#Features

[bookaddict24-7]

“I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.”

― The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

[staff]

Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 

AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.

Here are the important details:

We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, save for those with which we partner. 

We want to represent all of you on Tumblr and ensure that protections are in place for how your content is used. We are committed to making sure our partners respect those decisions.

To opt out of sharing your public blogs’ content with third parties, visit each of your public blogs’ blog settings via the web interface and toggle on the “Prevent third-party sharing” option. 

For instructions on how to opt out using the latest version of the app, please visit this Help Center doc. 

Please note: If you’ve already chosen to discourage search crawling of your blog in your settings, we’ve automatically enabled the “Prevent third-party sharing” option.

If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.

[zuko-always-lies]

From instructions on how to opt out, look at the official staff post on the topic. It also gives more information on Tumblr's new policies. If you are opting out, remember to opt out each separate blog individually.

Please reblog this post, so it will get more votes!

[changes]

A new way to navigate Tumblr

If you use Tumblr on a web browser, you might have noticed us testing a brand new navigation on your dashboard in the last month. Now, after some extensive tweaks, we’ve begun rolling out this new dashboard navigation to everyone using a web browser. Welcome to the new world. It’s very like the old world, just in a different layout.

Why are we doing this? We want it to be as easy as possible for everyone to understand and explore what’s happening on Tumblr—newbies and seasoned travelers alike.

Labels over icons: When adding something new to Tumblr in the past, we’d simply add a new icon to our navigation with little further explanation. Turns out no one likes to press a button when they don’t know what it does. So now, where there’s space, the navigation includes text labels. Since adding these, we’ve noticed more of you venturing to previously unexplored corners of Tumblr. Intrepid!

What’s already been fixed? Thanks to feedback from folks during the testing phase, we’ve been able to make some improvements right out of the gate. Those include returning settings subpages (Account, Dashboard, etc.) to the right of the settings page instead of having them in an expandable item in the navigation on the left; fixing some issues with messaging windows on smaller screens; and streamlining the Account section to make it easier to get to your blogs.

What’s next? We’re looking into making a collapsible version of this navigation and improving the use of screen space for those of you with enormous screens. We’re also working on improving access to your account and sideblogs.

That’s all for now, folks. For questions and suggestions, contact Support using the “Feedback” category. Please select the “Report a bug or crash” category on the support form for technical issues. And keep an eye out for more updates here on @changes.

[meirimerens]

Yumna Al-Arashi, Axis of Evil (Yemen, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq), 2020

in Leica Fotografie International (LFI) magazine:

"This photograph was made for my first European solo show in Berlin, in the gallery Anahita Contemporary. It's a self-portrait alongside Anahita Sadighi, Moshtari Hilal and Susu AbdulMajid. We are respectively from Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq. Despite our different roots I noticed that we all share a similar background, having grown up in Western nations that often vilify the places our families are from. I also noticed the strong profiles of each of our faces. So I decided to create this portrait with the title Axis of Evil – a play on the term so frequently used to describe our home countries when we were growing up. It also embraces the beauty of our distinctive noses, which are often treated as ugly, something to be changed. I wanted to embrace these qualities of ours in this image, creating something powerful, defiant."

[trollsbroppy]

This is from the features commentary where the creators talk about the Broppy kiss and how they were going to treat it. And they gave a shoutout to all the Broppyists out there

[allieebobo]

College Tennis: Origin Story—Features

Tennis/Sports x Slice-of-life x College x Found-family x Coming-of-age

Demo | Cast of characters | Dev log | Back to main post | Ko-fi

Full character customisation (with wide-ranging effects on story and gameplay): pick your gender, height, build, personality, tennis style, physical appearance, dominant hand, and many more!

Play nail-biting singles and doubles matches throughout the fall and spring seasons, with distinctive foes—if you make the cut. If you play your cards right, you could hoist the NCAA Div I trophy at the end of the year.

