#Communities

[labs]

Another idea: Communities on Tumblr

For a while now folks have asked us for better ways to connect with other people who share similar interests. We’re listening, and at Labs we’ve been looking into fulfilling that need, Tumblr style.

Introducing Communities, a new place to connect with others on Tumblr:

Here in Labs, we’re working on big ideas that could transform how Tumblr is used, while keeping that Tumblr vibe alive. You can see one of those ideas above. We’re calling it “Communities”, a new dedicated space on Tumblr for people to share and discuss all the content they love. Communities can cover topics like your favorite show, artist, movie, video game, your school, your board game group, friend group, big or small, whatever you want.

Each Community has their own semi-private safer space away from the regular dashboard where you can interact with other Tumblr users who share the same interests and passions as you. There are moderators and members (you!), rules, and privacy settings. Each community has its own feed of posts from members, separate from your Following and For You feeds. Interactions within community spaces stay there and replies will work more like a traditional comment section. Folks will be able to reblog posts into a community, but not out — at least not yet.

We’re very excited for you to try it, and help define the best path forward. What we have is a prototype to help us validate the idea, but there’s still plenty of questions that need answering. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be reaching out to people across Tumblr, and the internet at large, to try our prototype. Based on the feedback we get, we’ll iterate on the idea to see what resonates best with all of you on Tumblr.

If this sounds interesting, please like, reblog, or reply to this post, and we’ll invite you to beta test this feature when we roll it out to a wider Tumblr audience, as a little perk for following the Labs blog.

Stay tuned for more!

#tumblr labs #communities

[teathattast]

#destiel #destiel news #oc #teathattast #tumblr communities #communities

[ruinandending]

Baiting haiku bot. What's with the communities. Tumbler now reddit?

#haiku #haiku bot #communities #tumblr #reddit

[transformativeworks]

IFD2024: What is Your Fandom Doing?

International Fanworks Day is a way for the fannish community to come together and celebrate the importance of fanworks. Is a community you're a part of planning an event for this occasion? Let us know about it by January 28 and we’ll share it! Get more details at https://otw.news/39b98b

Bahasa Indonesia • Bahasa Melayu • Български • বাংলা • català • Čeština • dansk • Deutsch • eesti keel • Ελληνικά • English • español • français • 한국어 • hrvatski • italiano • lietuvių kalba • magyar • Nederlands • 日本語 • norsk • polski • português brasileiro • português europeu • Русский • Српски • suomi • svenska • Tiếng Việt • Türkçe • Українська • Wikang Filipino • 中文

#ifd2024 #international fanworks day #otw #organization for transformative works #communities

[wip]

Will the new Communities feature include a live chat? And will it be possible to pin a post at the top with a welcome, rules and info? I'm curious as to how this will shape up!

Answer: Hey there, @vaguelygenius!

In short: right now, no live chat. However, we are interested in it, whether it’ll feel needed or not, per se. And we are also looking into some kind of Discord integration instead of building a live chat (again) ourselves.

As for pinning a post: yes! We are playing around with the ideas of an About page, a Community Guidelines page, a Pinned Posts tab/feed, and whether just pinning posts to the main feed makes the most sense.

We will want to play around with these ideas once we’ve got more people using Communities for their own usage. Pinning posts may make a lot of sense for big communities with lots of passers-by, but makes no sense for small communities that really want to use pinned posts as a “highlights” feed.

Thanks for your interest in it! We’re glad to see it and will reach out when it’s time to open it up to more people.

#feature #communities #chat #backend

[sreegs]

I get the feeling that people who think cities are bad and imagine the experience of living there as being "packed in like sardines" have never experienced a walkable community in their life.

#cities #urban planning #communities #walkable cities

[maireadralph]

Oh The Iddy Biddy Entrapdak Committee has been approved as a legit Tumblr community!

It should be set to Public but if not comment here and I’ll add peeps.

My plan is for this to be a hub for our Fandom - whatever you want to find it’s there:

✔️ Fanart ✔️ Fanfics ✔️ Fandom Events

AND

Tagged appropriately so if there’s something you don’t want to see you curate your own experience by blocking certain tags

Heck if there’s something the Fandom wants added just say it. This is our community, let’s make it work for us!

#hordak #entrapta #entrapdak #communities #tumblr #I’ll be playing with this once I’ve finished my housework for the day

[pillowfort-social]

Site Update - 4/4/2024

Hi Pillowfolks! Our Developers have pushed a new update to our platform that addresses several bug fixes. We will be monitoring closely for any unexpected bugs so please let us know if you run into any.

Thank you again for your support! Stay tuned for future updates. 

Bug Fixes

Moderation Improvements - Fixed a couple of bugs present in the moderation flag appeal process.

Account Settings Fix - Fixed an error that locked users out of accounts after trying to save an avatar with an image that is 5 megabytes or higher. We also improved error handling for avatar uploading.

Deleted Communities - Fixed a bug where the names of deleted Communities were not available to be reused.

Posts Not Appearing in Communities - Fixed a bug where posts submitted to Communities with post screening enabled were not visible in the screening queue.

