Kia Purity's Random Thoughts

A deaf gamer, sometimes draws and writes. Twitter semi on fire, I'm kinda back.  Art on inkblot because fucking DA fucked up, writings on Ao3.

[kiapurity]

Still here, somewhat. I'm still hoping that damn ai bubble bursts because I'm tired of having to protect my artwork

At this point I should just poison AI with Arago in a bikini because if I'm gonna have to break ai, I should break it with shitposts until ai eats itself

on the topic of Arago: I have drawn this dude somewhere around 30 or more times

[glumshoe]

obviously we know in our hearts that Jabba the Hutt is not a dragon. that’s ridiculous.

But Is Jabba A Dragon Though?

he has the body plan of a lindworm. I suppose you could argue that he is too thick to be considered “serpentine”, but he is longer than he is wide, and not entirely unlike an especially chunky gaboon viper. his upright posture distracts from the fact that he’s built like an abbreviated mole lizard, which are lindworms.

and then of course he acts like a dragon. I don’t know if Star Wars uses gold or something else but whatever it is I’m sure he hordes it. eats people sometimes. disturbing taste for princesses. knights come to kick his ass.

Is Jabba A Dragon?

[the-creep-in-the-hawaiian-shirt]

Jabba the Hut isn’t a dragon. He doesn’t fly. He’s more like a slug.

[glumshoe]

Ah, but he uses a hoversled, which is much like flying:

And not all creatures under the broad category of “dragon” fly. Lindworms don’t fly, neither do wyrms, drakes, sea serpents, or hydras. Lungs/Chinese dragons can fly but they don’t use wings to do it. Jabba should not be disqualified as a dragon simply because he uses repulsor technology to achieve airborne locomotion.

Jabba is unlike a slug in so many ways. He has jointed limbs, a hard internal skeleton, a skull with fixed spherical eyeballs, and no sensory tentacles or pneumostome. He is capable of facultative parthenogenesis--like komodo dragons and other squamates--continuously growing larger and living for hundreds of years hoarding wealth and power and preying on princesses. His resemblance to a slug is superficial, though we may describe him as such in an insulting fashion... like how a dragon may be called a “worm”.

Also he can and does eat people.

Jabba the Hutt is a dragon and I have convinced myself of this.

[goomymegpoid]

No he aint bro hes a fuckin alien. dragons have to originate from the planet earth hes from a galaxy far far away.

[glumshoe]

The dragons from both The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey and The Pit Dragon Trilogy by Jane Yolen are aliens from extraterrestrial planets called Pern and Austar IV, respectively. 

Jabba the Hutt is a dragon.

[wardenaristraith]

I think you will find that Hutts lack a backbone, commonly known as a spine, which, for the most part, dragons have either litterially or figuratively.

[glumshoe]

Jabba’s motions, limbs, and posture are clearly dependent upon the use of a hard interior support system. Lacking an exoskeleton and being unable to simply squelch out of Leia’s chokehold suggests he is not simply moving around via the hydrolics of a muscular hydrostat. Besides, there’s this art from the making of The Phantom Menace:

[direhuman]

ship this is getting dangerously close to morphological taxonomy

do you want a plucked chicken swung at you? because this is how you get a plucked chicken swung at you.

[glumshoe]

“Dragon” is like “worm”, in my opinion. It’s not a taxonomy because the variety of creatures referred to as “worms” don’t even belong to related phylums. A horsehair worm and a nightcrawler are not related but they share an innate “worminess”. A velvet worm has many legs and is still counted as a worm-thing. Like I’ve said before, “worm” isn’t a taxonomy; it’s a lifestyle.

Dragons are the same way. It’s an umbrella term, and while some irritating pedants insist that only a four-legged creature with words god can be considered a dragon, they only say that to make sure everyone in the room knows that they know what a wyvern is. Wyverns and lindworms and amphitheres are obviously all under the dragon umbrella.

If these things are dragons, then “dragon” is as fluid a category as “worm”:

Jabba has more stereotypical “dragon traits” than some dragons do. He doesn’t hit every point, but a dragon is a worm is a dragon is a worm.

[valkylander]

My general position is that the use of the word "dragon" to encompass all these disparate creatures is a bad thing and a relic of eurocentric colonialism. A Chinese Long is not the same thing as an English Dragon, nor is a wyvern or an amphithere, and calling them "dragons" belies the cultural differences in which these disparate creatures arose.

