I’m sorry, I love the confession scene of course, but asking about the black knight always cracks me up. Hans is like “this is it. Okay. Steel yourself for this blacksmith, Capon. Just tell the story, see how he reacts… see how it goes and maybe… maybe he will…” and Henry interrupts all this with “Wow a black knight, like he dresses in black ? Why ?” And Hans has to interrupt his epic tale and heartfelt confession to give a short medieval lecture on knights to his yokel soulmate. It’s the best mild choice in my opinion. Because let’s be honest, Henry learned to write and read as soon as he could. He LOVES to learn new stuff. My boy saw the opportunity to acquire more knowledge and took it, completely ignoring the romantic vibe. And how can I forget, right after Hans keeps going, Henry can say “wOW wE GoT a lOt iN CoMMoN wItH tHeM” while Hans replies “well yes, that’s why I’m talking about them…” I truly love Henry. There’s my strong, educated, brave, stupid village numbskull.
Puttle by, puttle fry!
Mice in your home now get their own doors
A door is one of the things that makes a building unlike any other structure. All the doors in buildings are intended for human use, no matter which species actually enter and exit. We want to keep encouraging cross-species interactions, and give the smallest members of our communities the recognition they deserve.
Soon, you’ll be able to see, smell, and hear the mice in your home, and they will be able to see, smell, and hear you in return. Each mouse will have its own door, instead of one large door intended to accommodate all visitors. And yes, you’ll be able to welcome multiple mice through a single door.
If a door falls into disuse due to illness, injury, or death, another mouse will be placed into your home. You won’t lose mice just because they die.
Past mice will stay in your home– including corpses. Removing all of those would be… a lot.
This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out - stay tuned!
everyone posting their ‘blue sky’ as if there isn’t a veil of darkness hanging over the world
i saw you at the devils sacrament and liked your vibe but you didn’t see me bc someone added a comment to ur post :(
ok actually i’m not done
the fact that the new rules aren’t plain to understand is absolutely bonkers. it shouldn’t require everyone having to sleuth and pressure test and put everything in an iodine soak under a microscope just to understand the mechanics
what a mess. they’ve spaghetti’d everything when all they had to do was find a way to print engagement metrics on an individualized basis and attribute the relevant data. this shoulda been a fun little update but now it’s like an existential crisis for tumblr as a platform
so let me get this straight now.
if someone I follow because they reblog great things now reblogs something I think is great, and I want the op to see that I thought their post was great, I now have to ignore the person I specifically followed for sharing those kinds of posts and go directly to the original post to reblog it. effectively severing the connection and community that was the whole point of having mutuals and following each other.
AND/OR I have to reblog it completely silently — assuming that every person in the reblog chain before me did the same — expressing no reaction to the post in even the tags, let alone a comment, so the op never knows what I thought or felt about their post because otherwise I will have created my own version of that post and denied them from seeing any further feedback or engagement. effectively severing the connection and community that was the whole point of being able to share things and have discussions.
have I got that right?
big shout out to tumblr for being the first major site in like two years to implement an ill-advised “feature” nobody wants, likes or respects that doesn’t involve AI
i hope they roll this back, i really do, because in all honesty i do not have the energy to pick up and move all my shit somewhere else and i’ll prolly just stop making an effort to try
like why drain from the original op’s pool, that’s the thing i don’t get. if notes come from a specific reblog tree, then fine, tune the notifications to also show up in their activity & show the likes/reblogs/etc on the reblog! we have that data, i know we do, because you can see it on the notes map RIGHT NOW when you look at those posts in your full activity page
but don’t reroute them from the original???? hello?? this should be a ui/display/visibility feature, not a gut job
i was excited to leave work a bit early today to work on a silly comics or smth easy since it’s been a while
but my motivation is kinda tanked rn lol
so apparently. tags also counts as adding something to the post????? on the tagging website??? both for commentary and organization??? you cannot tag bc that will steal the notes from op????
bc there was one post. where. hold on basically it went like this
op -> reblog with tags, no content in the post body -> my reblog (also just with tags)
and op wasn’t able to see my reblog
so now the key feature of this site, the way people structure their blogs. tags. literally tags. are no longer possible. i genuinely cannot believe this. what
i’m gonna keep it real with u guys i don’t think we’re ever becoming the new pdf like this
so as long as tumblr keeps this, here’s the tumblr version of etiquette that was maintained when twitter’s quote-retweets affected artist visibility/notes:
- for art that someone has added reblog commentary to (or removed the caption from), reblog from the source
- otherwise, avoid adding reblog comments to art (as this will affect the artist’s notes/visibility)—utilize tags and replies to provide commentary (which artists will absolutely appreciate)
reblog comments are comments added to the body of a post, not the tags and not replies.
