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@Lady sometimes i think i missed my true calling as a reference librarian

@runpunkrun ?

@runpunkrun yeah the length of how much you can see is REALLY random which def adds to the frustration

but yeah any kind of exchange/group action/etc where you’re expecting people off tumblr to need to access a good bit of the content unfortunately just has to be on a custom theme to make that work. which sucks :/

@runpunkrun it only comes up when you’ve scrolled a bit (how much scrolling….varies because why would tumblr be consistent about anything)

which also means its a bigger issue on mobile, bc the screen is smaller and you need to scroll more. For that particular post I can see the post but got the popup when i tried to keep scrolling down to the notes

but as a totally random example that in no way inspired this post, i can’t read the whole pinned post when linked to https://www.tumblr.com/end-otw-racism

@bouncinglime yep! if you get it you can try editing the link to be in the subdomain format—it usually works

@Owlor its the worst 😭

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

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

@RussSharek oh for sure — i’m glad it did it’s job

@RussSharek baked potatoes can be incredibly reassuring!

@soph_sol yeah i was always told to check hairline/behind your ears in any tick check, they can be shockingly quick at times!

@soph_sol oh no not ticks! glad you caught it before it bit down though

@Forestofglory i try to vaguely keep track of how my friends’ home countries are doing for the purpose of congratulations/condolences and otherwise just embrace the chaos of having a completely incompressible feed

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@Glittery yeah they basically were just like “please don’t be mad, it’s not us who said the thing” without clarifying anything about what they actually think (let alone actually implementing policy)

And yeah at this this point the number of times they’ve glossed over issues or kicked the can down the road without actually doing anything, it’s hard to have faith that they’ll even try to fix things properly when a new issue pops up like this. It’s very frustrating, fandom deserves so much better

@Lady and yet believing in organizing as a principle doesnt actually give me the capacity to care about every single organized action that ever happens