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Me enjoying a thing while ignoring the fandom/discourse:

octopuddi

lil shadilver sketchie for @gaysilver ;3

its the no notes ghoast

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leafcrunch

tumblr’s code may change but no notes ghost stays the same

toastoat

Oh thank god

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imagine the shit storm when tumblr finally becomes so dysfunctional that this post’s total notes is finally revealed

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In case anyone’s curious about what happened to this post, it has to do with how we tally up notes. Likes and reblogs always add to the note count of the root post (the OP). However, the note count relies on the previous value of the root post before adding more notes to it.

Normally when you delete a post, it’s gone, but not gone gone. Just deleted from public never to be seen again. The database entry is still there, just inaccessible.

This post, however, the root post is just gone. Gone gone. Gone forever. Everything attached to it is still there, but since the root post is hard deleted (something that requires manual manipulation of the database), when the note counter tries to add notes to it, it gets nil to start with.

So it throws every new note into the void. Goodbye forever, notes.

I’m not sure if we’ll ever know the real number of notes on this post.