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[jisatsual]

The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All Moonlight Magazine Extras, Spring & Summer 2023

#mangacap #the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all #com. #rom. #sol

[horrornerdcoms]

rules : credit !! the blog & half of it must be paid for up front.

blog starter pack ; basic.

includes: dash icon, header, pinned post. : 18 dollars.

blog starter pack : medium.

includes: dash icon, header, pinned post, promo. : 25 dollars.

blog starter pack : extreme.

includes: dash icon, header, pinned post, promo, psd. : 30 dollars.

blog starter pack : ultimate.

includes: dash icon, header, pinned post, promo, psd, 50 icons of [1] faceclaim of your choice. : 35 bucks.

gifs -

150 / 8 bucks.

250 / 18 bucks.

350 / 25 bucks.

450 / 34 bucks.

#comissions. #com. #boost. #rph

[lady-harrowhark]

1-800-R-U-SLAPPIN

#BOOP #this sure is a webbed site #april fool's day #tumblr dot com the app and website #boop-o-meter #baby’s first 10k

[mangedog]

tumblr blackout proposal

tumblr mobile has steadily become near unusable these past few updates. not just from a user experience perspective (which is important enough in itself) but also from an accessibility perspective.

examples include the new way the image viewer works (if you can call it "working"), the tumblr live button replacing the profile button, and that newly created blogs will be forced to have their main dashboard tab be the 'for you' page.

the demands of the protest would be along the lines of:

reverse the recent image viewer update

scrap the new users 'for you' page default setting

let us turn off tumblr live indefinitely

increase efforts against spam / porn bots

make reporting abuse and hate speech as easy as reporting as reporting spam

let us go nuts show nuts again... for real this time

remove flashing ads, including not accepting blaze campaigns for posts with flashing in them

commit to improving usability and accessibility, and listening to users!

(suggestions welcome!)

to protest against these usability issues, and inspired by the recent reddit blackout, i propose a 48 hour blackout (where you don't use tumblr at all). preferably of both mobile and web (since web has problems too) but mobile is the focus here.

[edit: a 'blackout' is when you don't log in, or interact with the site at all, for [x] amount of time.]

I suggest from the 30th of June.

this marks the end of pride month (for the "queerest place on the internet") and the start of disability month (since accessibility is a massive issue here).

tumblr office is in San Francisco, USA, so the times and dates will be calculated using their time zone (PDT).

you can find out the times and dates for your timezone here.

i can't afford to blaze this post so please spread it around as much as possible! protests only work if significant numbers show up!

edit: tumblr rejected the blaze campaigns for this post because they know it would hurt them. let's make this an indefinite blackout - it's the best way to get results.

edit 2: plain text version of this post

#again‚ suggestions welcome :) #dogpost #tumblr #tumblr dot com #tumblr.com #tumblr blackout #tumblr protest #accessibility issues #user experience #accessibility #ideally they would just integrate xkit toggles but we know they wont do that lol #tumblr strike

[leolaroot]

hey guys sorry but is the wordpress guy in charge of tumblr literally at burning man right now shitting in buckets????

#go to photo matt dot tumblr dot com. this guy's recent posts are all pictures taken at burning man

[twobrokenwyngs]

I don’t get it, man. why. why do we have to homogenize everything. why does every product have to look and behave and feel the exact same way. why can’t tumblr maintain its individuality? why can’t it lean into the things that make it a unique and refreshing offering instead of scrambling to make it a carbon copy of twitter? sucks, man. sucks.

#tumblr dot com #dark days…

[tbposting]

not for nothing but "chastity until marriage" and "lifelong strict monogamy" is every bit as much kink as piss or free use or knotting is. we just don't call it that because those weirdly specific and highly fetishized sexual practices are institutionalized and considered normative.

#this is a shitpost on tumblr dot com

[getvalentined]

An open letter to @staff

I already submitted this to Support under "Feedback," but I'm sharing it here too as I don't expect it to get a response, and I feel like putting in out in public may be more effective than sending it off into the void.

The recent post on the Staff blog about changing tumblr to an algorithmic feed features a large amount of misinformation that I feel staff needs to address, openly and honestly, with information on where this data was sourced at the very least.

Claim 1: Algorithms help small creators.

This is false, as algorithms are designed to push content that gets engagement in order to get it more engagement, thereby assuring that the popular remain popular and the small remain small except in instances of extreme luck.

