why in the good goddamn fuck is tumblr changing words of posts into emojis on desktop

mobile version:

desktop version:

trying something out:

While I have no issue with tumblr trying out new website functions, this one is confounding to me? Less that it exists and more why it exists. In many of the above wordings, it takes the same keyword and ‘translates’ it into the same pictogram, such as ‘b. a .b .y’ or ‘c. h. i. l. d’ (spaced for legibility), or l.a.u.g.h and l.m.a.o. As far as I can see, it adds nothing of value to the post, often decreases legibility, and if anyone uses some of these extremely common keywords in a post they want to discuss a serious topic with it’s going to infantalise that conversation. Not to mention the living hell this will cause for screen readers. It even does it with the start of a word- for instance s.h.o.e.l.a.c.e. Is this a function that can be toggled? 

And even if you can turn it off, and I hope you can; what was the intent? Does this create a more Gen-Z friendly website or something? I’d love to be a fly on the wall for the developer meeting that made this happen.

DAMN!

For anyone like myself who had no idea what was causing this, it’s in tumblr labs and it’s called ‘emojify’. I presumed the toggle would allow you to view emojis in desktop mode when they had been placed by a user on a mobile rather than showing a box.

But nope, tumblr really did make a ‘fuck up the post’ button! I have to wonder why.

Hey fun fact, if you write fuck in the tags your post wont show up in any tag, so uuuuuh heads up

Also fun fact, adding “porn” in your reblog tags (e.g. “history porn” or “fashion porn”) means that those posts won’t show up when you search your own blog.

Wank too. It’s why I changed all my fandom #wank posts to fandom #dramaz posts

….well this is a psa that needs to go around

I tagged one of my drawings as “well mark me down as both scared and horny” and it vanished from the other tags until I removed that so… “horny” too, apparently

One of my comics wasn’t showing up in tumblr tags until I removed all my tags with the crass language in it. (”shitposting” and “bitch” were the 2 I suspected) Then it conveniently started appearing publicly in the tags.

Oh my god this site really did become catholic

The following tags are (also) no longer searchable:

erotic orgasm bdsm sexual* vagina breasts foreskin suicide semen ejaculation foreplay masturbation

*Note: this includes combined search terms such as “sexual health”, “sexual help”, “sexual orientation”, etc. 

Tags that are still searchable:

white pride white power whites only aryan volkisch n*gger ch*nk and probably every racial slur you can think of, I was too nauseated to look anymore

@staff @yahoo @support this is not good, this is going to loose you money

@staff are you fucking kidding me right now?! You’re limiting text posts to 100 text blocks (aka paragraphs). What the absolute fuck.

Since you couldn’t take out fanfic writers with the purge so you’re just fucking up formatting for text posts until they leave? Is that your plan?

Would this count as a text block?

100 is a lot unless you write a lot of dialogue.  I wonder if just linking fics on my word press would work because god damn this site is making things difficult.  It’s like they’re trying to have people not use it.

I’m so over this shithole

Does Tumblr just have it out for Fanfic writers? Is the Tumblr staff secretly Anne Rice or something?

Heads up writers

@kittenofdoomage @captain-rogers-beard @siren-kitten-his @angryschnauzer @maeve-curry-writes @deandoesthingstome @impala-dreamer @outside-the-government @star-trekkin-across-theuniverse @plumfondler @blacktithe7 @supernatural-jackles @impalaimagining

FFS you’re joking me?

@noona-clock @xtemptaetionx @bisexualstevierogers @5sosdrfluke

yeah I noticed this, and I completely hate it lmao because I do write a lot of dialogue and I write small paragraphs for easy readability ): I might have to post everything on AO3 and just link it on here :/

Well, this is the new tea and I hate it.

Gettin’ real tired of your shit, Tumblr.

@staff @support

FUCK YOU @staff

Welp. So this is a thing now.

The title apparently counts as one line since it wouldn’t let me go past 99.

Seriously @staff ????

OK PEOPLE CALM DOWN FOR A MIN!!!

I tired this on desktop and did not hit a limit. It looks like a limitation of mobile posts.

I didn’t bother going past 543 because it was getting ridiculous, but there is no 100 block limit on desktop. You’re just going to have to post your fics on your computer or through your mobile browser instead of the app.

Please reblog this version of the post so that people don’t totally freak out

@monsterfucker-mcgee @tfwhynoy @rocksinmuffin

I know I’ve been kinda dead recently but seriously. Why

Hey fun fact, if you write fuck in the tags your post wont show up in any tag, so uuuuuh heads up

Also fun fact, adding “porn” in your reblog tags (e.g. “history porn” or “fashion porn”) means that those posts won’t show up when you search your own blog.

Wank too. It’s why I changed all my fandom #wank posts to fandom #dramaz posts

….well this is a psa that needs to go around

Hope that helps! 

