#this new tumblr desktop sucks so bad

[aprito]

sakura with The female authority figures in her life...the world is healing

i had to immortalize this post of course

[kuiinncedes]

:P

[coochiekrab]

considering you a proud veteran of both platforms, how do twitter and tumblr compare?

Oh gaursh…as far as user experience honestly i think both are the same. I’m currently struggling to find a replacement for curious cat so i think tumblr wins purely for having a built in anonymous submissions feature. The only thing i don’t like about tumblr is its non functional tagging system, prude laws and its refusal to stack notifications by like/reblog like twitter does. Im also permanently ip banned from making new accounts on twitter because i threatened a pedophile #no free speech

As far as Comic / work reach, i like both websites equally but they don’t necessarily stack up symmetrically. I get the same amount of work on twitter and tumblr but twitter doesn’t limit what kind of comics i can make. I tend to browse more on twitter than i do tumblr. Tumblr has a more insulated community so there’s a very low chance for someone to horribly misinterpret my work and slam dunk me with a crazy bad faith take. Tumblrs tags also encourages people to leave nicer comments in a less direct way that i really enjoy sifting through, i think twitter replies make people kinda shy. Twitter is nicer to my image quality and a lot of people on tumblr say my comics are hard to read both on desktop and mobile for.. whatever reason. Twitters image crop is kinda lame though. Ive been on tumblr for over 10 years and still have ~7k followers, while my twitter has only been active for like 2-3 years and i already hit 10k last month

Instagram sucks dirt

[what-even-is-thiss]

I like to at least glance at all of my notes on tumblr but it’s getting harder and harder to do that because for some reason staff decided to make it so that the notes page on the app refreshes every time you go back to it so I can’t tap on a long reply to look at it without having to scroll all the way back down again it sucks majorly and even though I like posting on desktop the app has always been better for checking notes and comments in general so idk what I’m supposed to do here. My blog is of a size that I get too many notes to continuously scroll back down to where I was last looking. I can’t take a day or two off tumblr or even god forbid like three hours off tumblr and also check all the comments I got while I was gone. The new auto-refresh thing on the app is bad. It’s bad.

[carriesthewind]

Bye, I guess

Hi folks: I’ve enjoyed my time on tumblr while it lasted. Unfortunately, the new dashboard makes the site so unpleasant to use that I’m afraid that enjoyment (and thus my use of the site) has come to an end. I still have some reblogs queued up, and I may pop in now and then, but don’t expect me to be around much anymore.

For the record, here is the support request I put in yesterday:

Why is my dashboard now twitter. This format sucks. It's always sucked. It feels absolutely horrible to use on desktop (which I do exclusively and that will not change). This horrible ui is a big part of why didn't really use twitter (it sucked then to).

Here is tumblr’s answer:

Hello,  Thanks for reaching out to Tumblr Community Support and sharing your thoughts on the new dashboard layout. We often test new ways to make Tumblr better. It sounds like your account may have been selected to experience a test of one of these improvements. Thanks for your patience while we work on this! You may see your Tumblr experience return to normal as we continue testing.  Kind regards,  Chris

(Please note, this appears to be a copy-paste form response. You can see another example of it here.)

Here was my response:

Hi Chris! I "may" not see my Tumblr user return to normal, because I'm not returning to Tumblr until it is reasonably usable again for me. This "experiment" is effectively an update that has made the site so unpleasant for me to use that I will not be doing so. What will tumblr being doing to allow me to use the site? I do not appreciate being told that my support ticket is "sharing [my] thoughts on the new dashboard layout." I neither asked or appreciate being selected taking part, without my knowledge or consent, in an experiment to allow a company to do product development. My ticket is not my "thoughts on the new dashboard layout." It is my report that the site is effectively not usuable. Furthermore, while not illegal, human experimentation is generally considered unethical without proper consent and review process. If my dash returns to a status that I can use: 1) What guarantees do I have that tumblr will not experiment on me again?  2) What other experiments does tumblr think it is ethical to do on me without proper consent? Kind regards to Chris, and explicitly not to your employer.

24 hours later, I have not received a follow up response.

I was originally going to write a lot more about why I think this is such an atrocious set of moves and responses by tumblr, but I realized that being on the site long enough to format and post it (I’m doing this writing on my desktop) would be too unpleasant to make it worthwhile.

