Oh well. There’s other narratives to be doomed by
i do not consume art btw it consumes me and its teeth are scary sharp
labs that are also churches. to me
(1. annie dillard, teaching a stone to talk 2. the deep underground neutrino experiment, a.k.a. DUNE 3. the large hadron collider 4. the sudbury neutrino observatory)
Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread
"love is what makes us human" wrong. oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, calcium, phosphorus.
Which of these would you rather see on your dash?
Hey @staff. This is a perfect example of why collapsed reblogs is such a bad idea. Seeing the full thread, you go like this:
😮 ooh, that's cool
😀 "they're free," hehe!
🤣 "16 cents," perfection!!
I have achieved joy, I feel positive feelings toward Tumblr, I want to engage, I want to stay, my eyeballs land on more ads, you make more money, everyone wins! 🎉
Seeing the collapsed thread, you go like this:
😮 ooh, that's cool
😐 "16 cents"? yes, that's literally what the pic shows, not sure why you felt the need to say that
There is no motivation for me to uncollapse the reblog chain—it looks like a boring conversation about the denominations of coins. And even if I do uncollapse it, you've ruined the joke by showing me the punchline before the setup. I am sad, Tumblr is boring, I go elsewhere to entertain myself, I see less ads, you make less money, everyone loses. 😥
Reblog chains are the best thing about Tumblr. They are your unique super power. They are the thing that makes people screenshot Tumblr and share it around. Why on earth would you kneecap them??
I don't know exactly how you plan to implement this. Give people the option to keep them collapsed if there truly are people who are annoyed by how long they can get (you already have a version of this feature), but don't collapse them for everyone or new users by default. Please. It will make Tumblr so much more boring.
I did it with discord, i did it with tumblr and i suggest everyone else do it too. rollback to a previous version and turn off autoupdates
Heres a link to rollback to a previous version of tumblr. youll have to uninstall the app and then download which version youll want but its worth it imo. might have to download an apk mirror installer but those are around on google play and stuff
I rolled back to the nov. 3 version. right before they swapped out the spooky icon
if the layout change is permanent I'm bringing back that one "we should all move to a single google doc" post
actually I have decided the google doc doesn't have enough freedom for me so I've made a google slide instead
go ham
I WENT TO SLEEP WHILE THIS WAS AT LIKE 6 SLIDES WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED
DASHBOARD UNFUCKER V1.0
as 90% of desktop users have probably found out, today @staff released an update that for some insane reason COMPLETELY remodels the dashboard to replicate twitter's. this is of course in the wake of numerous other thoroughly hated changes and a continued refusal to fix any of the site's actual problems, half of which stem directly from site management.
HOWEVER, thanks to the power of jQuery, i was able to throw together a userscript that remodels the dashboard back to its original look almost perfectly.
here is my dashboard right now, with the script active:
ALTand here is the old dashboard in separate tab container that hasn't received the update:
ALTit's hardly perfect; i had trouble making it force reload to the fixed layout when switching between other pages and the dashboard, and it currently only fixes just the dashboard. it's also completely untested on browsers other than firefox, and chances are it looks a bit screwy on ultrawide monitors. but for now at least, it's a good fix.
the unfucker is a tampermonkey userscript. all you have to do to use it is install the tampermonkey extension, hit "create new script", and replace the default code on the page with the script (link here) and save it.
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