The Great Tumblr Apocalypse

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rpicongallery:

madqueenzelly:

withmywordsispeaktruth:

Ok so staff just released info about this new update, and while it seems like an effective way to cut off any lurking, hateful anons, or the possibility of anyone seeing your blog that you don’t want to, it also cuts off a lot of other useful features as well.

I conducted a little to test to see how it works by turning off the “show this blog on the web” feature on this blog, and using a dummy blog to see how it works. 

  • First things first, using this feature eliminates your URL completely. You as the blog owner are not even able to view your blog at the URL address. I tried WHILE I was signed in to my blog and it still would not allow me.
  • Obviously if you as the blog owner can’t see it also means no one, including mutuals, can see your blog either. There are only two ways you can still view a users content: The mobile side view and posts that come across your dash.
  • This feature also eliminates the use of read more’s. When you click the read more link it takes you to the permalink, which is part of your URL, which no longer exists.
  • You are still able to search within tumblr for blogs and follow people and people can search for you, but as I said above, even if you are following a person or they are a mutual, they will never be able to view your actual blog page again.

If you are not comfortable losing your blog page completely, even from your own personal view, then I would not suggest using this feature.

Signal boosting this, because of a lot of blogs I follow have done this, and now I can’t read half the shit they post as a result. I don’t think they realise the issue with the read more thing.

dear-indies

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#PSA #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse

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How come I haven’t seen anyone talking about the end of dashboard nested reblogs except in future tense? I’m already seeing the new design. Am I actually in the first wave of a gradually rolled-out update for once?

I’m hopeful about it, really. Sure, every change takes some getting used to, and it’s a little annoying not being able to see at the beginning of a thread how many entries it has, but I do like actually having people’s names next to their writings.

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#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #(which I use for all posts regarding Tumblr updates) #oh look an original post

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cosmictuesdays:

staff:

Hey Tumblr, welcome to your better blocking system. So much better that we changed its name from “Ignore” to “Block.” A proper, muscular name. Solid as a block.

Someone acting like a tool? Go ahead, block them. Here’s what they won’t be able to do:

  • Follow you
  • Message you
  • Like your posts
  • Reblog your posts
  • Reply to your posts
  • See your posts in search results
  • See your blog in search results

As far as their dashboard is concerned, you don’t exist. 

WOOHOO!

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#Tumblr: a User’s Guide #the more you know #I am reserving judgment for now

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(my Internet was out for most of the day, so it’s quite possible there are already posts on my dash along these lines that I just haven’t caught up with yet, but anyway)

Tumblr what are you thinking

I have already liked three of those four posts

(I was kind of hoping it would be all four so I could say “all of those posts”, but no, turns out I didn’t hit the like button on the Civ post. Still, three out of four ain’t good.)

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#oh look an original post #I suppose I’ll tag this #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #as that seems to have become my tag for stuff about Tumblr updates

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tinierpurplefishes:

brin-bellway:

comparativelysuperlative:

Is it plausible to unfollow people and blame it on Tumblr? Asking because I just followed three people I could have sworn I already did. (Could have unfollowed on purpose and just forgotten, but, one of them is my sister. I am pretty sure I would have remembered that.) And since it’s Tumblr, anything short of meteor strikes could be this website’s fault.

The other bottom line is that if you thought I followed you and I don’t, I probably just think you haven’t posted in a while.

It’s worse than that.

You, the people who are successfully reading my blog, may have noticed that I just reblogged a bunch of stuff from this person. This is because it turns out that, even though Tumblr claimed I was still following him, his posts have not been showing up on my dash for about the past fortnight.

You might want to manually check the blogs you follow that “haven’t posted recently” to make sure they really haven’t. If you do find one that has, unfollowing and re-following works, or at least it did for me.

There are at least two aspects to this, as far as I know, tho one of them may have changed, and others may also be in play. First, tumblr’s new layout makes it stupidly easy to accidentally unfollow someone. Secondly, and this is the part that may have changed, but at least at one point there was a limitation that only the last hundred people you followed would actually show up on your dash. This is part of why I don’t follow back all the time, because I want to keep my follow list under that limit if it’s still there.

For what it’s worth, I was definitely still officially following comparativelysuperlative: when I went to his blog, Tumblr offered me an “unfollow” button rather than a “follow” button. I’m also only following 68 blogs total, and I’ve been following some of the blogs that have been showing up on my dash for longer than I’ve been following him.

(That’s…pretty horrible about the “only the last hundred people you followed” thing. Why not just explicitly forbid people from following more than 100 people at a time if you’re going to have that limit?)

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#reply via reblog #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #Tumblr: a User’s Guide #(found this post in the notes)

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comparativelysuperlative:

Is it plausible to unfollow people and blame it on Tumblr? Asking because I just followed three people I could have sworn I already did. (Could have unfollowed on purpose and just forgotten, but, one of them is my sister. I am pretty sure I would have remembered that.) And since it’s Tumblr, anything short of meteor strikes could be this website’s fault.

The other bottom line is that if you thought I followed you and I don’t, I probably just think you haven’t posted in a while.

It’s worse than that.

You, the people who are successfully reading my blog, may have noticed that I just reblogged a bunch of stuff from this person. This is because it turns out that, even though Tumblr claimed I was still following him, his posts have not been showing up on my dash for about the past fortnight.

You might want to manually check the blogs you follow that “haven’t posted recently” to make sure they really haven’t. If you do find one that has, unfollowing and re-following works, or at least it did for me.

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#PSA #Tumblr: a User’s Guide #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse

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