Intricate tennis game mechanics: Craft your own distinctive tennis play style and make a name for yourself on the court. Hone your strength, agility, finesse, serve-and-volley skill, and endurance, and employ them in each match (while balancing other factors such as physical condition, doubles partner chemistry)

Romance four possible characters: the gruff, hot-headed no. 1 seed, an enigmatic, broody international student on your floor, the warm, unflappable team captain, or your nerdy and spirited high-school best friend.

Forge lifelong friendships: Build (or neglect) your relationships with your teammates, hallmates, coaches, family and friends back home

Strike a balance between: keeping up a rich social life, and maintaining your grades (or let all hell break loose)!

Beast mode password: unleashthekraken

[namnammunchmunch]

One day thos blue checkmarks will hatch into beautiful little 🦀🦀

[irresistible--seduction]

Hannah Masi

[rickchung]

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant, dir. Ariane Louis-Seize) x VIFF 2023.

This is a surprisingly fresh take on teen vampires in the form of a low-key Quebecois coming-of-age indie comedy about trying to consume human blood and find victims ethically. Sara Montpetit and Félix-Antoine Bénard star as a 68-year-old undead woman in the body of a teenage girl and a depressed high schooler with suicidal tendencies. They form a sweet but strange bond as they try to earnestly help each other achieve their unconventional goals in life. Its exploration of the more mundane but annoying parts of vampiric life makes for an altogether humorous endeavour.

Screened at the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival as part of the Altered States series and screening again at the VIFF Centre from Oct. 21–30.

[bookaddict24-7]

"Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library."

--John Waters

(I will say, that in this economy, feel free to just treat this as a pretty quote.)

[staff]

Hi! We're introducing Important Blue Internet Checkmarks here on Tumblr. They're a steal at $7.99—that's cheaper than some other places, when you consider that you get not one but TWO checkmarks for your blog on web only (for now). Why, you ask? Why not? Nothing matters! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Get yours here!

[fromthedust]

The Physog Family - Waddy - England - 1938

[fruitstickerr]

got interviewed by a local magazine about my collections! "anik-anik" is another word for "whatever" or "anything and everything" here in the philippines, and it's evolved to describe the community here that enjoys collecting trinkets! you can read it here <3

[prideplus]

Hello, fine, funky little friends.

Sadly, we had to bid our little ranine ribbitters adieu as they vanished from our dashboards last week. They were needed elsewhere, and by that, we mean the pond of princess tears, where they will engage in some top-secret singing by the half-light of the blue pansy moon in the third quadrant of a planet we can’t disclose lest we endanger their mission.

Here are some delightful stats to remember them by 🫡

The frogs ribbitted 48.5 million times! That's a lot of ribbits.

402k different people made sounds with the frogs.

32k of you “clicked for frogs,” but then never interacted with the frogs for some reason. We’re not quite sure what happened there.

Only 937 of you used the search bar to play frog tunes, but oh boy, did you play ’em! In total, you played 6.81k tunes.

At least one of you tried to hack the frogs. We see you. Good for you.

[wip]

hello! I was wondering if you'd consider adding multiple "show ads anyway" options for ad free users, one where you can show all ads and one where you can show posts promoted with blaze but hide all other ads? I'm interested in seeing what ads other users are placing but I don't want to be forced to scroll past all the other ads on the off chance of getting to see them

Hey there, @sydmarch.

We have some good news for you. As it is, we are actually underway working on this setting as we speak. “Show ads anyway” will either show all ads or hide them, including Blaze ads. With the change we are currently working on, there will be three possibilities if you have Ad-Free:

No ads (default setting).

Show Blazed posts, but no external ads.

Show all ads anyway.

It gets better still. This setting is on the way and potentially within the next week on web, with a mobile release to follow shortly after.

We hope this helps, and thanks for your question! Keep the feedback rollin’.

Best,

—Justin (Tumblr Engineering)