Instead, I want to make two quick notes about traps I see people falling in to:

1) Tumblr is not your friend. It is a company that wants to use you to extrude profit. This hold true regardless of whether it is shaped like a shareholder’s report, a formal staff post, or a blog that looks just like a user like you. Regardless of its form, it is no more your friend than the “intern” who runs a corporate brand account.

2) It is fine to pay money for a product you enjoy. This product might be a digital sticker or a minigame on a website, or some form of subscription to the site itself. However, if you are not enjoying a product, or if you feel that the product is bad or exploitative, you have no obligation to invest in it. And you should be particularly wary when a for-profit business is attempting to make you, as a customer, feel emotionally and personally invested in supporting that business (whether that be in terms of time, energy, or money).

Anyway, I’m still hoping that I will be able to unpin this post at some point, but for the foreseeable future: bye!

[wip]

Hello there.

I have noticed in the last couple weeks that tumblr now has ads that auto play sound (at least on the ios app. I don’t have a working desktop at the moment so I’m not sure if they are on the website as well). There doesn’t seem to be a way to mute the ads without completely turning off my volume, which sucks because i usually have music playing while i scroll. They also will play over the audio of video posts when i try to watch a video someone posted and most of the time when i can hear an ad, there isn’t an ad anywhere on my screen or the ad hasn’t fully loaded so i can’t tell what ads are making sounds. Is there anything you guys can do to keep ads from auto playing sound?? I know your answer is probably going to be “just pay for no ads” but i can’t afford to do that. I have been on tumblr for over ten years and have never had to experience what is in my opinion the worst kinds of ads on the internet through tumblr, but it seems like something you guys are letting slip through now. It is really putting a huge damper on my experience on your app and i hope you will reconsider allowing advertisers to have audio. Ads with autoplaying sound have caused both me and a few of my friends to completely stop using certain websites in the past and i really don’t want tumblr to turn into one of those.

Answer: Hello, @hellionil!

So, the good news is t here should be a way on the ad itself, or in the ad’s meatballs menu (the meatballs being the three little dots in the corner of a post, if it has one), to report the ad.

However, if there’s not, it is possible that you have indeed found a bug. And for this, you can always take a screen capture and send it to Support to report the bad ad. We will take it from there!

Thanks for your feedback, and have a lovely day.

Best,

—Carolina

[love-loliqua]

Hello dear. How are you? I hope you're doing okay. Been following you for a while, and I've seen you talk a bit about your job being stressful and then not eating because you didn't have money. I wish I could help you, but I don't have much money. I hope this kind message is enough to brighten your day. Please try to take care of yourself the best you can. ♥

Don't you love it when tumblr never notifies you of having new messages? (to be fair this is the first time I've been on tumblr on desktop instead of mobile in a LONG while) Thank you for the kind words. <3 Sorry for the late response! I want to say I'm doing fine, but that would be a lie. Everything still sucks, I wrote a note I'm unsure if I'll use, and I'm no longer on any medication except what I have stored up of my sleeping aid. If I didn't have my inheritance money I would have lost my house by now because I don't make enough in a month to cover my mortgage, let alone everything else. :) Plus I keep spending thousands of dollars on my cats at the vet - my very old (20+y) cat is probably going to pass away sooner than later, and that will be the fourth death I've experienced since January 2023. All in all, I'm existing, somehow, and I'm honestly not sure if I want to continue doing as such, but I've got cats to... well. I would say "take care of" but I'm barely managing to feed them because of how out of it I am, and I don't remember the last time I cleaned their litter. So. If I could actually trust anyone who lives near me to care for them properly, then that would be that. Alas, I am here, barely holding my sanity together with the thoughts of a cannibal-murderer-radio-demon and the questionable love my cats show me on a daily basis. Not the update you wanted; sorry. Please don't feel bad, and don't worry about money - keep yourself afloat, drink water, take your meds, eat a good meal and live a happy life, okay anon? I may hate myself, but I love and care for you and the others who have shown me kindness. You all deserve good things. Love and support, my dear friends.

[sablegear0]

Oh god what the fuck

New dash finally hit and wow that's... that's bad. Even XKit doesn't really fix the "we want so bad to be twitter" bar on the left. Which is surprisingly unintuitive. I considered using the Tampermonkey unfucker script but... no.

No, this is untenable.

