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here's your fucking feedback @staff
list of problems the removal of icons causes:
i cant see my friends
ruins the sense of community
can't tell at a glance who's online right now and what they're interested in
literally cannot tell without scrolling back up who put a post on my dash if it has a single addition attached to it. or like. 2 paragraphs in the op.
i cant click my own icon at the top of the dash to quickly view my own blog
can't tell who someone used to be if they change their username
squashes the margins between the menu and posts, making the whole dash feel more cramped
ruins the quick visual cue of how long each post is and where it ends when you're trying to scroll past ones youve seen before
people put a lot of creativity and individuality into icons, and now i never see them
makes people who primarily reblog instead of make their own posts all but completely disappear
list of problems solved by removing icons:
?????
who the fuck was asking for this
ive never in my life seen a website or app that has profile pics forcibly HIDE them, so i guess you did it you made the dash unique again in the worst way
here's some more feedback: maybe when you run an a/b test you should, idk, actually have a feedback form people can fill out about it somewhere
#tumblr#tumblr changes#tumblr updates#i hate this and honestly the difficulty in finding a place to give feedback#makes me really sympathize with the people who just cuss staff out all the time
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I watched the live with the CEO, here is the tl;dr
The good news:
Chronological dash is here to stay! Whether you have to toggle it weekly or new users default to “For you” was not elaborated on but at least that’s confirmed.
Custom themes are here to stay! Once again, may be buried for all I know but, for sure will remain an option.
Search updates are in the works!!!!
The neutral news:
Tumblr is seriously in the red financially and needs more support, Ad-free for example is not widely used
They would not comment on the suggestion to bring back NSFW behind a paywall (which we all know would get them a boatload of money)
They’re possibly going to add a donation system like Ao3 and Wikipedia.
They would “rather not” sell data to make up the costs
Most of staff are pre-2010 tumblr users including the CEO who joined in 2007, so they do actually use the site and have for a long time
The bad news:
Condensed reblogs/removing duplicate reblogs is going forward. The reason cited was to meet “certain expectations” of users coming from other social media, which isn’t good.
Disability features (specifically turning off flashing ads for epileptics) was met with a request to purchase Ad-free @zingring clarified that they are looking into it but suggested Ad-free as more of a stopgap until something is put in place
Overall it was more chill than I expected, @photomatt and @zingring seem to be far more in tune with the userbase than u/spez.
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i got the old tumblr dashboard back T_T
i got the old tumblr dashboard back T_T i used the xkit rewriten options in this post and installed the firefox application called stylus and installed this script by @pixiel through it for the old tumblr layout <3
(psst reblog and spread this so it can get to who needs it )
update :hi besties both xkit rewritten and stylus are available for chrome too!
Thank you so much to pixel for saving our lives 💓
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Tumblr reblog chains are in danger.
It seems that the staff is actually going to go forward with their decision to remove reblog chains, where reblogs will basically work like regular comments on other websites.
This doesn't just make the site completely unusable, it removes the soul of the community that has managed to build up here over the years, and that I'm so happy to have recently joined.
It makes impossible the creation of great posts where many people build up a single thing, until it is a gem of expressed human creativity.
There will be no more world heritage posts, no more messing around with your mutuals, no posts worth remembering.
There will be no more Tumblr, and the Tikblr or TumbTube or whatever monstrosity is born from its corpse will soon die, as is probably the best. And then there will never be another place like this on the internet, no place anymore to run to, no more fun, no more community.
I recommend a simple course of action. When these changes get imposed upon us, stop using Tumblr. Get your mutuals' discords, your favourite artists' websites, and leave. If the Tumblr we have once known returns, we well too. If not, better let it die quickly than suffer a long and painful decline.
I beg you to reblog this, for the more people see it, the higher chanses are for this to work.
And add something, so we can show them what Tumblr is really for.
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Tumblr and the No Good, Very Bad Idea
So. You might have heard the news that, as of July 12, Tumblr is testing out converting GIFs into looping MP4 videos to help pages load faster:
This is bad. Tumblr is the only mainstream site left where you can post GIFs and they’ll continue to be GIFs - well, sort of, as Tumblr previously tested and implemented turning GIF into GIFV with the same purpose, and it decreases the quality of the original GIF file. Turning them into MP4 videos is even worse.
GIFs are GIFs. They’re not videos. Creators spend hours making a GIF that will look good as a GIF, not as a video.
I hope I don’t need to explain to anyone why continuing to screw over creators is bad for a site like Tumblr, whose continued existence depends on creators not giving up on it, and why gif-making is important to fandom existence.
I for one will not continue to make any more gifsets if I know they’ll just be turned into MP4 files. It’s disappointing to spend my time making something and watch it become ugly once it’s uploaded - and that’s what is already happening without the MP4 conversion.
WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?
Don’t bother sending a support ticket! They will tell you to do what I’m about to tell you:
Send an ask or submission to @wip - the official “work in progress” blog of Tumblr where people can send in suggestions.
Their ask box is open every Monday from 6AM to 6PM EST.