sent in my strongly worded feedback. i hate twitter i do not like how goddamn messy and all over the place and segmented it is, and if that happens here, too, then FUCK
i can already see the way their changes have been compartmentalizing metrics and stats and that is NOT WHAT I COME HERE FOR cuz it’s just introducing a numbers game!!! and even if you don’t give a shit about that, you cannot help but to feel the pressure of it!! even i feel it. seeing likes getting separated from reblogs gives me just another layer of pressure to gauge how successful a post is (whether i wanna be doing that or not [spoilers: I DONT]); and i don’t really really really don’t want to focus on that, but it’s hard not to when the numbers are just sitting there! every goddamn social media site is a numbers game that rewards users with those tiny dopamine hits and tbh i fucking hate that because it makes everything about the engagement and not about the art (i’m including everything under art btw)
the notes have already gotten itemized by displaying as replies/reblogs/comments and now we’re gonna be separating them by user? @staff bro where do u think we are lmao
Don’t worry, mutual with a zero-note post. I’ve added your post to my queue. So, in 6-8 business weeks, we’re going to do big numbers! Such as, 1.
don’t worry mutual with a zero-note post. I’ve added your post to my queue. so, in 6-8 business weeks, I’m going to be doing big numbers! such as, 1. while you will continue to have a 0 note post. Because this website is managed by idiots.
Anyway, has anyone got a good handle on how this new bullshit is supposed to work? As far as I can tell, the “Other reblogs” pane now only displays reblogs which have accrued to the current reblog and its descendants, but the “Reblogs with comments” and “Reblogs with comments and tags” panes still display a combined view of all qualifying reblogs from all branches of the reblog tree. I’m not sure whether this the intended user experience and the newspost was just incredibly shitty at explaining it, or whether I’ve somehow only picked up half the changes.
Whoops, it just changed for me – now the “Reblogs with comments” and “Reblogs with comments and tags” panes only show comments and tags directly associated with the specific reblog you’re currently looking at. I guess that answers that!
I think discoverability of interactions is actually worse than Twitter quote-rewteet chains as it stands, which is kind of impressive.
Like two years ago I ran into a salamander biologist in the woods who complimented my ability to ‘walk quietly in the forest while causing minimal disturbance to the leaf litter.’ Still goes to my head.
Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes
The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve.
Soon, you’ll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog’s author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.
If a reblog doesn’t add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn’t lose notes just because people spread it quietly.
Past notes will stay on the original post — we’re only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be… a lot.
This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!
This is horrible I can’t see the number of notes on my posts at all without adding up everything in the chain
Cursed cursed cursed evil evil evil
This is a terrible idea. Horrible.
EXTREMELY BAD HOLY FUCK.
This would kill the entire point of the reblog chain. Staff, please, don’t do this. It will transform the reblog chain in just plain twitter quotes.
Seriously, this is a tumblr-killer feature. This breaks the most fundamental way tumblr is different from any other social network. This makes tumblr just another blueskytwitterthreads. Or worse: An unfederated mastodon clone.
Please, stop this. Please, don’t roll this out.
Please, mutuals, post about this, comment and reblog the original post (while you still can without making it your own quote-post). I don’t know if staff is looking or if the feedback would matter, but seriously, this is a terrible change that would kill tumblr as we know it. Please, don’t roll it out.
look, I can endure any kind of UI changes that are supposed to help tumblr-rookies to understand how this works. They may be a nuisance, but that’s ok, we have x-kit or we can get used to buttons being here or there.
But this. This changes the data architecture. This changes the SINGLE THING that makes tumblr the “… yes and” website. This KILLS THE COLLABORATIVE POSTING THAT MAKES THIS SITE DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE OTHER MEDIA PLATFORMS.
Please, don’t do this. Please, don’t ship this.
Tumblr has explicitly said in the past that they do not look at comments on their updates posts. You have to PUT IN A SUPPORT TICKET AND SELECT FEEDBACK FROM THE DROPDOWN
Nearly blocked someone for a vaguely annoying reply they made in 2017 then remembered 2017 was 9 years ago. They will live. We can change *opens their blog* nevermind they got worse. Guards
so fucking humbling to be like “no I like that character a normal amount” and then you can literally feel your heart rate spike at a mention of them like a dog that just heard the word “treat”
