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[stargirlinwater]

@staff

Please don't term my bestie @will-0-the-wispp 😭

She did nothing wrong

[cr41g-tuck3r]

Suggestion for Tumblr :3 @staff

@staff @staff @staff @staff @staff @staff @staff @staff @staff there should be settings on who shows up when you try to tag people. Like, you know the pop up when you put an @ and then a letter? You should be able to make in settings so it only shows mutuals, or only shows people you follow, or only show people who follow you, ect. Because its so hard for me to remember who's my mutual and who isn't, but I usually like to use that pop up feature to find people to tag since I can't always remember everyone. thank you! :3

[emrysthirteen]

ive seen many complaints about the way the new Tumblr mobile update has handled pictures. but i have only seen a couple people talking about how deeply inaccessible it is. and i want to go through it.

first I'll explain the changes for anyone who is new or who uses desktop because I'm fairly certain it's different there.

before when you were scrolling on your feed and you tapped on a picture to view it, if there was a margin around the picture it was black. if you double tapped the picture, it would zoom in. you could do this twice and the third time would return it to normal zoom. if you scrolled up or down, it would close the image and put you where you were on your feed before opening the image. if you scrolled to the sides, it would scroll through any other images that were on the same post.

now when you open the image, the margins are filled with a zoomed, cropped, and blurred section of the image. when you double tap, it likes and zooming is difficult. when you swipe up, it gives you a different post, generated by an algorithm to be similar. if you scroll to the side, it brings you to the posters blog. both of the swipe functions also do this when you are zoomed in as well.

i can only speak to my own accessability needs, but there are several and i know i can't be alone in any of them. for context the relevant things are that i have low vision which requires high contrast and photosensitive migraines which require low brightness. as you can imagine, this is a very specific balance of things that is easily made difficult.

firstly, the background of the image. i used to open the image specifically because of the background. increasing the contrast around the edge of the image and removing irrelevant details made it significantly easier to see. there were frequently posts that i straight up couldn't see properly until i opened them. with the new background feature, images that i have opened are impossible to see clearly. i can barely tell where the actual image is and where the background is. i functionally understand the aesthetic value of the change but there are regularly posts that i straight up can't see anymore because of this. there should be an option for high contrast backgrounds available so that people who need it can still have it.

next is the zoom. the double tap to zoom was one of my favorite features. because when something was small or hard to see it was easy to make it visible and i didn't have to change how i was holding my phone. now if i need to zoom, i have to shift and the pinch to zoom is very buggy. it is difficult to get the zoom where i need it on the image and it regularly causes glitches that alter the image. and i have to zoom out and back in to move when i am zoomed in to or else the new swipe features engage. this is hard on my eyes and hard on my hands that have fucked up joints because it requires a lot more small repetitive motions to do the same thing. this change seems to be mostly conformist to be more like other sites which is disappointing for the hellsite, bit it could easily be made at least accessable if there were an option to have the double tap zoom or even if the bugs on the pinch zoom were fixed.

lastly is the swipe feature. while this is mechanically and aesthetically obnoxious to me i will hold my focus on accessability. it interacts very poorly with the zoom feature, making it hard to navigate the image viewer when zooming is needed. from a dexterity standpoint, it also makes it more difficult to see what i want to see. if my hands a shaking i will sometimes open an image and get an entirely different one because of the algorithm swipe. I've had to scroll back up to three times to get what i actually clicked on because the swipe function is so sensitive and buggy. it is also more difficult to close the image. i often have to give it multiple attempts to close the image because when i swipe down, it doesn't go away and i can't get my back button to come up without it going to a new post. the bugs should be fixed and it needs some mechanical fixes, but this should also be made optional.

tldr for @staff: the new image viewer is deeply inaccessible for visually impaired people and people with dexterity issues and the bugginess makes it so much worse. all of the new features around the image viewer should be made optional for both accessability reasons and aesthetic reasons. i understand the attempt to streamline the site to look and feel more 'modern' but please don't forget that disabled people still want to use this site

[bleedingheartandnootkarose]

I am going to fucking quit my job. I cannot with the all-black dress code, ESPECIALLY with this El Niño bullshit. They are trying to fucking kill us.

[princessquinnella]

@staff

My blog has been Shadow Banned and marked as Sexually Explicit for weeks now.  If you were to review through my blog, you would not find anything remotely explicitly shown.  I have no flagged posts. Any rare time I may have re-blogged or posted something that would be flagged as explicit, the absolute second it was flagged as inappropriate I would immediately delete the post, so as to adhere with your guidelines and keep my blog a safe space for all to view. 

All I wish to do is post and write about cute Fairy Antics and share edits of my faeries playful adventurers and sweet romances and role-play with friends. Please return my blog back to normal. 

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

[princessquinnella]

@staff

My blog has been Shadow Banned and marked as Sexually Explicit for weeks now.  If you were to review through my blog, you would not find anything remotely explicitly shown.  I have no flagged posts. Any rare time I may have re-blogged or posted something that would be flagged as explicit, the absolute second it was flagged as inappropriate I would immediately delete the post, so as to adhere with your guidelines and keep my blog a safe space for all to view. 

All I wish to do is post and write about cute Fairy Antics and share edits of my faeries playful adventurers and sweet romances and role-play with friends. Please return my blog back to normal. 

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

[thespookiestace]

Hey @staff what’s up with tumblr showing me likes of people I don’t follow on my dashboard an making me follow new random blogs that I have never even seen or clicked on before. I don’t mind having my followers’ likes in my feed but I only want them there if I actually follow them. I’ve had to block people just to stop seeing their likes in my feed.