#staffposting

Chronological dash is staying. No one ever threatened it.

They aren't "getting rid" of reblogs, they're making them a little shorter so that repetitive long posts aren't so tedious.

NO! A BAD USER EXPERIENCE LIKE REPETITIVE LONG POSTS IS NOT CHARMING! IT IS ALIENATING AND FRUSTRATING, WHICH YOU ALL AGREE WITH 99% OF THE TIME BUT YOU'VE FLIPPED ON A DIME ABOUT THE COLOUR OF THE SKY OUT OF SPITE AND DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGNS.

Tumblr live is not a data scraping nightmarescape, y'all just refuse to actually read the specifics about what data it takes. Do you piss yourself to death over the same exact livestream plugin being used by kik?

aaaa elusive here! after a long battle we're finally free from Disqus!! the comment sections are back and alive on all articles!

Down below you'll find a little summary of the new features for the comments and our plans for the near future ;D glad to be backk, I missed posting here ;o;

this is hopefully temporary! we were having a lot of technical issues with the site over the past few weeks, and disqus especially was a big problem. so we made the decision to remove disqus comments for now, they will come back eventually though it might take some time.

People are way too worked up about it, tbh.

First of all: The chronological dashboard is staying! No one ever said anything to fucking threaten that. People literally made that up, and @staff had to make a whole separate post about it.

The "algorithmic changes" would affect things like recommended blogs and the notoriously broken search feature we've all been begging for a fix to for a decade now.

This is VERY much the tumblr user base being hostile out of habit. Literally the announcement gave us two (2) features we've been begging for for years. Fixes to search AND the ability to make custom chronological dashboards featuring only specific blogs.

But instead of celebrating, everyone is losing their actual shit over the word "algorithm" with no idea what it actually means. Algorithm does not mean "super evil magical AI boogeyman that takes away your ability to blog with your friends." I know that's how facebook and google use it, and the fear is well earned, but it's misdirected in this case.

Of course, it's worth noting that I'm biased. I am very lenient with tumblr's current staff. I've lived through every era in tumblr staffing, and this is the only staff group that has ever taken user feedback seriously.

Unfortunately, people seem to think that the exorbitant excesses of the indie era and the obnoxious censorship of the corporate era are also the fault of the current staff.

In actuality, those are inherited problems that have been nightmarish to untangle from the heinous spaghetti code that they also inherited.

The stuff we love about tumblr (chronological dashboard, ability to turn off ads and recommendations, custom urls and blog themes, etc) is here to stay.

We might want to explore showing the potential future user the full breadth of content that Tumblr has to offer on our logged-out pages

Explore the feasibility of removing duplicate reblogs within a user’s Following feed. 

Make it easier for users to follow the various conversation paths within a reblog thread. 

Improve the feedback loop for creators, incentivizing them to continue posting.

Build mechanisms to protect creators from being spammed by notifications when they go viral.

Expand ways to co-create content, such as by adding the capability to embed Tumblr links in posts.

Address the issue of notifications getting too noisy; throttle, collapse or mute notifications where necessary.  

provide APIs and services to unblock core product initiatives and launch new features coming out of Labs.

I cannot for my life figure out where people are getting all the apocalyptic nonsense.

Hell, half of these fucking complaints are looped back around to tumblr live, a service not even mentioned in the post.

And for FUCK'S SAKES.