#ill be back tomorrow for reals

[copperbadge]

See, the thing is, I don't think Tumblr is A/B testing.

A/B testing is for shit like "Which subject line gets a better response to a mass email." It's meant to be invisible to the consumer or end-recipient. With a massive sweeping shift in UI of a social media site, there's no point in A/B testing if you aren't actively soliciting organized feedback; it's not like the change isn't highly visible. There's no reason not to institute this change and then pop up a window asking exactly what we think. There's no reason to do it on a Wednesday and then have Support direct everyone to a blog whose only meaningful way of gathering feedback isn't open until next Monday, and who has until now basically been a PR operation.

And frankly even if they were A/B testing, who fucking asked me if I wanted to be tested on? Did they think I'd welcome being told that I'm their guinea pig?

This isn't an A/B test. It's a tolerance test. Give half the site an untenably bad UI and tell them your hands are tied and see how long it takes them to acclimate. See how long it takes them to cobble some shit together to make it tolerable so you can keep your garbage new design when everyone else inevitably gets it too. How uncomfortable can you keep them and still keep them? That's the question they're answering.

Fine, you motherfuckers win. As long as this site is still 5% less garbage than the others, most of us will stay. Where are we going to go? So don't bother testing in future. Just push your fucking code. I'll be gone as soon as I can, but for all I know that's years away. I hope that makes you feel powerful, assholes. You're curating a site based on learned helplessness. I hope that makes you feel big.

[pass3ra]

cressida's storyline was genuinely shameful tbhhh it's like they started rewriting it in the first half of the season then completely forgot about the changes they'd made to make it fit the book plot and it just ends up making everyone else look bad😐 every character in the second half got a "penelope did nothing wrong" lobotomy so we ended up with eloise completely ignoring cressida being sold off to an horrible man (when she made every effort to support her in the first half of the season) and for some reason resenting her for pretending to be lady whistledown? Then they somehow frame her ignoring colin's offensively bad pleas as it being her turning away from redemption when all she's trying to do is escape being trapped in the country with her likely abusive aunt... and it ends with her meeting her horrible fate and it still being framed as tragic only to immediately juxtapose it with the bridgerton family winning the idgaf war while gleefully seeing off francesca and her future dead husband. The bridgertons were the villains of the season frfr

[legobiwan]

I apologize to my neighbor who has probably been listening to me yell, "Oh my God" for an hour or two straight with every reveal in this website.

The LORE

[emry-stars-art]

Emry, i need advice. I have a crush on this guy but i can’t tell if he likes me back. he bought me a powerade (without me asking) at a tournament we went to and we texted for like 2 hours last night. Should i ask him out?

he also may have spent the entire tournament talking to me. I always call myself gay but i clearly stated to him that i’m bisexual so he knows i would go for him. this would be my first “straight” relationship as i’ve only dated girls before. so i don’t really know if he’s attracted to me too. i hope you answer this because i’m in desperate need 😩

okay bye bye i love you :))

My sweet child I have NO clue what about my blog could have insinuated I know anything about actually having relationships I'm so sorry 😭 I mean my instinct is go for it?? And even if it doesn't work out, if you care about each other as people and friends you can keep being friends??? That's what I did in high school idk I'm just a dumb asexual that's never been interested in a relationship

Good luck soldier I believe in you

[skuntank]

Diantha three wolf moon cosplay real

[dosthoeyevsky]

its my 28th birthday tomorrow so i want to say while i still can

- i am 27 years old

- i have no money and no prospects

- i'm already a burden to my parents

- i am frightened

[gwenlena]

whenever i dont know how im feeling but know its bad i explain my thoughts into google to see what the result is and today it lead me to an article on alexithymia thank you google i already knew that thats why im here

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Fuck u I shouldn't have to work on weekends vs Jesus christ I have so much to do. Fight.

[triglycercule]

halloween is like in a month and as worlds worst procrastinator (self declared title) i think i'm finally gonna fufill my dreams and make an animation meme of the mtt with that one happy halloween junky rin song (but ughhh i need to decide on costumes i'll give them!!!!! off to the drawing board!!)

[delicatetaysversion]

so sad but trying to be so brave about it

[ghost-bard]

Jrwi official twitter and grizzly of grizzlyplays I AM ON VACATION 🧍‍♂️i am not emotionally or mentally ready but imma watch it anyway

[yuridovewing]

Mothwing's Secret Diagnosis: A

Holy shit that was good. Definitely my favorite novella as of this point. The way both Mothwing and Hawkfrost are characterized here is so good and does such a good job of humanizing the both of them, Hawkfrost especially. I like how Hawkfrost starts off the book being sympathetic to Mothwing, and then in his last appearance he's depicted as haggard, depraved, and insane from his time in the Dark Forest to the point that he just can't listen to Mothwing anymore. It's such a devastating comparison.

I also love how Mothwing's journey with StarClan is presented. In any other scene, the writers would wrench the protagonist's mouth to be like "Wowie StarClan was so cool and justified and good for this actually", but Mothwing sees through their bullshit and doesn't rely on them for her work. She still doesn't do the prophecy thing and that's okay. She accepts that it helps her clanmates and that Willowshine can take care of things. She even resents StarClan for taking the credit for her healing. And I especially love that it's Hawkfrost's decayed spirit that breaks her there. She hates StarClan for letting this happen to her brother and letting things get this bad. And that's a REALLY good place to take a medic in my opinion.

Not gonna lie, this is the first book in my readthrough where I just had a good time in each chapter. Ravenpaw's Farewell and Pebbleshine's Kits were good but they both had chapters that felt like padding or just unnecessarily meanspirited moments. Mothwing's Secret is about how clan culture decayed her relationship with her brother and warped him into a monster and slowly broke her and at no point does Mothwing stop and go "actually this is all good and fine". It's played as the tragedy it is and that's just really good. Augh.

[grave-z-boy]

Having a big gay crush on one of your friends is so embarrassing fr. like. I dream of you, I want to write you love letters and make you paper flowers, I wanna to make cringe tiktoks with you, I want to wear matching outfits with you, I want to tell you how much I love you everyday and every night, I want to go to the park in the middle of the night with you, I want to fill a sketchbook with nothing but portraits of you, I want to lay in bed with you and read together. I love your smile and your laugh, I love how you stand your ground even when it’s hard, I love your humor, I love your hands, I love your hugs, I love telling you “I love you”, even if you think I mean it in a friend way. I love you so much

[boygirlctommy]

i madeeee sillay new characters and i love them

[valentinesparda]

me doing the marriage thing with noah is very funny because the only reason I got here is that I slowly crawled my way through the stages of feelings that I go through which is typically making fun of them -> saying I like them and playing around with the idea of shipping with them but doing so in a self-deprecating way e.g. I'm not worthy of being happy so I'll dance around the subject -> waiting a year or longer to finally feel comfortable with saying I like them and that my feelings are valid -> rearrange ship lore to be more self indulgent and sometimes the very last step is to marry them so congrats noah you've gone up in the world (become fake husband)

[steampoweredskeleton]

I'm aware this illness probably isn't COVID but it is the weirdest illness I've ever had