The conversation isn’t over, guys, but it’s important to be a part of it. If you’re a creator or support creators (and you should), then set an alarm on Monday and go send them a message.
#tumblr#staff#tumblr staff#changes#tumblr changes#usergif#gifmaker#fandom creators#idk how tf to tag this
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Someone at tumblr/automattic asked whether requests to opt out of "AI" data sharing would be honored retroactively (which seems important, seeing as tumblr has apparently compiled the user data they're going to send *before* giving any kind of opt-out option) and Automattic's head of "AI" Andrew Spittle responded:
We will notify existing partners on a regular basis about anyone who's opted out since the last time we provided a list. I want this to be an ongoing process where we regularly advocate for past content to be excluded based on current preferences. We will ask that content be deleted and removed from any future training runs. I believe partners will honor this based on our conversations with them to this point. I don't think they gain much overall by retaining it.
And I do not trust midjourney or openai in the slightest--their business models, by their own admission, depend on scraping art they don't have permission to use--so I do not believe that they will honor any requests to remove data already received when requests are made to remove it. So yeah. take that as you will.
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about 20 minutes after I posted this, @staff put out this:
They do not acknowledge that they are definitely actually in the process of selling your data to third parties, but they have a setting which (they claim) will prevent them from sharing information with third parties, including "AI" training businesses.
I've turned it on, but tumblr has burned so much trust that I really don't have faith that tumblr will actually change the package of information that will be provided to these third parties based on the setting: tumblr/automattic must know that "AI" art theft is tremendously unpopular with a huge portion of tumblr, and that having this setting (even with a "you must know about it to use it" opt out setting) will result in a bunch of users setting their unintuitive "don't share with third parties" setting to "on" which will diminish the value of the sale.
I don't think tumblr will honor this setting.
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okayokay i just made a new tumblr account to see what they've changed (besides the "for you" being default.), and they are totally pushing it more than an old user would realize
im logged into this account in one tab and the new one in the other and tumblr is REALLY confused and im not sure where this will post but thats besides the point.
anyways when you sign up it gives you this
which is very comparable to sites/apps like pinterest and tiktok that have a personalized algorithm. when you scroll down its just random shit like Automobiles and Education. this is not pinterest. it censors stuff like sex but does NOT censor stuff like 'pee kink' . Notably!
anyways i picked some very normal interests (random shit i could think of, i left pee kink because Haha Funny) .
it then forces you to follow people! there is NOT a search, just a few trending users. it makes you pick 3 out of 10 users, one of them is the merch account, at least for me.
once you go into the actual website it looks like this! note 'for you' being default. there is NOT an option that i see to change this. this is what i was trying to look at before i ran into all the other shit haha.
time to go turn off tumblr live again ! ^^ ((tumblr fix your goddamn site
NOTE SINCE THIS HAS GOTTEN ATTENTION - I have made 2 tumblr accounts before this one (in 2019 and 2021 i believe ?) and I don't remember this in the sign up process - however, my memory is also dogshit, so please do not sue me
#rip reddit refugees for having to dealing with this shit. i have made 2 tumblr accounts before and this was Not there#tumblr#tumblr updates#tumblr changes#tumblr problems#tumblr algorithm#i dont know what to tag this im just putting what comes up tbh
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For those who don't know
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This is to hopefully get a visual and concrete representation of how people are reacting.
Also, please remember to go to tumblr.com/support and submit feedback about any dislike you have about the new twitter style format or wish for the option to swap between formats. Even if you are someone who would switch back to the old format, at least giving us the option would be good.
Just try not to get angry or cuss out the staff in those feedback tickets as that could get them dismissed or ignored.
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in a time like this its time to remake my do you like the new dashboard poll
reblog plz i really hope tumblr sees that we all fucking hate it and maybe theyll make it optional
#tumblr#poll#polls#tumblr dashboard#tumblr poll#tumblr ui#dashboard#tumblr changes#tumblr layout#IF U HAVE SMTH TO EASILY CHANGE IT BACK TELL ME
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dean's got some opinions. stop making changes to the supernatural webbed site!! put everything back the way it was. and give us cas back while you're at it
#i kept thinking 'you have to put everything back the way it was @tumblr' and then realized i was quoting dean so i had to make this#i know the post editor is not new anymore but it's still a nuisance and dean doesn't like it and neither do i#tumblr changes
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PLEASE send in actual feedback to staff!
once again begging people to realize staff don't give one single iota of a shit about you reblogging a complaint post then immediately installing an add-on and "going back to normal" like nothing happened, you need to ACTUALLY SUBMIT A FEEDBACK TICKET (or more than one) for them to even lodge that anyone cares about them fucking over basic accessibility by removing icons or screwing artists out of credit on their own posts!
no one looks at the @'s for official accounts. they get pinged like five million times a day stop @ing staff and expecting it to do anything and actually go submit a ticket because otherwise they can just go "well no one complained that we removed avatars from posts so we're keeping it uwu go screw yourself"
it literally takes like twenty seconds. click feedback in the dropdown and either write your own couple lines or just copy paste the message I've written below idfc. ANYTHING is better than doing the equivalent of literally nothing!
the removal of icons from posts makes it impossible to tell who friends or mutuals are to those with reading disabilities, and it's aggressively anti-accessible. please revert this change! the text blends together instead of feeling like separate posts and is extremely distressing because it feels like you've been forcibly booted from the friendship and community that tumblr has fostered for over a decade. not only is this change inaccessible for many disabled persons, it is actively ANTI-accessible and is both extremely alarming and distressing to see even *get* to this stage of testing!