This can already be seen on the tumblr radar, which is a combination of staff picks (usually the same half-dozen fandoms or niche special interests like Lego photography) which already have a ton of engagement, or posts that are getting enough engagement to hit the radar organically. Tumblr has an algorithm that runs like every other socmed algorithm on the planet, and it will decimate the reach of small creators just like every other platform before it.

Claim 2: Only a small portion of users utilize the chronological feed.

You can find a poll by user @darkwood-sleddog here that at the time of writing this, sits at over 40 THOUSAND responses showing that over 96 percent of them use the chronological feed*. Claiming otherwise isn't just a misstatement, it's a lie. You are lying to your core userbase and expecting them to accept it as fact. It's not just unethical, it's insulting to people who have been supporting your platform for over a decade.

Claim 3: Tumblr is not easy to use.

This is also 100% false and you ABSOLUTELY know it. Tumblr is EXTREMELY easy to use, the issue is that the documentation, the explanations of features, and often even the stability of the service is subpar. All of this would be very easy for staff to fix, if they would invest in the creation of walkthroughs and clear explanations of how various site features work, as well as finally fixing the search function. Your inability to explain how your service works should not result in completely ignoring the needs and wants of your core long-term userbase. The fact that you're more willing to invest in the very systems that have made every other form of social media so horrifically toxic than in trying to make it easier for people to use the service AS IT WORKS NOW and fixing the parts that don't work as well speaks volumes toward what tumblr staff actually cares about.

You will not get a paycheck if your platform becomes defunct, and the thing that makes it special right now is that it is the ONLY large-scale socmed platform on THE ENTIRE INTERNET with a true chronological feed and no aggressive algorithmic content serving. The recent post from staff indicates that you are going to kill that, and are insisting that it's what we want. It is not. I'd hazard to guess that most of the dev team knows it isn't what we want, but I assume the money people don't care. The user base isn't relevant, just how much money they can bring in.

The CEO stated he wanted this to remain as sort of the last bastion of the Old Internet, and yet here we are, watching you declare you intend to burn it to the ground.

You can do so much better than this.

Response to the Update

Under the cut for readability, because everything said above still applies.

I already said this in a reblog on the post itself, but I'm adding it to this one for easy access: people read it that way because that's what you said.

Staff considers the main feed as it exists to be "outdated," to the point that you literally used that word to describe it, and the main goals expressed in this announcement is to figure out what makes "high-quality content" and serve that to users moving forward.

People read it that way because that is what you said.

*The final results of the poll, after 24 hours:

136,635 votes breaks down thusly:

An algorithm based feed where I get "the best of tumblr." @ 1.3% (roughly 1,776 votes)

Chronological feed that only features blogs I follow. @ 95.2% (roughly 130,077 votes)

This doesn't affect me personally. @ 3.5% (roughly 4,782 votes)

#tumblr dot com #tumblr staff

[coruscantknave]

There are still gems to find out there in the forums

#Congrats to fluther dot com user janbb for having the funniest possible response

[jisatsual]

#mangacap #you and i are polar opposites #com. #rom. #sol

[housewifebuck]

“it’s not canon” TO YOU. they’re fucking nasty in my google docs right now

#I sent this to rae and thought hm this could do numbers on Tumblr dot com #🪐 #this is about buddie btw

[wickedhawtwexler]

me when other people tag me in things: this person??? thought about me???? i'm so flattered??????? 🥺💕🥺💕���💕🥺💕

me when i consider tagging someone in a post: i am annoying!!!! i am overstepping every single boundary!!!! i am making an absolute fool out of myself!!!!!!

#i'm making a post for my ~*~ 2k follower celebration ~*~ #and idk the thought of tagging mutuals in it makes me so self conscious!!!! #even though i love being tagged in other people's follower celebrations!!!! #my brain is so stupid like babe this is tumblr dot com let's not overthink this #m.txt

[leonardcohenofficial]

if you wear/don’t wear makeup for other reasons, feel free to put your explanation in the tags!

#sorry there’s no ‘see results’ option it always fucks with the data and it annoys me lmao #i very purposefully don’t wear makeup these days for political reasons #so i’m curious as to my friends’ and colleagues’ here on tumblr dot com

[defilerwyrm]

And I boop at him

And he boops at me

And I boop at him

And he boops at me

#boop #tumblr dot com #april fools #april fool's day #april fools 2024 #tumblr #wait how did this happen

[tubi]

On Tubi, the romcoms you love just keep going.

#tubi #rom com

[uymdot]

ヤニヤニで偶然お揃いだったヘッダーが、どうやらゆたあむにも伝染したようで。記念にパシャりました。

#com.