Ambassador Sarek and Lady Amanda

starshipdoctor replied to your post://So much for that

{{ oh gee… I’m sorry. Maybe the internet will be happier on another day. It’d been amazing to hear you sing as Amanda!

I know I haven’t been quite so active on here as I would like but I simply haven’t had a strong enough muse for these two to do any roleplaying. I also haven’t done my con report because I have been too lazy to transfer my camera pictures to my computer.

So to half make up for it (and because my family will be out of the house this evening) I may record myself singing while in my Amanda costume. If not a video, I will just do audio. Listen I am in a singing mood okay? :|

//The main issue at hand is that the update makes it so that when you reblog, you can’t edit down the previous reblogs. This may not be an issue for most people and I can see why this was done. Basically this preserves previous things like artist notes, and comments from other people etc and keeps posts from being edited to say something the op didn’t want.

However for RPers this makes things a lot harder. There is a general rule we have that stresses trimming posts. Threads can go on for many reblogs and also can be long replies so very quickly they can clog up the dash. It is really annoying to scroll forever to get past a single post and those replies also get scrunched up to the side because of those lines indicating who said what etc.

So we trim posts. The rule of thumb is that when you reply, you delete the last reply that you made to put in your new one after your partner’s. This way no single post gets incredibly bogged down by previous replies as clicking on your partner’s username in their reply takes you to that post. It is all chained together and it has worked out fine for us.

However this new update makes that impossible. We can’t trim posts anymore and so we have to figure out a new way to do it. Finding a universal solution is going to take a long time if it ever does. Some have said that there should have been an option to ‘lock’ your post when you post or reblog so if people want to make changes (like us RPers want to) then they can, but if you don’t want these changes, then you can prevent people from doing that.

So things are a little messy right now. I am sure we will come to get used to this eventually. We always do. It is just always a messy process. I just wish there was some sort of buffer. Like if tumblr gave a test version (that users can opt out of), allow us to test it and give feedback on what works and what doesn’t. That way they can see if the update is really worth it or if certain communities have unique issues that staff didn’t even know to consider. At the very least it would give people a chance to prepare for the change for when it DOES become mandatory. I don’t think most people like to be suddenly hit with this stuff.

//For any who are interested, here’s a larger file version of Amanda riding a Space T-Rex.