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Horsie

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Remaining time: 17044 days 16 hours

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It's horsie's birthday! 🎂🎁

I'd like to share The Horsies Upstairs by Le Guin to celebrate.

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It's horsie's birthday! 🎂🎁

I'd like to share How to Draw a Horse by Emma Hunsinger to celebrate.

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It's horsie's birthday! 🎂🎁

I'd like to share an.horse and endless.horse to celebrate.

#polls #horsie #horsie's birthday

There are polls on tumblr dot com

Just a small update on the blog, the polls, and all that.

A few people have been asking me how I made all the glitchy polls on my blog. Unfortunately, the old magic of glitched polls is a mostly lost art.

Tumblr, when polls were introduced, only checked polls client-side—this meant they would only check that a poll that someone was writing was OK with the Tumblr code that runs in the browser, and when the browser sent the poll to the Tumblr servers, they didn't do any additional checking. For most people who were using the browser to post polls, this meant they had to write polls that all had unique options, had a time limit of either one or seven days, had to have a title, etc. However, it is possible to send messages to the Tumblr servers without using a browser—namely, you can use Tumblr's API. This meant you could create polls that weren't checked by any browser by sending them directly to the Tumblr servers.

This allowed for such hits as the 50-year horsie poll, Polls that closed as soon as they were posted, whatever this is, poll blasts, multiple polls in one post, and quantum tunnelling between polls.

Sadly for all of us, Tumblr now checks polls on their servers before they let you post them. This means the glitchy polls are, mostly, no more.

I previously posted about a Python library, tumblrdotcom, I wrote that handles making API requests to Tumblr. This is the library I used to make all the glitchy polls on this blog. While this library can no longer be used to create the weird and wacky polls that were possible in the early days of polls on Tumblr, the library is still functional if you ever want to programmatically interact with Tumblr via its API. The repository for the tumblrdotcom library used to be on GitHub, but I have since moved over to Codeberg, and you can find the repository there: jamesansley/tumblrdotcom. The library is open source, so feel free to go wild with it. I'm currently working on a fun little project with it, but don't have much time, so progress is slow.

Fun fact! Polls on Tumblr have an unused "multiple_choice" setting. By default, it's always set to false, and it doesn't seem like it can be changed, even when using the API. This setting has been there since polls were introduced—perhaps the Tumblr developers were intending for polls to be able to allow multiple answers from voters, but maybe this feature was dropped, or maybe it's a feature that is still in the works. Who knows.

Anyway, I'll still be hanging around on this blog, maybe posting the occasional birthday wishes to horsie, but beyond that, I guess I'll sit tight and wait for the next fun and new feature Tumblr cooks up.

#polls

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Who would win?

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Voting ended onFeb 5, 2023

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voter fraud, GO!

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Remaining time: 17045 days 15 hours

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Notes:

Second poll will remain open until 50 years from publishing

Bot options share a UUID, making a vote for either count for both

Previously, a vote in the first poll counted for both options in the second

A vote for the second poll increases the vote count for both polls, despite the first ostensibly being closed

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I think if you look closely at the results you will actually find that the horsie is simply just more popular than the crab. Nothing more to it

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Horsie

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Remaining time: 17044 days 16 hours

zazzedcoffee

It's horsie's birthday! 🎂🎁

I'd like to share The Horsies Upstairs by Le Guin to celebrate.

zazzedcoffee

It's horsie's birthday! 🎂🎁

I'd like to share How to Draw a Horse by Emma Hunsinger to celebrate.

#polls #horsie #horsie's birthday

zazzedcoffee

Whoopsie doopsie! The poll broke :(

( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡° )?

Voting ended onFeb 11, 2023

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@staff, when I created this poll, it didn't have a title. Why does it now have a title and why is it that?

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( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡° )?

After extensive research

I have determined

Tumblr

generates that whimsical title

if you do not give the poll a title

thank you everyone for your support during this difficult time

Voting ended onMar 29, 2024

#only on tumblr #polls

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Whoopsie doopsie! The poll broke :(

( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡° )?

Voting ended onFeb 11, 2023

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@staff, when I created this poll, it didn't have a title. Why does it now have a title and why is it that?

#tumblr really is PVP mode enabled #only on tumbler #polls

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Horsie

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Remaining time: 17044 days 16 hours

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It's horsie's birthday! 🎂🎁

I'd like to share The Horsies Upstairs by Le Guin to celebrate.

#polls #horsie #horsie's birthday

Making Posts on Tumblr

It's something to do.

What do you think?

