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Bonjour @equipe, on a beaucoup de questions avec @gay-impressionist - et vraisemblablement tous les p'tits francophones du coin - notamment pourquoi "par Toutatis", mais aussi comment est-ce que ce texte a vu le jour parce que vraiment on s'est tapé la meilleure barre de l'année et je voulais vous remercier (les verres ont sûrement aidé).

Tumblr Hack Week, September 2022 Edition

It was Hack Week (more than just a day!) once again at Tumblr! A couple of times per year we slow down our normal work and spend a week working on whatever we want and see how far we can get with our hacks. The main star of the last Hack Week was the “Summon crab!” button, and we loved it so much that we rolled it out not just for April Fools this year, but we made it our first gift-able widget in TumblrMart!

Here are some of the projects that got made for this most recent Hack Week in September. Some of these things you may also end up seeing on the site…

Tumbeast Digital Pet

Ben worked on adding our friendly server room Tumbeasts to Tumblr as a cute little digital pet. You can feed them and play with them, and they poop and get unhappy and need tending, of course. Who wouldn’t want one of these to take care of every day on Tumblr, forever and ever?

Tumblr Blaze on TumblrMart

@adalpari added Tumblr Blaze as a gift-able item in TumblrMart, which would allow folks to buy Blaze "credits" for other people. Perfect for those times you see an amazing post on Tumblr that definitely deserves to be spread around, and you don’t mind throwing some money at letting that person have a chance to spread it via Blaze!

User Account Switcher

@yi5h hacked together an account switcher for the web, so that folks can log in to more than one Tumblr account and easily switch back and forth between them. Super handy if you have one account for your roleplaying character, and another for your Star Trek fandom discussions. Very useful!

Tumblr Collections

On web as well, João made a version of an idea that’s floated around many times, the idea of being able to organize posts on Tumblr into "collections" that can be named and shared. I think everyone would very much enjoy having a collection called "waves" that’s just soothing GIFs of ocean waves.

As always, stay tuned to the @changes blog to see if any of these hacks make it on Tumblr for real!

Ok, some time ago someone suggested we should do a quick post with tips & trips for the beta editor, and I'm in the mood this morning, so let me put on my work hat for a sec and write a serious post about what we are doing with it. To mark this as a serious post, let me even add a title:

Beta editor tips and tricks

Uhh, getting all fancy here. Anyway, jokes aside, let me share a few details that make using the beta editor a pretty nice experience, and you may not be aware of (or at least, some of them!)

1. The Drawer

See, my favorite feature, the one I use most often, and the one I think it's more useful when writing tumblrstuff, it's the / drawer. When you are at the start of a new line and write /, a drawer gets open where you can, using only your keyboard, select what do you want to happen in that line:

It allows you to select the text style without having to write first and then select the text to change it. It also allows for media blocks insertion (which I don't use quite often, but hey, maybe you do!)

2. Quick links!

There's this great way to add links to a post that ... well, after using it, any other way feels pretty terrible. Just copy whatever url you want to link, write the text, select it and paste the url ... boom, link created!

3. Image handling

Yeah, the image sets have been pretty borken on the beta editor for a long time. We know, we are sorry. But we have been working a lot in the last couple of months on that area and now it's so much better! functional, even!

4. Tag! Tags!!! TAGSSSS!!!

You may know this already because it has been widely reblogged, but now you can edit tags in the beta editor!

5. Down to Markdown

Well, if for some reason you like to write your posts using markdown, but you don't like the beta editor (admittedly spartan) markdown mode, you can just use whatever fancier editor you like, copy/paste the markdown text, and see it being converted from engineerlish to well-adjusted-humanlish format before your eyes!

And well, that's all I can think of on this sunny morning on the outskirts of Madrid. We keep working on it heavily, so cool things are coming! I don't really feel comfortable leaking any incoming features that I'm not directly working at, so I better shut up before I tell you about sdlgkjsñlgkl

Another Tumblr dev: [appears out of nothing] Another Tumblr dev: [kicks my keyboard out of the window] Me: hey!! that was my good keyboard! Now I'll have to write on my laptop, like a nerd!

i have an undying need to see my fav space trio fighting tgt again 😭

Which path should he choose?

The path of the warrior, the path of the scholar, or the path of the artist?

Don't think I've seen them all together in one big video like this before