Piles of dirt have a posse
Tumblr used to be a physical place. It was a large theater built inside of a cliff. The cliff was by a stormy seaside town where all of life began. One night, there was a hurricane, and the Tumblr theater collapsed. This unleashed the Tumblr people upon the town, and thus began the world.
Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me.
I know there is a lot of discourse (tm) around this right now but listen to me
sometimes you do just have to lie to children.
If, when my toddler is, you know, toddling around saying “mama? Big ball?”
If I were lean down and say “unfortunately the big beach ball for some reason fills you with such an unadulterated rage that is beyond human comprehension that you scream until you pass out, so mama had to remove the beach ball from the premises until you can better regulate your emotions” she would simply stare at me like I had 3 heads full of equal betrayal.
So, for now, instead “big ball went night night!”
Please understand when I say “removed the ball from the premises” I mean I popped it in a fit of exhausted confusion. I murdered the beach ball.
See I’ve lied to you all too and it was better this way.
you can’t just leave this in the tags etc.
You can’t be funnier then me on my own posts, I’m in tears from laughter
The most beautiful footage of strangers dancing in public… https://twitter.com/Thorayaaa/status/1660180658646568967
its like a real life version of that children’s song with the magic bridge that you had to dance across
Highlights: --all the old people --one dude who starts doing the Cotton-Eye Joe and has the steps on lock --quinceañera girl with a dress bigger than the circle --lots of kids but particularly the dude who's doing the helicopter with his little girl --an entire section of Millennials doing dance moves I recognize, oh the nostalgia
hidden barbs hold my focus I’m digging in the dark fearful hearts, bold in mind I know where to start
Random question for the coding folks...
If I were to just straight up like... offer free programming tutoring, are there folks out on Tumblr who would be interested?
So, I think screenshotting the tags is weird because the tags to me are personal commentary, not a conversation! In my experience, people who do that also tend to add the screenshot to a reblog of the original post which, my siblings in christ, if I wanted to add to the reblog I wouldn't have used tags in the first place! 😅
Totally valid.
If you saw something amazing in the tags of a reblog of your post, how would you surface that greatness to everyone?
Hey not sure if you are the right person to ask, but I've got a few questions.
- Any plans to add polls to the official API? For now we've got to make do with unofficial methods.
- Are you done messing with the tumblr live backend? It used to be at tumblr-live.com, now it's part of the API under tmglive/. I just want to write rules that block it without having to keep changing them 🙃.
- The editor has finally gotten more stable! I really appreciate that! But why does the legacy editor support code blocks, but not the new one?
Thanks for your time!
I don't know of any plans to add polls to the API, but that's also very much not my team. I'll fire that up the chain, sounds like a good idea!
Also very much not my team. :) But life is change.
I'm happy the editor is being more stable and you're enjoying the lack of crashes. I'm not sure on code blocks though, they didn't get much usage in the old editor, so they were not high on the priority list when we built the new one. I'll pass along your love for them to the editor folks.
You have mentioned that you've been using the new dash layout for several months and love it - as someone who's never created a post I'm curious, what do you like better about the new layout?
faster / easier access to just about everything, like my activity. we also re-ordered the nav items into functional sections, like the top three are consumption-based, the next three are for receiving things, then your account and settings, and those are ordered almost exactly by overall usage as well. also i just like having icons + labels / words, rather than just icons. it's more visually cluttered, but clearer for me.
also now i always have the account menu expanded so it's saving me a click there to hop to my queue or drafts or a different blog's activity.
Tumblr is not getting rid of the chronological Dashboard!
Folks keep sending this feedback in, I've replied to 108 in the last hour, so I figured I'd write a post. Please reblog this, thank you!
Rest assured, [tumblr] is not getting rid of the chronological feed of blogs you follow. For details, please see this update from Staff over a week ago.
We also mentioned this on Changes the day after. Please do follow @changes, it only posts twice a week and is the best way to stay informed. (BTW, a lot of you are blocking Changes, WTF is up with that?) As for algorithms, we actually have several already in use, and those are the ones we're working to improve. You can see them under the For You tab, and turn them on or off for your Dashboard via the "Include posts liked by the blogs you follow," "Best stuff first," and "Based on your likes" toggles in your Dashboard settings. With those three toggled off, which will always be an option, your Dashboard feed will be solely posts from the blogs you follow sorted chronologically from newest to oldest. If you have any other feedback, please use the Feedback category in the support form. Submitting feedback there is like a firehose directly to our developers and designers. (Please of course be mindful of signal to noise. I know a firehose is tempting to abuse, but the more nonconstructive feedback we get, the harder it is to see the constructive feedback.)
And, of course, please stop sending concerns about removing the chronological feed. We are not removing the chronological feed of blogs you follow, we never will, and we never planned to.
Thanks!
Non-rhetorical question that frequently comes to my mind: what does one call the field of study in which one learns these kinds of things and applies them to interface design?
Human Factors / Ergonomics, maybe with a focus on Human Computer Interaction (HCI), with some overlap into psychology and stats. This was what I got my degree in back in college ('99!), though this stuff was just in it's infancy back then.
the gimmick blogs are like tumblr’s rogue gallery. yes we’ve got some heroes, yes we’ve got some villains, but more importantly if you look over here you will see some freak who devotes all their time to counting the number of “t’s” in a post
T Count: 15
Letter Count: 198
Your T Percentage: 7.58%
Average T Percentage: 6.95%
You used the letter T 1.09 times as much as average!
YOU EXIST???
“Can we all just agree that the greatest tech advancement in Star Trek is a universal video format? Klingon ships, Romulan ships, Vulcan ships, Human ships … not once does a captain say “On screen,” followed by a plugin error message. - (some guy on Facebook, anonymously quoted on reddit)”
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“Stand by, Captain — it says we need to update the Java plugin so we can run GoToMeeting.”
“Why didn’t they just use WebEx?”
“The Romulans must not have a license for it.”
“But it’s free. Isn’t it?”
“If they’d Skyped in, we could’ve just used the ship’s webcam.”
“Captain, the warbird doesn’t show up on my list of Facetime contacts.”
“I think we need to sync our address book.”
“We should’ve just used Tinychat.”
“Why don’t we start a Google Hangout?”
“Shut up, Wesley.”
(via flavorcountry)
one of my professors, a historian who has been interviewed as an expert in various documentaries, said that the secret to documentaries is saying something very obvious, as slowly as possible. for example, if you say “the romans…….. enjoyed their dinner parties” or "being a gladiator... was... very... dangerous" then the filmmakers can get that clip and immediately pan over some cool pictures of mosaics or something. this has forever changed the way i view documentaries
getting lots of notes just by quoting something that a funny person i know IRL said feels like stealing. however i guess sometimes funny people dont know how funny they are and i have to be the one to bring their good quotes to a wider audience
op peer reviewed the tags someone said irl