#[ — reblogs !! ]

[nokdunal]

Quick pose study before starting trespasser

[thelunarsystemwrites]

Look up your name in the gifs and show the first gif that comes up

@absurdumsid @inka-boi @childofthest4rzz @tobi-draws @largefound

[acevibe]

Follower: *Reblogs*

Me: I love you too

[tomatette]

Btw, I heard it throught the grapevine that some of you out there don't like to reblog because tagging is so complicated and annoying.

Well, good news, you don't have to tag your reblogs.

Tags on reblogs are just for

your personal filing system (basically it makes it easier for you and/or other people to find shit on your blog)

trigger or general warnings

RAMBLING

Reblogs don't show up in the tags, only original posts.

So, reblog to your heart's content. Please do. I promise, there's a 99,67345% chance OP will love you for it :)

[onionhaseyeoo]

Saw a bunch of people do this.. sooo let’s try this!

Crossed -done

blue text = doing

10 notes: I’ll finish and actually POST the oc lore one shots that I have yet to finish

30 notes: I’ll draw someone’s oc once

50 notes: i’ll stop relying solely on Boost nutrition drinks and actually eat real meals

70 notes: I’ll start drinking water during the day

100 notes: i’ll post a face reveal 😨

200 notes: I’ll stop skipping meals

300 notes: i’ll try to be the older sister that my parents want me to be

400 notes: i’ll post a short dance video

500: next time I see my ‘friends’ I’ll sit with them/try to make conversation

700: I’ll post a short song cover

Actually yk what go wild spamming is aight

[pien-art]

as a somewhat bigger artblog now it's easier for me to get some reach but there's sooo many incredible artists whose posts get lost in the void bc not many people reblog stuff anymore. Liking a post doesn't do anything to get a post seen by more people !

support creators ! reblog a post 👍

[fistfightinganxietyandlosing]

Media where the true horror is the fact that the people fighting for their lives on a daily basis are children

Media where the true horror is that their biggest concern is possibly dying when it really should be failing a test or getting rejected by a crush

Media where the characters never got the chance to have a normal childhood

[3twindragons]

@nyxelestia

[wip]

Posts are too popular? Worry not. Consider your notifications covered.

Sound familiar?

Broken the internet with a post? We love that for you. What we love a little less is the barrage of likes and reblogs you have probably received. This can be a little intense. A bit much. Stressful, even. And unnecessarily so. 

If your post has gone stratospheric, but you don’t want to completely mute notifications for it, we are working on something that might just help. We are experimenting with grouping your push notifications from anyone you don’t follow into neat, occasional summaries. This will roll out to a small number of you, first as an A/B test, for a limited time.

Why are we doing this?

We hope to steady, streamline, and calm your Tumblr experience when you’re grappling with overwhelming notifications from a popular post or reblog. The goal here is to reduce overload so you can receive the notifications you care about the most—while keeping up to speed with everything else.

In July, you may remember that we turned on post-level muting on the web. We also extended muting to affect your activity feed, as well as your push notifications. This feature is the next step in managing notification overload—one that will make your devices a little more peaceful and, hopefully, work a little more proactively against the problem.

Before and after:

Feedback?

We’re all ears. Let us know what you think in the replies—we would love to hear from you. And we will be back in touch with updates on this test in the near future. 

[dimachina]

reblogs and likes are both suicide

[markscherz]

Thanks everyone (gosh there were a lot of you) for clarifying (SO quickly) that tumblr only tracks direct reblogs of rebloggers as notes to them, and not all descendants. No idea how I got so many years into this site without realising that.

To prevent my inbox getting too flooded (and only partly out of embarrassment), I’ve deleted that post.

[miyamiwu]

Pros of reblogging:

You get to keep a copy of that post FOREVER. Tumblr is not like Twitter in that if OP deletes the original post, all the shared versions of the post will be deleted as well. This is how Tumblr still has posts from 100000 years ago circulating around.

You get to classify posts with your own tagging system. It makes finding things easier. Searching a blog using tags is also more reliable than searching with keywords.

You get to leave comments in the tags of the reblog! It’s handy when you wanna react to the post but are too shy to talk to OP and/or others in the reblog chain.

