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It’s weird, I’d been worried Tumblr would go down and I’d no longer be able to use it but now I don’t…want to use it? 

I’ve posted 8 nsfw posts out of 6,191 total. Not posting anymore is not an issue for me. But the kind of people that would do this? A while back when they first introduced the sensitive content filter, my completely platonic sets constantly hit it. I don’t expect the new algorithms to be any better. 

But worse than that, this is just an absurd value judgment, it’s creepy. And the kind of people who I like and who I want my content to reach do post nsfw. 

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morningmightcomebyaccident:

Hm. So where will the exodus from Tumblr go? I arrived way late to Tumblr, so I don’t know what the Next Thing is.

I’m curious too. I’m seeing a couple of things but neither works for me. Twitter isn’t a viable alternative because it’s completely different, I like longer posts. Twitter is like you were looking at a summary of each post on Tumblr, except that summary was the whole thing.

Pillowfort.io requires a fee, which is a little weird, and it’s already admitted it won’t be able to handle the numbers.

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morningmightcomebyaccident:

Hm. So where will the exodus from Tumblr go? I arrived way late to Tumblr, so I don’t know what the Next Thing is.

I’m curious too. I’m seeing a couple of things but neither works for me. Twitter isn’t a viable alternative because it’s completely different, I like longer posts. Twitter is like you were looking at a summary of each post on Tumblr, except that summary was the whole thing.

Pillowfort.io requires a fee, which is a little weird, and it’s already admitted it won’t be able to handle the numbers.

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vr4300:

orcbulge:

Yall can be edgy and talk about how much you hate tumblr all you want but I will be real chief I value my undeserved clout on here and its also the only place that shoots all my niche interests directly into my brain at the speed of light

The idea behind Tumblr, namely the dashboard, how posts and reblogs work (kinda like mini-threads that stream endlessly onto your dash), and the tagging system, is actually superb and I have yet to find another social media site on par with this format. Hence why we all stay here.

But then there’s also the incompetent staff and the extreme cultural madness of the website, hence why we hate it despite staying.

Honestly, I don’t mind those last two things that much. I mind the deliberate greed and the casual bigotry behind a lot of what is supposedly their incompetence, but I can forgive most of the actual bugs and design choices. Remember when people complained about the activity buttons being moved to the bottom of a post and when they stopped indenting reblogged text and when they changed image dimensions and eventually people grew to accept and even like all that.

As for the culture, that’s the result of a lot of people learning fandom/pop culture and social justice in the same place and, well, it’s not their fault they didn’t learn that elsewhere. Most people are still learning how to apply the one to the other and yeah, some people are terrible and misuse it but where do people not? (For clarity’s sake, I’m not talking about the culture of allowing Nazis or whatever else because that’s not confined to here nor what people think about when they complain something’s too “tumblr”. They’re speaking of SJW then, we all know that.)

As someone who is gay, a woman, brown, and Muslim, there is no other place on the internet that has been as good for me or to me. 

I know some people liked the smaller communities of LJ but I like being able to see things I hadn’t known about or even thought to look into. I get it’s not the same experience for everyone, I don’t go into tags often, I’ve been privileged enough to read posts I disagree with and usually not let them get to me. But if it’s a choice between the overzealousness of applied social justice and people at least trying to be better versus where there’s none at all, I have my preference.

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vr4300:

orcbulge:

Yall can be edgy and talk about how much you hate tumblr all you want but I will be real chief I value my undeserved clout on here and its also the only place that shoots all my niche interests directly into my brain at the speed of light

The idea behind Tumblr, namely the dashboard, how posts and reblogs work (kinda like mini-threads that stream endlessly onto your dash), and the tagging system, is actually superb and I have yet to find another social media site on par with this format. Hence why we all stay here.

But then there’s also the incompetent staff and the extreme cultural madness of the website, hence why we hate it despite staying.

Honestly, I don’t mind those last two things that much. I mind the deliberate greed and the casual bigotry behind a lot of what is supposedly their incompetence, but I can forgive most of the actual bugs and design choices. Remember when people complained about the activity buttons being moved to the bottom of a post and when they stopped indenting reblogged text and when they changed image dimensions and eventually people grew to accept and even like all that.