In terms of narrative purpose and lifestyle, Janba fills the role that a Dragon does in many stories, however. I would argue Jabba is a dragon in the same sense that a Tsuchigumo is.

[glumshoe]

I think enforcing a strict cultural differentiation would eliminate most dragons from fiction. Fiction, which supplies most modern dragons, does not stick to a strict historical consistency in dragon-depiction, either visually or behaviorally.

Take, for example, the dragons from The Last Airbender. They’re clearly dragons, as they breathe fire and have wings, but they’re also more like elemental spirits that visually and behaviorally resemble lungs more than they resemble, say, Smaug. Do their similarities to lungs disqualify them from dragonhood?

Also, it’s not like the medieval Welsh concept of a “dragon” evolved in a vacuum. There are mythical creatures from around the world that bear strong resemblances to That Specific Creature Which We Are Apparently Now Inisisting Is The Only True Dragon. Welsh and British folklore was surely being influenced by mythology from disparate cultures. 

I am firmly against declaring wyverns “not dragons” because even in British cultural history, the distinction only arose out of the technicalities of heraldry, not folklore or even art. 

[maulusque]

The only thing that Jabba lacks in terms of dragon qualifications: the innately obvious “dragony-ness” that makes most people take one look and go “oh yeah that’s a dragon”. But i don’t think that that’s a REQUIREMENT of dragon-hood. Like, what the fuck is that thing down there?

That thing does not have innate dragony-ness to me. It looks like a turtle with tentacles. 

But, while I think the answer to “can we consider Jabba the Hutt to be a dragon” is yes, no one has asked whether or not Jabba would consider himself to be a dragon.

there’s a whole list on wookiepedia of dragons in star wars and it turns out there’s a bunch of creatures that have “dragon” in their name and they all have quite a lot of dragony-ness but also none of them seem to reach anything beyond semi-sentience. So maybe Jabba has enough dragon-y qualities to be considered a dragon, but he himself would be insulted if you called him one.

[maulusque]

@glumshoe

i’m reading Maul: Lockdown by Joe Schreiber and

he’s a fucking dragon 

[dragons-locator]

@glumshoe

you make some good points and also I ABSOLUTELY HATE YOU FOR THIS

fine.

DRAGON LOCATED

i hate this i hate this i hate this

[officialdragonposts]

official dragon post

unfortunately

[kiapurity]

He's a slug.

To suggest he is a dragon is an insult to actual dragons, so I refuse to change my stance on that point.

And goddamn that book adding "draconic" is so misleading because the reader would think of an actual dragon but if they know what a Jabba is, the two simply conflict.

So no, I'm going to yeet everything in this debate and stick with what Leia and Han would have thought: Overgrown slug.

[dcmarvelpolls]

Which couple do you like more?

Dick Grayson and Koriand'r

Anna Marie (Rogue) and Remy LeBeau

Voting ended onSep 22, 2025

[kiapurity]

*romy panic noises*

[ladyshinga]

I bring a sort of "actually mass traumatic events have an effect on the public's mental health and you're NOT acting in isolation from that trauma, and ignoring it doesn't make it go away" vibe to the party that Americans do not like

[ladyshinga]

"IDK why [name] is acting up lately" "Well on top of the things going on in their personal life causing stress, we've also had nonstop pandemic on top of authoritarian threats and genocide and cost of living being unsustainable, so yeah, they're acting pretty much as expected" "NONE OF THAT OTHER STUFF IS IMPORTANT, only their PERSONAL problems, so they shouldn't be this upset!"

sorry but the background radiation of stress does, in fact, affect people

[robotlyra]

I've been playing FFXIV in preparation for the next Expac drop and I was finishing up a role quest from Endwalker that I hadn't done yet. Put briefly, the story of one of them involves going to Doma, a nation that had been under Garlean imperial occupation for years, had a good chunk of its population lost to the war where they were overrun, forced conscription by the occupiers, and in the war for their eventual liberation. You go back to their reconstruction project and you find out that because of all the trauma they had undergone, and the fact that they were unable to properly grieve all of it due to chaotic current events (the collapse of the Garlean Empire and the potential END OF THE WORLD), they were at risk of turning into monsters due to their emotional distress (one of those aforementioned End of The World symptoms). So in order to ensure the safety of the populace and aid in the process of moving forward in rebuilding their country, they declared a National Funeral, where as many people as possible were encouraged to contribute items to inter at their royal mausoleum.

