#with added perks

[the-lunar-warrior]

just wrote a Very Salty feedback ticket and idk, i feel like posting the whole thing here too. enjoy, or something

I usually refrain from being this crass when writing feedback, but the direction tumblr seems to be heading is directly detrimental to theplatform. And the new mobile lightbox frankly ssuck, among other things.

I have been using tumblr for close to 10 years. For much of it, I did not use the mobile app — nowadays I've been using it a lot more, and while sometimes annoying and buggy, it was an okay experience. Some of the recent changes, and the much more open communication has been very nice, but some are honestly making me question whether I shouldn't just quit.

I'm on tumblr to use tumblr. If I wanted to use tiktok, I'd open the tiktok app.

The new lightbox, and the way it takes you to a random freaking post if you swipe wrong is atrocious. Sometimes it happens when I'm trying to zoom in. Sometimes when im swiping to the side and I guess it wasn't to the side enough. It's infuriating. It would be infuriating if it only took you to a random post once there is no more photos in the current one, but no — if you swipe wrong at any point bye bye whatever you were viewing, please look at this unrelated post you don't want to see! And don't tell me they are related. I don't care. They are by a random person I don't follow. I don't want an algorithm showing things in my face. Stop it.

In the light of the recent changes, if I was not already a user, I would not become one. And I don't mean it in a "oh changes bad" way, I mean that the way I discovered tumblr has been actively cut off. Back when I first discovered tumblr, sometime in 2012/13, one could view the http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/tag even without account — I scrolled on it for hours by accident. I didn't know what tumblr was, I barely spoke english. I ended up doing that a second time, just to find a specific post — it was an upload of Phoenix by Fall Out Boys, sped up by 10%. I don't know if was uploaded directly to tumblr, but I know it did not force me to go and open spotify, or soundcloud, or any third party website to actually listen to the song. It stayed on tumblr.

Then I found some blogs I liked. I stalked them for months without an account, had them bookmarked. Today tumblr automatically tries to take you to the tumblr.com/username instead of url.tumblr.com, and when it does, it obscures the page and tries to force you to sign up. I would have never gotten invested in tumblr, in the community, if that was the case. If I couldn't freely browse peoples blogs, see their pages — remember pages? Remember that functionality that is becoming obscure instead of you promoting it? People now have a single pinned post where they often have a link to something like linktree or other third party website that lets them to what *tumblr was originally for*. To have a separate about page, or a page with their ships, or interests, their fic they are hosting here, that's *not a post that you have to link* but a url.tumblr.com/about or url.tumblr.com/fic or anything they desire bc it was a BLOG they are hosting on tumblr, not just an account on a social media site.

Remember webcomics hosted on tumblr? People used to do that. As a teen I wanted to do that. But tumblr is silently moving away from that functionality. Is making it harder and harder to use it as I thought intended.

I made an account after months of using tumblr. I sent asks without an account — and after I made one, an irl friend sent me some too, before she got her account. I browsed and read and learned english *without an account*. And when I made one, I made silly pages on my blog, like "people you should follow", or info pages about my ocs, or one that still exists but cannot be accessed from mobile app at all — my about page.

I understand many of the changes. I understand the monetization, and frankly think most of it is very fun and well done. But overall? You're shooting yourself in the foot. You're alienating existing, often long time users, and making it impossible to get into tumblr for possible new ones.

I know one bitter feedback ticket probably won't to anything. But I feel like I need to say all this somewhere. I loved tumblr for so so long, I recommended it to other people — the only way right now for you to get new users other than forcing people — but I don't anymore. I'm considering getting rid of the app from my phone — going back to using tumblr once every couple weeks when I open it on desktop, because... I'm tired. I'm so so tired of seeing things I lovef about tumblr disintegrate in front of me.

Thanks to whoever has gotten this far reading this. Have a nice day.