As for the culture, that’s the result of a lot of people learning fandom/pop culture and social justice in the same place and, well, it’s not their fault they didn’t learn that elsewhere. Most people are still learning how to apply the one to the other and yeah, some people are terrible and misuse it but where do people not? (For clarity’s sake, I’m not talking about the culture of allowing Nazis or whatever else because that’s not confined to here nor what people think about when they complain something’s too “tumblr”. They’re speaking of SJW then, we all know that.)

As someone who is gay, a woman, brown, and Muslim, there is no other place on the internet that has been as good for me or to me. 

I know some people liked the smaller communities of LJ but I like being able to see things I hadn’t known about or even thought to look into. I get it’s not the same experience for everyone, I don’t go into tags often, I’ve been privileged enough to read posts I disagree with and usually not let them get to me. But if it’s a choice between the overzealousness of applied social justice and people at least trying to be better versus where there’s none at all, I have my preference.

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I didn’t mind the new layout so much until I realized posting anything was a mess.

I use Firefox so didn’t bother with the Chrome trick floating around, but then realized I might be able to copy whatever trick over. And yes, the Chrome trick was just to switch the user agent (essentially the browser) to IE. There are already a lot of extensions to do that for Firefox.

I picked UAControl because it lets you control the user agents for individual sites and I only wanted to change it for Tumblr, nothing else. Once you have it installed, add a new site “http://www.tumblr.com” and then toggle Custom and put:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)

Once you do that (and I’ve noticed this on both Chrome and Firefox, not sure how common it is), clicking on the Edit and Reblog buttons from posts doesn’t seem to be working, maybe I had other extensions messing with it. So I wrote up a tiny little script that’ll forward you to the right page.

Edited: Fixed the Chrome trick link above, it was going to a deleted post. What you do is pick IE9 after the add-on.

Also, the way to access the UAControl options in Firefox is to go to Tools > Add-ons and then options for UAControl.

And lastly, you’ll need the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox to use the script I wrote but you can add it directly on Chrome. (And by directly, I mean, you don’t need the Greasemonkey extension, but because of Chrome’s restrictions on third-party content, you may have to go through the extra steps of first downloading the script to your computer, and then dragging it onto the Chrome Add-ons tab.)

Edited again: Firefox and Chrome both now seem fine without the Greasemonkey script. Repeat, you should be able to get by with just switching the user agent. You may need to restart the browser, but the script is unnecessary.

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I didn’t mind the new layout so much until I realized posting anything was a mess.

I use Firefox so didn’t bother with the Chrome trick floating around, but then realized I might be able to copy whatever trick over. And yes, the Chrome trick was just to switch the user agent (essentially the browser) to IE. There are already a lot of extensions to do that for Firefox.

I picked UAControl because it lets you control the user agents for individual sites and I only wanted to change it for Tumblr, nothing else. Once you have it installed, add a new site “http://www.tumblr.com” and then toggle Custom and put:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)

Once you do that (and I’ve noticed this on both Chrome and Firefox, not sure how common it is), clicking on the Edit and Reblog buttons from posts doesn’t seem to be working, maybe I had other extensions messing with it. So I wrote up a tiny little script that’ll forward you to the right page.

Edited: Fixed the Chrome trick link above, it was going to a deleted post. What you do is pick IE9 after the add-on.

Also, the way to access the UAControl options in Firefox is to go to Tools > Add-ons and then options for UAControl.

And lastly, you’ll need the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox to use the script I wrote but you can add it directly on Chrome. (And by directly, I mean, you don’t need the Greasemonkey extension, but because of Chrome’s restrictions on third-party content, you may have to go through the extra steps of first downloading the script to your computer, and then dragging it onto the Chrome Add-ons tab.)

Edited again: Firefox and Chrome both now seem fine without the Greasemonkey script. Repeat, you should be able to get by with just switching the user agent. You may need to restart the browser, but the script is unnecessary.