hopefully they never take away the way you can drag the little post icons around the screen on the android app
iPhone user WISH they had this
everyone on android mobile stopped to do this after seeing the gif
posts that remind you to play with your balls(Android users only)
Guess my iPhone’s secretly an android?
the wonderful thing is that touching grass works both ways like yes a job and bills and whatever makes me be mostly normal about silly pointless fandom discourse, but also sometimes your coworker will massively get on your dick and then you go look at your silly lil guys on tumblr dot com for half an hour and realise that karen from accounting literally does not matter at all when there are emotional support warcriminals to think about. the world is a beautiful place etc etc
no other social media platform has lore quite like tumblr’s
the gods that haunt this place are unlike any others
If you’ve ever wondered how reposting hurts artists- yesterday I found a post from 2012ish featuring one of my Sherlock/Doctor Who pieces. That post had 17,604 notes. It wasn’t my post. My post of that art had 0 notes.
Apparently I saw the post once when it was at 6k because an artist I admired reblogged it, but at that stage I was very unwell & not experienced enough with Tumblr to realise what effect it might have.
Looking through the notes now I see that in the six years since then-
If you like an artwork that you find off tumblr, please, please I am begging you search for the artist’s name and see if they do actually have a Tumblr you could reblogged from instead. If you’re an artist search your username(s) every so often to see if your work has been taken.
A few hundred quid might not seem like a lot, but that’s a few months of income for me
Reminder to those new to tumblr that there is a difference between reposting and reblogging.
Reposting is where you save the image, make your own post, and share to others. Heavily frowned upon unless you 1. get permission from the artist and 2. still give proper credit to the artist. If the artist is off-tumbr and you want to share, again, GET PERMISSION FIRST! If they say no, oh well.
Reblogging is just using the reblog button (the button with the arrows) to share posts you see. In this case reblogging is actively encouraged because it can help spread the art of people you love while the artist still gets notes, views, and proper credit.
its so brave that you have such a 2012-coded url in this 2024 world
would you call a bear brave for standing in a new construction suburb or would you recognize the unfamiliar world they built around him
YOURE 30???????
yeah I mean i've been posting on tumblr since 2011, I'm part of the geriatric tumblrinas
some of my favorite mutuals post entirely about things that i do not understand or care about and our dms are barren like a desert. and yet the warmth of that big hot sun remains between us
If you ever tagged me to do one of those tag game thingies and I never did it:
1) Thank you, seriously. Those are fun and being included shows that my followers care enough to want to learn more about me.
2) Very sorry about that, it’s extremely likely that I said to myself “Cool! But I’m busy at the moment, I’ll have to do this later today or tomorrow” before proceeding to just straight-up forget, now it’s too far back in my notifications and/or your blog to find again.
automattic's made a ton of blunders recently but i hope they're not gonna try something like convert tumblr to run on wordpress, a project that both tumblr and wordpress engineers agreed would be a lot of work for no gain (most likely worse performance). that would be a silly thing to do.
hang on my aide is handing me a note
oh dear.
L O, and if i do say so, L
Given the blogging site’s continued financial woes, Mullenweg shifted the majority of Tumblr’s workforce to other areas at Automattic late last year and laid off others. At the time, he suggested that moving Tumblr to WordPress would be “tricky” but added that new technology like AI would make it easier.
Oh they're actually intentionally trying to kill Tumblr this time huh
thing is, i've literally ran hosting infrastructure for wordpress at scales maybe a tenth of tumblr traffic-wise, and this is not totally impossible, just incredibly wrongheaded.
the way you run wordpress at scale is to use it as an editor, then render all of your posts/pages out to static html and serve them through a content delivery network; this only works when you're running almost-entirely read-only because (say it with me): there are two hard problems in computer science, cache invalidation and naming things. it was literally a joke at my old job, to the point that we had "solution: static-cache the living shit out of it" permanent markered on our hosting team's whiteboard.
running tumblr on wordpress would be an exercise in cache management beyond the technical skill of automatttic. y'all still haven't fixed the postmeta bloat issue after two decades, you are not ready for the actual computer science you're going to have to do to handle caches on this scale.
that's not even mentioning the three timelines you need to dynamically generate - can't static-cache that lads.
i don't know what tumblr's infrastructure looks like now, but any savings they'd make from a skillset and work-sharing perspective would be eaten by the cost of retooling a square peg into a round hole.
this feels like an edict, not a decision; led by internal cultural ideology and not engineering forethought.
fuck it, i'm not done.
about those timelines, are you serving them from the posts table? guessing you'll be partitioning or sharding that table by blog, right? cool, so you'll need to tree out reblogs which is totally doable in a single query.. hope your sharding doesn't take a performance hit doing cross-partition joins.
or are you going to build a specific service for doing that?
are you using the existing media-management system? so that's a database call or three for every embedded image, video or audio-clip.
or are you going to rebuild that system to pull from a static cache?
how are you storing likes? postmeta? cool, so that's loading a set of serialised strings every post load, that you then have to deserialise to extract a value.
or are you going to store them somewhere else? maybe adopt the eventual consistency model that just about every other social media site uses for interaction tracking?
what's the plan for the editor? tumblr's post editor isn't amazing but it's a hell of a lot easier to use than wordpresses?
see, at this point you're basically building a new platform on top of the, frankly, awful foundations provided by wordpress.
i hate to be that guy, but at this point just rewrite the damn thing if you're that bothered.
I hate Crocs.
This post is so fucking funny to me. This is just a pic with a pile of croc shoes crossed out red with the title “I hate Crocs.” OP posted this in 2008 and never posted anything else, we don’t know anything else about them. OP’s URL is the word hatred and nothing else. For some reason however, their url did not get added a “-blog” suffix that the change in 2016 brought (maybe because this was made in 2008 but still. What if someone wants their URL? :( ) Truly the post of all time.
fuck it’s august??? what’s next? 2022???? can’t do this anymore
hey op guess what
nevermind youre died
Here's a poll, you can't press any of the options, that's the only rule, no voting. Reblogs, likes, and comments are totally allowed, you just can't vote
You all have one week, let's see how this goes
@maryland-no-rabies Tagging cause I need people to see this
Have fun !!
blows my mind that i have little online friends who mildly care about me. it’s really nice
anyway hi little online friends i care about you too 🍄
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