PLEASE. PLEASE SUBMIT FEEDBACK AND DON'T LET THEM SKATE BY BECAUSE "NO ONE CARES" ABOUT THIS
#dashboard unfucker#dashboard changes#tumblr update#tumblr changes#tampermonkey#icon removal test#PFP removal test
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Tumblr Proving Once Again That They Don't Care About the Userbase
There was an interesting post from Labs a while back that no one seemed to take much notice of but in it they stated:
"Back in June, we announced our comeback as a new team that would imagine big ideas for Tumblr—and would build them in public (aka with you)."
"An essential part of how we're working in Labs is speaking to people who use Tumblr (and those who don't use it, but could love it) pretty much on a daily basis. So we showed them this idea, and their response was indifferent at best, and confused at worst."
They mentioned Tumblr Mini, aka making your post look like Twitter posts, which they literally said here:
"It didn’t feel like Tumblr anymore. But we didn’t want to make a decision based solely on our own gut feelings… we needed to ask the Tumblr community."
So everything here about talking to users about what they want is a fucking lie because if that was the case they'd know that no one wanted the new dashboard. They want it to feel unique yet made the dash a blatant rip-off of a dying site like Twitter, which it's users are fleeing because it sucks. Do they honestly think that the best thing to do is to make Tumblr look EXACTLY like the site they're trying to get away from?
They blatantly admitted in their own post that they wanted it to be "twitter-like", let me spell it out for you @staff, @changes, @labs, WE DON'T WANT TWITTER. That's why were here in the first place.
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By the way, if you're upset with the recent tumblr changes, 1)
Go leave a 1 star review in the app store. Right now. I cannot stress this enough. Tell anyone you know that has tumblr to go leave a 1 star review, write text citing the recent changes. If you don't usually use the tumblr app, download it specifically so you can leave a 1 star review.
Dropping tumblr's rating in the app stores is one of the most impactful things you can do to meaningfully impact them. It's most likely to actually get a response because it's something that hurts them.
2)
Go submit support tickets, either in feedback or bug report, explicitly outlining your issues. This is less likely to be effective, but it is an important metric to focus on.
3) IF YOU ARE SOMEONE WHO IS EPILEPTIC AND ACTIVELY ENDANGERED BY TUMBLR'S FLASHING LIGHT ADS,
Websites are legally obligated to comply with the ADA. This includes reasonable accommodations, like, for example, being able to disable autoplay or restrict flashing images.
Now, to be clear, you can only file a complaint if you're a US citizen, you actually have a disability and are being affected, but if you meet all those requirements, you can go file a complaint against tumblr with the DOJ.
The DOJ can force tumblr to comply with disability accessibility requirements, and the more credible complaints they get, the more likely they are to act, and the more seriously they'll take the issue.
All of these are things that you can do to help push for recent changes to be reversed. The biggest impact is likely going to come from app store reviews and complaining directly to the DOJ to force tumblr to stop endangering people.
#sif speaks#disability justice#tumblr changes#tumblr feedback#tumblr dash update#epilepsy#If you want change#you've gotta push for it
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Trying out Patio
Tagging @staff
So just mucking about with it a bit this morning and it actually seems pretty interesting, pretty cool; a quick glance and I can see what's up with everything/everyone I actually interact with here on the Hellsite (affectionate).
Thing is, I'm not seeing anywhere to actually compose a post. There's no little bar above the feeds to choose from or anything. It's just feeds, so I had to come back to regular Tumblr to write this.
Am I just missing it? Overlooking it?
Because honestly, I can see myself using this if I have the ability to compose posts as well. I'm not sure how it would work on mobile, as I usually compose things on desktop and just reblog w/maybe some commentary and tags on mobile.
I don't know if you'll even see this, guys, but I had to try.
Thanks,
Marbles
P.S. Please fix the search function. It's like pulling teeth to find my own original writing in my own archive. Thanks.
P.P.S. @thebibliosphere you started messing with this last night -- do you see a compose button anywhere on the Patio feeds? Am I just missing it somehow?
#Patio#Tumblr#the Hellsite (affectionate)#Tumblr staff#tumblr changes#I think I like it?#Need to play with it some more#Also please can we have a search function that works#Hellsite#Tumblr beta
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Literally fuck you tumblr nobody wants your stupid tumblr live button
#tumblr live#staff#fuck offffff#AND PUT THE POST BUTTON BACK AT THE BOTTOM ITS IN THE WAY#snooze tumblr live#tumblr changes#tumblr update#I fully thought it was broken or smth
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