Summary: Everyone Knows That After A Break Up, Steve Harrington Invites As Many People Over To His House

Summary: Everyone knows that after a break up, Steve Harrington invites as many people over to his house as he possibly can. And every girl knows that if you want a chance to be with him, even for a night, going to a party like this is your best bet.

Chapter 1 - A Moment’s Pleasure

Carol’s idea of a mash up between spin-the-bottle and seven-minutes-in-heaven brings life back into a dwindling party that Chrissy was looking forward to concluding early.

She’s been the butt of a few mean girl jokes and some of the guys keep picking on her and talking about her like she’s some kind of piece of meat, but she’s dragged to the circle and sat down in a corner where the girls around her shuffle away and she’s left with twin gaps on either side of her that make it glaringly obvious she’s not welcome.

Doing her best not to call attention to it more than it already does itself, she forces a smile and crosses her legs, feeling self conscious when the guys start to join them.

With her jacket off, she feels weirdly naked and she considers going back to the door to get it, but then worries that it might just make this all worse. She keeps her hands in her lap instead and does her best to remain calm.

She barely glances up to see Steve Harrington coming in to take a seat on her left side, filling up some of the gap left behind. The girl on the other side of him moves over suddenly, trying to be closer to him until they’re touching arms, she’s shameless, but Chrissy gets it.

He looks incredibly good tonight even though he’s drunk, hair a little more free than it would be in school, a tight sweatshirt with the sleeves pushed up to expose his forearms, cheeks flush from the alcohol, and lipstick stains dusting along the right side of his neck, leading down to the collar of his shirt and disappearing underneath.

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An open letter to @staff

I already submitted this to Support under "Feedback," but I'm sharing it here too as I don't expect it to get a response, and I feel like putting in out in public may be more effective than sending it off into the void.

The recent post on the Staff blog about changing tumblr to an algorithmic feed features a large amount of misinformation that I feel staff needs to address, openly and honestly, with information on where this data was sourced at the very least.

Claim 1: Algorithms help small creators.

This is false, as algorithms are designed to push content that gets engagement in order to get it more engagement, thereby assuring that the popular remain popular and the small remain small except in instances of extreme luck.

This can already be seen on the tumblr radar, which is a combination of staff picks (usually the same half-dozen fandoms or niche special interests like Lego photography) which already have a ton of engagement, or posts that are getting enough engagement to hit the radar organically. Tumblr has an algorithm that runs like every other socmed algorithm on the planet, and it will decimate the reach of small creators just like every other platform before it.

Claim 2: Only a small portion of users utilize the chronological feed.

You can find a poll by user @darkwood-sleddog here that at the time of writing this, sits at over 40 THOUSAND responses showing that over 96 percent of them use the chronological feed. Claiming otherwise isn't just a misstatement, it's a lie. You are lying to your core userbase and expecting them to accept it as fact. It's not just unethical, it's insulting to people who have been supporting your platform for over a decade.

Claim 3: Tumblr is not easy to use.

This is also 100% false and you ABSOLUTELY know it. Tumblr is EXTREMELY easy to use, the issue is that the documentation, the explanations of features, and often even the stability of the service is subpar. All of this would be very easy for staff to fix, if they would invest in the creation of walkthroughs and clear explanations of how various site features work, as well as finally fixing the search function. Your inability to explain how your service works should not result in completely ignoring the needs and wants of your core long-term userbase. The fact that you're more willing to invest in the very systems that have made every other form of social media so horrifically toxic than in trying to make it easier for people to use the service AS IT WORKS NOW and fixing the parts that don't work as well speaks volumes toward what tumblr staff actually cares about.

You will not get a paycheck if your platform becomes defunct, and the thing that makes it special right now is that it is the ONLY large-scale socmed platform on THE ENTIRE INTERNET with a true chronological feed and no aggressive algorithmic content serving. The recent post from staff indicates that you are going to kill that, and are insisting that it's what we want. It is not. I'd hazard to guess that most of the dev team knows it isn't what we want, but I assume the money people don't care. The user base isn't relevant, just how much money they can bring in.

The CEO stated he wanted this to remain as sort of the last bastion of the Old Internet, and yet here we are, watching you declare you intend to burn it to the ground.

You can do so much better than this.

Response to the Update

Under the cut for readability, because everything said above still applies.

I already said this in a reblog on the post itself, but I'm adding it to this one for easy access: people read it that way because that's what you said.

Staff considers the main feed as it exists to be "outdated," to the point that you literally used that word to describe it, and the main goals expressed in this announcement is to figure out what makes "high-quality content" and serve that to users moving forward.

People read it that way because that is what you said.

oh the notes bubble is disgusting. get that out of my sight

"tumblr is not easy to use" my guys it really isn't that hard who are staff trying to fool

twitter: currently owned by techbro pissman

tumblr: actively removing functionality and bloating the interface with things nobody uses

discord: being retooled by ex-Meta management who don't understand the appeal of the platform

youtube: neutered by advertisers and algorithms and also tiktokification

reddit: half of the site is down due to protests about the removal of third-party API support

facebook: my mom is on there