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Something that all the people shouting "the Twitter invasion will ruin Tumblr!!!!!" are not understanding is that those newcomers... belonged here all along.

We are talking about people who are willing to uproot from their social safe place and move to a wild new frontier... Because Elon Musk bought Twitter.

See, your average Twitter user who don't care about Musk, or even may dislike him in an abstract manner, is not going to move anywhere.

It's the people who oppose what Musk ideologically represents who will end here. Those who will get harassed there for being leftist, gay, trans, socially conscious, etc.

You know, the people who will fit well in the site of the blue haired people with all kind of pronouns and genders and identities.

They are our stranded siblings, they belong here. Be nice to them!

附近 14

Nearby 14

Translated by Guandi Wu

Not to mention that by killing weak spiders you've been able to spot, you're reinforcing the spiders' gene pool, increasing the chance that one day YOU will be the one killed by a sneaky super-spider.

i just saved a spider in my room instead of killing it. my connection with nature has increased by 27%

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!

@cyle is not actually human. Don't be fooled, people!

hello there!

humans is an official blog run by actual people who work at tumblr. we made this blog so that we can reply to y'all in the notes of various posts.

actual humans:

Cyle (@cyle, he/him)

i like cheeseburgers

James (@macmanx, he/him)

Happiness Engineer at Automattic, GIF-maker on Tumblr, Trumpet in Polyhedra, and general doer of things at place.

Jas (@jezzuminah, she/her)

Artist on Tumblr, and Walking Encyclopedia. I've screamed about Chinese history at McD for 5 hours before (feel free to ignore me if that happens)

Lucila (she/her)

I refused to eat cows in the 80s, before it was cool

Emily (@emilyfowler, she/her)

lied about my age to make my first tumblr account and now I work to make sure kids don't lie about their age to make their first tumblr accounts

Bea (@key, she/her)

i like building towns for cute animals for my silly mental health and hyperfixating on things i learned about on tumblr.

Cates (@adulthoodisokay, she/her)

Secret old and extremely online. If something's trending on Tumblr I probably know why.

Jess (@theinex, she/her)

I have a dog named Kirby who loves watching the Food Network (obvi Guy Fieri). If there’s something weird, wild, but most importantly fun, happening on this Hellsite (affectionate), I’m probably one of the wizards behind the curtain.

Rocco (@photosbyrocco, he/him)

i make a lot of buttons here on tumblr dot com

Caroline (she/her)

i'm here for kpop and memes

kat (@kat, they/she)

i use [tumblr].

Elena (@reallyserious, she/her)

Recovering single-subject-Tumblr creator.

Lindsay (she/her)

Some of my favorite things are immersive podcasts (Mission to Zyxx 🛸, Seincast), gaming in VR, and learning alongside my fellow humans.

Guys.... I just had a GREAT idea.

Goncharov to himself: Will you be here when I return?

To this day, that line gives me chills.

it's real