joining in on the appreciation! genuinely thank you so so much for continuing to make such awesome themes. cannot express how much interloper is like exactly the vibe and layout i've been looking for since i started over on tumblr a couple years back, and i am still so so grateful that you decided to turn heartworm into a full theme. only reason i haven't finished customizing it is because i realized i do not have enough images for it yet whoops. gotta make the right gifs or draw something
genuinely will never be able to understand how people don't want to make their space uniquely their own and have fun customizing it. i remember the days when practically everyone had a theme, and i could never have enough blogs for all the cool themes i wanted to use. i learned html from editing character pages, and i wouldn't be making toyhouse codes for my characters now if it weren't for the theme community here. really want to try my hand at theme making someday, too.
really hope that more people start enjoying blog themes again. i feel like most people don't even know that's an option now and it sucks.
thank you for the love and for using Interloper! 🥹 I didn't plan for it to have as many features as it currently has so I'm pleasantly surprised with the reception 😭❤️
I think web/blog design appreciation has just gone down as a whole in the past few years, especially with tumblr prioritizing mobile blogging (I have a whole rant about it here, under "tumblr changes / mobile & NPF era"). and since most users are on mobile, unless you're 1. not logged in, 2. on a browser (i.e. not the tumblr mobile app), 3. using a theme that supports portrait mode, using & viewing a custom theme can be a hurdle 😔
as someone who also learned coding from the docs and tutorials from the community here, it saddens me that most of us have retired, and there've been very few new theme makers. of course, with how things have been, we're all busy and tired (and pushing 30) so working with all the tumblr changes is often too exhausting.
unfortunately for those who think that custom themes are pointless, I'll still be around, so there's that 👍