Longest Application Process Ever. So Many Interview Rounds. So Much Traveling.

Can I post a baguette or is it against the community guidelines?

Americans are aslept¹! Quick, post pictures of real bread²!

¹ or whatever they do on thanksgiving. It's thanksgiving over there according to all my coworkers who are on holidays today.

² Because everybody knows that there is no real yummy bread in the US.

Tintin v. Indy, Adam Murphy

Tumblr Hack Week, September 2023 Edition

Once again it was Hack Week (more than just a day!) at Tumblr! A couple of times per year we slow down our normal work and spend a week working on scratching a personal itch or features we want as user and see how far we can get with our hacks. One thing from the last Hack Day in March made it all the way to production: redesigning how direct messaging looks on Tumblr! Pretty cool!

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…

Tumblr Patio

Maybe this will look familiar to you, but we love this idea of being able to organize Tumblr feeds into many “columns” side-by-side, creating a very dense but lively view of Tumblr. Lenny, Kelly, and Paul hacked this together, and we’re pretty excited to see where it’ll go. Each column can be a different feed on Tumblr, like For You, Following, your Activity, a specific blog, a search, Trending, even a Collection, so many possibilities!

Tumblr Booths

Meanwhile, a separate team of @autoplanes, Katie, @lex, Shaun, and Eve dug into the idea of selling digital and physical goods through blogs on Tumblr, leveraging our sibling platform WooCommerce! Blogs could put whatever they’d like for sale here, and have a dedicated space for it. We know there are so many amazing artists and artisans here who could use this to more easily sell their creations on Tumblr!

Avatar Frames/Hats

This one is a golden oldie, it keeps coming back hack day after hack day, and each time it gets even better. Santi and Maxime hacked together some example avatar “frames” and “hats” that folks on Tumblr could purchase for their blog. