#old facebook layout

[micahr238]

Ok who thought the new Tumblr UI was a good idea?? Because it sure isn't.

Everything is too crowded and for some reason they decided to put the info bar thingy on the side. It was so much more convenient and clean looking when it was on the top.

Sometimes you want less information not more.

[anotherpapercut]

my carrier forces me to get a new phone every year and I was very upset about having to redownload Tumblr bc I haven't updated my app since before Tumblr live was added and I didn't want to deal with it

turns out it's extremely easy to download old versions of apps! bullet dodged

[canadianlucifer]

god i love browser extensions

[skyburger]

im watching hlvrai cast commentary & mr. radiotv himself called sunkist a "jpeg" and well. interally i went "Well actually 🤓 jpgs dont support transparency ☝️ so that would have to be a png" and dude it is finally setting in for me how much of a nerd i am. Who thinks that shit!!! well me i guess. but u know what i mean

[thecolombianviking]

i opened tumblr for the first time in a while on my desktop and oh god, this new layout is atrocious.

[chasingstardustandmoonbeams]

Backwards Walk

Summary: Trevor tries to help Ghost!Reader find a little closure.

Pairing: Trevor Lefkowitz x Ghost!Reader (eventual)

Words: 890

Trevor x Photographer Ghost!Reader Masterlist

“You can’t be serious,” you said, your expression a cross between amused and agitated. 

“Oh, dead serious,” Trevor grinned at you, bumping his shoulder against yours. 

“You’ve been hanging around Pete too much,” you sighed, turning to walk away. Your hands clutched firmly to your bag. Trevor was trying, you couldn’t fault him for it. You’d been a bit off the whole week and oddly enough Trevor of all people had been the one to notice - to actually say something about it. 

Flower had tried, you thought - for about five minutes before she rambled on about her bank robbery. 

“Come on, aren’t you just the least bit curious?” He prodded, his brown eyes locked on yours. Trevor looked almost like an excited puppy, nearly bouncing in anticipation as he stood in front of you. 

“Maybe,” you replied, watching as his expression morphed into one of pure glee, “But,” you added, “I don’t know if I have the patience to wait five hours while you try and look everything up.”

“I don’t take that long!” He argued, “let’s see you try and do it faster,” he grumbled under his breath. 

“What was that?” You said, challenging him. There was a faint smile on your face as you watched him. Trevor was…Trevor, but he was trying. You could count the number of people on one hand who had bothered to try so hard for you - at least while you were alive. 

“Are you in or not?” Trevor raised his eyebrows at you, a mock serious expression on his face. He began rubbing his hands together, his eagerness on full display. 

“Fine, fine,” you acquiesced. 

Trevor, gave a triumphant fist pump and set to work opening the web browser. You stood next to him as he painstakingly looked you up on Facebook. Trevor had had the bright idea to look you and your friends up to see what everyone was up to now. You, of course, had been hesitant about it. You were dead. You’d been dead for over ten years and the thought of seeing everyone move on without you, well, it felt pretty shitty. But, he wasn’t wrong, at least not completely. Maybe seeing everyone would help you move on. At the very least, stop making your after life feel like an eternal hell of reminiscing. 

It was almost an hour later when he finally got to your old Facebook page. The layout was completely different - you didn’t like it. You should have just stuck it out with MySpace, you thought, was that even still a thing?

“Wow,” Trevor said softly. His eyes focused on the computer screen before looking at you. 

“What?” You asked a bit more nervously than you would have liked. He was giving you that look again. The glimpse of something soft around the edges before the smirk came back. 

“Nothing, it’s just sometimes I forget you’re actually just capable of a real smile.” He was giving you a toothy grin as he pointed to your profile picture. 

“Oh, shut up,” you playfully shoved his shoulder. “I smile and laugh. Pete just told me a dad joke earlier.” 

Trevor gave you a look of disbelief. 

“What? Okay, it was a lame dad joke, but he’s funnier than you.” 

Trevor gasped, “You take that back.” 

You let out a warm laugh, you closed your eyes and shook your head. “Sorry you can’t handle the truth.” 

