fictionkinfessions:

grassangel:

Tumblr has a new setting to turn off

General settings > privacy > better recommendations (uses your search history to show you more posts)

OP posted this May 19th 2018 so it really is some new nonsense staff has come up with!

Here’s a direct link for people on desktop! https://www.tumblr.com/settings/privacy

Mod Party Cat!

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remthename:

There’s a petition out to get rid of the Best Stuff First option on Tumblr in order to defend the artists out there who have dropped in notes/exposure.

Guys.

Sign it.

(via danigami)

@ all of my followers who use the mobile tumblr app!!!

psshaw:

cherryirises:

please go to “General Settings” then to “Dashboard Preferences” and turn off “Best Stuff First”. This is killing artist exposure! Please, please, PLEASE, turn it off if you really do love the artists you follow! You’d be helping us so much!
Please reblog this so that more people may know!

Oh, hell. It took me forever to realize this was predominately on mobile. This whole time I thought the app was just being buggy per usual.

(via seagerdy)

Anonymous asked: Hey bud your last post is censored (damn you, tumblr!)

urgh. again? okay folks, again- please tell tumblr, when this happens or you see it on one of my posts, that it isn’t nsfw because I promise it never is and I kind of? rely on people being able? to see my art posts? I do the making drawings for a LIVING and making people HAPPY so you know THAT IS KIND OF THE POINT

Hey guys! I figured out something minor about the “safe mode” shenanigans that might help

sonocomics:

Okay so, as counter-intuitive as this sounds, if you’re over 18 turn Safe Mode on.

By doing so, you not only can (minorly) help others, but you can (minorly) help yourself.

1. Helping others

Okay, so we all know that posts have been wrongly flagged EVERYWHERE for being “sensitive”. Something that can be done if you’re over 18 is actually telling tumblr that a post has been mislabeled. How do you do that? Well, the first thing to do I mentioned already: turn Safe Mode on. When Safe Mode is off, you won’t be told which posts are “sensitive” or not - including your own flagged posts. However, if you have it on and you’re over 18, you’ll see this:

What you want to do is his “View post”. That will let you see the post. The next thing you’ll want to do is to decide if the post is sensitive or not. Obviously Your Mileage May Vary, but if you believe that a post has been mislabeled, scroll to the bottom of the post and you’ll see this:

Click Yup/Nope depending on the post. Hopefully this will actually DO something, but I honestly don’t know at this point. However, it’s the closest thing I can find to actually combating these mislabels, so might as well try it.

2. Helping yourself

Now this I seriously cannot believe is not shown to you if you don’t have Safe Mode on. If your own posts are flagged, you’ll have to have it on to see. When you have it on, you’ll see this:

You’ll want to hit Request review to automatically send an email to staff to review your post. Hopefully if enough people send in reviews or say that posts have been mislabeled then tumblr might do something about this.

Though obviously none of this is guaranteed to work, but this is the “system” they have for the mode >_>;;;

Long story short, all of us that are over 18 can put on our attorney badges & start defending some innocent posts :x

EDIT: I just found this for posts as well:

click that “NSFW” button and it’ll lead to another Request Review screen

intrusive audio ads

new-xkit-extension:

If you’ve been active on tumblr lately, you may notice that they’ve started running a new type of ad in the right-hand sidebar unit. Specifically, there’s been an uptick in ads that auto-play loud audio, some of which are even un-mutable.

We’ve addressed this in Anti-Capitalism version 1.3.0, which adds a new option:

(small mea culpa: the naming here is slightly confusing. this will *always* remove the sidebar ad, even if it doesn’t happen to be one that plays audio, because we don’t have the ability to distinguish between them. the other difference is that it does it in a way that also takes care of the audio-visual component instead of just hiding the ad, like some adblockers have been doing)

(EDIT: yes, you’ll have to refresh the page after installing the extension/enabling the option. It sounds like this might also conflict with other ad-blockers, so let us know if you have any issues and/or try disabling other adblockers first and see if that fixes the problem)

let us know what you think! I’m probably going to be going to bed soon, but you can always reach us in our ask box, our support blog, or our live support chat. In general the dev team has less time to reply to asks nowadays because of both real-life obligations and the sheer quantity of asks we receive, so you’ll generally have a better time with the support chat, if you can catch one of us online. If nobody is online, you always can leave a message for us to read later. thanks for understanding!

(one last plug—If you’re interested in helping us run New XKit, for example by answering asks or helping other users with questions + problems, come stop by and introduce yourself! we don’t bite, we promise!)

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