[abitofboth]

happy pride my loves 🫶

here’s a very (very, very) old curtwen piece for your troubles

[abitofboth]

I somehow accidentally took a 10 million year long break from tumblr but I just need to scream about the election results across the uk today. WHY oh WHYYYY have so many people voted for fucking reform. genuinely we are fucked lmao. wipe the country out and start over again because this can not be the way that we’re headed towards the general election

[heikala]

First Day of Spring🐑🐑🐑

[tumblr]

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!

[tumblr]

Let's talk about reblog notes.

We rolled out a significant change to how notes work on reblogs, and the reaction has been strong. We're not going to pretend otherwise. 

First things first: We're reversing the change. Your feedback in comments, emails, and especially reblogs, made clear that the rollout created problems we need to address before moving forward. We also should have communicated this differently from the start, and we didn't.

We still believe there's a better version of how reblogs can work. One that gives every voice in a chain the credit it deserves. But we want to get there with you.

In the coming days we'll share more on how we plan to do that,  including ways to work directly with some of you on this and future changes before they ship.

Keep an eye on @staff for updates to come soon. 

[strange-aeons]

HOLY SHIT WE DID IT EVERYONE!!!!

[genericpuff]

SQUEAKY FUCKING WHEEL GETS THE GREASE

That said, while not to damper our celebration, the fight's not over yet.

Tumblr ownership has made it loud and clear that they do not understand the fundamental principles of this site.

They do not understand what it provides for artists and creatives and bloggers and fandoms. They do not understand that the site's infrastructure is not and will never be compatible with the business models of Twitter and Bluesky. The fact they're still arguing there's a "better version of reblogs" out there is indicative of that.

Reblogs are fine. No one was asking for fixes to reblogs. The way reblogs worked before this change is the platform's greatest asset and the entire reason we use this site over all the other ones on the Internet. You are trying to fix something that is not even broken.

We need fixes to the Community guidelines and systems that constantly flag posts that aren't violating any rules.

We need tangible non-invasive fixes to the filters that bots are constantly able to sneak past which allows them to bombard the site with spam, porn, and scams.

And most of all, we need fixes to staff oversight so that reports about these issues don't constantly get swept under the rug.

This is a symptom of a much bigger issue - Tumblr keeps implementing site-breaking changes that contradict the point of Tumblr without actually consulting or understanding their community first. They're constantly taking the "it's better to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission" route and it's destroying any trust and stability we have in the platform.

We need @photomatt and everyone who works for him @staff @changes to quit viewing Tumblr as a "failure" just because he keeps trying to force a Tumblr-shaped object into a Wordpress-shaped hole. He's completely devaluing and misunderstanding Tumblr's greatest strengths as a community-driven platform and until he does - or until he sells the platform to someone who can - he and his company that oversees Tumblr's development will keep making the same mistakes.

We don't need an adjustment of the reblog system or the core aspects of what makes Tumblr unique. We need an adjustment of the attitudes that are failing to see those aspects and undermining them at every turn.

[wonderarium]

if you really want tumblr to take notice you should cancel your tumblr premium subscription

if all 8 of you do it thatll really put their feet to the fire

[eggdrawsthings]

some Pedrito studies. How he keeps getting prettier every year is crazy 🫣 (I do miss his mustache tho It's weird drawing him without it)

[loveridden1999]

#neverstopcomplaining

[urgetocreate]

Sergiu Ciochină (Moldavian/French b. 2001), Bergen, Norway, 2025, Oil on board

[staff]

Don’t get stuck doing math on your Dashboard!

Note counts now increment automatically. Have a nice weekend!

[somecunttookmyurl]

hey @staff does this post really only have ~50 notes or are we back to doing maths on the dashboard

[demadogs]

please ACTUALLY send your complaints and feedback to tumblr support. dont fall victim to the bystander effect. dont assume everyone else is doing it so you dont have to. send them your complaints.

[unstatedmartini]

also, as someone who isn't an artist or content creator, this also completely breaks how i use the site. i open the reblogs on basically every post that interests me - just to see what people are saying, laugh or roll my eyes or enjoy the collective freakout, find people whose contributions stand out enough for me to follow them (or block them), get a sense of the conversation around topics of note, etc. i have zero interest in just watching posts roll by with few visible notes. this destroys the engagement and community experience even for 'passive' users

[the-gayest-dovah]

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[nemfrog]

The frog chorus. Garden-land. 1907.

Internet Archive

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

soccer (1977) - derek trevis

"i like your shoelaces"

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Since some of you don't seem to understand how this 'new notes' thing works, I'll break it down:

I'm the OP. I'm making this post. If you like, comment, reblog (without comment) on this post, then I'm the one who will see all those notes in my activity page.

However...

If you reblog (with comment), I will get a notification that you did that, but any likes/comments/reblogs (without comment) you get on that reblog will only be shown to you. As OP I won't see them.

If someone adds a reblog (with comment) to your reblog...as OP I won't see that. I won't see any of those notes in my activity page.

Basically, if someone with a large following makes a comment, then they will get all the notes and OP will see nothing. If OP has said something silly because they're, y'know, 21 and it happens, and then someone reblogs it onto the dash of someone with a large following who then dunks on them for fun? OP doesn't see it, doesn't get notes for it, but they're gonna get the harrassment for it in their inbox.

If I, someone with a 5 digit follower count, reblog something to correct misinformation on Ancient Egypt, then OP will never see it unless it was on the original post, but I will continue to get notes on that post even though it's not my post. If I reblog fanart, or just art in general, with a comment like 'Oh this is so lovely!' then OP will not see any of the notes from people reblogging it from me. They'll only see my reblog. So it's possible for an art post by someone else to have 200 notes for them, but 9000 for someone who reblogs it with a comment, and the OP artist will have no idea it's been seen by that many people.

It's killing blow to the community we've built here, by someone higher up who doesn't understand that being able to see all the comments and reblogs is what makes this site the place I keep coming back to.

That's what sucks.

I encourage people to go to tumblr's support page, select contact support, and then in the dropdown menu select 'Feedback' and leave polite and constructive feedback (for those of you who enjoy 'emails worded politely but are a strong 'are you an idiot?', try that way of wording it). They're more likely to listen to you if you're not an asshole about it. I've already gone and done this, and I hope others will too.

[mrrrrps-deactivated20201225]

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[lurker-no-more]

Well … points made, lmao.