“Careful there Pinocchio,” he pointed his finger at you before getting back to work on the computer. 

It was painstaking, but Trevor took the time to try and go through as many of your friends' profiles as he could. 

Most of your friends were in relationships. Some were married, others had kids, everyone had moved on. Everyone but you. 

Trevor circled back to your profile, he was going through some of your photos now. He was silent now, something that got your attention more than anything else. 

“I didn’t think you were capable of being quiet,” you said, a smile tugging at the corner of your mouth. 

Trevor ignored your comment and pointed at a picture on the screen. “Did you take these?” 

You glanced at the screen, your smile growing smaller. “Yeah, I had a thing for old historical buildings,” you shrugged, “look where that got me.” You let out a humorless laugh, “I should have stuck with my candids.” 

“You were good,” Trevor turned to really look at you now, “really good.” 

You felt your throat get tight, your hand gripping onto your bag strap once more. Your camera and earthly life were all in that bag. A stark reminder everyday of what you no longer had. 

“Yeah, I guess I was,” you said softly. Your eyes looked from Trevor to the computer screen. 

“Trevor?” 

“Yeah?” 

You turned to look at him fully now. You’d never seen Trevor so…defenseless before. 

“Thank you,” you smiled at him. 

“Anytime,” he grinned at you, “Another success story in the bag thanks to T-Money.” 

You rolled your eyes and turned to walk away. 

“Oh, come on! It was a T-Money win!” 

You kept walking up the stairs, but the smile never left your face. You’d never tell him, but Trevor really did have a way of making you feel a little less alone. There were worse ways to spend forever. At least T-Money was entertaining.

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@the-and-sign-anon @kibblesnackz

[im-a-goat-in-disguise]

hey, tumblr @staff , if you don't revert my dashboard back the way it was like two weeks ago [i.e - NOT LOOKING LIKE FUCKING TWITTER OH MY GOD. PUT THE HOME AND MESSAGES AND EVERYTHING BACK IN THE TOP RIGHT WHERE ITS SUPPOSED TO BE AND I KNOW WHERE IT IS AND I WANT TO CLICK] I'm just not going to use tumblr on the website. at all. my use of tumblr will severely decline. you were good the way you were before. at least mobile is still the same [For now...] Trying to blatantly copy the layouts and decisions of other companies and social media sites [which are burning to the ground *because of those decisions*] will not make you more popular or retentive to new users or old ones. You will only push away anybody who creates content and has used your site for a long time. I've seen some of my friends switch to tumblr recently and they are not using it because it feels like twitter, or because it feels like reddit, but because the content they want is right there, accessible, and not hard to get to. they have supreme control over what they see and no algorithm tries to lead them to other stuff. for this reason, one of my friends has literally described tumblr as "Reddit, but more wholesome" - based on the fact that reddit kept leading them towards content they hated and made them feel upset. Don't try to become reddit. Or twitter. Or facebook. You're tumblr, and that's all you need to be.

At the very VERY VERY least, let us have an option to opt-out of future UI layout changes. OR give *NEW USERS* the OPTION to customize the UI layout when they join, if they want it to resemble twitter or reddit or anything else.

[ @staff @changes @humans @engineering @brickwhartley ]

[gingerdusk]

Something websites (*cough* Tumblr *cough*) need to learn is that what retains an audience isn't an abundance of new bells and whistles to play with, it's a coherent experience overall.

When someone joins a website, you don't need to grab their attention and hold it. They're already testing the waters. They've agreed to sign up. You've won on that front, and they're there for something specific you already have that they're hoping works well.

What drives them away is frustration.

Frustration, frustration, frustration.

Learning curves are going to be a part of any new website experience; they're something the user comes to terms with, in their own time. But broken or bad features are going to make them jump sites.

On top of that, constantly adding new features makes them feel like all the hard work they've put in to learning what you have isn't worth it; your website looks unstable and your staff looks incompetent, because it gives the impression that you don't know what you're doing.

