#Branding and Usability

[horrorsequel]

i remember when i had a GENUINE popular post on this website and someone was like "wow, you must've gotten a lot of followers from that!" yeah i got maybe like 2 new followers every 10 thousand notes, every reblog of which had the same inane joke in the tags. this website is only good when you're not winning.

i was on ifunny. it didn't change anything. the ifunny still happened.

[wereh0gz]

Wdym the switch 2 got announced

[mochapanda]

way too much happened today and im exhausted but hehe keys

[geraskier]

bought new wrist braces. the old ones survived ~11 months of heavy use, including multiple times where i tripped and landed on outstretched hands. enough of the stitching in the velcro has ripped that the velcro isn't "sticky" anymore. the first two pics are the old right wrist brace. third is the new one! they're mueller fitted wrist braces, about 16 bucks each. 5 out of 5 stars, they're extremely comfortable, easy to clean, sturdy but not bulky, etc etc.

[snowstories]

Tumblr Live just came to the EU and if someone hasn't made a workaround to snooze it permanently I'm deleting my account and I'm not joking. Sayonara you weaboo shits etc etc

[tenpintsofsundrop]

The horror of Tumblr Live has finally breached containment and it's available outside of the US now. (Tbh I thought the third party hosting app that they are using for it was illegal in other places, but oh well.)

Friendly reminder that you can turn it off in content settings - but it only "snoozes" for a week and you can't permanently turn it off.

I have always said that I will go down with this ship and I will stick around tumblr forever, but like damn. They are making it really difficult to want to

[pyrepostings]

thinking about putting the crew of the Bronze Lily into a ship killing gale. The kind that breaks masts and bones and floods food stores while in the middle of nowhere. Thinking about Mer Kevin normally fishing in his free time to bring fresh food aboard, but being injured in the storm.

He'll heal eventually, maybe mer heal faster than the average human, but it slows him down now, makes it so he can't dive as far, swim fast or nimbly enough for solo open sea fishing. The human crew can set nets and traps along the side, but maybe that's not enough. Even if food wasn't a problem, fresh water still is.

So he sets out, alone, on a heading that should bring him to the nearest port. He's still injured, but technically capable of finding and bringing back help.

Actually this might be a good opportunity for another capture. He reaches land, and calls for help. He gets backed into a corner and forced to reveal he's a mer so his story adds up as to why he's here if his crew's still stranded, to convince them this isn't some pirate plot.

Maybe he's forgotten after a long enough recovery period, maybe this shore specifically is hostile to mer. But he's captured then, for his magic and abilities. It would be a hell of a fight, but he'd lose to sheer numbers, and exhaustion, and hunger, and injury.

The rest of the crew would be found by a passing fellow whaling ship, or perhaps a breeze would finally grace their last remaining sail. Kevin would have given Julian his compass, either in an unrelated scene as a show of great trust, or before this specific outing so the crew can know how far away he and rescue is. Which means, they have a compass to him to find him, and stage a rescue.

Imagining using it to communicate. If set to a one on the pain intensity scale, that warm but not hot sensation would mean they found rescue, and he can rendezvous at their home port. A two, hot but not burning, for a short burst would mean distress. Maybe only used for a fatality, maybe just that the situation is worse (maybe length of time determines how bad it is).

Imagining the relief he feels for them, even though he's in new mortal peril, to know that at least they're safe. Then the hope they realize he's not heeding the rendezvous, that he also needs help now. That they can find a way to get to him despite the damaged ship. And do so before his captors bleed him dry.

[seeyouguyslater]

Xp- pen and Huion both have promoted AI

Huion even more explicitly even promoting courses

XP pen promised to not use ai in promotional images but this tweet thread is fairly recent

it appears 2024 will continue the trend of art companies proudly representing themselves with the use of art theft generators [aka, AI generators]

original tweet is now deleted, but wacom used a generated image of a dragon for their 2024 lunar new year promo on twitter.

if you're shopping for art tablets, huion, artisul, and XPPen tablets do just as good a job as their wacom equivalents for less, sometimes even half the price.

when you buy a wacom you're paying almost exclusively for the Brand Name, not any actual quality.

[theabstruseone]

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

Edit to add further developments:

Yes, this is all real. Check the notes and people have pictures. I understand the skepticism because it feels like a joke, but to the best of my knowledge, everything in the above is accurate.

Microsoft also owns the trademark on X for chatting and gaming because, y'know, X-box.

The logo came from a random podcaster who tweeted it at Musk.

The act of sending a tweet is now known as "Xeet". They even added a guide for how to Xeet.

The branding change is inconsistent. Some icons have changed, some have not, and the words "tweet" and "Twitter" are still all over the place on the site.

TweetDeck is currently unaffected and I hope it's because they forgot that it exists again. The complete negligence toward that tool and just leaving it the hell alone is the only thing that makes the site usable (and some of us are stuck on there for work).

This is likely because Musk was forced out of PayPal due to a failed credit line project and because he wanted to rename the site to "X-Paypal" and eventually just to "X".

This became a big deal behind the scenes as Musk paid over $1 million for the domain X.com and wanted to rebrand the company that already had the brand awareness people were using it as a verb to "pay online" (as in "I'll paypal you the money")

X.com is not currently owned by Musk. It is held by a domain registrar (I believe GoDaddy but I'm not entirely sure). Meaning as long as he's hung onto this idea of making X Corp a thing, he couldn't be arsed to pay the $15/year domain renewal.

Bloomberg estimates the rebranding wiped between $4 to $20 billion from the valuation of Twitter due to the loss of brand awareness.

The company was already worth less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it in the first place, meaning this may end up a worse deal than when Yahoo bought Tumblr.

One estimation (though this is with a grain of salt) said that Twitter is three months from defaulting on its loans taken out to buy the site. Those loans were secured with Tesla stock. Meaning the bank will seize that stock and, since it won't be enough to pay the debt (since it's worth around 50-75% of what it was at the time of the loan), they can start seizing personal assets of Elon Musk including the Twitter company itself and his interest in SpaceX.

Sesame Street's official accounts mocked the rebranding.

[adelllseo]

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[madmaryholiday]

my former workplace apparently couldn't list things for sale for the entirety of last week because of a security breach with the posting software. this in turn has led management to decide to accelerate their plans to switch to a NEW software, and they're making everyone use it starting tomorrow.

this software is a) built for iphones, and all the listers currently have android phones; b) is buggy as all hell; c) is reliant on stores to put barcodes on items before they send them to e-comm, where they will stay with an item all the way through the listing/shelving/shipping process.

these barcodes will not have titles on them.

and the cherry on top?

there is currently no way for listers to make new barcodes, which means that if someone gets a box that's half candles and half barbies, they can't split the lot and make a separate barcode for the barbie half.

what actually shocks me about this whole thing is that it's exactly what they wanted to do with our PREVIOUS posting software, but it was abandoned because it would have been a logistical clusterfuck.

so like six years later they decided to do it again, but make absolutely none of the changes that were suggested that first time to avoid complete disaster.

i am so glad i left when i did.

i might have actually gotten myself fired if i had to sit down and hear that management was going to push a failed idea from years ago without adjusting it at ALL.

anyway, i'll be waiting for updates from my former coworkers on how bad things will inevitably go. i feel so bad for everyone who will now have to suffer through yet another baffling fuckup by management.

[intorque]

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[cicidraws]

im selling my chromebook i got because it turned out to be more like a tablet, and it didnt once cooperate with normal browsers and stuff youd have on a computer/laptop. im gonna put that money toward an actual laptop so i wont run into this.