Tumblr seems to be muting blogs – idk if it’s directly connected to the flagged content, but it seems to be?
@hispinkandyellowhuman tumblr is muting blogs with flagged content (like mine, which has ZERO porn on it, good job, tumblr bot, you idiot) which is causing posts on actual blog urls to appear out of chronological order, even though posts on the dash still (sometimes) show up in order. apparently entire blogs are also not appearing in search results if muted.
i have to believe this whole thing is so stupid and self-defeating that tumblr will reverse the process sometime in the new year. it will take time but it’ll happen. by then a lot of the userbase may have left lol, but i think eventually it’ll be an rp resource again.
as for me i’ll probably spend most of my rp time in december on discord. i’m so busy irl and this is so low maintenance that it just seems wise while tumblr is working out its bugs. i’ll still get to asks and maybe drafts here, but far more slowly.
//This is amazingly stupid. This whole thing on this website is amazingly stupid and like…..cutting off the nose to spite the face. I’d like to believe it’s intentionally nefarious but it’s like…so SELF-THWARTING. How can anyone be this tone deaf to their customers????? But like someone recently pointed out, it’s very much like the American GOP that (some of us) underestimated and then look what happened.
I’m so exasperated that I think you can just. Find me on Discord for the time being. I’m gonna drop my Discord here. Mutuals ONLY. And please message me here telling me that you’ve done so.
I also have a Skype but I’m going to ask people to PM me for that.
//Testing a possible workaround “fix” for the chronological order issue…
//Okay, so I’m probably going to regret this in terms of notifications, but… the workaround I found seems to work.
If you or your followers notice that your blog’s posts are out of chronological order (your most recent posts are likely showing up on page 2), then this may help get things back into order for you.
It’s a bit tedious, but if you edit the posts showing up on the first page (just opening them in Edit and clicking save is enough), it seems to solve the problem.
I adjusted the number of how many display in the advanced settings temporarily, checked that page 2 started with the newest posts, and then edited the all those displayed on the first page.
Do NOT refresh before editing all of them, or else it will just shift older ones up in their place.
Once the posts were edited, refreshing the blog index should return the newest posts to the top, and additional new posts seem to go in the proper order from there. Hopefully this works for you too.
Also, if I interact frequently with you or have interacted with you recently, yes, you appear to be affected by this on my end.
tagging @illusivexemissary & @materxnatura because I saw you both post about this within the last few minutes while I was trying to find a solution.
//Yes so my blog has been muted. How can this be undone?
If you’re wanting to show your displeasure, don’t just tag staff or support. Take a page out of other consumer revolts and make sure your displeasure is known.
Don’t be an idiot. Do not threaten, harass or otherwise make this personal. Contact these companies, make your displeasure known, alert them that you are a customer and you will be leaving their brand across all boards unless they reverse their decision.
Be clear, be concise, be polite, but make your displeasure known.
Note the following properties owned by Oath Inc. Bring them up explicitly in your statement of leaving their services.
Yahoo and all Yahoo Subsidiaries (Yahoo News, Yahoo Mail, etc)
AOL
TechCrunch
HuffPost
Flurry
Kanvas
Endgadget
AutoBlog
Makers
Build
Ryot
BuiltByGirls
MSN
Outlook
X-Box
New Info Will Be Added As I’m Made Aware Of It
Edit: This does nothing if it isn’t shared around
While the plan of complaining up the chain is good, I have to wonder what possessed the person writing this when they made the list, because MSN, Outlook and X-Box are MICROSOFT and not Oath…I don’t know which of the others are owned elsewhere but here’s the Oath Inc Wiki Page which lists brands:
you have succeeded in uniting everyone, from the sex-repulsed asexuals and people who like to forget that tits even exist because they’re basically an inconvenience, to the folks who love and appreciate the human form with all the enthusiasm of their being, everyone in between (and everyone who is somehow both ways)…
you have got us ALL meming about female presenting nipples ALL DAY LONG
The Vox article that I was interviewed for is up and running, and it contains some serious fuckign information about this whole fiasco.
Information that tumblr just straight up refused to provide to its userbase at all.
Unsurprisingly to those of us watching this website deteriorate over the last year, this full content purge and ban has been in progress for a solid 6 months. The date got moved up because of the child porn thing, but it was always coming for us.
Equally unsurprising: Tumblr’s management and ownership are absolutely destroying the actual staff working on it. The company has been hemoragghing senior staff without so much as a token attempt to keep them in place. So the drops in site quality are real, and wil probably only be getting worse.
Truly astonishing is the fact that apparently this crap was supposed to “double” the userbase by the end of next year. Boy, howdy, that’s not gonna work out well for them.
good luck with your plan to sell ads targeting a user base that doesn’t exist any more, @staff.
@staff@support you may want to read this. No one seems to think this nsfw ban move is a good thing. Your credibility is circling the drain at this point.
This has all been done in such a tragically stupid fashion. And it makes it worse that they actually planned it for six months before initiating it.
The Vox piece doesn’t even really portray the extent of the devastation. They’ve broken this website for ALL of their users.
If they’ve been planning this six months, then the wiping of the chronic pain tag, all the affected queer tags, the shadowbanning, is certainly intentional
Icarus 