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Wow, there’s nothing in my queue for the first time in months 😗

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My queue is about to be empty in about 4 days 😧

#but I have a bunch of posts sitting in my drafts that I’ll probably love to the queue soooooi #I just noticed right when I was about to shuffle the queue #guess I might start reblogging immediately like a normal tumblrina #never mind the schedule post function still exists 😈#the never ending queue #state of the blog #txt

you? reblogging a post from six days ago?? how's your queue looking rn? 👀

Oh, that’s probably because I reshuffled my queue a couple days ago, so some posts from the last week do pop out. Once unshuffled posts start coming out of the queue, I just shuffle the next round.

My queue is, as usual, pretty bloated, but for the past month-ish it’s been sitting at around 500 posts give or take (it helps to post at every hour of the day). HOWEVER, I do have over 500 posts and counting in my drafts, which I’ll probably clear out (somewhat, a lot of the posts there are fics or long meta posts) when I get thru the mountain of shit I have to do + normal executive dysfunction in the next 2-3 weeks.

#the never ending queue #<<huh haven’t used that tag in a while #state of the blog #but even then I might start loading my schedule with exercise exercise and more exercise #I need to whip myself back into shape and that will take lots of time #I don’t *have* to spend that much time in the gym but I like to and I have crazy fitness goals (at least relative to where I am now) so that #just means that you have to be willing to spend lots of time training — just like building any other skill #you know when you’re like on some kind of fitness app and it asks you ‘what are your goals?’ yeah I pick everything. thus…#oh and the rest of the time will be filled with taking time for recovery (I.e sleeping at a reasonable hour) and meal prep (I.e. not blowing #my entire paycheque on outside food and actually eating 3 square meals a day #and I’ll finally have enough mental space to start writing and maybe doing art (but to be realistic I might not draw anything until next #year)#so the queue system will stay in place for the forseeable future #I will not be at the club this summer #uchiha-gaeshi overshares #asks #answered asks #lluu50 #txt

heyy i saw your so many queued posts and was wondering can you explain it please? or maybe do you have posts that kinda explaining that? i'm kinda new here on tumblr and I already searched it on google still I'm confused. thanks in advance btw!

Tumblr's Queue

I think there might be a post somewhere on this site explaining the queue, but I haven't been able to locate it yet.

Basically, the "queue" is where your scheduled posts go. How do you schedule a post? When you're about to post or reblog, to the right of the "Post" button you'll see a dropdown menu. Once you click on the dropdown icon, you will see options for adding the post to the queue, scheduling the post for a specific time and date, saving the post in your drafts, etc.

Both scheduled posts and queued posts end up in your blog's "queue" (and keep in mind that if you have multiple blogs, each blog has its own queue, drafts etc.), but queued post are posted automatically based on your queue settings (which I will get to soon). Scheduled posts are posted at the time you specified (e.g. 30 July 2026 at 17:00).

Beware though, because if you're anything like me, you'll start putting *all* your posts into the queue until one day you realize that you can no longer queue a post or schedule it to be posted at a certain time, but you can post/reblog it as usual. Why? It's most likely because you have exceeded 1 000 posts in the queue, and apparently that's too much for Tumblr.

Where to find the queue (On Desktop)

From the dashboard landing page, click on the "Account" option on the left hand sidebar.

From there, click on the blog of your choice (some people might have more, some people might have just one blog).

You will see the "Queue" option on the right-hand sidebar (again, make sure that this is for the right blog. Don't make the mistake of putting your horny posting on your sfw blog. I learned this...... from a friend.)

And now, you can view all of your queued/scheduled posts here. From the top of the page (highlighted in red below), you can control when and how often the queue publishes posts (for queued posts only, scheduled posts are published on a specific date). You can also shuffle queued posts (randomizes the order posts appear), or pause your queue.

Within the queue, you can manually change the order of queue postings by 1) sending posts to the top of the queue by clicking the upward arrow icon (circled in red)

2) or by clicking and holding the four dots icon (idk what to call it) and dragging the post to the position you want it to be in. On mobile, there is a similar process for sending posts to the top of the queue, and changing the order of posts is a bit easier since there is another icon that moves the post up/down one step.

One note of caution: if you don't have infinite scroll toggled on (this controls how posts are displayed both on your dashboard and in your drafts/queue), you can only move posts to the top of the specific page you are on. If you want post #326 to become post #1, you must turn on infinite scroll to do so. This applies both for mobile and desktop.

When to use the queue

The thing with Tumblr is that there aren't really any rules with how you manage your blog. Whether you have a tag for every post, or whether you post/reblog 100 times a day or just once a month, or whether to have one blog where you just dump everything or 50 blogs for every fleeting hyperfixation, it's all up to you. When it comes to using the queue, from what I've seen, some users have it on when they're stepping away from the site for a bit just to have something on their blog. This can be as frequently as 40 times a day, or as infrequently as once a day. Many people, even if they don't use the queue as much, do schedule posts for certain days. For example, if I see fanart for Izuna's birthday (which is 10 February btw) in like August, I can schedule that post for 10 February 05:00 in my timezone (or if most of your mutuals are in Europe, CET I guess). On mobile at least, the limit is 31 December 2038.

I started using the queue after seeing a Tumblr post somewhere (I can't locate it because I was on lurker mode at the time) that said that you should use it to not "overwhelm people's dashboards." Now, I've figured out that if you spend a lot of time on here, it's either overwhelming people's dashboards or overwhelming your own damn queue (and drafts when the queue is too pussy to take a mere 1 000 posts). Do what feels right for you and your overly sensitive queue and draft space (this is me dissing Tumblr as a site, not the users), and that might change over time as you get a feel for this site and maybe some of the norms in the spaces you find yourself in. And maybe you find different things work for different blogs. Some poeple have general stuff posted frequently on one blog (usually the "main" or "personal" blog), while they have a few posts scattered here and there for like their art blog.

I hope this post has helped you (and anyone else scratching their head at this) better understand how the queue works. If you have more specific questions, feel free to ask, and I'll try my best to answer :)

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Queue will be rotating at double the current rate (from 10 posts every 24 hours to 20 posts every 24 hours) so that I can get some posts out before I shuffle the queue.

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posting tumblr memes to the discord like theyre completely normal and not at all unhinged with the specific purpose of tormenting the only person who isnt on tumblr

#the only other person on the hellsite tumblr dot com acting like theyre totally normal too #the reaction to ‘you wouldnt taffy a cow’ was particularly good #the never ending queue

its very interesting when you read a fic and can almost immediately tell what country the writer is from. any comment giving an actual length of time to a "long drive" and i know if you live in a densely populated area or not, or if youve gone on any roadtrips before.

#this is not a criticism i find it really interesting actually #the never ending queue