This game said out loud, as mentioned above, that Mass Traumatic Events Do Have an Effect on the Public Mental Health, and that the inability to process those events is a failure to the citizens and the overall functionality of the community. If people aren't given access to rituals, community support, or other space to come to terms with their emotions, no matter how indirectly affected they might have been by the events, they run the risk of carrying that unprocessed trauma into the future and having it manifest in other unhealthy and destructive ways.

The videogame that came out in the middle of the Pandemic did a better job talking about the continuing process of dealing with trauma, from the personal through the national levels, than our own country's infrastructure and cultural attitudes.

[neil-gaiman]

I apologize if you’ve been asked this question before I’m sure you have, but how do you feel about AI in writing? One of my teachers was “writing” stories using ChatGPT then was bragging about how good they were (they were not good) and said he was going to sell them. To put aside any legal concerns in that, I’m just trying to talk him down from that because, personally, I would not enjoy dream job being taken by AI.

The poor man.

Many magazines have closed their submission portals because people thought they could send in AI-written stories.

For years I would tell people who wanted to be writers that the only way to be a writer was to write your own stories because elves would not come in the night and do it for you.

With AI, drunk plagiaristic elves who cannot actually write and would not know an idea or a sentence if it bit their little elvish arses will actually turn up and write something unpublishable for you. This is not a good thing.

[k-eke]

Genshin impact but ... cats!

[foldingfittedsheets]

Something that literally changed my life was working with a friend on a coding thing. He was helping me create an auto rig script and was trying to explain something to me but his words were just turning into static in my brain. I was tired and confused and there was so many new concepts happening.

I could feel myself working toward a crying meltdown and was getting preemptively ashamed of what was about to happen when he said, “Hey, are you someone who benefits from breaks?”

It broke me.

Did I benefit from breaks? I didn’t know. I’d never taken them.

When a problem frustrated or upset me I just gritted my teeth and plowed through the emotional distress because eventually if you batter and flail at something long enough you figure it out. So what if you get bruised on the way.

I viscerally remembered in that moment being forced to sit at the table late into the night with my dad screaming at me, trying to understand math. I remembered taking that with me into adulthood and having breakdowns every week trying to understand coding. I could have taken a break? Would it help? I didn’t know! I’d never taken one!

“Yes,” I told him. We paused our call. I ate lunch. I focused on other stuff for half an hour. I came back in a significantly better state of mind, and the thing he’d been trying to explain had been gently cooking in the back of my head and seemed easier to understand.

Now when I find myself gritting my teeth at problems I can hear his gentle voice asking if I benefit from breaks. Yes, dear god, yes why did I never get taught breaks? Why was the only way I knew to keep suffering until something worked?

I was relating to this same friend recently my roadtrip to the redwoods with my wife. “We stopped every hour or so to get out and stretch our legs and switch drivers. It was really nice. When I was a kid we’d just drive twelve hours straight and not stop for anything, just gas. We’d eat in the car and power through.”

He gave a wry smile, immediately connecting the mindset of my parents on a road trip to what they’d instilled in me about brute forcing through discomfort. “Do you benefit from breaks?” he echoed, drawing my attention to it, making me smile with the same sad acknowledgement.

Take breaks. You’re allowed. You don’t have to slam into problems over and over and over, let yourself rest. It will get easier. Take. Breaks.

[kiapurity]

When I said I was gonna pull my old art from tumblr, completely forgetting how tumblr works.

It's probably already too late anyway. >_<

Regardless, my new works can be found on bluesky here: https://bsky.app/profile/kiapurity.bsky.social

Still writing DMC fanfics! (Though had to end one fanfic preemptively since I lost interest in that particular storyline. The others are stalled at the moment. Flip of A Coin has semi-regular updates of "once a month" if it can be managed.) FFXIV fanfics: still ongoing! I have been working on one that's not yet published. Finished A Million of Journals, started posting Your Wish is Mine. Started YST fanfic-- one chapter isn't done yet, just barely started.

[9l-sky0]

"Después de tanto tiempo... Lo volví a ver..."

Siento que si ellos se volvieran a ver su reencuentro sería problemático (esto es meramente suposiciones, por que lo más probable es que Lir esté muerta o algo por el estilo ..")

