#searching blogs

[kensatou]

acting strange on tumblr.com with the mutuals <3 | SEARCHING (2018)

[goatsandgangsters]

how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)

there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~

I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first 

url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order

url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes 

url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if you’re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc

url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly 

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant) 

the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog! 

caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks. 

if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else

if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims) 

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

I know for a fact that I reblogged a post about the Ultimate Grilled Cheese a few weeks back, and I'm 99.9% sure I tagged it 'food' and yet now I fancy trying it out can I find that post? Can I find that damned post. Tumblr search function strikes again

[strange-aeons]

Hiya, Strange! I've gone down the rabbit hole of personal fandom research and I was wondering if you could explain how you find really really old posts on tumblr for your videos (especially since the search function on tumblr is kinda sucky).

Tumblr’s shit garbage search function CAN be defeated and I will tell you how.

You only need 1 post from a non-deleted blog to get started. Go to that blog’s archive and navigate to when the post was made — if we’re talking about a big event like dashcon or the exposing of HIVliving, now you’ve likely found a series of posts that person reblogged during the event (because that’s how tumblr users tend to respond and circulate information about a thing). Now make note of the blogs those posts were reblogged from or go through the notes and find the blogs that reblogged them after. Even better if the OPs aren’t deactivated. Now go through those archives. You very quickly start building a network of people who were involved or invested in a thing and uncovering unknown posts about the matter that never would been found otherwise.

Some of the users you come across might even still be active and you can ask them about it!!!

I was honestly shocked how easy (though time consuming) it was to collect information about what happened at dashcon this way. I found easily over 100 confirmed attendees and ended up being able to talk to 50-ish.

TLDR: search function bad archive function VERY VERY GOOD.

[the-real-google]

The great thing about not being as popular as @totally-bing is that I can post without ever having to worry about the popular gimmick blogs finding me

[bunjywunjy]

What’s your favorite cursed chipmunk fact?

chipmunks looooove to eat baby mice. if they find a nest they'll just horf the little guys down like popcorn.

like this but way worse!

they'll eat adult mice too, if they can catch them!

it is simply not safe to be a smaller rodent anywhere in the vicinity of a chipmunk.

[aglionbyacademia]

people of Pinterest do not appreciate Adam’s creepiness enough. He’s not just some sweet soft boy. He’s canonically creepy and unhinged

[orbch]

I'm obsessed with your artstyle, I love your sander sides content. can you draw your fav shipps or duos?

firstly, thank you so much!!! secondly.. my favorite sasi ships?? mine? my faves??? well shit okay… cant deny that request,

prinxiety, moceit, and logince for the soul. also ive been wanting to draw the sides in different outfits lately just for fun and this was like. perfect..

[kyuriekiri]

hear me out.. Romeo in centurion puppet's outfit

I meant this guy, the first one you meet near Grand Exhibition

[copperbadge]

I've started to build a bookmark file of jobsearch sites to check regularly, and part of that is looking around at employers local to Chicago. On a whim I went to the careers site of one of the larger corporations headquartered here, and while I was poking around to see what kind of requirements they have for what kind of jobs, I came across the worst tabletop campaign ever:

We’re looking for a data product expert who’s also the ultimate puzzle/dungeon master. Your quest: work with a group of diverse stakeholders to discover key problems to solve and drive consensus, adoption of data standards. The treasure? A faster, more resilient and reliable data system...

That's terrible and funny all on its own, but it gets even better when you know what Large Evil Chicago Corporation I was looking at:

McDonald's.

[luxites]

a divine performance

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one thing I love about Sukuna fights is that you will always be in for a show

[doeeyeseddie]

ryan for daman magazine

[c-rowlesdraws]

You're a well known mass effect gal, but have you ever messed with dragon age?

oh, dragon age? Yeah I've heard of it! Seems like some fun games!

[wispurring-moss]

sometimes i feel like i'm really exaggerating their height difference when i draw them but then i have to remind myself that, no, they basically Are just Like ThatTM actually and it guts me every single time............. x'3c

[nyancrimew]

thoughts on jstor? as a hacktivist I feel like you might have some

i got harassed for days the last time i criticized jstor on here lol. rest in peace aaron swartz

[crrows]

A velveteen OP from Cornet