ironic.

so many gif packs that have been made in an effort to make the rpc more inclusive and represent the world that we live in, and a lot of them have now gone. so please, let’s not revert back to our problematic fave faceclaims because the gifs might be available in an old gif pack. please don’t stop using those faces because an already small bank of resources has been made even smaller. 

crucially: please be patient. not all gifmakers keep their own gifs, especially if they make such a high volume, so many many packs need to be remade from scratch. if you have any gifs saved at all from these packs i stress that you try and reunite them with their gifmaker because i promise they will be more than grateful. 

please do not harass gifmakers to remake gifpacks!!! they have lost their hard work, packs that can take days and days have all gone. they need time to remake them. but they are not obligated to do so. and please, support the creators. they need that boost now more than ever, and i can tell you how much a ko-fi contribution can mean to your favorite creator.

I haven’t seen anyone make a post about this, so I figured I’d do it, as I’ve noticed a few things regarding the new update that will be helpful for gifmakers to be aware of.

Tags after the first five show up in the tumblr.com/tagged/ pages (on posts made after the update was adapted–older posts do not seem to reflect this).

I do not know how many tags out it works for (I know it at least goes out to 20)

Please don’t abuse this by tagging non-related things in order to get notes. (If you run a fandom blog, consider blacklisting users who spam tag to discourage the behavior if it starts to crop up.) -

You can now post more than 3 posts in a certain amount of time to a tag without your earlier posts disappearing.

I did have an instance where for a time one post wouldn’t appear in one of the tags I used, but did appear in all the others, then eventually appeared in the tag in question after some time. I would recommend not posting in quick succession to avoid the algorithm thinking it is spam, but I do not know if this was a glitch in my case, or something that others may experience. -

Much like previous Tumblr updates regarding the tumblr.com/search/ pages, links are now limited on tumblr.com/tagged/ pages as well.

Linking within tumblr works if you link directly to a blog or a post, but linking a tag of a blog causes the post to not show up

Outside links seem to be limited to certain sites (Instagram and Youtube allow your post to show up, while twitter does not. I do not know about other sites.) -

Some gifs may cause your post to not show up in the search, the tags, or the dashboard. I cannot say for certain what the criteria for this shadow-ban is, but the few times it has happened to me they have been  gifs with gore/body horror (within the context of violence on a TV show)

As for a solution to this, making the image B&W or limiting the frames showcasing the graphic image might allow it to bypass the shadow-ban.

I’ve also taken to using a not followed by anyone to upload and post the gifs to a not tracked tag to make sure the gifs will post if I suspect the one may possibly be shadow-banned.

UPDATE : Because I am a little overwhelmed right now by the amount of stuff to reblog, I will be adding members to this sideblog, so resource makers can reblog their own hunts on it !! So, if you are a resource maker with a lot of hunts who would love to reblog your resources to the blog, please hit me up and I will add you !!

if you don’t already use xkit, you’re going to want to. trust me. i never used xkit before this update.

“editable reblogs” still work. you’re going to need to use them. if you hover over a previous reply to a thread and click the X to get rid of it, it doesn’t actually work. it’s necessary to use editable reblogs or it’ll still show the very first post of the thread when you reblog it, even when you think you’ve removed it. 

i also installed “shorten posts” from xkit, just as a backup in case it helps get rid of that very first post in a thread. not really sure if it actually helps, but oh well ! doesn’t hurt.

any formatting you do in reblog / text edit mode WILL show up on your blog itself ( if you have a tumblr.com blog ), but it won’t show up on dash-only blogs.

when read mores show up on the dash, if you click “read more,” it no longer takes you to the person’s blog. it just shows the rest of the text on your dashboard. but when you refresh your dashboard, the “read more” will forever go away. the text under the “read more” will always be visible.

REBLOGS

i mean this especially in the gif makers community but a bunch of gifsets and graphics have links in their descriptions as well, not to mention masterlists…..

people need to use the reblog button so much more. you see a gif pack on your dash with a link on it? HIT THAT REBLOG BUTTON BECAUSE IT’S NOT IN THE TAGS ANYMORE. GIF PACK MAKERS LITERALLY CAN’T GET THEIR CONTENT OUT ANYMORE UNLESS THEY WANT TO PUT HUNDREDS OF GIFS UNDER READ MORE, WHICH IS SUCH A HASSLE YOU GUYS HAVE NO IDEA!!!!!