#tumblr suggestions

[felixcloud6288]

I've gotten to try out the queue function and it's great and all but y'know what it needs? A Russian queue-lette feature.

I want to load a bunch of posts into my queue and have it randomly choose something every time. What will I post? A field of flowers? Kittens? A wacky life story? A heritage post? A terrifying eldritch work? Fanart from that thing I was obsessed over 5 months ago? Only god knows and he forsook this website long ago.

[marsoid]

@wip i have a tumblr feature suggestion!!

Right now, Twitter (or whatever it’s called now) is the only social app that allows PRIVATE ACCOUNTS (instagram doesn’t count because you can’t have text posts. You expect me to post an image every time I want to vent? Facebook also doesn’t count because I hate it.)

I know we have the ability currently to make our side blogs private, but here’s the issue with that for me:

1. They can’t be FOLLOWED, you can apparently only add “members” to the blog.

2. I thought I had more points but really it keeps coming back to the fact that they can’t be followed. I don’t want to put in a password every time I want to check in on a friend. The convenience of making your own private blog and following your friends’ private blogs cannot be overstated. It’s the ONE THING that’s keeping me attached to twitter.

What’s so great about having a private blog?

Safety. Toggle your blog to “Private” in Visibility settings if you need a breather from outside attention. Only your followers will be able to see any new posts you make. Old posts will still be visible outside your blog however, similar to when a blog is deactivated I assume.

Friends-only space. Sharing thoughts and art with only a few close friends is more comfortable for a lot of people.

Actual privacy. Even if you have 0 followers, even if you don’t use tags, the tumblr search will still pull up any word used in the post itself, meaning if someone searches the right thing, your posts could still show up to anyone. Setting your blog to private would remove this concern.

Journaling. Private twitters are nice, but a private tumblr? Getting to write out a BIG LENGTHY RANT for only close friends? Hell yea

Keep explicit content away from those who don’t want to see it. Setting a blog to private is a great way to keep certain art and writings out of easily reachable spaces.

Another bridged gap between twitter and tumblr. Ok listen. I’m not necessarily advocating for every twitter user to join tumblr. But I know that’s something the tumblr staff is interested in, so I’m adding it here for that reason. I for one would ditch twitter in a heartbeat if I could have a private blog, and would probably have an easier time convincing some straggling friends to join for a feature like this. Just sayin

I also made some quick and sloppy mockups

Anyway i guess that’s the gist of it

If anyone has anything to add pls feel free. I really want a private blog LMAO

[wintvies]

@staff ugh tumblr should make the music on posts immediately playable. it should not take me to spotify, i want it to play the second i look at the post!! 💔

[b1kinikiller]

i freaking love pomegranate

[captainyn]

tumblr should have a lil "mark as seen" button for posts. so they get saved somewhere like ur likes and then they don't show up in ur searches again so you can see newer content.

where did i get this genius idea, you ask? my fingers are tired of scrolling through spencer reid fluff and hurt/comfort that i've already seen bc BABY I JUST WANNA READ MORE NEW FICS

[ephemerabanter]

@staff

In the cancellation era, Tumblr should really have the option to hide likes on a post or even to leave an anonymous like.

Would also be nice to be able to choose which of your blogs a like or follow is made from.

I feel many fanworks would have a lot more interactions if not just anyone could see who'd liked them.

Just a thought, as someone who posts controversial fanworks.

[big-man-in-places-he-shouldnt-be]

Big man shouldn't be on stage at an MCR concert

When I was. A small man.

[sotwk]

I wish there were a Tumblr badge made especially for people who support other bloggers.

I am blessed to be friends with Moots who almost exclusively reblog/boost others' content, and I would like to see them acknowledged somehow. I'm sure many others would want the same.

@staff @photomatt pretty please, can we have this?