You are floundering. It makes your new users nervous. It makes your old users hesitate to bring anyone else on board. And why should they? Why should they put effort into it if you're going to throw that effort away next Tuesday? Why get used to a UI that you're not going to bother to keep? Why customize anything if you're going to whittle that customization away?

Between that and the broken, unattended features of this site—the tag organization failing, the inability to look up posts word-for-word, the video player either refusing to play or yanking you to the top of the dashboard, images taking forever to load, advertisements blaring at full volume when you scroll past, you have your problem.

You have the reason why your numbers are failing.

It's not that you're not interesting enough.

It's not that you're too difficult to understand.

It's that you aren't improving what you have, yet you keep adding more half-broken things and unwanted copycat features to the pile.

It's that you're losing your identity in pursuit of a hypothetical perfect customer.

It's that you are actively telling your user base that you prefer those hypothetical customers over them. And your user base, your real people who make you happen, are smart enough to know where your priorities lie.

The bulk of this post talks about Tumblr, but other sites have gone the same way. Twitter is dead and its corpse is decaying in the street. Reddit has sabotaged any trust its users had in its management. If you'd like a really old example—I used to use Fanfiction Net. It's not the most intuitive website in the world, but it was the first one I called home.

I used it to host my works. The adware now on it makes it a hassle to navigate. The bots make comment sections and private messages a dread rather than a joy. So I moved on.

I also used to use it to collaborate on stories with my now-roommate. The message limit was 300 a day. When you're writing dialogue between characters, that's nothing.

So I moved on. We started messaging on Facebook. It was better, it didn't have a limit. But then I learned Discord existed, and I could edit messages, make dedicated channels, etc. So I moved on from Facebook to Discord. And Discord had a steep learning curve, especially if you're trying to make your own server rather than contribute to one. But, most importantly, the payoff was worth it.

If Discord changed its layout every other month while I was learning it, and broke how its reactions worked, and kept shifting what it meant to create a channel? If it opted me into servers I didn't sign up for, in hopes of engagement? If its text never formatted correctly, or its search function only went back a day or two?

I would have gone right back to Facebook. Even if it's a more basic experience, basic is always preferable to unstable.

Figure out what you want, websites.

Slow growth, or a gamble?

You're paying for your magic slot machine in users.

[anonymous-sparklecarer]

Nevermind i was not aware that most of the irl info that was “leaked” was stuff leaked herself, please dont mind my ask.

I'm not mad at you because other people have brought this up too so we have been mulling it over in the doc team. If this is about her dad's name, Kittycorn’s dad could be seen commenting publicly on Sparklecare for years, but as soon as it is screenshotted into a document it is considered leaking personal information? It makes little sense and is illogical to consider that when Kittycorn herself directs people on her public blog to the exact account that her father was posting on publicly (no other white tiger pfps were in the comment section - that screenshots of that part of the doc were taken prior to Kittycorn doing the blank redirect for the Sparklecare websote. Yes every single old site page was still there in the new layout). Kittycorn's real life name is also not mentioned in the doc anywhere, even though it again, was public on the patreon in prior years, as well as the Sparklecare website between 2017 - 2018. This is information Kittycorn herself had chosen to share about herself in relation to her work. I was also informed that Kittycorn made her fahther's full name fully public on the patreon as well. It's not really leaking stuff when it's just there.

This isn't like when Woofles' facebook and his family got leaked as that was stuff that Woofles didn't choose to make public on his own terms. Here Kittycorn outright directs people to her idenitfying information. Regarding her life circumstances too, Kittycorn has been extremely open about it such as her brother being a rapist she is a victim of, her parents still allowing him in the home, and her parents not giving a fuck the she was traumatized from any of it - all public on the main Sparklecare tumblr, and on the Freakycare tumblr. Her family is legitimately evil and deserve to be held culpable for the cycle of abuse they created. Kittycorn is a victim of them and irrespective of anyone else I feel they should be brought to some kind of justice, even if it's people knowing that the father who commented so much on the pages publicly, was disgustingly uncaring towards his child who was suffering.

