Tumblr: a User’s Guide

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tinierpurplefishes:

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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.

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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taymonbeal:

pistachi0n:

Sometimes when I go hundreds pages deep into people’s Tumblr archives, I find really funny posts and I weigh the pros and cons of liking/reblogging them.

Pros: I’ll have access to them later because they’re fucking hilarious

Cons: They might think I’m creepy. Despite the fact that it’s public and on the Internet, it is not socially acceptable to let anyone know the extent that you creeped their archives.

I hereby extend blanket permission for anyone to creep on my archive, and to like and reblog posts from it if they want to. It’s really quite flattering.

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#yes this

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protector-of-the-small:

thepagejakeenglish:

thepagejakeenglish:

Do you ever look at a post and think “Yeah, that’s queue material”?

This is the slowest I’ve ever gotten notes because you smarties probably queued this up

*queues post*

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#no actually #for three years I never used the queue at all #and even now I never use it on my personal blog #only to schedule reminder posts for ds9rewatch #if you see me posting something it means I’m actually online #(I *have* known people whose posting strategy was ‘gigantic overwhelming postspam once a week’) #(and I do think queueing is a good idea to avoid that) #(but I check Tumblr often enough that it’s not really a problem)

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outofcontextdnd:

outofcontextdnd:

Okay first of all something is making all those stupid ad post I don’t know whats going on there.

obviously mine or one of the other mods accounts have been compromised.

Yeah, the “personality test app” is a fairly well-known virus. (Not always well-known enough, unfortunately.)

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#reply via reblog #PSA

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thranduilsspookyeyebrows:

I wish Tumblr had a “I feel your pain” button

because I feel terrible whenever I “like” one of your sad text posts

and it looks like I enjoy watching you suffer

because I don’t

I really don’t

I once came across a forum that had “like” and “hug” buttons. They were thinking along the right lines.

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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

Reblog if your tumblr url is the same one you started with.

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thegeek531:

This is a serious thing. Im curious how many people over the course of year(s) kept the same tumblr handle. A ton of the people I follow have changed their over time.

As far as I know Im one of the few who havent. Few being relative as there are millions of tumblr users. But yeah.

Social experiment.

If you HAVE changed your URL Click Here

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#reblog if #I’ve considered removing the hyphen so I wouldn’t have to deal with Tumblr’s hyphenated tag issues #but I don’t want to break links #and I certainly wouldn’t change the name completely