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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.

I'll be crossposting the stuff from my Tumblr I'd be sorriest to lose, so the number of posts on here will rapidly increase. :P

Also, I have Thoughts about the tumblrpocalyse, about tumblr in general, and about myself on tumblr in particular, which experience shows I will probably think of writing up and not actually write.

Writing is haaaaard, ok?

Edit 12/8/2018 11:41pm: And I'm done crossposting! I'll back up my tumblr so I don't even lose the reblogs, but the things I actually wrote should now all be here.

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)

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)

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