Once again we must remind people NOT to doxx Kittycorn.

Also we are not granting anonymity to a literal rapist.

Unfortunately because of Chaos' stalker literally using Kittycorn's doxx as a form of leverage we are going to have to redact information that is fully public and shared on Kittycorn's own accord. To be perfectly honest, if people have that information, then what is stopping you from doing the right thing and sending an anonymous tip to state police in California about Kittycorn's living situation. There is a rapist who has raped at least 2 people walking free on the streets right now. If you have that information, instead of leaking it as a 'fuck you' to Kittycorn, report her evil abusive family.

[piosplayhouse]

Niche fandom happenings to take your mind after whatever stuffs happening in your fandom:

So as you can probably deduce, the model horse collecting hobby is made up mostly of older people. The hobby has been well established since the dawn of the Internet and I've talked a few times about how it's difficult to find some older resources about it/its history because of how every other link you click on which used to lead to a hobbyist artist's angelfire blog now is just a dead link or worse, bought out by some ad company sitting on the URL. Up until recently, a huge portion of hobby talk still relied on now-defunct Yahoo groups; now most have moved to either forums like Model Horse Blab or private Facebook groups. Individually most of these are pretty decentralized, but since model collecting by nature is a hobby that requires a significant amount of financial interaction (buying, trading, selling, commissioning, etc.), there has to be some kind of centralized marketplace for people to pitch their goods to as many corners of the hobby as possible.

Enter Model Horse Sales Pages (MH$P), a, well, site where people can post sales pages for model horses and accessories. It's an old fashioned sales pages site from the 2000s with a somewhat shitty layout but unparalleled detailed search functions-- to order things from a seller, you'd have to personally email them to negotiate for their listing. Though this seems somewhat inconvenient to our modern senses used to one click payments and speedy delivery, MH$P is undoubtedly a pillar of the model horse community.

... So that's why people are scrambling as it's allegedly been hacked and taken down for the foreseeable future. Worrying about personal information aside, now fans are left to wonder: what's the alternative? Well, the first one is of course eBay, which many hobbyists already use. However, eBay is obviously less catered to model horse hobbyists and is therefore a bit harder to search if you're deep in the hobby and can't be assed to look through 4000 "plastic horse" titled listings to find the 2008 SR glossy xX Devilish Girlfriend++ Thoroughbred you want. MH$P occupied a specific niche for long time fans looking for grails.

So what are our alternatives for people in the hobby looking to buy from others in the hobby? Well, there's a few decentralized official dealers like Chelsea's Model Horses or Triple Mountain who you can consign older models to, but going through a middleman takes time and you have much less freedom in your personal listings. Alternatively, you could go grassroots and post listings in Facebook groups and on forums, but those have reaches limited to the members of those specific, often small, groups, and it can be hard to move stock that way. So now people are looking for a backup marketplace platform, both for the current situation and longtime health of the hobby. But imagine my surprise when I went on Model Horse Blab and saw people suggesting an alternative site kickstarted by

STAR STABLE ONLINE YOUTUBER DENIS/DENISE WISESTORM. Denis has been a controversial figure in the SSO fandom (though there's pretty much no uncontroversial ssotubers especially on ssoblr because clickbaiting and weird reactionary takes are like the bread and butter of that side of the fandom) who's been called out for having some alt-right homophobic views in the past, as well as for his abject and unproductive negativity towards improvements made on the game. He's a lps customizer and pretty prolific breyer collector, though, so his drive to create a model trading and selling platform makes sense at least. But still! Why him!!!!!!

[blueiscoool]

A 2,600-Year-Old Unopened Etruscan Tomb Discovered in Italy

Community leaders and archeologists in central Italy recently gathered in the municipality of Montalto di Castro for the opening of a tomb that dates back more than 2 1/2 millennia, the municipality announced in a social media post last week.

"Today … we witnessed the opening of an ancient Etruscan tomb buried at the Osteria Necropolis in Vulci," the municipality of Montalto di Castro, which sits along the Mediterranean Sea about 100 miles northwest of Rome, wrote Oct. 27 on Facebook, calling the grand unveiling "a day of culture and history" in a translated statement.

