its so cool watching the modern internet actively strangle itself in the name of squeezing out another percent of profits i love obtaining an intimate understanding of the looming dread a roman citizen during the rapid decline of the empire must've felt. it sucks and isn't good by the way
uhhhh why are they flirting with making likes a public thing on this site… what i like is between me and god
The new layout it a whole mess. Thankfully Xkit can already help with a bunch of this! I’m sure it’ll give more options soon.
Vanilla Tumblr:
(I have marked in red what can be removed. The tabs can be set not to stick, so you will really only see them at the top of your dash. Empty box on the left for hidden notifications and shop sparkle, i just didn’t have any. I’m EU so no Live for me).
Xkit Rewritten Tumblr:
The settings I use:
The best part of worldbuilding is making something that sucks. Magic schools with bullshit rules that don't work. Spaceships that are built stupid. My favourite thing to do is to make an inconvenient world that is full of stupid things for boring reasons, and then putting a character int here and making them live with that.
ALTI was about to reblog this like "wow I so agree" and then I checked the username and apparently I posted it.
#There's a giant water monster in my homebrew world who occasionally investigates boats
#He's 230 years old and has a title equivilant to a knighthood
#He was given that title so it would be illegal for anyone to hunt him
#If you try to attack Big Sneak the entire town will be mad at you.
@ashedink You cannot just hide this absolute work of art in the tags
(I immediately love Big Sneak)
HERE HE IS
THE BIG SNEAK
THE GUY
Indian Black Narrowmouth Frog aka "Space Frog" (Melanobatrachus indicus), family Microhylidae, Munnar, Kerala, India
photograph by Hadlee Renjith
Look, I think it is important that as many people as possible see these phenomenal photos of Melanobatrachus indicus, because they are damn rare, but truly spectacular.
If anyone wants to know my favourite frog, this is probably in the top five.
Taking the red hats off of half a dozen gnomes and loading them carefully, tearfully, into a revolver.
Please could you gnomes just hold the fuck still- wait
Where’s the sixth one
runs away as fast as fuckign possible coughing and and hacking and wheezing and crying
"no kink in public don't walk your partner on a leash where other people might see" and just let him run into the fucking road??????
re: that fucking staff post. obviously death to algorithms, but i also wanna interrogate the wider underlying assumptions of their logic there cuz. is 'success' having lots of followers & lots of popular posts??? why is that the end goal of using this website. i don't open tumblr to get attention from strangers, i open tumblr to read funny jokes and interesting commentary and to see cool art. encouraging clout-chasing will only increase user engagement if you successfully get people literally addicted to the associated dopamine hit. what if we didn't have to do that!!! what if a website could be a place you went to on purpose because you had fun there!!!!
Hi OP and assorted seekers of happiness on Tumblr,
One day many months ago someone I followed reblogged a post that had reblogs turned off before I could reblog it. I looked at the OP and it turned out to be a user research survey blog claiming to associate with Staff. I took it and complained about various things, and then a couple weeks later one of the things I complained about got changed. That blog, was https://www.tumblr.com/benevolenthellsite and the two most newest surveys linked were:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2V3MQTP (the longer one)
and
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HS5LP3W (the shorter one)
So if you want Staff to stop punching holes in their own roof, take one of those. Or both, both is good. Anyways, just wanted to give you an option. Thanks for listening!
