Darkling, I Listen

The Vampire Chronicles, Dark Aesthetic, Queer. I am old, I have survived fandom wank and fandom wars. I have been on the front lines and I have been underground. So please understand, I am old for a reason.

[darkangel1791]

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[chimaerakitten]

Hi everyone. So

If you do not like the change that was just made. Send a support ticket and comment on the post and then

Crucially

You should log out of tumblr

We all should

Take a break for a couple of days

Make them see a DRASTIC DIP IN ACTIVITY

Because that more than anything else is going to make them realize this is a bad idea.

Edit to note: you can come back to check if they’ve rolled it back of course but I recommend not *doing* anything. Don’t post new art or reblog memes. Make tumblr a ghost town for ~2-3 days

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Staff: "We Have Successfully Removed Tumblr from Tumblr, which made Tumblr worth using."

FIJMU News 3-16-26 by Tor Mentnexus

For decades, reblogs have made tumblr a near-popular site, even inspiring platforms like twitter to include a retweet feature before it was turned into x-crement. Now, tumblr has successfully removed this feature to make the site far worse.

According to tumblr prime-minister Karl Lipidbrain, "Tumblr has always worked hard to alienate its users, from its harsh treatment of the trans demographic, to its ban of nipples (which nearly 1/5th of its users have at least one of) and all the way back to the time we deleted the whole site to spite the weebs. But now, we are making the entire note system into absolute useless shit. Soon, we should be able to boast a zero user count and make tumblr small enough to throw out in the back dumpster."

User outcry has been immediate and strong, which tumblr staff will ignore because of course they will.

[myownwholewildworld]

re tumblr's notes rollout!!

just got this email from support:

PLEASE PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT ON THE POST THROUGH THIS LINK!! it links directly to @changes reblog of the original post so hopefully they'll hear us out!!

if you need a template feel free to copy/paste this or any other alternative circulating on tumblr!

Please stop the new notes rollout. It's gonna kill fandoms. Original creators and artists will stop posting if we don't get the credit we deserve and instead goes to rebloggers. There is a reason why we are here and not on Twitter. We are already struggling to reach people and this is just gonna make it worse. Fandoms are already starving for engagement and this rollout will drown smaller accounts. I urge you to reconsider.

also please still submit feedback through their online support form! the more ways we can bother them, the better.

[kedreeva]

just a reminder for no reason that Tumblr has a rating in the app stores that you, dearest user, can influence by adding your opinion of the app. you can even leave a little note that everyone can see. they don't even have to be in the right reblog comment chain.

[secondbeatsongs]

in case it's not clear to everyone, OPs can't even see tags unless they're on a post reblogged directly from them, even if nobody's added comments in the reblogs chain.

a post can have 500 reblogs, half of them with tags, but unless every single post is being shared directly from the original, the OP is probably going to think that nobody's saying anything

get ready for tumblr to feel like a ghost town, even when it's not

[strangedreamings]

Do you like the "Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes" update?

YES!

NO!

What update?

Voting ended onMar 23

[secondbeatsongs]

I wish I had stopped to savor it, the last time I saw a kung pow penis. I never knew it was to be my last

[sheisraging]

If you send feedback via Tumblr's feedback form (which you SHOULD do), you will get an autoreply telling you to leave a comment on the changes.tumblr.com blog (which you should also do!). Just make sure you're actually doing it on the reblog of this post from changes since, due to their own shitty update, they cannot/will not see the SIXTY THOUSAND NOTES that this update has generated, 99% of which are negative.

[jackiefour]

Okay, so according to this post, @staff says they're listening to us, so...

Sound off, Tumblr! How do you feel about the latest update to the reblog and notes?

Hate it. 👎

Like it. 👍

Voting ended onMar 19

No nuance. Go ahead and reblog the crap out of this.

[anj-does-stuff]

Oh wow I hate this. So I tested it a little on a side blog and this is what it does

Then, if you go to the notes on the original post, it only shows the reblog from "two"

So the OP doesn't get to see how much engagement their post has unless people like/reblog from the original post. If someone adds any sort of comment, it splits them up like this. Artists, writers, crafters will see less engagement, nobody will know how far the reach of their post is or if someone says something nice about it. If you want OP to know, you'd have to make a conscious effort to reblog from the first post listed in the chain.

Not only is this going to be bad for general community things, but this could easily promote harassment. You won't see anything but the initial reblog from you if someone makes an addition, so there could be whole conversations that go completely missed.

Thanks, tumblr. Very cool 👍

EDIT: Also, the posts aren't even properly displaying the notes YOUR SPECIFIC VERSION of the post is getting, which this post has shown me.

This is what I see looking at my post at this moment:

But if I go to the reblogs tab of my activity page, we can see

There's a few more than 20 reblogs.

[haomnyangz]

He's just trying to get under your skin. Or maybe, I'd just prefer not to coddle your latest soldier boyfriend. - Magnus & The Owl (3x08; A Heart of Darkness)

[cruciaan]

What's the point if living if I know I'll never be as pretty and hot as Assad Zaman

[endiness]

[endiness]

"is lestat wearing th—" "the jean paul gaultier vintage sheer cathedral stained glass tattoo top? yeah, he is."

[what-even-is-thiss]

We no longer really see 16 or 15 or 13 or what have you as actually being an adult but we have parties for these things anyways

[what-even-is-thiss]

When I was 14 I finished my confirmation classes and went through the confirmation ceremony. At that point I became a voting “adult” member of my church. Technically I could’ve run for church council.

Was I an adult though? Lol no I wasn’t about to run for council at 14 are you kidding me who’s practically gonna let a 14 year old in on a budget meeting

[what-even-is-thiss]

Amazing.

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr reply from fuzzyTheDuck reading: when i was a teenager i applied for an adult jewish study program and when they were like "no this is for adults" i was like "im over 12, are you hypocrites? " and they let me in /End ID]

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