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@stringcage

[ she/her, 20 ] [ declan girlie and zenik enthusiast ]

My life ever since I was 18 has just been a series of realizations of why I never stood a chance of growing up to be normal

literary analysis being posited as this boring grueling penance that only miserable people insist on is very dumb as an idea but its even more dumb to me, the guy who gets so excited about it that he has to clap and pound his fists against the ground and walk in circles at a dizzying speed unbeknownst to man

“oh they’re not taking away chronological dashboard, well everything’s okay then” they also said in the post they’re making reblogs collapsed (like comments on twitter) so you won’t see the full conversation in a post. they also won’t get rid of tumblr live despite it being an annoying and cancerous data-miner that isn’t legal in much of the world. they won’t even let you opt out of tumblr live for more than seven days. they implemented a terrible photo viewer that mimics tiktok and makes it so you can’t zoom in on images. they took away the ability to view prev tags. they’re making it so you have to sign in with your email to view almost any thing on tumblr. they’ve already made it so you have to sign in to send asks, even on anon. they’re slowly phasing out custom blog themes.

the things that make tumblr at all usable and favored by us– the older web blog features, the anonymity– that is still being taken away. it HAS been being taken away for some time now. i am urging you people to reveiwbomb the tumblr app. force them to acknowledge that users do not like these changes.

Let me stress: Collapsing reblogs would turn tumblr into a completely different site.

A massive chunk of our site culture - arguably our entire site culture itself - is based on the collaborative nature of posts. The fact that many posts are chains of relevant additions or Bits done by multiple people is the appeal. This is not an “outdated format” or an inconvenience, it is a core function.

Also I can’t help but suspect that this partial walkback is misleading. Okay, so we still get to have a chronological dashboard, but are we going to be allowed to keep it as our default tab? Because new accounts sure fucking can’t set as such.

Oh yeah the login to message thing is 100% a good feature. Everything else proposed here is garbage.

I also find it interesting that they made a big deal about how the dash showing people you follow is bad for artists, and then went ‘oh, don’t worry, it’ll still be chronological!’ Which is great; the chronological dash is fundamental to the site. But like… I’m concerned about this apparent proposal to fill my dash with people I’m not following also. I’m glad we’re not gonna be nonchronological tiktok but I don’t wanna be chronological tiktok either. The For You tab and those little ‘based on your likes’ injections already exist. What else is being planned against a follower-focused dash here? Are they planning to add more algorithm nonsense to the Following dash? Because they didn’t step back on that one in the response.

we diagnose you with a creeping sense of alienation forever. incurable