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Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by drdeca »

nicoburns wrote: post #19

I hope someone reimplements tumblr as an open platform at some point. They got a lot right from a UX perspective.

There’s waterfall.social which has been made open source (Idr under which license. I think it might be AGPL?) Not sure whether that’s what you mean by “open platform”.

It also has a number of nice features added compared to tumblr, like changing which blog of yours is the “main blog”, having a separate dashboard and following list for each blog in an account, a system to detect uncredited art-re-uploading, etc.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by evanelias »

jandrese wrote: post #109
evanelias wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, the percentage of porn content was actually relatively small at the time of the sale. Low to mid single digits if my memory is correct. During Tumblr's peak heyday (~9 months before the sale iirc), Tumblr's daily posting volume was around 1/5th the size of Twitter's at the time. Keeping in mind that Tumblr had no character limit and much greater multimedia support, the amount of content being posted on Tumblr was…

The thing that drove me crazy about Tumblr is how you would find a post with some interesting content and scroll down to see if there was any more information about it. The comment section would be thousands of lines long, but every line was something like: User blahblah reblogged this! User whatever likes this post. User someone reblogged this! You can't hold a discussion when your own system spams the comment secti…

If I understand correctly, were you just consuming Tumblr content directly from individual blogs?

The user experience was generally better in the dashboard (activity stream / feed for logged-in users). The dashboard was the vast majority of traffic; blog UI didn't get much staff/engineering attention as a result.

The "notes" feature on Tumblr was absolutely never intended to be a "comment section", btw. There intentionally was no comment section at all originally. This notion was part of the conceptual difference between tumblelogging and traditional long-form blogging.

Contextually, this mechanism came about at a time when comments (on blog posts, YouTube, etc) were complete cesspools of negativity from anonymous jerks. The Tumblr idea was that to respond to something, you would have to reblog it in order to add commentary. This way, if someone wants to spew nasty comments, their blog would be terrible and no one would choose to follow their blog.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by sbierwagen »

tokamak-teapot wrote: post #101
js2 wrote: post #88

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Funny, I just had a version of this happen to me this morning on iPad OS using a folio keyboard. I had just upgraded to iPadOS 15 and the caps-lock-as-control setting reverted to the default. I went into settings and changed it back, but I did so with caps lock accidentially enabled. This left the folio keyboard stuck in caps lock. I had to go back into settings, set caps lock back to caps lock, press the caps lock k…

Lots of old documents with rules about writing ridiculously large parts of them in ALL CAPS. For no reason at all, that I can determine.

Notepad++ has a toolbar option that will uppercase all the currently selected text. Write a paragraph normally and then uppercase it with one click.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by mrguyorama »

mst wrote: post #103
mrguyorama wrote: post #75

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Except now how am I supposed to know '?' brings up this display?

In the case of twitter, because it's documented along with all of the other shortcuts in the documentation: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-tweet They have rather more docs than you'd expect, the big problem seems to be that nobody expects them to have useful documentation so it often doesn't occur to us to look - hence why I figured it was worth posting it for people who didn't know about it yet.

An interesting disconnect to me is that I thought you were referring to generic websites, not ones that you can actually add/do stuff in. Contrast a site like "Youtube" where you usually just passively consumer (and indeed it DOES have a shortcut list viewed by typing '?') and something like jira where users are expected to be somewhat familiar and doing lots of things

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by jandrese »

evanelias wrote: post #123
jandrese wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing that drove me crazy about Tumblr is how you would find a post with some interesting content and scroll down to see if there was any more information about it. The comment section would be thousands of lines long, but every line was something like: User blahblah reblogged this! User whatever likes this post. User someone reblogged this! You can't hold a discussion when your own system spams the comment secti…

If I understand correctly, were you just consuming Tumblr content directly from individual blogs? The user experience was generally better in the dashboard (activity stream / feed for logged-in users). The dashboard was the vast majority of traffic; blog UI didn't get much staff/engineering attention as a result. The "notes" feature on Tumblr was absolutely never intended to be a "comment section", btw. There intenti…

So the concept is you would click through to every post to read it? I have to admit I never twigged on this, because it seems insane.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by marcosdumay »

Kuraj wrote: post #49

I don't know how many Polish people who owned a Radeon card in the 2000s are there on HN but I'm sure they can all relate :-) as the card software would overwrite the key combination used to type the letter "ć" and open the Catalyst Control Center instead. Argh!

I just don't remember what DOS game it was that had actions linked to all of CTRL, ALT and DEL.

It were some actions that one wouldn't usually use together. I, as a bad gamer just didn't at all, but some people were able to put more commands per second there...

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by BoxOfRain »

dEnigma wrote: post #42
Intermernet wrote: post #34

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOP_(code)

Okay, I've never thought of NOP as "no 'P'", so this caught me completely by surprise and made me laugh out loud.

Reminds me of the drinking game called the "Land of Nod", you go in a circle making claims like "you can live in the Land of Nod, but you can't die there" or "you can listen to Nirvana in the Land of Nod, but not Dave Grohl" and hand out penalties of two fingers of your pint every time someone makes a statement that doesn't fit the rule. The only advice you give them is "the clue is in the name".

You can only play this game once with a particular group, but it's a good laugh.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by subpixel »

My personal pet peeve is what every Squarespace-powered site on the internet (many millions!) does to the esc key.

Example: https://www.folioeast.com/

I never realized how often I use the esc key until I started getting routed to Squarespace logins all over the place.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by evanelias »

jandrese wrote: post #126
evanelias wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I understand correctly, were you just consuming Tumblr content directly from individual blogs? The user experience was generally better in the dashboard (activity stream / feed for logged-in users). The dashboard was the vast majority of traffic; blog UI didn't get much staff/engineering attention as a result. The "notes" feature on Tumblr was absolutely never intended to be a "comment section", btw. There intenti…

So the concept is you would click through to every post to read it? I have to admit I never twigged on this, because it seems insane.

No, again, it was not meant to be a traditional comment section. It was not a discussion thread for casual readers, especially via the blog view. If you wanted a normal comment system, you could use Disqus embeds, or just use a traditional blogging software.

The reblog system was a way for Tumblr users to publicly respond to things, and allow that response to be visible to the responder's followers. The original poster would also get a notification, and they could reblog the responder's reblog to add more if they wish.

The dashboard made this slightly easier to read. Again, if you only ever experienced Tumblr on blog views and without an account, you literally never saw the core functionality that made Tumblr popular.

Also, most Tumblr posts weren't long-form text to begin with. That wasn't the point of the platform.

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