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Tumblr is a good name
Everyone on here be tumbling
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Greetings Mortals
I have peered into the abyss, and it greeted me with a blue dashboard. Truly, this 'hellsite' is a realm of untold power.
I shall begin my studies in mastering the reblog ritual. I fear this will be my undoing.
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can we get a more descriptive notifications tab? specifically when showing us anything for text posts
> 90% (literally.. i have counted before with a sample of 100) of my text post notifications just ambiguously show that someone interacted with a text post, but i have no way of telling what the actual post was without having to open every one individually, this is extremely time consuming and not helpful to me as a user.
this seems like something i should be able to know at a glance, even just truncating the first sentence would be extremely helpful. sharing examples of what I'm talking about with red boxes around blank text notifications and a green box around the one text post notification that was actually helpful.
i want all of them to be like the green box example, or to have a toggle that lets me make all of them that descriptive because what we have right now isn't helping.. this is one area where less is not more on the UX side and I'd rather have a little more clutter that's extremely useful and time saving than having to work with this for the sake of a more tidy looking notifications tab, it's a lot of extra work none of us need to be doing yk?
Answer: Hey there, @kuromi-hoemie!
This is not working as it should be, and so this feels like a bug to us. If the post has text, we should always show a summary for text posts!
So this feels like a great chance to direct folks to the Support Form instead, for bugs experienced on Tumblr, where you can fill all of this in as much detail as possible and file it as a Support request. From there, someone will take a look into it pronto.
We hope this helps. Thanks for your question!
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tumblr is way weirder than i give it credit for yet i’ve stayed for 10 years and if that isn’t true love i don’t know what is
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A co-worker just randomly said to me “Nice shoelaces.”
“Thanks, I stole them from the President,” I replied after blinking.
I don’t think he or anyone else in cubeland knew what he said but you gotta give the right watchword.
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hello cyle! if this should be a Support request, I can make a ticket, but I'm not sure it's a bug.
On my For You feed, over the last couple days, I've been getting a weirdly high fraction of posts about eating disorders (despite having variations on "tw: eating disorder" blocked as tags and despite blocking every blog which showed up on this feed).
Partially I'm wondering what I'm doing to cause that to show up, partially I'm wondering how better to precent it. Any insight?
best thing you can do in this case is to file a Support request with the URLs of the posts you're seeing, and specify that you've blocked those blogs and are still seeing them in your feed, and what content filtering settings you have applied. for example, if you're seeing a post that has "tw: eating disorder" and you are literally blocking that tag in your content filtering settings, then that's obviously a bug and we can get to fixing it. if you've blocked a blog but are still seeing their posts in For You, that's also obviously a bug we need to fix.
having examples helps us reproduce the problem faster, and makes fixing it faster!
hm, the reason this wasn't a Support ticket in the first place is that it doesn't seem like a bug. It's "not a bug" in that I'm not seeing tags I've blocked or blogs I've blocked - I'm getting new and fun content suggested which evades the blocks I've set, e.g. things tagged "tw 3ating d1sorder" which evade the "tw eating disorder" blocked tag. I block that, the next thing in the For You feed the next day has "tw ed not ed sheeran".
part of the mystery to me is why these are showing up at all - no posts I've liked or blogs I've visited ?should? be using those tags or similar tags; I would think that my history of blocking one blog which tags its stuff with <20-tag list of variations on pro-eating-disorder things> might nix others with <overlapping list> without me having to block every individual misspelling. So I don't understand how the For You algorithm is landing on these suggestions, and I'd be curious to understand more about how it chooses things.
I'll make a ticket when I've accumulated more examples today. Thanks for the answer.
i have long suspected that tumblr's 'for you' algorithm takes sideblogs into account. there's the expected behavior that when i accidentally reblog a post where the op is a terf, my 'for you' is suddenly bigotry central, but i will also start getting a lot of thinspo and self-harm posts unlike anything on the original radfem blog i accidentally boosted. which, you know. sure. i'll also have reblogs of art or shitposts result in a ton of very specific unusual fetish content showing up, despite the op that triggered it not posting anything like that on main. the reason i think it's sideblogs is that most of the people i know who run sideblogs with objectionable content avoid liking out of an excess of caution (you need to have public likes for liked posts to show up on people's dashes, but might as well be careful)
unfortunately i don’t think secondary blogs have anything to do with it. the algorithm is really not that smart, tbh.
you can read about how “the algorithm” works on tumblr here: https://help.tumblr.com/how-tumblr-recommends-content/ it’s dense, but we tried to be exhaustive and transparent. it’s very similar to how these feeds work on other platforms. everybody has been using the same principles here for 5+ years, if not far longer. historically, tumblr has been slow to adopt a lot of these techniques for various reasons, but one of them being that we are trying to balance this against being too privacy-invasive. most of these algos want to gobble up as much data about you as they can, and we try to collect as little as possible. that makes these things kinda wonky sometimes.
it’s much more likely that this is a “bug”/“feature” of collaborative filtering, i think, which tries to guess you might like something based on what other people who behave like you also like. it’s content agnostic, it has no idea what the content is, just that there are similar behaviors around something that you may have not seen yet.
that’s how most of this works, really. "the algorithm" doesn’t know anything about what the content actually is, because that’s hard to know for sure, but it’s much easier to see if there are behavior patterns that look similar around bits of content.
