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Pls staff i'm begging you to give us the ability to centre text 😭😭

Tumblr Hack Week, January 2024 Edition

Once again it was Hack Week (more than just a day!) at Tumblr! This is getting repetitive in the best way. A couple of times per year we slow down our normal work and spend a week working on scratching a personal itch or features we want as user and see how far we can get with our hacks. One thing from the last Hack Week in September made it all the way to a new experiment out to some testers: Tumblr Patio!

Here are some of the projects that got built for our most recent Hack Week in January. Some of these things you may also end up seeing on the site…

Spoiler text, spoiler blocks, and centered text!

This one is so obvious and amazing, it’s wild we don’t already have it. For Hack Week, Katie added the ability to select text in a paragraph to be hidden behind a wall of black that can be revealed with a tap. This can be super useful to hide spoilers. And even better: whole spoiler blocks. And while we’re here, the ability to center text!

A plethora of new default blog avatars

We haven’t updated our default avatars in several years. (Some of you may remember this one from 10+ years ago.) They’re feeling a bit stale to us, so why not update them? And while we’re at it… make a ton more variations! Paul from the Tumblr Design team came up with a suite of new default avatars, using our latest Tumblr color palette. Here’s a look at some of them, but there are actually many dozens more using different colors:

Notifications and emails about engagement on your posts

This one is for the folks on Tumblr who love numbers and their Activity page. Daniel, @jesseatblr​, and the Feeds & Machine Learning team worked on some new notifications and emails we could send out to people about how their posts have been doing lately on the platform, such as how many views they’ve gotten, and by how many people. We already have this available (and more) when you Blaze a post, but why not open it up to more people? It’s really useful to the folks who use Tumblr to help build an audience for their work!

A new way of navigating the web: the Command Palette

Some apps we use a lot have a “command palette” accessible via a keyboard shortcut for quick keyboard-driven access to different parts of the platform. For example, Slack and Discord have Command + K to access their quick switchers to hop around conversations. What if Tumblr had one? Kelly and Paul built one! Press Command/Control + K on Tumblr and you can use your keyboard to jump to your blog, Activity, your recent conversations, search, dozens of places!

As always, stay tuned to the @changes​ blog to see if any of these hacks make it on Tumblr for real!

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Goobers?

Goobers 🙂↕🙂↕ It's always me coming across a post of Cin goofing around that somehow spirals into a mini-series sksksksks . . . Aaannnnyways I spent way longer on these than I ought to, but it was alot of fun so i'm sure that the opportunity cost cancels itself out haha. P.S: If you end up liking these designs, please do check out the original creators listed below!!

Apprentice Liam belongs to @soullessseraphim Apprentice Cin belongs to @cinsilly Apprentice Danny belongs to @snobgoblin Apprentice Izzy belongs to @izzy-witzy-ex3 -> ⁽ᴵ ᵈᵒⁿ'ᵗ ᵗʰⁱⁿᵏ ʸᵒᵘ'ᵛᵉ ᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵐᵉⁿᵗⁱᵒⁿᵉᵈ ʰᵉʳ ⁿᵃᵐᵉ ˢᵒ ⁱ'ᵐ ᵃˢˢᵘᵐⁱⁿᵍ ⁱᵗˢ ᴵᶻᶻʸ⁾ Apprentice Rem belongs to @aceofcvps Apprentice Seren belons to @klamv-art

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I have a handful of posts by Cin and Snob goblin saved in my drafts cause they somehow always get my brain ticking with inspo haha

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Does anyone have an arcana mc that they ship with Count Looseri- I MEAN Lucio? I have a meme to redraw . . . Pls deposit them in my askbox or dms if you're interested🙇🏻‍♀️

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𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓!!

Heyoo everyone! I've decided that i'll be postponing all my pending projects (fics + art stuff) to Jan of next year cause ya girlie really really wants an A in her upcoming exams!! 🧏🏻‍♀️

This doesn't mean i'm totally disappearing off the face of the earth though. Just that the blog will be inactive until exams are done and over with (you will probably see me occasionally floating around in dms and likes) I will admit this is half me wanting to just fully focus on my exams and half me wanting to also improve my craft on the side. So, when I come back, I hope I can see not only an improvement in my writing skills but my art too!

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@danashehab has been fundraising since may and is just over €15,000 away from their goal l. as stated in the screenshot people are starting to believe the rafah crossing will open so it’s important to make sure everyone has the funds in case they are allowed to evacuate.

thee shehab family consists of dana (13), sahar (14), mona (9), malak (5), yehya (1.5), fahed, (38), reem (32), and grandmother mona (60). they have been shadowbanned and deleted a few times. you can also find this family at @monashehab

EDIT AUG 24:

The family has had to raise their goal to cover their extended family’s evacuation fees since they are unable to make a new GFM.

The new goal is €85,000.

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The boop-o-meter reminds me of tomodachi toys for some reasons

The fruits of my labour <3

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The fruits of my labour <3

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baps everyone with my spooky cat paw

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Good luck with your exams girlie! You can do it! Asra will smooch you when you get that A+ —um, I mean, who said that??

But why can't mister magician man kiss me till i'm breathless BEFORE the exam? He's so cruel depriving me like that /joke 😔😔

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𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓!!

Heyoo everyone! I've decided that i'll be postponing all my pending projects (fics + art stuff) to Jan of next year cause ya girlie really really wants an A in her upcoming exams!! 🧏🏻‍♀️

This doesn't mean i'm totally disappearing off the face of the earth though. Just that the blog will be mostly inactive until exams are done and over with (you will probably see me occasionally floating around in dms and likes) I will admit this is half me wanting to just fully focus on my exams and half me wanting to also improve my craft on the side. So, when I come back, I hope I can see not only an improvement in my writing skills but my art too!

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My mother would not let Asra last even a day in my house . . . She wants everything prim and proper I fear 🥲

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Not so local plague doctor experiences affection and gets addicted-

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❝ Ella . . . You stole my heart but left nothing of yourself for me to cling to. Must you really be so cruel? ❞

Before the plague outburst, Estrella used to, not only make a billion portraits of Asra (without him knowing), but also beg him to make tiny statues of him and Faust. He didn't really understand her true reasoning until she died, and he didn't have anything to remember her by . . . As the days began to pass by, he began to forget what she even used to look like 💔💔

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❝ Eh? Mc why are you holding a frying pan? Don't tell me some scoundrel has been harassing you lately . . . I could deal with them for you y'know ❞ insert his signature devious smirk here Julian could be using his hooligan talents of breaking and entering to commit crimes but instead he just uses it to break into your shop and give you flowers 🧍‍♀️

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HE'S SO SOFT HERE I-

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