So I ponder the validity of a piece of advice I saw in a recommended post to stop using desktop tumblr if you get the update - under the assumption staff are checking for traffic on the new layout to "prove" it's just as effective as the old one. Presumably extensions and custom scripts don't change the data they see on their end, and this post was encouraging people to crash their engagement numbers on the new dash layout tests by just using mobile tumblr instead. I can't say for sure how true this may be, it sounds plausible though.

But y'see the problem is that mobile sucks. I have to turn my volume all the way down to browse in piece bc the awful auto-play ads are

SO LOUD

it makes browsing a minefield.

Guess I just have to choose the lesser of two braindead evils, which might be mobile because at least it makes sense still.

[walkeddeath]

Do you still write your first muse?

Is there anything you would have changed when you started writing now that you have more experience?

How do you create an OC? What are your steps for developing an OC

What people make you happy when you see them on the dash?

What new addition would make your Tumblr experience so much better?

okay so technically gen isn't my first muse. i've been rping since way before tumblr, like i started on n.eopets and then went to forums dfjfs BUT, that's all a technicality. i'm considering gen my first muse that ever TRULY stuck around so like long answer no on technicality short answer yes.

i'm actually going to be so brave and say i wouldn't go back and change a thing writing wise. all the "cringe" writing i used to do when i first started led me to where i am with my writing now. all the Super Extra stuff in between also helped me develop my style. I found my first ever attempt at fanfic sometime last year and while it was "bad", it was still writing! it was still something i sat down and i did! experience can only be gained with time and through actually Doing The Thing imo.

honestly gen was never supposed to be what they are now, she started as an ask blog for a meta version of a real life actress on s.pn that appeared in like two or three scenes in ONE episode. the best advice i can give for OC creation is to just not limit yourself or think you have to have every little detail and every moment of their backstory figured out before writing them. let yourself do overhauls of their story if the current one doesn't feel right, be as fucking out there and extra as you really want. like, look at the canon characters in popular media, if they can be "op" or "super extra" so can your OC. I genuinely feel that's something that can hold a lot of people back when trying to make their own silly lil barbie and i'm tired of it! i am!

i'm not saying this as an easy way out of being specific but honestly all of my mutuals! i keep my dash very slow and very tight knit for a reason, all of y'all make me happy when you pop up on my dash.

at this point i just want to be able to search my likes again. i have almost 25k liked posts and going through them is soul sucking fdfsfdgf. rp wise? a better and more reliable notification system, the ability to send asks from side blogs, gif dashicons, and to bring back the ability to tag more than 5 people on desktop.

[ruemxu]

HI sorry to not ask a silly question via here but i coukdnt find a non business email so sorry!!!recently got back into the newsprints world after i reread it for ghe first time since 6th grade a few days ago(i am now a junior☹️ and decided to purchase headlines but noticed that the quality on all the pages except for the first and last one isnt the best;;which sucked while trying to see the little notes and text next to concept art,,was wondering if there was any other way to view headlines in better quality??ive tried exporting it to google drive and files to no avail im so sorry to bother😭 but if not totally ok i understand!! i get that 1:1 fan issue stuff shoildnt be discussed on your Tumblr Page so if i have to be redirected to someone else my dms r open!!if youre not comfortable with that i completely get it either way thank you for making one of the defining books of my preteen years!!!!!<33

Hi there! I'm glad you like the NewsPrints series enough to support the little indie artbook I self-published over half a decade ago! I super appreciate it!

I don't think it's a silly question! This is actually kind of a semi-interesting story in book production, if you're interested in the backstory...

HeadLines was originally a limited print run (only 100 were sold), so it was easier to see the notes and art as spreads in a book you could flip through. After they sold out, I was asked to release it in digital, so I did. It sounds like the font size relative to the images is annoying in digital, though, which is a fair critique!

Unfortunately, 2015-16!Ru decided to use That font in That font size because it Looked Nice in print. I didn't even considered digital at the point, so this book is kind of a time capsule of my aesthetic decisions at that point of my life, the good ones and bad ones. x'D

(That reminds me, I remember the physical edition was $30 and personally signed and sealed. I'd be curious to see if any popped up on ebay over the years.)

The digital version is at screen resolution rather than print resolution to prevent someone from printing bootleg copies at the same quality as the official physical book after buying the PDF for $9. The best view size is around 100% in any PDF viewer, ideally on tablet or desktop. You might still have to zoom in a little to read it, though.