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Tuesday, January 14th, 2025
🌟 New
- To help fight link spam in communities, we’re now blocking new posts from being created into communities when the post contains a suspicious link.
- In the apps and mobile web, the community descriptions now have a “see more” link which sends you to more community details, including guidelines.
- Banned community members can now see the reason for the ban in their membership removal activity item.
- If you have reached the limit of communities you’re allowed to join per day, community recommendations will disappear until the next day.
- Several design improvements have been made to community posts making it easier to identify the author and community the post belongs to.
🛠 Fixed
- Tumblr was a bit laggy for an hour yesterday. We found a Tumbeast chewing on a wire and politely asked it to chew on something else.
🚧 Ongoing
- No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.
🌱 Upcoming
- No upcoming launches to announce today.
Experiencing an issue? Check for Known Issues and file a Support Request if you have something new. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can!
Want to share your feedback about something? Check out our Work in Progress blog and start a discussion with other users.
Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out Premium and the Supporter badge in TumblrMart!
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bunnycocaine
cursed to be a tumblr user forever
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i wish that tumblr would give you a little notification before you unfollow someone. like a little pop-up that goes "hey, are you sure you want to unfollow this person?" cause i've accidentally unfollowed people i like/am mutuals with that way while scrolling through notifs and didn't realize until later
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I heard there was a secret code
That outed Tumblrites untold
But you don't really wear shoelaces, do ya
Our eyes are tired, but they're bright
For love is not this blue hellsite
It's the liked and it's the reblogged Hallelujah
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Teach me how to use my tumblog
I am tumbling
Do not curse me
I bet you I can find the post in that photo.
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In February 2015, the "The Dress" debate had everyone weighing in on what color it was.
@adulthoodisokay your impact echoes throughout the decades
i cannot believe it's been 10 years, that's so freakin' wild
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hey just a heads up but I'm gonna be inactive for a bit while i close the app and then open it back up right after to see if there's any new posts 🫶
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Tuesday, January 7th, 2025
🌟 New
- We’ve adjusted the limit to how many free-to-join communities a person can join down to 10 per day max / 3 per hour max. If you’re super jazzed to join more than 10 free-to-join communities per day, please contain your excitement for 24 hours. Also, this limit does not get counted when being invited to a community or requesting to join communities.
- When filtering posts by tag in a community, we now highlight the tag in the list of tags in each post.
- Moderators can now kick and ban members from communities, not just admins.
🛠️ Fixed
- Posts made in the first ~24 hours or so of 2025 weren’t being indexed into search results, but we’ve fixed that up.
- When reporting a post, blog, or community in the mobile apps, there’s now a “Done” button after filing the report, to make sure there’s a way you can go back to where you were.
- We’ve fixed a couple of bugs that were causing activity unread counts to be incorrect because your request-to-join for a community was accepted or rejected.
- If you have Fast Queue enabled in Labs, we fixed a bug that was causing the fast queue button on web to have the wrong color on Blazed posts.
🚧 Ongoing
- We’re aware that popular free-to-join communities are facing an unfortunate amount of spam. We’re working to add tools to help mods and admins fight that spam, stay tuned for more info here and in the Feedback community!
🌱 Upcoming
- We’re working on implementing a “moderation queue” for communities, which will be a place where admins and mods can see member-reported content and take action on it quickly and easily in one place. We may also use this space to automatically move suspicious posts from new members for admins and mods to take a look at before they’re published to the community.
Experiencing an issue? Check for Known Issues and file a Support Request if you have something new. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can!
Want to share your feedback about something? Check out our Work in Progress blog and start a discussion with other users.
Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out Premium and the Supporter badge in TumblrMart!
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oh no.
tumblr. you know thats a bad thing right
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Anonymous asked:
i assume you are kind of a loser
Well man this is tumblr
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The 12 Days of tumblr
On the 12th day of tumblr my mutuals gave to me:
12 clips of Stargate novels
11 hugs for blorbos
10 awesome fanfics
9 stunning drawings
8 insightful comments
7 funny text posts
6 video edits
5 clever memes
4 perfect polls
3 terrific tags
2 reoccurring reblogs
and an amazing fandom community!
Happy Holidays everyone!
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The Rebloggening begins!
Anything one put work into that in someway feels like you were 'providing content,' this is the year to queue up all that old stuff! Old fanart, fanfic, meta commentary, fan gifs, fan edits, screenshots, what have you.
I highly encourage anyone and everyone who feels inclined to queue up at least one post a week that's of old stuff that hasn't seen a dashboard in a while to pop up. I want to see what I missed of my mutuals! And I want to see the stuff I worked on in the past again!
Just because its old doesn't mean it's not worth showing today!
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Seeing the word 'tumbler' anywhere else makes my brain itch, even though I know it's technically correct.
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Hey Tumblr, let's be friends again in 2025. You're like my cool cousin I barely get to hang out with any more, and you're still pretty neat.