#communities beta testing

[loredwy]

THERE IS REACTIONS

Communities closed beta is here

Hello again! We’re back with an update on Communities, a big idea we had last year that we’ve been working on steadily since then. We’re abnormally jazzed to announce that we’re beginning a “closed beta” phase of this new feature, which means many of you will get to play with it soon!

We want to build this whole thing together, with as much input from all of you as possible. We’ve read and re-read the feedback from our previous post, and we’ve been surveying and interviewing people about this idea for a few months now. But it’s time to open this up even more for hands-on testing.

We’ve already begun reaching out to most of you who interacted with our previous post, as promised, with a survey asking whether you’d be interested in helping (check your email!). Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be using the results of that survey to narrow down who we’d like to help test Communities in these initial batches.

The process is looking a bit like this:

If you received a Communities survey email from research@tumblr.com to your registered Tumblr email address, fill it out! If you’re interested in helping us in this beta test period, that’s your way of potentially getting early access. If you did not receive an email with the Communities survey, don’t fret! Communities will be rolling out to more people as we expand our testing. 

We’ll go through the results and choose a diverse range of community ideas to gather a wide array of feedback.

Selected testers will receive a second survey with more detailed questions about their proposed community. Very practical stuff, like the name, title, and description, whether it should be public or private, the About page contents, its own community guidelines, and more.

We will create the new Tumblr community on your behalf using the information supplied. We’re building the tools that will let people create and edit communities themselves, so eventually you’ll be able to change them without needing our help. But for now, we’re creating and editing them for you, as needed.

After we’ve created the community, you’ll be made its first admin. Everything from here on out is up to you – Tumblr staff won’t be in your community (unless you invite us, of course). You’ll be able to invite anyone on Tumblr to your community. However, your community will have a population cap to start, limiting how many people can be in it and invited, as a way of keeping this beta test somewhat contained and manageable for us. We’ll be able to raise that population cap for communities that are growing and if we want to test further in that direction.

And throughout, we’ll be asking for feedback, both in some special communities for everyone in the closed beta, and via more surveys and the Support tickets we receive.

This closed beta version of Communities is far from finished, and that’s part of the reason we want to start opening it up to more of you for feedback. There are a lot of rough edges and known issues, but we think it’s far enough along that it’s usable enough for testing. We need feedback in order to feel like we’re building the right thing.

The very first public community is called “Communities Feedback” for this reason! We want everyone helping us test out communities to tell us about it, so people in this closed beta will be in there by default. We want to use that space to be more public and real-time about new pieces we’re building, bugs we’re fixing, things we know are broken, and answers to common questions. There is an additional, private community for community admins, to help shape how administrating and moderating these spaces will work. And if you don’t want to use those spaces, you can always use the “Feedback” category in our Support form.

Stay tuned for more, and keep an eye on that Communities Feedback space if you’d like to see how things are changing over time.

[loredwy]

The best part of this is idk what even happened here

But @loredwy-but-not-shadowbanned (yes, my other account) is in my community, from when I invited myself, yet it has communities disabled now????

So I dont see the communities tab on desktop, yet can interact with the community when going to its link. And see the community replies... but it doesnt show the icon for community replies? even though im inside the community 😭

Staff I swear idk what happened there, dont kill me yet /j

^ what I wrote was in the community replies. And @smushedmuffin's were in the post comments.

[decepti-thots]

The Transformers Fic Rec community!

With Tumblr rolling out its Community function in beta, I'm jumping in to experiment with whether it's a good platform for an old idea I had to run some kind of fic rec event/feed for Transformers. Because I miss when fic rec communities were a bigger thing in fandom!

What is it?

So first off, communities are a new Beta feature Tumblr is rolling out which allows members to post and reblog to semi-public, curated feeds here on Tumblr. (If you were around when Livejournal was a thing, or use Dreamwidth, it brings a little of the way comms work(ed) on those platforms over here.)

Posts made to the community are visible when you visit it, but don't go into the wider public search. You can comment on and react to posts, and members can reblog posts from elsewhere on Tumblr into the community. The idea is for this to be a dedicated little feed you can proactively check and post to when looking for fic recs and related discussion, somewhere between a forum and a blog feed! Slower and more public than a Discord server, but more curated and targeted than just throwing stuff out there. I also hope to start doing fic rec theme/challenge weeks on there at some point, if I can get things going!

The community will be 18+ only, due to it accepting mature and explicit fic recs. Users will need to have some kind of indication on their blog they are an adult to join. A set of basic guidelines is on the new community page as the pinned post for now and can be read before choosing to join if you like.

So how do I join?

At the moment, communities are invite-only while the beta testing continues. (They are currently working on letting admins use invite links to let people join, hopefully very soon.) This means that if you would like to request to join, you will need to send me an ask so I can add you. (Or comment on this post, or... you get the idea. You have to ask me.) In the future, you'll be able to request to join yourself. As mentioned above, this community is 18+, and blogs that do not verify you are eighteen or older will not be added. (Unless I know you, I guess? But otherwise: say you're old, please, lmao.)

