Reminder That The Safest Way To Communicate Is Using End-to-end Encryption (shoutout Signal For Being

Reminder that the safest way to communicate is using end-to-end encryption (shoutout Signal for being the best option out there) and even then make sure you trust the person you're talking to. No level of encryption can protect you from the other party accidentally outing you.

PSA: never discuss private affairs in your DMs, especially contraception and abortion. Social media moguls will absolutely sell you out to the government. There are already cases of people being charged based on evidence in their DMs.

still really sad abt the bone animated series being cancelled like its literally a loss for the human race. but maybe its for the best because i would have been so embarrassing about rose harvestar theyd have to lock me in the stocks

Hello, crab fans. Wow, you have been having a busy time! On July 29, also known as Crabs Day, you took to TumblrMart to give the gift of crabs to your pals. And boy, did we notice—not just all the great crab memes and trending posts on the day but also the burst in sales which made up a substantial financial boost to the running costs at Tumblr. And it truly took our breath away.  

We got so excited we went back to the drawing board and designed some crab checkmarks, which we teased by dressing your regular checkmarks up as crabs on the day. On August 1, we launched a regular little crab checkmark and a rainbow crab checkmark for gifting and treating yourselves.

Here are some stats from Crabs Day:

You gifted 8k crabs that day. That’s an almost 20k% increase in crab sales.

We saw a more than 7k% increase in total Tumblrmart sales.

All this money goes straight back into running costs—such as a month’s worth of power costs for Tumblr application servers. That’s all you! You’re doing that! You’re keeping Tumblr around with your generosity toward your friends. Crabs be thanking ye ❤

Rust also tries to avoid making you think about allocation, but it lets you think about it if you start going down the optimization rabbit hole. If you really want to have to think about them you want c/cpp

when do they explain to you what the stack and the heap is? I don't know about them yet.

While I'm still watching the world crumble over at Stack Exchange, it's really cool to see the staff over here doing pretty much the exact opposite. Stack Exchange is actively in flames and will most likely burn down if the firefighters don't get to it right fucking now, tumblr is here doing the work to try and rise like a phoenix from the ashes of the verizon takeover and all of the ill will that created.

One of the hallmarks of the "good old days" on Stack Exchange was the way the company interacted with the community. You'd see devs talking about new features they were working on or responding to bug reports with a summary of the root cause was and how they resolved it. You'd see interesting new features suggested by community members get implemented and you'd see the company engaging with and revising their plans explicitly referencing pieces of community feedback as the cause.

Most importantly, you'd see the community team everywhere. I cannot give these people enough praise for the work they did (and still do, when the company lets them). All of them are excellent communicators, writers and to some degree engineers/data scientists. They acted as incredibly effective supports for the volunteer mod teams and liaisons between the community and the company. These folks earned heaps and heaps of respect for their ability to see through the noise and get to the core of issues -- being able to provide a key insight or intervention to get an out-of-control conversation back on the rails, or say that "enough was enough" and make a decision that needed to be made. They were able to both have their ears to the ground of community issues and engage casually with many different communities while also having the ability to be aware of what's happening internally and quickly pull an engineer aside to get context and information to help put out a fire if need be.

The reason why this worked so effectively is the high degree to which they were listened to and respected both internally and externally -- if the CM team saw an issue users were experiencing, they could effectively lobby for engineering effort to be put into resolving that issue and get it fixed. And, if an unpopular change needed to happen for some internal reason, they had the trust and respect of enough of the userbase that, once the rationale was explained, users would understand and respect that the change needed to happen for whatever reason was presented without diving into conspiracy theories and imagined motives.

So to bring this back to tumblr, seeing staff being active on the site and interacting with users, both discussing stuff on tumblr they care about/work on and also just... being real people with lives outside of tumblr, well, it reminds me of what we had on Stack Exchange before the company stopped valuing the work CMs did. And that's without any sort of dedicated community team doing this type of work! It seems like here it's engineers and management folks doing it in their free time (which is a little tenuous -- on the one hand having to hire a new team would be a significant cost for a site that's already in the red, but on the other hand without making it official it's very possible to lose the people you have doing that work).

On one hand, tumblr's starting from a much, much lower place that Stack Exchange started from. The original Stack Exchange Community Team hires there were actual community members who were key parts of launching the site and so came in with a lot of trust built up. On the other hand tumblr is starting from a place of deep, deep distrust and that's much harder to build from. But the way I see staff interacting with users and speaking on their personal blogs I think/hope will help people feel like staff is working with them rather than being disconnected strangers making decisions from on high. Culture change takes a long time and I don't expect attitudes to change in an instant, but I'm hopeful.

Anyways, tl;dr I miss stack exchange but I like tumblr. And I'm eagerly watching to see where this goes :)

Just sharing this because it took me literally a full hour to find. If you want to see custom themes on mobile web you have two options:

As a viewer, you can hit the "request desktop site" button in your browser of choice (mine's firefox)

As a blogger, you can go into "Blog Settings" -> "Edit Theme" -> "Advanced Option" and toggle "Use default mobile theme" OFF to make sure anyone on mobile web sees your theme.

No reason to shit on anyone here -- staff have said they want to keep custom themes, but also the setting for mobile web is very buried and also a confusing setting in the first place (why would I want my theme on desktop but not mobile???).

I really think that it’s important to remember @staff are trying to phase out custom blogs! Literally the most fun and interesting part of Tumblr and a very awesome selling point of Tumblr’s entire model.

That’s part of their whole ‘Tumblr’s not easy to use’ bullshit. They’ve been working at it for months now, you can’t even access someone’s custom blog from mobile anymore and like not even on the mobile website.

So yeah that theme and those pages you worked so hard to make unique and interesting? The webcomic hosted on Tumblr in such a way that it basically has it’s own website? The ARCHIVE of your blog that you can pretty much only access from a button on your custom blog? It’ll all go down the gutter if we don’t yell until our voices go hoarse.

This is a BLOGGING website the point of the website is THE BLOGS! I didn’t work hard to maintain my blog and keep the pages on it looking pretty for some hack at RND to decide it needs to go to make way for their ‘definitely not-Twitter’ ideal website. I swear to god the loss of our custom blogs will be the exact last straw for me and I WILL leave.