back to what did.

#tumblr