Trevor's Box

iamtonysexual:

sireofthought:

ghostbono:

ifightformyfriends:

zexalsexual:

yourlandladynotyourmanservant:

scuttlepig:

openareas:

How are you? 

Normally I wouldn’t have to ask that. I know how you are. I know because I read my dashboard in the morning or sometimes in the evening and I catch up on what you are all doing.

But tumblr has decided I don’t need to know what you’re up to. In a very typical tumblr move they have added a feature that plays out like a bug. So some algorithm designed to, I don’t know, lighten the load on the servers or something, has made it so we see less on our dashboard. Mostly what we see after the first page is from the last 100 people we followed. So, if like me, you follow more than 100 people, you are going to miss out on posts from the people you have followed the longest. 

So I don’t know how you are doing. I don’t know what you’ve been listening to or reading or eating for lunch. And while we all sometimes make fun of those pictures of lunch we all post, I’m kind of missing them because I know I’m missing you. 

How are your kids? Your girlfriend? Your dog? Things ok at work? Have you taken any nice photographs lately? Gone on vacation? Are you going through something right now where a heart and a heartfelt reply might help? I’m sorry I missed it. 

But hey, tumblr is doing what they think is best. Which usually seems to be rolling out features no one cares about while screwing up things that were not in need of screwing around with and while not taking the best interest of its users into consideration. In short, they keep doing their best to make the tumblr user experience a frustrating one. It seems sometimes like the business plan of tumblr includes wording like “make money, fuck users.” 

But don’t fret, kids! There are always new and brilliant things that tumblr will give you instead in lieu of a non frustrating experience. For instance, y canou now pin posts to the top of tumblr so while you are missing out on posts from your oldest tumblr friends, you get to see the same post on top every time you refresh the page! And if you for whatever reason decide to pay for the opportunity to pin a post, your followers can just click the pin and make it go away, thus making your spending money on the feature useless. Oh, there are also ads on the sidebar! So tumblr is doing what they can to make tumblr make money but they are doing nothing to make the tumblr experience better for the people who actually use the site. 

Anyway, I didn’t mean to go off on a rant there (yes I did). I just wanted to say hi to those who I followed here with the intent of, you know, actually reading your posts, but whom tumblr decided I don’t need to catch up with. If you couple this with the way tumblr has of randomly unfollowing people for you, one would have to think that tumblr’s actual strategy is to alienate users and make them want to abandon the place.

At this rate, we’ll all get pretty frustrated and leave and tumblr will be a vast wasteland of thinspo blogs, uncredited photographs with song lyrics on them and a small yet supportive community of people who identify as horses and elves. 

Hey, look! tumblr says I have 12 new posts to read! Oh, there’s only one. Huh.

Hope you’re all doing well out there. I wouldn’t know. But it’s not from lack of trying.

Love, 

Me

oh

is that why this

Hey, look! tumblr says I have 12 new posts to read! Oh, there’s only one. Huh.

keeps happening…?

well, good job tumblr.

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING THIS IS WHY MY DASH HAS BEEN SO SLOW

….Tumblr….

THIS. EXPLAINS. EVERYTHING.

I kept thinking this was happening, but then I’d see posts from them and be like “Oh, guess not.” But it was on the first page apparently. Fucking. Tumblr.

oh so that’s how it works

it’s good i’m following under 100 but

wow

fuck

i don’t understand why tumblr staff feel the need to CONSISTENTLY ACT LIKE CUNTS,

ALL OF THE TIME,

100% OF THE DAYS OF THE YEAR.

DURING EACH SECOND OF THE MINUTES THAT MAKE UP THE HOURS WHICH FILL UP OUR DAYS, TUMBLR CONTINUE TO BE CUNTS.

WHY.

p.s. “At this rate, we’ll all get pretty frustrated and leave and tumblr will be a vast wasteland of thinspo blogs, uncredited photographs with song lyrics on them and a small yet supportive community of people who identify as horses and elves.” was really funny congrats

wow okay I follow almost 3000 people

this is

not acceptable

I like how people are actually surprised by this. I’ve never been a huge fan of the tumblr creators and generally tumblr as a corporation as a whole for the very reasons that they have really no solid connection with its users. In the end that’s what’s gotten a lot of very popular sites shut down and what make others all the more successful; userbases and the platforms they work on feeding each other rather than an all take and little give. Eventually that’ll probably get this place shut down or at the very least leave a very large dent in its population.

joshishollywood:

This website knows no bigger oxymoron than “Tumblr Support”

(Source: confusedtree)

ianisourqueen:

• Tumblr hates Missing E.
• But they can’t delete it.
• So now it magically has bugs in it.
• 

It’s funny because I didn’t even know about missing e before all this began.

Now I am downloading it.

(Source: snakejolras)

your-bespoke-psychopath:

mirror-of-erised:

you know people really should go easier on david karp

i mean its not like he 

• banned links from asks
• banned certain kinds of punctuation from asks
• banned enter keys from asks
• gave asks a word limit
• limited the number of asks you can send an hour
• TWICE
• took away wrapped tags
• gave us a new dashboard design that no one liked
• has been trying unsuccessfully for months to get rid of missing e
• told us that if we want to talk to people on tumblr we should just “take it to email or facebook”
• made tumblr 30 times more complicated than it needs to be

hey wait a second

I was not here for the old days. So I have no idea.

But yes to wanting no char limit on things. And…well, pretty much everything.

and….wait so he told us…to talk on facebook….?

(Source: hadestowns)