I agree with this

I do NOT agree with this

My thoughts on this are complex

Voting ended onSep 3, 2023

#polls #thoughts #tumbler

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Voting ended onSep 3, 2023

#polls #only on tumbler

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Ok folks. Everybody stay calm. It’s happening. Polls are here.

Do you love polls?

yes

of course

naturally

i want some toast

puss in boots: the last wish really got to me and i'm feeling a lot of feelings

Voting ended onJan 25, 2023

We’re starting to roll out a polls feature for the post editor across all platforms. Yes, that’s all platforms. That’s iOS, Android, and web. You should all have access to this in the next few days. And what’s more, it’s super easy to use.

Simply select the newly added orange poll icon (on web, it appears when you start a new content block in the post editor, on mobile it’s in your toolbar).

Write your question.

Add at least 2, at most 10 response options for people to choose from. There's a character limit on these, it's about as long as the Puss in Boots option offered above.

Set the poll duration to one day or one week.

You can add some commentary to your poll or let it speak for itself.

And, just as with any post, you can toggle who sees the poll by using your community labels. Or you can go wild and blaze it if it meets the content guidelines for blazing.

Come across a poll in the wild? Have your say! Click on your chosen response. Congratulations, you’ve just voiced an opinion.

And that’s all there is to it. Have fun out there.

zazzedcoffee

Should Staff put janky polls back?

Yes

No

Another secret third thing

Voting ended onMar 7, 2023

Polls Are Under A Fucking Tack!!

In a recent post I described how I had been making polls (like the 50 year horsie poll). Unfortunately, Tumblr has patched much of the wacky poll behaviour. Those zany polls that double count votes or last 50 years have sadly been zapped. Blasted from existence. Now, not to equate this with the burning of Library of Alexandria or anything but it definitely evokes some strong emotions. You can't even have more than one poll per post anymore. I have updated my tumblr API client python package to adjust to these changes. And remember, even if you're dusted, you may be gone. But out here in the desert your shadow lives on without you.

#polls

i'm dumb

it's ok

#nuh uh #bicth

There are polls on 𝐭𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐫 dot com

Quite a few people have been asking how I have been making these polls. To make them I have been using the Tumblr API. While it is currently undocumented – there is a polls API route that allows you to post and get poll data. While the Tumblr UI puts quite a few restrictions on how many polls can be in a single post and when polls finish, the API currently has no restrictions on this*.

Poll Behaviour

Each poll and poll answer has a uuid tag (a "client_id") that should, ideally, uniquely identify each poll and poll answer. Silly things start to happen when you make a post with two polls with the same client_id, or one poll with several answers with the same client_id. This is how I made this monstrosity.

Polls also have an "expire_after" tag that allows you to set the deadline for the poll. While the UI restricts this to one day or one week, you can put in any time you like for this. This is how I made the 50-year horsie poll and whatever this is.

There are other fun things like being able to put newlines in polls which only display on mobile for some reason.

Can you make polls like this too?

Yes. In fact, from the beginning, I have had a python package that handles posting polls in a public GitHub repository. All you would need to do is register an app on the Tumblr API to get the various necessary authentication tokens and go ham**. Just be warned, I don't intend for this to be a fully-fledged implementation of the Tumblr API, but it gets the job done and will be useful for a few other projects I'm working on. I don't know when they are planning on adding polls to the API docs, or the official Tumblr clients – but I presume that by the time they do, these zany polls will sadly be no more. It seems like the polls API is still being worked on and I can imagine a lot of these issues (I call them features) being fixed. So let's have fun with it while it lasts.

Making your own fun poll

Let's try to recreate this post using my tumblr-dot-com package. Following the example on the readme to set up a tumblr object for your blog with the necessary auth tokens, the post can be constructed as:

# ... snip content = ( Content() .poll( "Wie cool ist das bitte?", [ "Jetzt zocke ich Fortnite", "und trinke Cola", "YIPPEE!" ], option_uuids=[uuid4()] * 3 ) )

res = tumblr.post( content=content, tags=["Yippee!!", "polls"], )

# ... snip

Here, the post content is being constructed with a single poll block – the option_uuids is an optional list parameter that allows you to pass custom uuids for the poll options. Here, the option_uuids is being set to the same uuid repeated three times – which causes votes to be counted for all three options at once.

I hope you enjoy this fun little tumblr client – again, it doesn't implement everything from the tumblr API but should be good enough a least to have a play around. Just a final note – since the polls API is not yet final, I am expecting some of the poll-specific behaviour of this client to break at some point – so be warned.

Notes:

* Beyond the other API post restrictions. And, this is probably going to be patched (see this comment).

** This may make your Tumblr account look suspiciously like one of the pretty lady spam bot accounts causing your account to get blasted like mine did.