He estado pensando en posibles soluciones para poder dibujarlos a ambos en un ambiente mas DMC5, el Vergil del DMC4 se me es complicado😓

ADEMÁAAS

El diseño es prácticamente de Kiapurity en DeviantArt, solo le agregué algunas canas por la edad :3

"No podía hacerse cargo de Nero cuando ella era joven, le rompió el corazón tener que huir a Italia lejos de todos, pero la esperanza de algún día volver a Fortuna por su hijo la motivó todos estos años.

Llega a RedGrave gracias a las noticias transmitidas y buscará cualquier manera de recuperar y a su vez explicarle todo a Nero."

El traducido en ingles está con Google Translate en su mayoría, perdón😓

Charlotte y Claire son nombres que me gustan para ella :333 no hay mas a partir de ahí

[kiapurity]

I am so honored!! Thank you!! Your art is so gorgeous 🥰

[kiapurity]

For people who asked me about the tumblr midjourney news, I had no idea that somehow people on tumblr weren't aware of this issue

Apparently it's bad enough that tumblr's own staff has started pulling their photographs from their own accounts.

This is the post where I got the news from:

Shit. This may be pure chance and coincidence, and it's not he is in a position to be able to talk about anything, but seeing prominent staf

I'm doing this out of sheer caution as ai art bullshit is making it feel like I can't share my art anymore. (Because it's bad enough that social media makes it so hard for people to see my art, the ai art is making me "expendable")

[kiapurity]

I am so sorry but I won't be posting art here again because tumblr is partnering with Midjourney and that means artist's works will be stolen again

So I will be removing all the old art posts. :(

[kiapurity]

Never thought I'd have to do a lot of research for my YST fanfic but well shit.

There's a lot of things I learned that I never knew about before because inaccessibility to translations.

I'm currently working on chapter two and had to try to struggle with some questions-- what career does Nasuti has? Message seems to suggest that she's involved with politics in some capacity?

Also! Shu's name... I was wondering why he was called Shu rather than Rei Fuan/Lei Fuan/Li Huang (Surprised me to find this spelling) -- I can only assume that Shu made it easier for people.

If y'all are curious about what I'm working on:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[k-eke]

LET ME PLAY!!!!

[deadpeatbogbody]

literally cannot believe "first ever live action omegaverse show" is not bigger news on tumblr

[my-people-skillls-are-rusty]

[chaotic-aro-incarnate]

The live action omegaverse show about racecar drivers!

[charlesoberonn]

It's not just A/B/O, it's Isekai A/B/O.

[charlesoberonn]

My mistake, these are two different live-action Omegaverse shows.

Pit Babe is a Thai show about Omegaverse racecar drivers.

Couple Or Not is a Chinese show about a guy being Isekai'd into an Omegaverse parallel universe where he's mpreg with his Alpha rival's child.

[aanabear2803]

WHAT

[quichedborad]

[ramshacklefey]

For years I would look at posts and questionnaires about neurodivergence that takes about being so focused on something that you forgot to eat and be like, "Couldn't be me. Being hungry is so uncomfortable! Your stomach is growling and cramping? How do you ignore that?"

Then someone informed me that neurotypical people have a whole bunch of "hungry" sensations before they get to that point.....

[small-witch-big-hat]

They what

[ramshacklefey]

Yeah, I don't get it either, but apparently this is a Whole Thing.... Like they somehow detect blood sugar dropping and go, "Ooh, time for lil snack!"

See also: there is a feeling of "oh, I need to pee" that happens before "fidgeting around in my seat to finish this thing before running to the bathroom"

[bubblesthemonsterartist]

I read this and was like, "this can't be real" and then I looked for sources and like--

Adapting Intuitive Eating for Neurodivergent People — RDs for Neurodiversity

Adapting Intuitive Eating for Neurodivergent People

"This can be very harmful for neurodivergent people, as many neurodivergent people struggle to feel internal cues and bodily sensations, including hunger and fullness. An emphasis on “only eating when hungry” can result in neurodivergent people delaying eating until they are so hungry that they are shaky, highly irritable, or even on the verge of passing out. A focus on “stopping when full” may cause neurodivergent people to overthink every bite they take and scrutinize whether they are truly hungry or truly full.  To modify Intuitive Eating for neurodivergent people, it may be important to focus on eating enough and eating consistently throughout the day, rather than eating according to one’s hunger and fullness cues. Neurodivergent people may need more of a structured meal and snack schedule than neurotypical folks in recovery, as well as some guidelines around a minimum amount of food. This does not make their eating less intuitive or their recovery less real - it is an important way of honouring their body’s needs and unique ways of functioning."

