The Great Tumblr Apocalypse

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support:

Your replies are on the way, Tumblr

Just wanted to let you know that we’re putting the finishing touches on replies, and making sure they play nicely with everything else on this platform.

“Why did they go away? Why, staff, whyyyy?” Fair question. We had a gaggle of overlapping message-like systems—namely, asks, fan mail, reblogging with commentary, question posts (rare!), and, yes, replies. When we finally introduced actual instant messaging a couple months ago, we had a lot of untangling to do.

In order to make all these systems work together, we had to do some back-end retooling, which meant taking down replies for a bit. For longer than we expected. Sorry about that.

And we get it—replies fill a very particular need (and you were very clear about expressing that need). They’re a kind of super like. A way to fully express your feelings about a thing without expecting anything in response. A gift.

When they come back, they’ll be even better. People will be able to reply to your posts multiple times, and you’ll even be able to reply to your own posts. Simple changes, yes, but ones that open up lots of possibilities.

Best of all, we’ve laid the down the engineering and design groundwork for even more substantial improvements down the road. Replies will be able to develop side-by-side with messaging.

More to come, soon enough. We know you all miss replies. We hope you enjoy their imminent return.

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#PSA #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse

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support:

Site status: January 25, 2016, 2:20PM (Eastern)

There’s an issue affecting rendering images in the dashboard for a small number of users. Should be resolved shortly.

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#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #that might explain those absences that were supposed to be pictures of moths #but the moths have loaded now #(I recommend following @support if you haven’t already) #(it helps shorten those moments like ‘wtf what is this new airplane button for’)

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thetransintransgenic:

huskyandtusky:

angryfuturerobot:

unlimitedgoats:

it’s kind of interesting to me, from a business standpoint that Tumblr in particular hasn’t adopted some form of transparency with regard to how they operate? Like, obviously, the user base of a social media site doesn’t need to know every little detail of how the site is run but imagine the goodwill that could be brought by a weekly or bi-weekly behind-the-scenes update as to the status of things?

e.g. “Replies are taking longer to reimplement than we had predicted due to a new coding method we decided to adopt for future site updates. We aim to have them back by x date. Thanks for your patience.”

 little bits like that wouldn’t be unwelcome at all I think.

You realize those updates would just be “Kevin got wasted on pbr and pushed an untested code update to the master and now everything about replies are fucked and we don’t actually know how to fix it, cause the person who got it working in the first place quit after that dude wouldn’t stop wearing his tie as a belt.”

Website update: Nothing is fucking working properly because everyone is too busy shopping for unusual ties to wear as belts. I’ve been alone in the office for three months now. I fucking hate you david karp.

Yeah.

And then all they need to do is make that blog private so that you have to have a Tumblr to read it, and nobody would think if leaving Tumblr again.

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#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

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loquaciousquark:

I was thinking about this earlier, so! For the record!

Right now, I am fully intending on using the new paper airplane whatever thing as my replies. They’re not the same and they’re not what I want, but they’re what I’ve got, and I miss talking to y’all, so they’re what I’m going to use.

When I send you an airplane chatty thing, it has the same intent behind it as a public reply. I don’t expect a response at all if it’s not necessary (e.g. with commiserations, reactions to your good/bad news, answers to specific questions, etc.). I don’t need acknowledgement that you received it unless you’d like to let me know. I absolutely do not expect to start an immediate chat back and forth, regardless of whether I see you active on tumblr at the same time. That’s my reply, no strings attached!

And for the foreseeable record, if I message you in response to one of your posts, please consider it 100% okay to copy/paste & answer publicly, just like a reply, unless it’s specifically stated otherwise. I know some people are far more comfortable with answering all the replies to something in one place, and if you have a specific post you want to gather all the messages for so you can find them again later (e.g. fic! art! fanworks! anything you’ve produced by working really hard on!) I am absolutely 100% okay with that!

So there. I’m gonna talk to y’all whether tumblr likes it or not.

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#Tumblr: a User’s Guide

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support:

staff:

Send a post to a someone that’ll love it.

Messaging news! Three things are happening! All of them are good:

  • There’s a new button on every post. It’s a paper airplane.
  • That paper airplane lets you send any post as a message.
  • And messaging is out to everyone. We flipped the switch.

So now 100% of you can talk to a Tumblr using posts instead of words. Or in addition to. Whichever. Have fun!

The paper plane is on iOS and the web right now, and it’ll be flung out to Android users over the next 24 hours.

Now you can share all the Bee Movie posts you want. Or, you know, other things.

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#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #the more you know #I finally figured out how to convince Tumblr to explain to me WTF it’s doing when strange new buttons appear #(the trick is to follow @support)

Reblog if you’re perfectly fine with mutuals speaking to you through the new messaging system

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comparativelysuperlative:

brin-bellway:

ozymandias271:

or non-mutuals, really

ping me

I thrive on attention

Wait, what?

Oh!

People were talking as if it were a virus, so once someone quit the metaphor and explained, my immediate second reaction was that this was going to be the best use of Brin’s tag for Tumblr updates. And, well,

#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse

I’m pretty sure we’re all going to be eaten by zombies.

…good point. I guess apocalyptic things have happened.

(Aww, you thought of me!)

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#reply via reblog #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #awww

On The Update

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friskid:

I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY SINCE COMMENTS ARE NOW GONE
                    Feel free to reblog one of my posts with your comment!! I don’t mind!
                              And feel free to reblog this if you are okay with this too, 
                             so I can get a mind of who I can do this to and whatnot!!

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#reblog if #yeah it looks like the ‘reply via reblog’ tag will be getting more use now #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse