The Great Tumblr Apocalypse

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In related news, I have now been switched to the new posting layout. Verdict: mostly okay-but-useless. I agree with what I’ve seen that the switching of “post” and “close” can lead only to bad things.

However, here’s a positive thing that I haven’t seen anybody mention yet: long tags now stay completely visible while you’re typing them, rather than running off the edge and getting lost in the blue. Makes it a lot easier to tell whether you’ve made a typo near the end.

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#oh look an original post #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #Tumblr: a User’s Guide

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anotherfreakingdork:

maepel:

maepel:

holy shit tumblr deleted the ignore feature

staff what are you doing

PLEASE reblog this and spread awareness. idk if they actually deleted it or maybe its a bug but its still really troubling for people who need it to keep away harassers (even though it never did well in the first place)

while tumblr.com/ignore is gone, there is still 1) the ignore “x” if you’re in the tag and 2) the ignore “x” in your inbox

you can also view ignored users if you go to settings -> account and scroll to the bottom. there’s a pencil to the side, which i thought would allow me to add/remove ppl from the block list, but it doesn’t appear to be working

STILL, i urge everyone to send in messages to staff because sometimes the person you want to block doesn’t send you messages or put things in the tags; sometimes the person leaves the most obnoxious and/or abusive comments when they reblog things and how the fuck are you supposed to get rid of those people????

I don’t get it. Looks fine to me. Did they put it back?

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#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #reply via reblog

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thestraggletag:

egberts:

hey just a warning for xkit users on chrome, if you get the little red RESET warning, don’t click it. there is nothing wrong with it but upon resetting xkit will not be able to install anymore. the newest chrome update did something to the xkit guy’s coding or servers or something and he can’t quite figure out how to fix it, so don’t reset your xkit. i unfortunately learned this the hard way.

Man, this came too late for me. But other people in my dash, be warned!

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#XKit #signal boost #I use Firefox #but maybe this will help someone else

Anonymous asked: can i suggest mad scientist!carlos

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shayvaalski:

Carlos has learned that it pays to be plain spoken, with Cecil. Or things go rather oddly. He ends up explaining things that should be obvious, or he ends up with questionable gifts, or laughter where there shouldn’t be any.

So he says, quite calmly he thinks, “I am angry with you, Cecil.”

He can actually see the stages Cecil’s expression goes through, but he can’t react fast enough. First, a sort of mournfulness, then a thoughtful glaze, and then something Cecil probably thinks is innocence but is more like glee. Carlos sighs.

“Would that,” Cecil says, and it is clearly taking everything he has not to grin, “make you a mad scientist?”

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#Welcome to Night Vale #puns #(also you can reblog asks now) #(yay for added functionality!)

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staff:

All, we’ve heard from a bunch of you who are concerned about Tumblr censoring NSFW/adult content. While there seems to be a lot of misinformation flying around, most of the confusion seems to stem from our complicated flagging/filtering features. Let me clear up (and fix) a few things:

1. Last year, we added “Safe Mode” which lets you filter out NSFW content from tag and search pages. This is enabled by default for new users and can be toggled in your Dashboard Settings. As some of you have pointed out, disabling Safe Mode still wasn’t allowing search results from all blogs to appear. This has been fixed.

2. Some search terms are blocked (returning no results) in some of our mobile apps. Unfortunately, different app environments have different requirements that we do our best to adhere to. The reason you see innocent tags like #gay being blocked on certain platforms is that they are still frequently returning adult content which our entire app was close to being banned for. The solution is more intelligent filtering which our team is working diligently on. We’ll get there soon. In the meantime, you can browse #lgbtq — which is moderated by our community editors — in all of Tumblr’s mobile apps. You can also see unfiltered search results on tumblr.com using your mobile web browser.

3. Earlier this year, in an effort to discourage some not-so-nice people from using Tumblr as free hosting for spammy commercial porn sites, we started delisting this tiny subset of blogs from search engines like Google. This was never intended to be an opt-in flag, but for some reason could be enabled after checking off NSFW → Adult in your blog settings. This was confusing and unnecessary, so we’ve dropped the extra option. If your blog contains anything too sexy for the average workplace, simply check “Flag this blog as NSFW” so people in Safe Mode can avoid it. Your blog will still be promoted in third-party search engines.

Aside from these fixes, there haven’t been any recent changes to Tumblr’s treatment of NSFW content, and our view on the topic hasn’t changed. Empowering your creative expression is the most important thing in the world to us. Making sure people aren’t surprised by content they find offensive is also incredibly important and we are always working to put more control in your hands.

Sorry for all of the confusion. If you have any more concerns or suggestions on how we can make these features clearer or more useful, please email us!

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#signal boost #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #no not *that* Great Tumblr Apocalypse #*this* Great Tumblr Apocalypse #(I know there’s so many it’s hard to keep track)

the new layout isn’t really that scary for the most part

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mostly10:

I’m putting it down in one place for people scared of the changes. A lot of it is only aesthetical changes and especially for those of you who don’t use extensions/add-ons will really only see those and need to get used to them. Aside from the bugs, of course.

For those of us who use extensions, things are a bit more tricky/buggy.

text posts / posting

image

the window opens on top of your dash. there is no way to get it to open in a separate window/tab without loading the dash first. all the functions you’re used to are there, you just have to fiddle with the buttons a bit.

adding a source/custom url and post date and toggle photo replies has been put together under the cog symbol (pink box)

publishing options (queueing/scheduling/save as draft) have been put together under the post button toggle (green box)

post cut and photo/gif inserts are there, too (blue box)

your tags are no longer saved and clickable as you type, but other than that work basically the same as before.

this has been updated so saved tags now show up. added feature is that tags don’t just follow the first few letters you type, but any words/letters that match saved urls. clicking a tag will delete it.

twitter options are easily accessible and editable by clicking the twitter icon.

 

text posts / reblogging

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you can reblog text posts as texts/links/quotes same as before. the options are under the link icon (pink box)

if you choose to reblog a text post as a link you can not add an image like you would with a text post. if you change to ‘reblog as text’, however, the option returns (as per image 1)

photo posts / posting

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again, the photo post opens on top of your dash. the post options work the same as for text posts (see above).

you can choose up to 10 images in one go to add to the post and you will be able to preview them as a set before you post. while you are not given a choice of how to align your images before you upload, clicking and dragging the images around will allow you to set them up with full flexibility; essentially giving you the custom photoset option without the addon. this includes multiple 500px images on top of each other which was not native before:

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if you choose to add a caption to your photo(s), the option to add an image in the description is not there:

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how to add a gif/image to a post/reblog

anything that is not a text post will not have the native option to add an image, so here’s the ~sneak way to do it until an extension finds a workaround.

  1. open a new text post window
  2. add your gif/image to that post
  3. click the picture to select it and press Ctrl+X
  4. return to the description window of your post/reblog
  5. select where you want the image and press Ctrl+V

bugs / scary shit / rumours

(under a cut because I feel like these might change a lot?)

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#PSA #The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #oh is that all #(but then I never bothered with Missing E) #(and it is running kind of slow) #(but still)