[bisquid]

A copy of the feedback I sent to Tumblr support:

I would like to know why I am being forcibly opted in to the pointless and obtrusive advert that is the 'Luffy' tab. I have not engaged with the 'one piece' fandom - I had to do some investigation to even figure out what fandom it *was* - and had no particular opinon of it, with zero interest in engaging with it in the future. I now have been *made* to engage with it and thus now have extremely negative associations with it. It is, effectively, an *anti*-ad. Congratulations! Nobody's happy.

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I would also like to know why the Tumblr development team consistently rolls out a change to a small number of people without warning or explanation and no option to opt out, despite repeated requests from the userbase.

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I would like to know why the Tumblr development team consistently pushes changes to the app or platform that clearly and demonstrably reduce accessibility, convenience and intuitiveness, offer responses to the resulting outrage that are not only often blatantly false but also so incredibly patronising as to be downright offensive, and then have the unmitigated temerity to insist they're doing it all to "help content creators" and "improve usability" and generally prioritize hypothetical future 'new users' over the existing userbase while simultaneously making it clear that they consider these mythical new users to be too stupid to learn the basics of a new platform.

I truly cannot properly articulate how utterly, cynically disingenuous it is to explain that they can't implement more settings options because that would be *confusing* - as though navigating clearly labelled toggles and drop down options are some hyper advanced technical skill the average user doesn't have and can't achieve - so the absence of those options actually makes the app *more accessible* than implementing any actual accessibility options.

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I have been on Tumblr for more than a decade, and I love it and the community I have found. It is heartbreaking to watch it steadily disintegrate into a less functional carbon copy of all the social media sites I have hated and avoided just because the handful of people making the decisions don't understand the point and value of Tumblr.

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Please. Please. If we wanted twitter we would be *on Twitter*, if we wanted Instagram, that's where we'd be. Tumblr is precious and vibrant *because* of it's difference, not *despite* it.

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Ostensibly many of these changes have been made because Tumblr needs more money, and clearly the management team believes that the way to gain more money is to increase ad revenue, which is presumably why they seem so focused on pushing algorithmic content at the cost of an increasingly hostile user experience. Unfortunately that is incorrect.

Right now, Tumblr is attractive to advertisers because it has a vibrant community and is an established platform. If this trend of increasing hostility continues, more and more of the long term established users - who generate a hugely disproportionate quantity of the 'content' that makes Tumblr so unique and interesting - will leave. They will be left without the online community they have been a part of for years, something deeply distressing for them and for the community they have left, which in turn will be slowly dissolving as more and more members reach their limit and delete their accounts.

Tumblr will be left a spiralling mess of algorithm driven advertisements and porn and spam bots and a handful of bitter users, and sooner or later someone will pull the plug when it becomes apparent just how lucrative it *isn't* to advertise to non existent people.

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Or you could listen to your userbsse.

[fennecfiree]

I wish u could pin multiple posts on Tumblr

[cynthicaster]

So many on here have such great taste, so I follow like 80% of the accts i browse, 99% of the trans women I find, but then I get overwhelmed when I go on my dash, so now I just browse my blog subs, which is starting to get overwhelming (i sub to all my moots as well as my other favs (also do NOT take that sentence out of context)) so please tumblr please please please make more levels of appreciation, maybe a tierlist kinda thing so I can choose what level of content I wanna be shown when I open on the app

[mileymint]

@staff Mobile tumblr won't let me color things yellow, I had to use my grandpa's laptop to turn stuff on my pinned post yellow :(

[marianokaz]

If there's one thing from Twitter than I want Tumblr to have is a Media tab so people can find your original posts much easily without having to swim through a sea of reblogs everytime they visit your profile.

[im-not-a-l0ser]

I really hope tumblr extends that 'commenting from different blogs' thing to asks, because I keep sending in prompts and requests, and I get the feeling that the dots have not connected.

[big-man-in-places-he-shouldnt-be]

big man shouldn’t be in the glowing mushroom biome from terraria

What a lovely place!

[mixx-exists]

@biracy @ikasdeadasf

So I was scrolling right...