WHAT??????

[teaboot]

what the fuck

[jackscarab]

... The things I learn.

Hunger is a gradient and not an organ response? I sit here in amazement.

The thing is, I do eat snacks and such -- not out of a sensation on a hunger spectrum (a thing which exists, apparently), but out of a long-learned estimation of “time until organ response,” so as to reduce or forestall that organ response.

[kiapurity]

Seriously I just want a safe place to post sexy art/fics

[staff]

Tumblr’s Core Product Strategy

Here at Tumblr, we’ve been working hard on reorganizing how we work in a bid to gain more users. A larger user base means a more sustainable company, and means we get to stick around and do this thing with you all a bit longer. What follows is the strategy we're using to accomplish the goal of user growth. The @labs group has published a bit already, but this is bigger. We’re publishing it publicly for the first time, in an effort to work more transparently with all of you in the Tumblr community. This strategy provides guidance amid limited resources, allowing our teams to focus on specific key areas to ensure Tumblr’s future.

The Diagnosis

In order for Tumblr to grow, we need to fix the core experience that makes Tumblr a useful place for users. The underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use. Historically, we have expected users to curate their feeds and lean into curating their experience. But this expectation introduces friction to the user experience and only serves a small portion of our audience. 

Tumblr’s competitive advantage lies in its unique content and vibrant communities. As the forerunner of internet culture, Tumblr encompasses a wide range of interests, such as entertainment, art, gaming, fandom, fashion, and music. People come to Tumblr to immerse themselves in this culture, making it essential for us to ensure a seamless connection between people and content. 

To guarantee Tumblr’s continued success, we’ve got to prioritize fostering that seamless connection between people and content. This involves attracting and retaining new users and creators, nurturing their growth, and encouraging frequent engagement with the platform.

Our Guiding Principles

To enhance Tumblr’s usability, we must address these core guiding principles.

Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.

Provide high-quality content with every app launch.

Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.

Retain and grow our creator base.

Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.

Improve the platform’s performance, stability, and quality.

Below is a deep dive into each of these principles.

Principle 1: Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.

Tumblr has a “top of the funnel” issue in converting non-users into engaged logged-in users. We also have not invested in industry standard SEO practices to ensure a robust top of the funnel. The referral traffic that we do get from external sources is dispersed across different pages with inconsistent user experiences, which results in a missed opportunity to convert these users into regular Tumblr users. For example, users from search engines often land on pages within the blog network and blog view—where there isn’t much of a reason to sign up. 

We need to experiment with logged-out tumblr.com to ensure we are capturing the highest potential conversion rate for visitors into sign-ups and log-ins. We might want to explore showing the potential future user the full breadth of content that Tumblr has to offer on our logged-out pages. We want people to be able to easily understand the potential behind Tumblr without having to navigate multiple tabs and pages to figure it out. Our current logged-out explore page does very little to help users understand “what is Tumblr.” which is a missed opportunity to get people excited about joining the site.

Actions & Next Steps

Improving Tumblr’s search engine optimization (SEO) practices to be in line with industry standards.

Experiment with logged out tumblr.com to achieve the highest conversion rate for sign-ups and log-ins, explore ways for visitors to “get” Tumblr and entice them to sign up.

Principle 2: Provide high-quality content with every app launch.

We need to ensure the highest quality user experience by presenting fresh and relevant content tailored to the user’s diverse interests during each session. If the user has a bad content experience, the fault lies with the product.

The default position should always be that the user does not know how to navigate the application. Additionally, we need to ensure that when people search for content related to their interests, it is easily accessible without any confusing limitations or unexpected roadblocks in their journey.

Being a 15-year-old brand is tough because the brand carries the baggage of a person’s preconceived impressions of Tumblr. On average, a user only sees 25 posts per session, so the first 25 posts have to convey the value of Tumblr: it is a vibrant community with lots of untapped potential. We never want to leave the user believing that Tumblr is a place that is stale and not relevant. 

Actions & Next Steps

Deliver great content each time the app is opened.

Make it easier for users to understand where the vibrant communities on Tumblr are. 

Improve our algorithmic ranking capabilities across all feeds. 