[bruhstation]

can't it even be more obvious thomas. why are you surprised that a sudrian historical site filled to the brim with armor and weaponry that dates back to the middle ages has old people afflicted with the gold dust working around the castle

[thinkingoffrancis]

oh to be able to read my favourite books for the first time again. or to view my favorite films the same way i did when i’d never even heard of the title or the actors before. or to hear my favourite songs like i did when they first were introduced to me. that is the dream.

[c1nto]

don't talk shit about his man

+ bonus

[sharonisthebettercarter]

homelander's just a walking talking extra pricey heating vibrating telescoping flesh real super dildo that never runs out of batteries i guess i--

[emero0]

guys the entirety of mmj (-minori) essentially just prestiged when they started mmj

[darkelfchicksick]

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[dykewolverine]

Hi! Okay so don't answer if this is too personal but outside of this blog do you get recognised as a lesbian by other gay women? Like... when seeing recent selfies of u we are given suggestions of other selfies of you from before T, and obviously then you could potentially be hit on and seen by lesbians, still with the short hair and masc style pre-T, but now? Like you pass as a whole ass man. Depending on the pics you could be perceived by randos as a straight or gay man but anyway always a cis one. But maybe that's my perception? If you pass that well that sapphics don't see u as a lesbian then how do u deal with that? Isn't it alienating in a way ? Or is that not a problem at all for you? Thanks

Hi anon, butches on T and butches with facial hair have existed for a while so while sometimes it might feel lonely, as being a butch often does, I’m always comforted by my brothers, sisters, and predecessors.

While I sometimes am able to pass as a cis man, I often find myself still being flirted w sapphics wherever I go, I live in a very gay city, a very trans city, and I’m grateful for my community

[brewerssupplies]

In Kovaud the term "Gungaxian Error" means to cause a disruption through your reckless curiosity that ultimately harms you. This is in reference to the hero Gungax. A goblin who woke up the Tarrasque by throwing a bomb down a hole to see how deep it went. Gungax was later eaten by the Tarrasque.

[deklo]

my beloved tumblr ad free is being replaced by $2 more tumblr premium…..i’m actually going to start KILLING!!!!!!!!!!!!

[this-should-do]

bruh dc pride was ass this year, over half the booths were corps, and the pup population in the wild has potentially dipped to two ! functionally extinct as you cannot sustain a healthy population with such a limited gene pool, not to mention not a single leather daddy in sight, they may be gone for good at this point, im so scared for the future :(

[shadebloopnik]

Always find it so funny when I see people fighting over ships

You ship Angel with Alastor? Don't indulge in that, but niceee the sass is immaculate. Charlastor? Not my cup of tea, but cuteee. Adamsapple? Ooooh i can see the drama. Velvette with Vaggie or Charlie? Interestinggg. Lucifer with Angel? Sounds adorable! Poly with a bunch of mismatched characters? Wonder what the dynamics would be!

The only times i ever really draw the line is when its incest or some other, like Valentino with any of the main cast(except Nifty's knife-). And even then, i usually just make a very disgusted face to my phone and then scroll past, not even bothering to give it time of day.

But usually? Slide me up some smooth art, cool scenarios, good writing, or even just a funny dynamic, and im sold

[loving-jack-kelly]

it is Extremely funny that the whole watcher thing just ended after one weekend of people being like hey this was poorly thought out and a terrible idea. lmao. cringe fail financial decision.

[scarefox]

R.I.P. to my adblocker who finally has fallen T_T it struggled and fought since months against youtubes adblock ban... today is the day it's not working anymore and it already aggravates me.

Can't we all just make another youtube without ads? I can not do this!

I am going to find a new adblocker.. I hope

[omar-bb]

IG ad for OMR Beauty

[corvidjuice]

My cat:

Hello tiny birds in the phone

Hello loud kittens in the phone please be quiet

*enjoys a random ad abt life insurance*

*enjoys favourite video of a bat loudly sniffing the screen*