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Tumblr/Yahoo

Pretty much I am done thinking about it. I don’t expect much. I am hoping, without that much hope, that Tumblr will not follow StumbleUpon to failure. (As change happens I will be sure to whinge about it, but until something happens, I am going to worry about making the world and me better, as best I can.)

I was so invested in StumbleUpon, its failure really hurt. I am not going there again.

I want to be able to continue getting my extend news and lots of beautiful pictures here, but…

Tumblr

Those stupid icons at the right of  my dash are more than usually incomprehensible. (And thanks for logging me out when I hit the gear icon which is theoretically not supposed to do that.)

the-enigma-variations:

staff:

Fuck yeah! Tumblr is now made up of 100 million blogs.

Fuck yeah!
tumblr hyperbole!

Come on tumblr staff.
You know as well as I do that 90% of the Stumblers that tested your waters in 2007 didn’t stick around (but their blogs exist). You know as well as I do that when, in 2011, Stumbleupon ate its own ass there was a major influx. From my SU circle only 2 remain visible in tumblr: the whole almost empty blogs of the influx remain.
Tumblr attracts teens and twenties: they grow up and move out. I have too many followers who have posted nothing for years.

I guess that tumblr has about 10 million active bloggers.
This is no mean feat - so what’s with the ludicrous exaggeration?

Oh - and why is your timeline upside down?

of course they are full of hyperbole (who isn’t) and of course a lot of people move on — I am really missing a few formerly active tumblrs who seem to have moved on (one of whom was at SU) — hopefully they are doing well. I have been worrying.

And I have gotten cranky about the new dash which I find annoying — my computer seems to have trouble with it, as do I. I would jump for a return to the previous version, but most of the people I knew who moved here are still here and active, and the people I follow are a good range  of ages from about 14 to over 60.

As for the graph maybe I could be bothered to read it if I did not need cataract surgery.

(Reblogged from the-enigma-variations)

Alice is Annoyed

Okay Tumblr I just have to tell you yet again — this new and apparently newly unimproved editing window is an absolute bust. I don’t even want to add content because I cannot link properly to websites. The stupid applet  thingie is horrible. If I want a picture I cannot have a quote. If I add my own commentary I cannot seem to make paragraphs. If I want to use a full size photo from a site with tiny photos, I can only link back to the one image I viewed full size — I cannot link back to the actual website. Some of this I could probably solve, if I could html, but why should I have to do that — why have you made it more difficult for me to post responsibly. It seriously ticks me off.

It is even now even difficult just to check, to see if people have a link back to the source of an image.

If you make a gross mistake this new improved editing window seems to mean that there is no way to use an undo feature — a real improvement.

So Tumblr “fixed” it so we can no longer reblog our own stuff — the only part of the last change that was actually an improvement has been removed.

(The new, now not so new, dash is seriously glitchey and slow for me, possibly because I have an outdated graphics driver, but still for me it is not an improvement.)

Tumblr I get even crankier than usual when the new ugly layout jams up and I need to close a tab to continue tumbling.

Tumblr Blues

Yep I still don’t like it and worse than that the contrast is lower, which makes it considerably harder for me to read.

AAARRGHHH

The new tumblr is so annoying because it hides the fact that images do not link back to the original source. It makes me furious.

shortformblog: While not everyone loves the Tumblr dashboard redesign, they do keep adding really cool little details to make life better for people using it. Among recent additions: Inline links and source-code editing (the latter shown above; note the color-coding). These tweaks are under the radar and may not be noticed by a lot of people—but totally appreciated. So I still hate the new design. It is definitely slower (maybe mostly because my computer is a little on the older side) — there is a time lag as the window pops forward and when my blog photo floats forward, and then there is all the damn scrolling as I chose which blog I am posting to — up and down and around and then sometimes the damn thing just hangs there. Oh yeah, and I seriously dislike seeing the red new posts flag flapping when I am not on the front page. I find it very distracting so I end up not delving down as deep into the dash and as a consequence I am missing a lot more.And then they don’t even bother to tell us about the changes. One could easily wait weeks before finding an improvement you might actually like. It might be easier to remove the code for small font now If select the blog you want to post to and then select a new post format you no longer switch back to your main blog — which is handy. Still in all Tumbling is way less fun (and I miss it) and I am playing a bit more on facebook and less on the computer.

shortformblog:

While not everyone loves the Tumblr dashboard redesign, they do keep adding really cool little details to make life better for people using it. Among recent additions: Inline links and source-code editing (the latter shown above; note the color-coding). These tweaks are under the radar and may not be noticed by a lot of people—but totally appreciated.

So I still hate the new design. It is definitely slower (maybe mostly because my computer is a little on the older side) — there is a time lag as the window pops forward and when my blog photo floats forward, and then there is all the damn scrolling as I chose which blog I am posting to — up and down and around and then sometimes the damn thing just hangs there. Oh yeah, and I seriously dislike seeing the red new posts flag flapping when I am not on the front page. I find it very distracting so I end up not delving down as deep into the dash and as a consequence I am missing a lot more.
And then they don’t even bother to tell us about the changes. One could easily wait weeks before finding an improvement you might actually like.

  • It might be easier to remove the code for small font now
  • If select the blog you want to post to and then select a new post format you no longer switch back to your main blog — which is handy.

Still in all Tumbling is way less fun (and I miss it) and I am playing a bit more on facebook and less on the computer.

(Reblogged from shortformblog)

Tumblr Is Not What You Think | TechCrunch

justjori:

rrrick:

This is interesting…

very. and quite true in my case. cause ima 50 yr. old teenager.

I think it works because it is flexible you can be reclusive or you can easily find a decent number of interested followers. When users get a lot of flexibility to work and play as they wish, platforms can easily gain users.

(Reblogged from justjori)

I am finding it moderately confusing to be on page 2 or 7 or 19 of the dash (or page one of a sub-blog) and seeing the red flag with a number of new tumblr posts.

And given that various open tumblr tabs are waving different numbers at me — numbers that vary with seemingly no connection to how long they have been open, it is not like this information is accurate.