Anyway. Check out the community here and if you want in, hit me up! I'll go make some example posts sometime later today or tomorrow, probably. :) Let's get the ball rolling! (And if you have any suggestions and/or feedback, let me know if you want, I'm all ears.)

[institute-of-dolls]

An Update on lab Studies methodologies

Hello Dolls, Handlers, Witches and everything in-between! The Institute of Dolls Discord server is now open. We've been working on it in the background for a short while, and we're finally opening the Institute to visitors. Come meet the Director, staff, and institute dolls. For now please DM us for a link if you want in, and please welcome @edensiiln, the first Institute doll and our new administrative aid who helped make this all possible. Feel free to dm any member of staff or the Institute directly.

[loredwy-but-not-shadowbanned]

I tried doing it with this account too and it seems its because I made the rules thing too long 😔

It doesnt let you scroll so you cant see the button of "I accept joining :3" at the end

I could still join by opening it in my mobile browser and choosing "desktop site"? Or sth along those lines. Which lets you see tumblr like you would on your pc (and then, by zooming out, click the button to join)

Also im not being able to invite people to my community to test stuff because of the shadowban but... if I send you the link, can you still join? 🤨

https://www.tumblr.com/communities/mutualitos

ITS NOT LETTING ME JOINON MOBILEEEEE

[asteracaea]

just want to make sure no one feels left out or offended if they haven't gotten an invite to the kaylor community thing! (still really don't know what it's for so you're not missing anything)

i have to manually add people (and only i can do it for some reason!?) and there are so many kaylor blogs and i haven't had a ton of time to do it, and also sometimes i've tried adding people and i get this error message:

so if you haven't gotten an invite and want to join, send me a message and i'll try to add you!

[abandonhopegame]

-Abandon Hope- is looking for beta readers and testers

The initial draft for the game has been completed and we are now ready to gain feedback with regard to the game and its mechanics. The game uses the Four Points Game System by Penflower Ink, which gives players two options to perform an action - use points from a particular stat pool or roll the die!

If you are interested in being a beta reader or possibly beta testing the game, please email us at gakuenmysteryclub@gmail.com with the follow information:

Your Name

Best way to contact you (Email, Tumblr DM, etc)

A small introduction and why you'd like to help out!

Responses will go out next week by Tuesday, October 17th! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to send an Ask!

[loredwy-but-not-shadowbanned]

IN MY DEFENSE IT WAS AN ACCIDENT

I DIDNT KNOW COMMUNITY INVITES WERE SENT VIA DMS, IT HAD A MENU AND ALL

Am I shadowbanned

NO IT'S JUST CAUSE LEO SENT ME A DAMN JOIN LINK

LEO I TOLD YOU NOT TO TEST IT

[ascendingconures]

are you a bonelab person. how did you find my bonelab post

you could say I'm a boner of sorts. I got curious if there's any boneworks/labs content on tumblr so I searched it up lol

[fogaminghub]

🌟 Attention, Hunters! 🌟 The wait is almost over! The new trailer for Monster Hunter Wilds has been unveiled, showcasing the breathtaking Iceshard Cliffs ❄️ and always exciting monsters like Hirabami, Nerscylla, and the fearsome Gore Magala! 

Mark your calendars for Open Beta Test 2 (OBT2) from February 6-9 and February 13-16, 2025! Dive into action with character creation and exclusive quests against Doshaguma, Gypceros, and the mysterious Arkveld! 🌄

Plus, all participants will earn special rewards! Are you ready for the hunt? 🏹 

[triplecastgames]

It's the final day for our summer sale on Itch! Get any of our beta packages for the The Hidden Keys for half off! We're fundraising to get our finished book into print :D If you're a horror fan or know one, this game and its accompanying tales are for you <3

[loredwy]

LJSKDJDKDJFKDJKDJF

Poor tumblr, it is trying

[xxdrwhovianxx]

Hey guys, so if you get an invite from me for a community on ghosts, it IS me. I think this might be a cool forum thing they're adding so hopefully it'll be fun. If you see this and didn't get an invite but wanna join in. Send me a message and I gotchu

[fizzingwizard]

"My brother had no regard for her; his pleasures were not what they ought to have been, and from the first he treated her unkindly. The consequence of this, upon a mind so young, so lively, so inexperienced as Mrs. Brandon’s, was but too natural. She resigned herself at first to all the misery of her situation; and happy had it been if she had not lived to overcome those regrets which the remembrance of me occasioned. But can we wonder that, with such a husband to provoke inconstancy, and without a friend to advise or restrain her[...] she should fall?" - Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

[loredwy]

Wait, could it be that youre bugged too

Because I noticed today that for some reason in my not-shadowbanned account I didnt have communities as a feature even though its literally into one

Click here and see if it lets you post? LMAO

Wake up, babe

We can reblog stuff into our communities now

HOW DO I FIND THE COMMUNITY AGAIN BABE

I'LL BE RIGHT BACK AS I VENTURE OUT INTO THE HELLSITE

(literally only joined the community bc you were the one sending it to me. /pos my plan before that had been to avoid all new things like the plague)

[charbway]

if valve would just... remove turbine from the competitive map pool... remove the forced graphical settings from competitive mode... please