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As expected, trying to split my attention between here, pillowfort, and tumblr just results in me not making posts anywhere. I do want to have a record of tumblr bullshit, for my own amusement, so here's the latest:

About a week ago, they changed all the colors to be bright enough to cause headaches. In the name of increasing accessibility. I'm all for accessibility, but would an off switch really be that hard? XKit got us an off switch about two minutes after the feature came out.
Now they're introducing group chats. "Great!" a naive person might think. "That seems like a useful feature!" Unfortunately, this is tumblr we're talking about. The way they implemented group chats is "create a group chat on a particular topic at random, add random users and tumblrbot to it".
Text posts made from mobile have a 100 paragraph limit. (including lines of dialogue.)

Of course, the 'previous' button on paginated dashboards is still broken, flagged posts aren't reliably showing up on the 'Review flagged posts' page, and searching for 'fandom wank' is still impossible, but at least tumblr is working on the important stuff, right?

(crossposted to pillowfort)

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.

so far we have:

the old news: blogs deleted without warning or appeal
the other old news: some tags have become unsearchable
the explicit news: the impending doom of all adult content
posts being flagged by an extremely buggy algorithm which flags text, cartoons, trees, and, shockingly, memes making fun of tumblr.
bloggers not being notified of flagged posts. apparently we’re supposed to go through thousands of posts by hand.
years-old posts suddenly appearing on a blog’s first page. Theory goes that these are the posts that were flagged by the algorithm and got unflagged by a human
drafts getting posted. Theory goes that these are also getting flagged and cleared, and when they’re cleared, they get posted
blogs getting muted. Some blogs just don’t have any new posts show up after a couple hours ago.

Fuck you too, tumblr.

(crossposted from tumblr 12/7/18)

Gosh, reading people’s angry posts is cathartic. Tags I’ve been scrolling though:

#community guidelines

And the best one:

#female presenting nipples

(crossposted from tumblr 12/7/18)

BTW, in case someone thought the cloud of artists and bloggers having their tumblrs deleted had a silver lining, the pornbots aren’t gone. I just blocked-and-reported one that followed me this morning.

(crossposted from tumblr 12/7/18)

I’ve had this tumblr for almost 4 years. Apparently, 1/7 of the posts I’ve made in that time were made in the last month.

…oops? :P

Anyway, since I’ve gotten so active. Turns out, I’m kind of tired of being bluejayfic? I’ve used variations on “bluejay” as my username everywhere since I was 11, making my first account on the Sheroes forum to discuss Tamora Pierce.

I haven’t quite decided what my new URL should be, but I’m leaning towards “pilfered-words”. Unless I think of a clever pun on “Manya”, then I’ll use that.

So… is imzy the next thing? Is that where people are fleeing now from Tumblr? Or is this a fakeout, and fandom isn’t actually going anywhere yet?

I don’t particularly care. I came to Tumblr really late, and to LJ as it was dying, so it would be nice to be in a fandom community that’s actually active for once, but I’m a lurker. I will lurk no matter where the community is. I just need to know where that is.

So, folks, are you going anywhere, and if you are, where?

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