Queue & Scheduling Fixes - Fixed erroneous notifications for queued reblogs.

Other

We also made a minor revision to our Terms of Service to provide better clarity on prohibited content regarding suggestive images, photography, and art of real minor

#pfstaffalert #pillowfort #updates #pfdevalert #bug fixes #moderation #settings #communities #tos #queue #scheduling

[myfandomrealitea]

That discord server post made me remember the stark difference between Serverstuck (a minor populated server) and Degrees of Lewdity (strict adult-only server)

Serverstuck has the worst mods and owner I've seen because they're all Antis and abuse the rules by excusing anyone who are close to them & punishing others who are strangers, lying to people on why some got banned, and allowed sensitive political topic go unregulated

Degrees of Lewdity, despite filled with people who has crude & cursed-level sense of humor, has strict mods & owner, write the correct information on why some people are banned or muted (they even allow users to request to be ban from the server for mental health reasons), and immediately shut down any conversation of sensitive political topics that cause infighting between members

I feel safer in a server for an adult game development than a "minor friendly" homestuck rp server

While I do welcome servers that have a mixed age range, I don't think I've ever or will ever join a server moderated or owned by someone who is either/both an anti or a minor.

To run or moderate a server you need to be impartial, objective, socially aware, able to appropriately manage conflict and relatively socially seasoned. I've personally found most minors often lack or are incapable of most if not all of these qualities.

(And that's not me hating on minors or calling them ignorant. Some of those qualities are just things you learn or develop with age and time. Some adults never learn them at all, even, but they are qualities you need if you're going to, essentially, be in charge of other people.)

Sephiroth's Server Safety Tips

Always do a thorough check into who is advertising the server, who owns the server, and other members before joining a server where possible.

Once you've joined the server, immediately use the search function to look for key words related to topics you want to avoid, possible past conflict, bullying, ect.

Immediately check the server rules. Its a red flag in itself if the server doesn't have any. Also, 'just be nice' is not a rule. Servers should have clear, clean cut rules and regulations.

Don't be afraid to message server owners, moderators or users privately and ask questions. They shouldn't get offended and if they can't or won't answer questions about basic rules, server safety protocols, ect, you should reconsider joining.

Don't be afraid to ask around other people to see if the server is known or has a reputation, either. If a server is based on a specific fandom, for example, search through that fandom for any past mentions of the server or ask other fans if they've heard of it.

#myfandomrealitea #sephiroth speaks #fandom #not discourse #proship #proshipping #discord #discord server #discord servers #community #communities #social spaces #online community #profiction

[mbari-blog]

Glorious gardens bloom deep below the ocean’s surface. ⁠

⁠These deep-sea sponge and coral communities create complex, three-dimensional structures that provide habitat for many other animals, such as crabs, sea stars, and many different fish species.⁠⁠But deep-sea corals—and the life that depends on them—face a fragile future. Changing ocean chemistry will make it more difficult for them to grow, and fishing gear can damage delicate corals. Marine protected areas can safeguard deep-sea corals and the animals that call these coral gardens home. Learn more about this fascinating deep-sea environment on our YouTube channel. 

#@MBARI #DeepSea #SeaLife #Ocean #Nature #Coral #Communities

[futurebird]

what is it like over on the fediverse?

I can explain.

(No. I can't)

#mastodon #social media #i can explain #i can't explain it #fediverse #online #tumblr #communities

[labs]

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.

#communities #tumblr labs

[extremesocialoutcast]

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

#tumblr #tumblr meta #tumblr stuff #tumblr things #tumblr features #tumblr labs #tumblr communities #communities #hellsite #tumblr friends #tumblr polls #polls #poll #reblogs appreciated #pls reblog #reblog this

[macrolit]

#libraries #books #community #communities #beyond books #gensler #design

[thepeopleinpower]

Capitalism and colonialism took community away from us and I want it back. I’ve heard about it from my grandparents and in books and articles online. All throughout history and still today in some parts of the world. People looking out for each other. Regularly. Relentlessly. Neighbors watching each others children, having enough food to share and actually sharing it, being invested in each others lives because everyone has different strengths.

Today community has been strategically painted as a weakness and something to be skeptical of because it is a threat to the very foundations of capitalism. And that’s a real fucking shame because in reality, growing up with community and still having that through adulthood would probably make most people generally happier and less perpetually tired and stressed. It is renewable resilient versatile adaptable self-sustaining and kind of the Ultimate Resource.

#I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy #fuck capitalism #global community #local community #communities #community #fuck colonialism #fuck western media #settler colonialism #land back #indigenous liberation #indigenous communities #indigenous culture #human rights #renewable resources #sustainability #intersectional social justice #disability advocacy #social reformer #racial justice #wealth redistribution #healthcare reform #economic justic #environmental justice #generational healing #ancestral healing #industrialization #anti imperialism #religious tolerance #coexistence

[wip]

Any updates on Communities? I have so many potential users for this feature and want to get going! 😊

Answer: Hi, @ktempestbradford!

Well, what are the chances? We have quite the update for you, and you can find it right here over at @labs. Happy reading!

#feature #communities