Historians say the Etruscans built their civilization on a portion of the land that is now modern-day Italy, beginning as early as 900 B.C., and operated as a network of city-states not completely unlike the Roman Republic that came after it. The Etruscans dominated Italy until falling, as a result of the Roman-Etruscan wars, to the then-expanding Roman empire around the 4th century B.C.

Vulci, an archaeological site in the northern Lazio region not far from Montalto di Castro, was once a rich Etruscan city. Its ruins have become a popular spot for tourist visits and as well as a place of interest for archaeological excavations.

The tomb discovered there earlier this year was found remarkably intact when it was officially opened at the end of October, for the first time in about 2,600 years, according to the Italian online magazine Finestre sull'Arte, which focuses on ancient and contemporary art. It was opened and explored following the opening of a similar tomb in the area this past April, the magazine reported. Montalto di Castro Mayor Emanuela Socciarelli attended the opening along with Simona Baldassarre, the councilor of culture for the Lazio region, Simona Carosi, the manager of the Superintendency of Archaeology for the province of Viterbo and southern Etruria, and Carlos Casi, the director of the Vulci Foundation, which helped lead the excavation alongside archeologists.

Archaeologists found a collection of long-lost treasures inside the ancient tomb, including a collection of pottery and amphorae, which are tall jars with two handles and a narrow neck typically associated with ancient Greek or Roman cultures. The jars contained wine from Greece, likely from the island of Chios, Finestre sull'Arte reported. It could be a relic of the wine trade happening at that time in history.

Utensils, cups, iron objects, and a variety of ceramics and decorative accessories were also found inside the tomb in perfect condition, as was a tablecloth that may have been used for a funerary ritual offering called "the last meal" or "meal of the dead." A bronze cauldron was also found.

The stockpile of personal belongings found inside the tomb suggests the family for whom it was constructed was probably quite wealthy in their day.

The complex structure and layout of the burial site is also important to archeologists and historians, Casi told the Italian news outlet Il Messaggero, noting that the tomb "appears to be characterized by a partition saved in the rock which creates a passage arch between the dromos, i.e. the short corridor with steps, and the vestibule, from which the two rooms were accessed, the front one and the one on the left: the usual one on the right is missing, evidently because the space had already been occupied by other tombs."

By EMILY MAE CZACHOR.

[jonathan-cranes-mistress-of-fear]

I hope you and your mom are able to stay warm and cozy this holiday!

Thank you! I enjoyed my Christmas, I got the two big things I really wanted, which was a wooden bedframe and a new high quality desk. My old bedframe was all metal, and a hand me down. And the desk was a five dollar facebook find that was falling apart. I also got some small gifts, money and my bff send em a care package full of love!!

We got both things built and I love my new room layout.

Mom is struggling a bit due to the holiday, but I try to be there when I can. I visited her twice on christmas day, had lunch christmas eve and also visited today with my nephew. Keep her in your thoughts, she needs it. (tho!! She is making amazing improvement now that she's doing more therapy!!))

[night-at-the-musian]

NatM Search End-of-Year Update

The Search site has new HTML, completely hand-coded by yours truly. Should be a lot easier to navigate on mobile! Also has a selection list for different fonts, in case you want to read it in Tahoma or Times New Roman!

We've come a long way in the six months since the Search site began on June 1, 2023. Passing through three different layout overhauls, expanding to around forty pages, and amassing nearly 40,000 visits. It’s been a hell of a journey!

Let’s recap what we’ve found in these past six months:

The original script for NatM (2006), and archived the original script for NatM:BotS (2009).

The lost Nick’s Tales novel, “Night of the Giants”.

The first fanfic ever posted for this fandom, in January 2007.

Tons of promotional material, ranging from Facebook posts to ads that remain on old DVDs.

Concept art for NatM:KRA by over fifteen artists.

Costume work and prop design by Marlene Stewart and Charmaine Husum, respectively.

Proof of old Flash games and mobile apps that have been lost to time.

