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Apparently there was a tumblr live with the CEO and COO of tumblr yesterday (that’s @photomatt and @zingring, respectively)

naniyou I watched the live with the CEO, here is the tl;dr The good news: • Chronological dash is here to stay! Whether you have to toggle it weekly or new users default to "For you" was not elaborated on but at least that's confirmed. • Custom themes are here to stay! Once again, may be buried for all I know but, for sure will remain an option. • Search updates are in the works!!!! The neutral news: • Tumblr is seriously in the red financially and needs more support, Ad-free for example is not widely used • They would not comment on the suggestion to bring back NSFW behind a paywall (which we all know would get them a boatload of money) • They're possibly going to add a donation system like Ao3 and Wikipedia. • They would "rather not" sell data to make up the costs • Most of staff are pre-2010 tumblr users including the CEO who joined in 2007, so they do actually use the site and have for a long time The bad news: • Condensed reblogs/removing reblog chains is going forward. The reason cited was to meet "certain expectations" of users coming from other social media, which isn't good. • Disability features (specifically turning off flashing ads for epileptics) was met with a request to purchase Ad-free Overall it was more chill than I expected, @photomatt and @zingring seem to be far more in tune with the userbase than u/spez. zingring Under the bad news column: I did ask our ads team to investigate any kind of vibrancy or flashing on ads - we do not want to accidentally trigger seizures or cause distress with flashing etc. Buying ad-free (or gifting ad-free to someone else) is always an option, but that is not the solution (and of course, some folks simply can't afford it). Sorry that it sounded dismissive in the session! That was not my intent. ailurinae Condensed reblogs/removing reblog chains is going forward. Depending on how that looks/if it can be turned off, that could kill the site as surely as removing chronological following only feeds would... We want reblogs, not rooted posts with comments under them. At that point you are just Facebook...
naniyou I watched the live with the CEO, here is the tl;dr The good news: • Chronological dash is here to stay! Whether you have to toggle it weekly or new users default to "For you" was not elaborated on but at least that's confirmed. • Custom themes are here to stay! Once again, may be buried for all I know but, for sure will remain an option. • Search updates are in the works!!!! The neutral news: • Tumblr is seriously in the red financially and needs more support, Ad-free for example is not widely used • They would not comment on the suggestion to bring back NSFW behind a paywall (which we all know would get them a boatload of money) • They're possibly going to add a donation system like Ao3 and Wikipedia. • They would "rather not" sell data to make up the costs • Most of staff are pre-2010 tumblr users including the CEO who joined in 2007, so they do actually use the site and have for a long time The bad news: • Condensed reblogs/removing reblog chains is going forward. The reason cited was to meet "certain expectations" of users coming from other social media, which isn't good. • Disability features (specifically turning off flashing ads for epileptics) was met with a request to purchase Ad-free Overall it was more chill than I expected, @photomatt and @zingring seem to be far more in tune with the userbase than u/spez. zingring Under the bad news column: I did ask our ads team to investigate any kind of vibrancy or flashing on ads - we do not want to accidentally trigger seizures or cause distress with flashing etc. Buying ad-free (or gifting ad-free to someone else) is always an option, but that is not the solution (and of course, some folks simply can't afford it). Sorry that it sounded dismissive in the session! That was not my intent. ailurinae Condensed reblogs/removing reblog chains is going forward. Depending on how that looks/if it can be turned off, that could kill the site as surely as removing chronological following only feeds would... We want reblogs, not rooted posts with comments under them. At that point you are just Facebook...

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Poll 1

darkwood-sleddog Follow An algorithm based feed where I get "the best of tumblr". Because @staff is too cowardly... What type of dashboard experience do you prefer? Chronological feed that only features blogs I follow. : This doesn't affect me personally. ... 1.3% 95.2% 3.5% 132,690 votes Remaining time: 1 hour 39 minutes #tumblr #not dogs #why staff doesn't use pills to better understand the users I'll never know #anyways. ... See all
darkwood-sleddog Follow An algorithm based feed where I get "the best of tumblr". Because @staff is too cowardly... What type of dashboard experience do you prefer? Chronological feed that only features blogs I follow. : This doesn't affect me personally. ... 1.3% 95.2% 3.5% 132,690 votes Remaining time: 1 hour 39 minutes #tumblr #not dogs #why staff doesn't use pills to better understand the users I'll never know #anyways. ... See all

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Poll 2

ryonm-blog Follow #staff #tumblr Blaze "Good God! He's giving the shareholder's speech to the userbase!" JOSEPH FARRIS 29K notes D t : ...
ryonm-blog Follow #staff #tumblr Blaze "Good God! He's giving the shareholder's speech to the userbase!" JOSEPH FARRIS 29K notes D t : ...

