#new layout stuff

[apostaterevolutionary]

I have a hot take. And it’s probably gonna make some people mad lmao

There's a lot of posts going around about tumblr following the UK and Brazil’s ID verification laws and everyone’s very mad about it but I need all of you to understand that you’re pointing your anger at the wrong target. Websites complying with the law because they can’t afford the fines/blocking large swaths of their userbase from accessing them are not the enemy. The governments enacting and enforcing these laws are the enemy

“But what about discord, you were mad at discord” discord was complying in advance. They were planning to (and still are! Do not let them roll it out quietly later) apply this worldwide despite not being required to. They were also caught partnering with Palantir despite saying that their verification partners deleted your data after it was complete (Palantir does not). Discord had no legal requirement to do any of that

“But why don’t they just block access to those areas, even pornhub did that” do you have any idea how much money pornhub makes. They can afford to block whoever they want. Tumblr loses money every day. Also do not for a second act like pornhub did that out of some rebel spirit or on moral principle, they did it because it’s easier and cheaper for them, just like every other porn site on the internet

"But tumblr staff has done [unrelated shitty thing], why would I not blame them" yeah staff fucking sucks but get mad at them for stuff they actually did on their own without a government entity demanding them to

Does this suck? Absolutely. But you’re getting mad at a website for complying with regional laws. It’s honestly a miracle they only started doing it now (and I suspect it’s because they got caught and either caught a fine or a warning of one). If you’re expecting large corporations to defy the law for moral reasons, you’re living in a fantasy world and it's time to wake up. By and large, they don’t. That’s a feature, not a bug. Defying the law for profit is the only rebellion you can ever expect of them even if they twist it with marketing speak

So what is the actual solution? If you live in the UK or Brazil, organize and push back. It’s harder now, but it’s not too late. Speak to your reps. Protest. Do whatever you can to be heard and get others involved. Apathy is how these laws got passed in the first place but they can still be repealed with enough resistance. And if you live anywhere else where these laws could reasonably happen in the near future (the collective west basically: Canada, the EU, the US, etc.), be fucking vigilant and do everything in your power to stop them before they become law

Yes, actually doing activism is harder than making angry posts on the internet, but if you don’t do it, making angry posts on the internet could require your real life name and face sooner than you think. Together, we can win. You just have to actually get up and try

[apostaterevolutionary]

I love using a version of the tumblr app so old that polls don't work on it, because as much as it's a pain to have to log into desktop or mobile site to do some things (polls, replying from a sideblog or directly to another reply), it fucking slaps cause none of these shit UI changes affect me. My notes are still bundled together as a single number and today's shit ass change doesn't affect it either lmfao

[apostaterevolutionary]

You know what would be really funny, is if people came together to have an anti-crab day. A day where every user who joined prior to automattic’s acquisition logged off for 24 hours to show that yes, actually, older user retention is important and you should listen us just as much as new users

The users giveth, the users taketh away

[apostaterevolutionary]

I’m really upset by the upcoming functionality loss as apparently tumblr is getting rid of the desktop post editor and switching to the crappy mobile one. But I’ve seen NO posts about this? Am I the only one? They’re basically killing gifsets (don’t work properly on the new editor) and fucking over artists with crappier image quality and I’ve just seen… silence? The archive will be worse as post types won’t exist anymore? No copying multiple paragraphs? A hint that old posts soon won’t be editable? I have over a decade of posts here and I do NOT want to lose access to them. Like I’m fucking panicking cause this WILL really hurt fandom, the group tumblr has been most trying to cater to. Like I think between this and other social media sites going down the tubes, I feel like fandom as a whole will not exist in a few years at this rate. I’m not trying to spread panic, I genuinely feel this way unless some other site comes along or staff gets their heads out of their assess

So poll (which ironically don’t work in the desktop editor although it’d be literally so easy to implement)

How do you feel about the removal of the legacy post editor?

I hate the change, long live post types and gifsets

I’m happy, I hate post types and gifsets

My account is new so I never had the legacy post editor

I only post on mobile so it doesn’t affect me

I did not know this was happening

I have no strong feelings one way or the other

Voting ended onJun 17, 2023

[apostaterevolutionary]

Ngl I actually don’t hate tumblr bringing back the sidebar? We used to have a sidebar and I’ve missed it since the day it left. I do think it could be implemented better and tweaked to be less distracting (menus collapsed by default, no sticky so it doesn’t scroll with you and stays at the top like it used to, and could put it back on the right where it used to be so it’s less twitter-y) but… as much as I’m usually the first to complain about layout changes, tbh I like more about this one than I dislike just because holy shit did I ever miss the sidebar

[apostaterevolutionary]

Tbh anyone who’s surprised tumblr is rolling out a bad feature no one wants must be new here lmao. Just cause they hit on a few good ones in a row (blaze, crabs, checkmarks) doesn’t mean staff got any less incompetent than they always have been. Anyone remember the chat feature being rolled out as a weird virus? That replies were here, then removed for several years, then re-instated? Fan mail being accessible for a long time after technically being removed? Post+ still exists? This isn’t new. It’s been like this since 2013 and there may be new owners now, but that doesn’t mean staff has changed

Best thing you can do is ignore it, turn it off, and never ever use it to help them arrive at the decision that a resource-heavy feature no one uses isn’t worth keeping around sooner rather than later

[apostaterevolutionary]

Just so everyone knows, I will not be using tumblr’s voluntary flagging for “nipple adjacent” content (not that there’s much here anyway) because the last time they offered a setting like that and people used it in good faith, it resulted in a good portion of the website getting their entire blogs flagged and massive amounts of content being made either unsearchable or entirely unviewable. Maybe they mean better this time, but I will not trust until there’s an explicit and direct statement otherwise

I will, however, continue using “nsft” as my tag for anyone who wants to blacklist it, as well as the rest of my typical warning tags

I will not be changing my mind on this so don’t ask, just unfollow if that’s not acceptable to you. I’m not risking losing over 10 years of this blog because I tried to use a feature of this site in good faith

[apostaterevolutionary]

tumblr live is one of those changes that isn't actually as bad as other tumblr users are making it out to be in my opinion. but then again, I'm sitting here staring at jellyfish on the aquarium of the pacific's livestream

That’s comforting at least lmao. Like tbh I’m really not a video person, especially on mobile, I don’t use tiktok and I usually end up saving videos on here to watch later cause I can’t be arsed to spend 12 seconds watching it right now skskdks. If I watch a video, it’s almost always on my computer cause phone screen small. So could be personal preference there

I think for me the thing that makes me hesitant about it is a) demoting the search button (at least on ios it seems) cause I use the search multiple times a day, I really want that to be easily accessible, and b) the idea of something I won’t use taking up dash space. If I could turn it off permanently or it was moved elsewhere (maybe with the ‘for you’ section I also never use but is out of the way enough to not bother me) so neither of those happen, I’d feel better

(I’ve also seen some privacy concerns but idk enough about that to have an opinion)

Basically I don’t mind if features I don’t like exist, I just get mad when they interfere with the features I do use and make my experience less pleasant. But I guess we’ll see as who knows when it’ll roll out globally and what it’ll look like then