Principle 3: Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.

Part of Tumblr’s charm lies in its capacity to showcase the evolution of conversations and the clever remarks found within reblog chains and replies. Engaging in these discussions should be enjoyable and effortless.

Unfortunately, the current way that conversations work on Tumblr across replies and reblogs is confusing for new users. The limitations around engaging with individual reblogs, replies only applying to the original post, and the inability to easily follow threaded conversations make it difficult for users to join the conversation.

Actions & Next Steps

Address the confusion within replies and reblogs.

Improve the conversational posting features around replies and reblogs. 

Allow engagements on individual replies and reblogs.

Make it easier for users to follow the various conversation paths within a reblog thread. 

Remove clutter in the conversation by collapsing reblog threads. 

Explore the feasibility of removing duplicate reblogs within a user’s Following feed. 

Principle 4: Retain and grow our creator base.

Creators are essential to the Tumblr community. However, we haven’t always had a consistent and coordinated effort around retaining, nurturing, and growing our creator base.  

Being a new creator on Tumblr can be intimidating, with a high likelihood of leaving or disappointment upon sharing creations without receiving engagement or feedback. We need to ensure that we have the expected creator tools and foster the rewarding feedback loops that keep creators around and enable them to thrive.

The lack of feedback stems from the outdated decision to only show content from followed blogs on the main dashboard feed (“Following”), perpetuating a cycle where popular blogs continue to gain more visibility at the expense of helping new creators. To address this, we need to prioritize supporting and nurturing the growth of new creators on the platform.

It is also imperative that creators, like everyone on Tumblr, feel safe and in control of their experience. Whether it be an ask from the community or engagement on a post, being successful on Tumblr should never feel like a punishing experience.

Actions & Next Steps

Get creators’ new content in front of people who are interested in it. 

Improve the feedback loop for creators, incentivizing them to continue posting.

Build mechanisms to protect creators from being spammed by notifications when they go viral.

Expand ways to co-create content, such as by adding the capability to embed Tumblr links in posts.

Principle 5: Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.

Push notifications and emails are essential tools to increase user engagement, improve user retention, and facilitate content discovery. Our strategy of reaching out to you, the user, should be well-coordinated across product, commercial, and marketing teams.

Our messaging strategy needs to be personalized and adapt to a user’s shifting interests. Our messages should keep users in the know on the latest activity in their community, as well as keeping Tumblr top of mind as the place to go for witty takes and remixes of the latest shows and real-life events.  

Most importantly, our messages should be thoughtful and should never come across as spammy.  

Actions & Next Steps

Conduct an audit of our messaging strategy.

Address the issue of notifications getting too noisy; throttle, collapse or mute notifications where necessary.  

Identify opportunities for personalization within our email messages. 

Test what the right daily push notification limit is. 

Send emails when a user has push notifications switched off.

Principle 6: Performance, stability and quality.

The stability and performance of our mobile apps have declined. There is a large backlog of production issues, with more bugs created than resolved over the last 300 days. If this continues, roughly one new unresolved production issue will be created every two days. Apps and backend systems that work well and don't crash are the foundation of a great Tumblr experience. Improving performance, stability, and quality will help us achieve sustainable operations for Tumblr.

Improve performance and stability: deliver crash-free, responsive, and fast-loading apps on Android, iOS, and web.

Improve quality: deliver the highest quality Tumblr experience to our users. 

Move faster: provide APIs and services to unblock core product initiatives and launch new features coming out of Labs.

Conclusion

Our mission has always been to empower the world’s creators. We are wholly committed to ensuring Tumblr evolves in a way that supports our current users while improving areas that attract new creators, artists, and users. You deserve a digital home that works for you. You deserve the best tools and features to connect with your communities on a platform that prioritizes the easy discoverability of high-quality content. This is an invigorating time for Tumblr, and we couldn’t be more excited about our current strategy.

[kiapurity]

Well, that's a challenge to recover the userbase you had before stuff happened...

bots, get rid of 'em

is the NSFW ban 100% gone? 'cause I keep hearing mixed stuff on that and that was a large part of why your users left due to the ban and the bots just rolled up and nabbed the old usernames

I always found the tumblr app to be awful when I was a regular user, sometimes stuff wouldn't load at all and I had to resort to using the browser instead.

How is the tagging system working? Last I knew, it was four or five tags that only get recognized by the search.

Please listen to your users!