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Tumblr Changes

tarantula-hawk-wasp Follow We are f------ under attack! Between ao3 being down and tumblr's proposed changes #ao3 #tumblr Blaze Vill 1,587 notes ... PLAY FREE
tarantula-hawk-wasp Follow We are f------ under attack! Between ao3 being down and tumblr's proposed changes #ao3 #tumblr Blaze Vill 1,587 notes ... PLAY FREE

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Elon Plagiarism

F The Chaser | Breaking News Elon Musk to sue Tumblr for plagiarism after learning they are also trying to f--- up a perfectly good website
F The Chaser | Breaking News Elon Musk to sue Tumblr for plagiarism after learning they are also trying to f--- up a perfectly good website

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What The Userbase Has Endured

officialmisha Follow i stayed after you changed the layout of the reblog chain!!!! i survived superwholock vs hipster wars!!!! i stayed after the nudity ban of 2018!!!!!!i was there on the night of november 5th!!!!!! i politely changed my dash settings after you started the "best things first" b------- and "for you" tab!!!!! i stayed after you changed the tag button placement in post editor!!!!!! and now you're gonna remove the chronological post order?????? you were supposed to defeat tiktok and tiwtter NOT join them!!!!! i'm hunted, i rebelled and this????? this is what you give me???!!!!! ME STAFF #destiel #spn #supernatural #tumblr
officialmisha Follow i stayed after you changed the layout of the reblog chain!!!! i survived superwholock vs hipster wars!!!! i stayed after the nudity ban of 2018!!!!!!i was there on the night of november 5th!!!!!! i politely changed my dash settings after you started the "best things first" b------- and "for you" tab!!!!! i stayed after you changed the tag button placement in post editor!!!!!! and now you're gonna remove the chronological post order?????? you were supposed to defeat tiktok and tiwtter NOT join them!!!!! i'm hunted, i rebelled and this????? this is what you give me???!!!!! ME STAFF #destiel #spn #supernatural #tumblr

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Melting Down

t tumblr watching every other social media site melt down "I am invincible!" Here at Tumblr, we've been working hard on reorganizing how we work in a bid to gain more users. A larger user base means a more
t tumblr watching every other social media site melt down "I am invincible!" Here at Tumblr, we've been working hard on reorganizing how we work in a bid to gain more users. A larger user base means a more

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Taken The Wrong Way

lady-raziel tumblr when their poorly advised and poorly worded statement stating their intentions to implement changes nobody wants gets "taken the wrong way" and incites the mob on their asses: #tumblr Blaze Follow 219 notes
lady-raziel tumblr when their poorly advised and poorly worded statement stating their intentions to implement changes nobody wants gets "taken the wrong way" and incites the mob on their asses: #tumblr Blaze Follow 219 notes

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Chain Of Consequences

staff thinking that copying other big social sites' models is gonna make them look best to new users and advertisers it being kinda too late for that all of those other sites currently crashing hard from running things the way they do the fact that the only thing keeping anyone at all on this site is the chronological feed
staff thinking that copying other big social sites' models is gonna make them look best to new users and advertisers it being kinda too late for that all of those other sites currently crashing hard from running things the way they do the fact that the only thing keeping anyone at all on this site is the chronological feed

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Protesting

bookslegosnotherstuff bloodofelves Follow relaxxattack Follow "oh they're not taking away chronological dashboard, well everything's okay then" they also said in the post they're making reblogs collapsed (like comments on twitter) so you won't see the full conversation in a post. they also won't get rid of tumblr live despite it being an annoying and cancerous data-miner that isn't legal in much of the world. they won't even let you opt out of tumblr live for more than seven days. they implemented a terrible photo viewer that mimics tiktok and makes it so you can't zoom in on images. they took away the ability to view prev tags. they're making it so you have to sign in with your email to view almost any thing on tumblr. they've already made it so you have to sign in to send asks, even on anon. they're slowly phasing out custom blog themes. the things that make tu at all usable and favored by us- the older web blog features, the anonymity- that is still being taken away. it HAS been being taken away for some time now. i am urging you people to reveiwbomb the tumblr app. force them to acknowledge that users do not like these changes. #tumblr 39K notes []
bookslegosnotherstuff bloodofelves Follow relaxxattack Follow "oh they're not taking away chronological dashboard, well everything's okay then" they also said in the post they're making reblogs collapsed (like comments on twitter) so you won't see the full conversation in a post. they also won't get rid of tumblr live despite it being an annoying and cancerous data-miner that isn't legal in much of the world. they won't even let you opt out of tumblr live for more than seven days. they implemented a terrible photo viewer that mimics tiktok and makes it so you can't zoom in on images. they took away the ability to view prev tags. they're making it so you have to sign in with your email to view almost any thing on tumblr. they've already made it so you have to sign in to send asks, even on anon. they're slowly phasing out custom blog themes. the things that make tu at all usable and favored by us- the older web blog features, the anonymity- that is still being taken away. it HAS been being taken away for some time now. i am urging you people to reveiwbomb the tumblr app. force them to acknowledge that users do not like these changes. #tumblr 39K notes []

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Guiding Principles

Our Guiding Principles To enhance Tumblr's usability, we must address these core guiding principles. 1. Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr. 2. Provide high-quality content with every app launch. 3. Facilitate easier user participation in conversations. 4. Retain and grow our creator base. 5. Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr. 6. Improve the platform's performance, stability, and quality.
Our Guiding Principles To enhance Tumblr's usability, we must address these core guiding principles. 1. Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr. 2. Provide high-quality content with every app launch. 3. Facilitate easier user participation in conversations. 4. Retain and grow our creator base. 5. Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr. 6. Improve the platform's performance, stability, and quality.

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