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:

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.

While I’m not 100% sure indefinite would be practical (perhaps a rolling blackout might be more feasible), I’ll be backing this.

Leave indefinitely and go fucking where? Reddit? Twitter? Facebook? Discord? Half the people I enjoy talking to on here don't have alternative means of contacting them, and the same could be said by probably half the people on this site.

OP thought this through about like my dog thought through trying to come through the baby gate like the Kool aid man that one time.

I'd be down for a temporary blackout but honestly. Indefinitely? Get real, bud.

omg, this is the first time i’ve heard older furries refering to themselves as “gray muzzles” 🥺 that’s so cute!!

‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ poster art

Steve's choices / Bucky's lack thereof

This slaps.

curious

Reverse fireball that does 8d6 fire damage to everywhere except a 20ft radius sphere within 150 ft

I WANT SPELLS THAT WORK LIKE THIS SO BAD

Okay but... how eveywhere

Everywhere.

Not even just, like, everywhere in D&D. You cast this and the MCU bursts into flames.

Medicine is supposed to taste bad so there’s a lesser chance of people, especially children, overdosing on it you absolute dingus. It is quite literally supposed to taste bad. That’s so you don’t take too much and get sick or accidentally hospitalize/kill yourself. How are some of y'all this old and just not acknowledging that this is an actual thing?

No, I sorta knew that- I just reblogged this for the “things don’t have to suck” message because ya girl was going through it for a bit

Fam I meant oop being a dipshit I did not mean it to come off as being @ you.

You doing better tho?

The Blues Brothers (1980)

Don’t hit Nazis with your fist

HIT THEM WITH YOUR CAR

If you ever needed a reason to put a deer guard on your truck or car, consider:

The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA (1980)

i would have played pretend on the playground with all of u btw

This post has extremely normal notes you should look at them right now

I love how that one twat is like "hair dye is so expensive" like shut up and get some koolaid and get to work, you'll feel better after you've dyed everything organic in your vicinity your favorite color with some drink packets.

Medicine is supposed to taste bad so there's a lesser chance of people, especially children, overdosing on it you absolute dingus. It is quite literally supposed to taste bad. That's so you don't take too much and get sick or accidentally hospitalize/kill yourself. How are some of y'all this old and just not acknowledging that this is an actual thing?

We failed as a society when everyone stopped wearing headphones.

At my parents place with 2 children watching YT on tablets and 2 adults watching tiktoks and reels on their phones and trying not to summon a comically sized Loony Toons hammer out of my back pocket to smash them all.

why the fuck is it called the xbox 360 what does 360 mean???????????????????

when u see it u turn 360 degrees and walk away

turning 360 degrees would face you right back to the xbox you dipshit

this post somehow still in circulation despite everyone involved being deactivated

You must be new here

i love how, like, when twitter users started fleeing the sunken ship, we were clutching our rifles and foaming at the mouth and dancing jigs in the street with clown makeup, desperately trying to make ourselves look more cringe, distance support alternating between rent-lowering gunshots and obliterating anyone and anything without an icon

meanwhile every post i've seen about the reddit disaster is like. reddit had a house flood and we're opening the door in the middle of the night in our jammies, telling em watch out not to step on the dog because he likes to sleep in front of the radiator, yeah fuck your landlord bro im so sorry, don't leave the fridge open, toothpaste is in the cabinet and the shower heat indicator thingie got reversed somehow so watch out, we'll leave the blankets on the couch, nighty night, and then tottering off to bed again

"and the shower heat indicator thingie got reversed somehow so watch out". I know it's not the point but how does this happen so often? It's like this where I live rn too.