#website issue fixing

[strike-em-down]

GRABBED IRON TANK'S ATTENTION!

A quick update from Maci and their attempt at grabbing an Iron Tank player's attention!

[purpurussy]

everything Dan said about labels in BIG was so extremely real and personal to me and people really gloss over a lot of it sometimes I need to talk about it more about it when I'm not exhausted

[tharatorns]

OMG I came across your gifset on my timeline. Your pfp of Style is blurred like censoring content. Is Style Sattawat's face considered mature content by Tumblr?

hi anon! 🩷

it's one of the magics of the new android update, it labeled some of our blogs and a lot of posts (mostly completely innocent ones) as mature, but it's an android app only issue! at least up until now, multiple people that either use iphones or were checking from browser told me my blog looks completely normal to them in every way, so what you see is more like a glitch that has no real coherence with the actual content of my icon unless tumblr is jealous of my blorbo looking better than anyone else and censoring him out of spite, nor it is a "real" mature content label. fun fact: my icon switched from normal to pixelated on android app ever since i posted my latest Hidden Agenda gifset, which apparently is adult content according to the new android algorithm lmao

it's extremely annoying, as an android user myself i had to use all of my geekness + imagination to find a solution (if anyone is interested & willing to invest some energy in it, i explained what i did in tags of this post) but still the visibility of many posts and/or blogs is currently highly ostracised by this situation. but alas

[paul-newmans-sauce]

gonna see if i can beg my advisor into letting me do independent study for my political science capstone bc im so close to being done this fuckass major but theres like no polisci classes available to take w/o them being at some disgusting time. idk

[fangwhoria]

being an adult is so exhausting no one ever told me how exhausting it would be (everyone told me)

[torchickentacos]

The new tumblr update has literally locked me out of the app 😭 if I try to scroll the dash at ALL it crashes. I can post, but that’s it. I have an iPhone 7 and the app isn’t compatible with any iOS update under 16, but I literally cannot download any further iOS updates than 15 on an iPhone 7 lmao. I guess I’m done with the app, then.

[kidd-commander]

Is it just me, or has your website been struggling the last few days?

I've noticed that too actually, I've been digging through the archive while putting the book together and it's been CHUGGING. Our internet's been rough lately too so I assumed it was because of that, but if it's happening for other people I'm not sure there's a lot I can do about it right now unfortunately. Sorry friend :/

[mercury-prince]

Now, what I want to see from star trek is how aliens represent other aliens in art. Imagine if that ancient Bajoran guy who space-sailed to cardassia came back and told ppl how cardassians look, spawning hundreds of kinda shitty drawings in bestiaries after a long game of telephone where they barely look recognisable (like these: first is a scorpion, second is a panther)

[Image ID: a square medieval illustration of a creature with a human-ish face, a fish-like body, and four limbs sticking out akimbo. it has a sharp tail that is piercing someone's hand. /.End ID]

[Image ID: a deer-shaped creature with a red belly, face, and legs, a blue back, green butt, and beige neck. it has white streaks coming out of its mouth, as if it's exhaling or spitting. a group of rams, sheep and deer look at it, with very confused expressions. /. End ID]

All the pre-warp species that the federation had broken the prime directive with must have some sick paintings of vaguely humanoid creatures standing around in matching outfits.

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY: do other species have something like the zodiac? Or drawings of the star systems around their planet, using familiar figures to link different stars together? What did they call the foreign planets, before they learned they were called Vulcan or Romulus or Ferenginar? Imagine all the pre-warp star maps in different alien languages and art styles. the ones we have irl say so much about the cultures they were made in.

first pic [Image ID: a photograph of the nebra sky disk, from 1800-1600 BC. It is a turquoise coloured metal disk with a gold circle representing the sun, a crescent moon, and small circles depicting the Pleiadies star cluster. /. End ID]

second pic [Image ID: an annotated diagram of the Mayan Wakah-Chan Tree, a design found on the burial lid of Lord Pacal, from circa 680 AD. It is an illustrated diagram depicting the sun, moon and planets with intricately patterned symbols. /. End ID]

third pic [Image ID: an illustration from The Book of Fixed Stars by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, circa 964 ad. it depicts the constellation of Orion, using a black ink drawing of a kneeling figure with the stars drawn as red circles on different parts of the body. Each of the stars are labelled in Arabic. /. End ID]

I could go on forever about how we love to look into the vast unknown to find reflections of ourselves, and how i think star trek is an extension of that urge we've clearly been having since the dawn of time. Its not just the need to study things that will help with our everyday lives (like looking at the harvest moon), its the way we often take a celestial body and make it the symbol of a human characteristic, like how klingons represent honour and vulcans represent logic. what we think about space and what we do to fill in the gaps of the unknown say a lot about how we think in general. and according to trek we think a lot about weird little blokes in weird little outfits so. yh fair enough

i think this is my most research heavy shitpost ever lmao. but please add ur thoughts or take these ideas however u like

[amplexadversary]

Fucking great. Thanks to assholes making entirely baseless fucking accusations over a nearly 20 year-old video game with a bog-standard fantasy plot, we don't get fandom-themed theme weeks on FR anymore

I don't get to hope for a Critical Role or Gundam themed one because you people are morons at fucking best.

Utter idiocy is the charitable interpretation here.

[protectcosette]

anyone know enough about sewing to help me troubleshoot a problem with my bobbin thread bunching?

[curseofpinkamina]

time to indulge in the hyperfixation until i explode

[importantandunavoidable]

I asked @zingring (tumblr's chief operating officer) about the recent wave of biased community labeling. She says at least for now to send relevant posts directly to her for priority handling!

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

hi if you have a long list of clickable items and I can't scroll it without hovering over the clickable areas you have made bad design choices

if I need to aim my cursor pixel perfect to hit a clickable item that is also bad design choices

make things bigger, easier to do on purpose, and harder to do on accident

[bunabyte]

So I was testing out the profile banners on my website, and...

What in the actual fuck is this?

[tr85n]

Uhhh.. sup guys. My dash on desktop is severely broken right now and it does not seem to be a widespread issue this time, so look what I'm dealing with right now :'D

(Loving the Breaking Bad image here though, it's PERFECT) AAAND another issue is I can't even click on anything in my archive, to rb old art for example. Sux2Bme 🥲

Update: And this is what the post looks like for me

Update again: Dash is back to normal, spontaneously. Archive is still wacky though.

[magnusbae]

did tumblr just remove pfp from web view, making this place even more bare of identity? what is wrong with them, i'm asking for real now...

edit: so pfp now only appears if you're the op, they really did say screw anyone who reblogs content, didn't they :)?

"the reblogging website" indeed.