Information about the upcoming musical.

Information about the theme park ride, down to its blueprints and manufacturers.

And that’s just in the six months the site has existed! Before then, it was just a page on my blog that listed books and trivia. Oh, how things change!

Thank you to everyone that’s contributed, but in particular to @pineapple-coffee for her nearly countless contributions, and @rivstyx for xir help finding books and transcribing the NatM original script.

Happy holidays, and here’s to more finds in 2024!

[justthatspiffy]

so big ol drama from work is the other week a lady brought in a large framed map. it was in very poor condition, water damage, dead bugs inside the glass, apparently a wasp nest on the back of the frame?? cool cool sure and she says she wants it scanned and idk restored. i wasn't here when she brought it in, but allegedly she claimed it was from 1850.

it was a map of the original layout of my hometown as a little frontier town. in the corner were the signatures of the people who created it, and it specifically said "information compiled by" soandso et al so immediately i clocked no it's not original original from 1850 or they wouldn't be "compiling" information

obviously my little map slut brain is enchanted and i simply must know everything i must identify any still remaining structures (uhm none except the cabin this map has been housed in for 50+ years, tho the cabin is not in its original location). so i'm comparing i'm contrasting i'm desperate to know the provenance of this map that i am sure is not from 1850. i feel very strongly that the woman who brought it in is a shit archivist because she had the date wrong and there were bees in it. so i take a picture of the signatures and look up the people on familysearch to get a rough estimate of how old. it's hard to confirm who's who and i need backup so i post the picture of the signatures on the local history facebook group and am like "hey who knows about these guys from this map" and get a little more information. older than i thought! pre-1900 at least, but not by much

i also receive a direct message from the woman who brought it in. she said she had brought it in to be scanned as a surprise for the bicentennial (or something) celebration and please do not post any more images. her message included a smiley face but gave off incredibly aggressive vibes. she personally texted my boss about the incident and on the following monday he gave me a stern talking to about how i ruined the surprise and broke a customer's trust and we don't own anything that comes into the shop and can't just post things online

(i did not post any part of the map itself just the label and title/signatures)

i was hella fucking spiraling over it for a week and now i'm mostly okay but i must know:

[jiraisupportgroup]

just curious do you have an instagram where you post these 😞

I do not, unfortunately, T-T

I never really got into Instagram or Twitter, I never really liked the layout of them? Idk. I'm old so I always saw Instagram as a place where you just follow irl friends like Facebook bc back when I was on Instagram it was before any like fyp things & I just never really got into it; I much prefer being on my computer to do stuff like this.

I used to be more active on Twitter but I just got so tired of it bc it was just fighting 24/7 and maybe I was just on the wrong side of Twitter but god it was so toxic that I just left lol.

I would be totally fine if anyone wanted to post them on other platforms, it's just not something I'm probably going to do; running this one Tumblr blog is taking as much energy as I have for this T~T

Plus if I made an Instagram or a Twitter I would have to make photo versions of all the resource posts which like that would be fine I could totally do that but also I know myself and I know I will not have the energy to do that for a long time.

[pinkprettycure]

cuz why are people out here trying to say that back in the old internet we used to all have extreme and unique gorgeous custom profiles on (without learning HTML and CSS somehow) on social media lmaoo. no the fuck we didn't.

Myspace, Tumblr, Youtube, and DA were the only Popular sites with heavy customization and including DA on this list at all is a stretch bc my girl was never a mainstream social media player.

myspace died out of the game early on. Youtube custom profiles was not something "everyone" was doing bc not "everyone" made videos to begin with. and of those four only tumblr and DA let you get extreme with the actual code and layout itself. (and DA was still more limited than tumblr.)

FB and Twitter never let you do more than mild tweaks to customization at most and IG never allowed it at all.

everything else ppl name were never popular or mainstream to begin with. gaiaonline at its peak never even touched tumblr much less fucking facebook. why r u waiting for neopets to reach mainstream relevance to make a petpage? it never hit that point to begin with it certainly will not happen now. just admit u prefer scrolling to coding!