How To Appeal A Post When You Don’t Have The Appeal Button

Since the 17th about 12 of my posts where flagged as adult content and when I went to try and appeal it there was no appeal button. I went through their help and read the whole article. I even contacted support who then copied and pasted their help page not even trying to assist me.  All I know is that there was supposed to be a button for the original creator to click and allow up to appeal but there wasn’t.

On my computer:

On the app:

See no button for appeal.

It has taken me days to figure out this work around and I thought some other people out there might be having this issue.

Now here is how you appeal your post when you don’t have the appeal button

Now go through your blog and find all your pages with censored posts clicking on them to take you to the original post.

Take a look at the url.

See that number there? Copy it!

Open up a new page and type in this:

At the end paste that number.

When you hit enter you will get this:

The appeal button is finally there! Click it!

You’ll get this message and then you’ll click appeal again.

Your post is now being appealed.

You can check that it was fixed just by refreshing your blogs page.

And that’s it! I know it is stupid and ridiculous to do such a ridiculous back method but unfortunately it’s the only solution I’ve come up with.

Also no you can’t just use the weird sidebar dashboard to find it as any flagged posts don’t actually show up at all in it.

Anyways I hope this helps you guys.

@staff Not exactly the “welcome back to the app store” you were expecting huh

THIS is the kind of protest that tumblr will care about sooner or later. Leave bad ratings and reviews on apple or in the google play store. Lower their rating so hard that it damages their userbase.

Logging off for a single day isn’t of interest to tumblr. I’m not saying y’all shouldn’t protest in any way you can or want, but logging off the site for just one day isn’t going to bother tumblr because tumblr doesn’t CARE about your symbolic protest. Tumblr has proven time and again that it doesn’t CARE about its userbase. We’re still using the site and we won’t stop using the site any time soon because there’s no alternative. But that’s what we’d have to do to hopefully force tumblr to change anything. And they still won’t do it because their policy change isn’t about family values or what the userbase allegedly wants. It’s about money.

So, unless you stop using the site and app permanently, or for a long period of time, this isn’t going to matter to tumblr. And when you do, you need to do it in big numbers.

Leaving them bad reviews in the apple app store or on google play (where it’ll be harder because the current average rating is 4.4 stars and you need to edit or leave a LOT of bad reviews to drastically lower that), is going to do more to damage their reputation and thus do more to compromise their profit.

Guess what I just did.

guess what i’m doing

Putting this on my to do list for today

have at it people

y’all

a mutual of mine

suddenly has posts on their blog

with links to “find women to have sex with”

my mutual is NOT POSTING THESE

tumblr just got even worse

on that note PLEASE let me know if i’m suddenly posting random pictures of women with a link underneath the photo. don’t click the link, just FYI.

i do suggest reblogging this in case someone sees this happening to someone else they follow

when this happened to me, I immediately logged out of everything & changed my password, then went to my queue, where I found whoever had hacked into my account had dropped 190 porn advertising posts. (it would have been easier to clear out my queue entirely using xkit, but I’m a stubborn jackass & had posts I wanted to keep in there… so I counted.) I don’t recall clicking any odd links (though it’s always possible) & was only online in the app at the time, so no chance of phishing. it’s possible some of these bot accounts are just running dictionary attacks on blogs at random trying to log in. anyone can be targeted by this, so I recommend making your new password a strong one. it’s doubtful tumblr staff is going to be much more help in this situation than what you could do on your own, but you can still save your page. good luck & godspeed.

this website is so broken

@staff

Okay I-- WHAT?

This one’s new.

Somewhere in my–

SOMEWHERE? In MY REBLOG?

@staff You flagged a WHOLE DAMN POST BECAUSE SOMEWHERE in my REBLOG - which was reblogged by, and is being reblogged by, literally anyone and anyone - there - wait for it - MIGHT be adult content?!??!

What does that–

Are you seriously–

Do you seriously not see the flaw here? 

Are you saying, that one person - one VERY determined person - could go around and reblog ANY POST they like, and add f*male n*pples to it, and you would automatically flag that WHOLE post?

THE REBLOG DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY ADULT CONTENT. IT’S A COMIC. ABOUT A CARTOON. IT’S A–

 I’m done.

WELCOME BACK! For those who logged off, this is what you missed.

1. @staff made a post pretty much saying “Your stuff isn’t getting deleted, just hidden from everyone but you” and “Yeah we know you hate the term “female presenting nipples” but we ain’t gonna stop saying it” 2. If a blog has a pixelated icon that means they got hit by the ban, you cannot view that blog outside the sidebar. You cannot even view their archive. Allegedly if you follow the advice in this post it’ll be fixed but only if it was an accidental flag (aka a real sfw blog) 3. The post Staff made including examples of what was ok to post. It got flagged. 4. Yes, the bots are still here. Yes they are still stealing posts and putting porn links on them. Yes there are still ads with stuff more sexual than they allow in posts. Yes innocent things are still getting flagged. 5. So yes, the site is still here and staff are still morons.

