Quick PSA: If you share me a tumblr link that looks like username.tumblr.com, I can read it! however if instead its formatted tumblr.com/username then instead of actually being able to read your post, I get this highly annoying screen and can't actually read the post you actually sent
If you were just passing along a silly meme or something, maybe it's not worth the effort of double checking that everyone can actually see the post and that's fine whatever. But if you're sending it because you think that the contents are important enough that people off tumblr should be reading them? Maybe double check
btw if you're going "wait that other URL doesn't seem to be available for my blog????" go to settings/blog/yourblogname and turn the "use custom theme" toggle to ON. No I don't know why subdomains are only available with a custom theme, sorry tumblr's just Like That these days
@aegtx yes there are also some other options to let people restrict access to their blogs for privacy reasons but i generally assume anyone using those is doing it on purpose so i didn’t include them here
i can screenshot the setting i’m talking about later for you but it’s a per-blog setting
@Satsuma my tumblr circle is too small to bother, but thank you for the offer!
@Satsuma the worst thing is, i fucking have a tumblr account and the tumblr app on my phone, but i still get hit with this screen because i'm not logged into tumblr in my browser- only in the app. and there is no link to open the post in the app. so these links are walled off to me, a longtime tumblr user, as well
@Satsuma I can reliably generate those links for my own blog, but I can't always get them to work for other blogs and it drives me up the wall :/
@Satsuma I couldn't find that setting, but I did find "truncate RSS feed"...the description says it makes people sign in to see things.