Sorry, let's keep the blame on past!Ru. I'm a new person. :'DDD

(The reason that the covers look like they're 2x higher in resolution is that they're actually twice as wide as the interior pages. The covers are 2-page spreads, but I didn't split them like I did the interiors. When the PDF viewer shrinks them to half their size to fit the PDF viewer's format, it does make the resolution seem twice as high, if that makes sense.

I should have probably also halved them so they looked like the interior spreads. You live and learn!)

TLDR: Sorry. The text-image layouts of the book were intentional for print reading, but they require some zooming in and out in digital resolution, but not too much past 100%.

Thank you again for the words of encouragement! I'm glad that Blue's world stuck with you for so long! Looking back at this project does evoke some ~Feelings~ and memories of growing pains. Next time I make another proper artbook like HeadLines, I'll use bigger fonts and/or get someone else to help me do the layouts!

[lieutenant-columbro]

Currently boycotting Tumblr bc of the shit new desktop layout but I very much missed ur blog so I'm here on mobile

YESS i got the new desktop update too it sucks so bad 💔 i run this blog pretty much 100% on mobile tho so it's not too bad

thank u for sticking around fren :]

[pizzacatdelight]

Today I went on the desktop version of Tumblr to published a chapter of my webcomic (on a different account), when I saw the dreaded new layout home page that all the autistic people has been complaining about. And ew ew ew EWWWWWWWWW!!! It's that bad!

Like why!?! I have been here for almost two months and Tumblr decided they want to be like Twitter and Reddit now!! Like no, I fled those sites for various reason and now I'm reminded about my past. Like I have no where else to go in case Tumblr decided to go down as well.

I stop using Facebook after the 2016 Election, which mentally drained me and realized that our country is terrible! Despite that, I still have the account to keep contract with old family and friends (who aren't Trump supporters, that is).

I stop using Twitter last year, the moment I start hearing rumors from various users on the site that the Supreme Court was going to abolish Roe v. Wade (which sadly came true). Then when Elon Musk took over Twitter, a few months later, I just straight out deleted my account in protest (and I rarely use that account for other than following Let Players and gaming accounts)!

I have Instagram, but I rarely publish anything on my account and the only thing I do is like (and save on my phone) fanart of series that I love. Plus, I heard that the comment sections are evil and since I have anxiety, this is the reason why I don't publish anything there! Then for some reason, I decided to not go there anymore and I haven't been there since last month (and I think it did great for the mental health).

As for Reddit, I've been using the site since late 2016 and just like with Instagram, I rarely post or comment anything in fear of the hate comments. And that my anxiety make me doubt myself when I do publish them. Of course, we heard what the CEO did last month that cause me (and many others to flee).

I have Discord, but don't use it as much other than to see updates for the local communities that I followed on Reddit.

So at the end, Tumblr is the only social media site that I go on daily and it doesn't suck! But now, @staff decided they're going to do the thing like Twitter and Reddit did and are going to scare off people who been here since day 1 and autistic people who hate changes.

If that's going to be the case, then where I will go next since I'm basically going to become a nomad at this.

Like, I can't be doing this anymore. Just why....

[skelkankaos]

@distortionincarnate replied to your post “jesus okay desktop tumblr is like. really bad the...”:

Dude the new layout sucks so fucking bad

​it's like they saw everyone complaining about how much the app sucks and went "oh. we will make you crave the app."

[etoilesbienne]

desktop tumblr doesnt let me upload videos anymore their new upload system sucks. so bad. so i have to just send clips to my phone to post

[joekabox]

Wow, just got the new tumblr layout.

It's just like, completely broken on desktop, huh?

Like, nobody's icons are loading outside the first couple, and it feels laggy. This sucks so bad.

[jeida-chi]

Not an art post but I just opened the art account and it has the new layout and it looks so fucking bad jesus fucking christ. The visual clutter is so bad I legitmately don't even want to spend any time on this website. I opened my notifications (favourite part of opening the art account, I love seeing if people liked my drawing ^^) but the way this is so visually cluttered took any possible enjoyment bc you can't!!! focus on anything!!!!!

I thought "the fact that they changed the layout sucks, but it can't be that bad, I'll still use tumblr' but i'm so serious if this change reaches my main account I'll probably stop using desktop tumblr entirely, or at least use A LOT less than I currently do, it's awful.

already sent feedback to tumblr, but if anyone wants to do it, here's a post explaining how to!