How to Backup your Tumblr

I was just semi-complaining that I was still looking for a decent way to backup my +6k posts without having to use paid services or even just wordpress (which has an import from tumblr tool that asks for permission to access your blog and also make posts), when I decided to actually put some effort into my google search. 

Results were positive: I have successfully backed up my blog* 

*By which I mean: everything that I have ever posted.  Not included: drafts, queue, likes, followers, following, comments, notes, chat. 

I followed this method (word by word), and now have a 450 MB folder on my computer with the name of my blog on it containing: 

1. Folder “Archive” (contains .html files listed by month) 2. Folder “Media” (contains gifs and images, mine has +1k files in it; might contain also audios but I have no way of confirming that because I’ve never reblogged an audio post from this blog) 3. Folder “Posts” (contains single .html files, each one a post; I have +4k files in it) 4. Folder “Theme” (contains only my avatar, but it might be a matter of if you have personalized themes or not) 5. .html file “Index” (by opening it it will give you the archive of your blog organized by month; clicking on a month will open up the archive for that month, and you’ll be able to read all the posts for that month as if you were on your blog**, except sans your theme graphic, with each page containing 50 posts)

**I can see gifs, links, embedded videos, tags, number of notes (but I can’t open up the notes, clearly), text is also correctly formatted. 

So yeah, in case anyone wants a very quick way to back up their blog, it took me less than 10 minutes. 

P.S. I didn’t have any issue, but to be on the safe side always check for spyware and virus threats before and after downloading anything. 

this is actually really useful if you have an art blog full of years of work that you otherwise no longer have access to the original files. A lot of the art I have in the early days of my art blog are in that boat. I did this process JUST for that reason and I was pretty astonished at just how many pieces of media it backs up! (literally all of it) Drawings I didn’t even realize were sitting in my archive due to having been posted to text posts or undercuts, or untagged for years! It’s worth it if just for that, even if tumblr isn’t shutting down or deleting your blog.

reference. 

This is just for windows users, but just in case some of my followers can use it!

Guys this works! I’m currently backing up my account, I had problems with step 4, but I just removed the word Python and now it’s working perfectly

thank you, OP

About this…

If you’re someone affected by the platform’s definition of what they’re going to be banning, I strongly suggest you back up your Tumblr blog. RIGHT NOW. Info on how to do that is here.

I can’t think why my own Tumblr would be affected, but I’ll be backing things up too… because in situations like this one might expect the algorithm to get a little out of hand and make mistakes that one might or might not be able to recover from. (See this article.)

For safety’s sake – because I’d very much dislike losing the content I’ve shared with other people here – I’l be embodying my Tumblr content in a new Wordpress blog over the coming days. I’ll share the address here when it’s ready, for those who might be interested.

But in the meantime, seriously: friends and cousins, back yourselves up.

I guess I’m out of here : /

Why artists and writers reblog their work multiple times:

“Bro why you keep reblogging your own work bro” “BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE IS”

The same reason movies play in theaters for longer than one night.

The same reason art exhibits last for days.

The same reason music isn’t listened to only once.

Reblogging for the last comment! 👍👍👍

100% this.

Quick note: Not reblogging this to say LOOK, YOU HAVEN’T REBLOGGED CREATORS’ CONTENT, YOU ARE GUILTY, LET ME GUILT TRIP YOU.

Everyone has their reasons to reblog/not reblog and no one should feel ashamed for that.

The reason I’m reblogging this is because it’s SO important for people to understand WHY creators reblog multiple times and to not get frustrated about it. They made something they’re proud of, and no one should be trying to make them feel ashamed of that.

This explains why I’ll reblog something I wrote recently at least 5 times- plus the dashboard tends to flood and it’s hard to compete with that.

@i-a-n-malcolm

as a writeblr myself, i was pretty disheartened by the lack of pages for sharing and organizing WIPs, so I made my own! this was my first ever crack at CSS and it was definitely a ton of fun. i’d appreciate likes/reblogs if you use!

feel free to use, just please don’t remove or alter the credit.

features:

credits:

SDFKJGKDFJHD this is wonderful and beautiful and brb I’m gonna just change all my WIP pages real quick thank you

Ooo this is lovely!

this is amazing and I just spent 4 hours completely revamping my wip pages

OH MY GOD YES

i genuinely hope anyone ages 13-15 on this website (or, god forbid, younger) stays safe and keeps their private information secure and really private 

please, if you’re really young on tumblr, try not to get swept up in the discourse and the tremendous amount of arguing with strangers that goes on here. i know you probably feel mature for your age but this website, like, really psychologically affects youth, and i encourage you to be cautious about your interactions with people on here

 please, kiddos, stay safe

additionally, for my young, non-adult followers,