this is holding breath and keeping fingers crossed

Those messenger screen names that haven’t logged on in ages, some before detailed profiles were a thing on those services.

Those emails that are long since abandoned, some with domains that no longer exist.

Those online friends you knew years ago and who then helped shaped you in some way, who you just can’t FIND anymore.

Those people who once were, and hopefully still exist IRL, that seem to have no known internet life anymore.

And those who have actually passed on, and their online lives are now a memorial to them.

I got a part in The Fantasticks, and I couldn’t WAIT to log on and tell her, since she’d been in that show. And we talked every day!

But she didn’t come online then. Or the day after that, or months, years now. I never heard from her again. She disappeared as if she never was. And I didnt have her last name so I couldnt even fb search when fb became a thing.

Maybe she dies. It’s the worst case scenario.

Maybe her parents took her off the internet, parents back then were paranoid about internet friendships.

But no way of ever knowing. Anne disappeared. I hope she’s still alive. I hope she performed in many musicals and danced and sang, and I hope her photos found their way to…galleries, or wherever photos go.

I feel like.

Something Tumblr has failed to understand in its quest to become solvent.

Is that user surveys would probably help in providing things people would actually pay for!

--I would pay up to $5 a month to be able to list my crochet for sale in-app. I post the photos and information and indicate it's a sales post, Tumblr provides the "buy here" link.

--I would pay $30 a year for ad-free, but not $70.

--I would pay $1/mo to have a second user icon, and while $1/mo isn't much, it adds up. Indeed, back in the LJ days it was really common to pay for extra icons for your RP accounts so your character could "make facial expressions."

--that $70/yr? I'd pay that if it included one free Blaze per month, no ads, and three user icons.

a one time fee to change a side blog to your main blog

please. this blog is my side blog. it’s also the blog i use most actively. most people don’t know i have a different “main” blog. most of the people i follow follow this blog, not my main one and i would very much like to have the notifs from my beloved mutuals highlighted.

also, to a lesser extent, i’d pay to be able to mute/hide reblogs from certain accounts. sometimes you love a blog but would like to only see the original content from it. 🤷‍♀️