oh tumblr (part 9865)

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Just logged back on to tumblr after spending the whole day fighting addiction as bewareofitalics said, in futile protest. Here's what we have so far, in addition to the old bullshit:

• Posts the algorithm thinks are NSFW are hidden, just as tumblr said they would be.
• The algorithm is still terrible. My painfully clean blog had two screened posts: an emu video and that one 'alternative cover ideas for Queen's Thief books' post. 
• Tumblr is still not telling people what posts got screened. (Tampermonkey script that does that is here.)
• You can't see your own screened posts, at least on your own blog. You can see them in the sidebar by going to https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/blog/[blogname]/[postnumber]/
• Blogs marked as explicit get their icons pixelated.
• Allegedly, it's possible to turn off that flag, because the control for it is just disabled on the front end, not actually blocked from the back end. If anyone had doubts that tumblr's incompetence exceeds even their malice...
• I, at least, don't see the Appeal button on flagged posts, but I think others do.
• Apparently tumblr's blocking the Wayback machine, so people can't even back up their shit.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and I forgot the most personally annoying thing, which is that they broke paginated dashboards. It looks like it works at first, but trying to go from, say, page 3 to page 2 just gives you the first page material. 

 

I liked reading my dash in chronological order, not backwards.