my beloved cockroach site never fails me
So the moment the Ea-Nasir merch got released I thought that Tumblr learned how to do targeted marketing since I wrote an essay on Ea-Nasir and meme culture like a few weeks before the drop. To say the least I was very thankful that Tumblr was just being itself
48hr tumblr blackout proposal
tumblr mobile has seadily 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:
- reverse the recent image viewer update
- scrap the new users 'for you' page default setting
- let us turn off tumblr live indefinitely
- increase efforts against spam / porn bots
- make reporting abuse and hate speech as easy as reporting as reporting spam
- let us go nuts show nuts again... for real this time
- commit to improving usability and accessibility, and listening to users!
- (suggestions welcome!)
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.
I suggest the 48 hours between the 30th of June to the end of the 1st of July.
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).
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!
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.
(so the blackout would be from June 30th onwards)
staff statements, politician answers, disconnect
i do have to premise, many staff-involved posts are going to be from cyle's blog or written by him. some have other staff contributing to the answer! but he appears to be a sort of main front-end developer, so he's quite literally the most visible staff member, to me at least.
issues w reblog chains
layout issues:
issues w video/picture viewer
issues w other long standing features
user frustrations and rage
and personally my favorite post
What voice do yall imagine when you read "nice cock!" For me it's the announcer from Mario Golf Toadstool Tour
a good for her moment
some more silly doodles of her being a liar
mutuals are people u wanna eat bread dipped in olive oil with
welcome to EVIL SCHOOL heres your timetable for the day first you have SHADOW MATH then after that you have CREEPY BIOLOGY then GYM
did you just describe monster high
I like the implication that "Gym" is scary enough on its own because yeah I agree
so she might not be a major character but violynne is cute…
http://twitter.com/koyoriin http://patreon.com/koyorin http://instagram.com/koyori_n http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=12576068
f(x) tribute band called f'(x). you'd think the point would be to be derivative but it's actually quite easy to differentiate the two.
yeah :)
haha yayyyy :) i'm having such a wonderful time on the internet with you
forgot to post these magpies i doodled yesterday .
My medieval servant boy has gone missing. I’ll just use Google to see if I can find him.
ibeggedformercytwice
Oh bother.
dggeoff
im deleting this fucking website
gomu-gomu-no-life
It took me a minute
Gotdamn I haven’t seen this post in almost a decade
[id= a standard error which states: The page cannot be found. The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable /end id]
Reblog, click the picture, and prepare for battle.
theneverendingdrums
after a while i became convinced that the words were mocking me
whisperrun
Nothing happened.
I WAS PROMISED A BATTLE
*throws down gauntlet*
Edit: Went back. This is the best thing to happen to my dashboard ever.
whisperrun
Reblogging again because my followers need to see this. To be clear, rebog, go to your actual blog, then click the picture.
sonic is already beating marvel in the box office, repost so that the mcu is literally murdered by a gay lil hedgehog
Legend has it once the ocean was colorful, speckled with beautiful nebulous hues, but the black sky grew jealous and ripped them from the oceans surface in a fit of rage.
The ocean did not mind, to love is to give.
404--us3r--n0t--f0und-deactivat
which do you choose?
Both.
It’s just the [tumblr] reblog button.
hobimetal