You get an archive/scrapbook of all the things you like, which you can then showcase with pretty custom themes.

You get to identify as part of a community. Among fandom blogs, fellow fans will know you’re one of them if you actually reblog things. Any outsider can leave a like, but it takes a fan or someone really interested in something to dare to reblog.

You get to make friends! People follow other people based on what their blog is like. If your blog is empty, then what’s the point of following you?

You give the impression that you care about what other people say, and it will make others look at you more nicely (empty blogs can be suspicious).

You are less likely to be blocked by artists/writers. (I’ve seen some posts from artists/writers saying that they’ll block spam likers.)

You are less likely to be mistaken as a bot or a creep (again, empty blogs are sus).

[laxi0v0]

can we have some fem!scriddler escaping Batman . please and thank you

Well I tried

[albinotopaz]

Y'all NEED to know just how much I adore reading those reblog tag messages and comments. Cannot articulate my appreciation for the response. Thank you!

And I've gotten so many lovely asks, too. >:)

[thecartoonblog]

Happy Friday the 13th

[wip]

For a long time now, it's been impossible to see comments or reblogs with comment/tags on posts over a certain age when using the mobile app or blog view. Today I was looking at a post from 2015 that I knew had at least one reblog comment and lots of tags, but all the reblogs were under "other". I found the comment (but couldn't see any tags) by going to the [blog name].tumblr.com/post/[###] link and scrolling through all the notes in one list, but it's impossible anywhere else.

I know this probably has to do with the many changes Tumblr has gone through in that time, but it's still really inconvenient to have disappearing notes on the platform where part of the charm is that posts can survive for, at this point, almost a decade and a half.

Is it even possible to fix this, and of so, is it something you would consider?

Answer: Hey there, @maplerosekisses!

It is possible to fix this, and we would like to fix it, but it’s a daunting problem at Tumblr’s scale. Buckle up for storytime.

Long, long ago, Tumblr was created, and in the beginning, there weren’t even notes on posts. There weren’t even reblogs or likes. In fact, we were one of the first platforms to introduce the heart icon and the concept of “likes”! We created the reblog! Back in those days, each of these actions were tracked separately. Likes were tracked in one database table and reblogs weren’t tracked at all as notes. When we introduced replies, those had yet another way of being tracked in our database. Totally separate entities on the platform for years.

Eventually, we wanted to consolidate these into one number—so we had to count each of those different places. That’s horribly inefficient, and as Tumblr grew in size and popularity, this became a bottleneck that hurt the whole platform. So one of the things we did was to invent a new denormalized database table called “notes,” to track all of these different things in one place so we could easily count them. We still have that table, and it’s still the fallback whenever we need to count the notes on a post.

But this itself is ancient history. Since then, the product has changed even more, and we removed replies and re-added them later, back in 2015 or so—and made some changes in that process to help further improve efficiency. These improvements allowed us to include media in the notes view, and be able to split out replies versus reblogs-with-comment versus likes (kind of going back to the way it was originally.) Even then, we didn’t yet support showing tag usage in the notes—that would come even later.

In the process of making all of these changes for efficiency and functionality, we had to ask ourselves, as you point out: should we try to backfill these new database tables with all of the data from before? For a long while, we were using both systems to power the notes view, so we could display as much information from “before” as we could. Eventually, we didn’t need to do that anymore, because the number of people scrolling back to that “before” time became infinitesimally small. And that's the situation we’re in today.

Because if we wanted to backfill the data, we would need to process literally tens of billions of posts and notes from before 2015, at a conservative estimate. Let’s say it’s 10,000,000,000, for the sake of argument: if we started an automated process to go through them at ~100 per second (which would be relatively safe at our scale, so Tumblr doesn’t break as we’re digging up these old rows in the database), it would take over three years of continuous operation to complete that task.

In situations like this, we have to ask ourselves if that’s worth it. So far, the answer we’ve determined is no. But we may find a more efficient way to do it, there’s undoubtedly a way, and when we do, we will re-evaluate the decision again. We hope that makes sense—trying to make changes to Tumblr can be really, really hard.

But thank you for your question. We appreciate them and hope that goes some way to answering your query. Keep 'em coming, y'all.