Altarpiece of the three archangels (detail), ca. 1516

CLASSIC HORROR HEROINES

CANDACE HILLIGOSS as Mary Henry in CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962) dir. Herk Harvey

or did they see how quickly twitter went down in flames and said hold our beer and are now trying to break tumblr faster. 

they destroyed the legacy editor and all post formats and are now storing everything as text posts which are incredibly flawed. and making posting 10x more difficult and time consuming. which has been pointed out multiple times exactly how.

they destroyed the reblog chains. so you have 15 extra steps if you want to reblog a post from the source or see more posts from a creator by just following the chain.

now destroying the tumblr layout by copy and pasting the twitter layout onto tumblr which makes everything cluttered, messy and inaccessible.

and y'all are getting racked over the coals under every update post and instead of grabbing that life preserver and reverting back to the way it was you just keep piling more and more fuck ups to the list. you don't even respond to feedback anymore. because it's all bad feedback that you are trying to ignore. we did nothing to deserve this yet you are doing everything in your power to alienate the existing userbase, the ones that have been on this site for years and years. and as everyone keeps telling you. if we wanted to be on the platforms that you are trying so hard to emulate on tumblr we would be on those platforms. but here. i made this for you @changes @staff @wip @engineering @support. you'll be needing this soon if you don't fix what you've broken.

We’re making some changes to the activity view on web — starting with unread notifications that will be highlighted blue, as well as multi-colored labels to identify those who you’re closest with.

Why are we doing this?

You may have previously noticed that some activity items were highlighted, and some weren’t. What you may not know is why this was, and you’re not alone.

The previous, light blue highlighting indicated items that were from people you follow. Obvious, right? Well, no, not really. There are design patterns in interfaces that have become standardized from widespread usage to mean a certain thing. Highlighting notifications light blue is one of those that have come to mean “unseen” or “unread.” Which is what it will now mean here, too.

How do I know which are from people I follow?

Good news! We now have colorful labels to identify activity from people you follow. On top of that, we’ve created a new label called “Mutuals” to show people you follow and who follow you back so that you can keep track of those closest to you.

Before and after

Before: Blue highlighting used to signify activity from people you follow.

After: New highlight color now used on unread activity

After: Colorful new labels to distinguish activity from people you follow (following) and who follow you back (mutuals).

More to come

This is the first of several improvements we are making to activity and notifications—so stay tuned for further updates as they come!

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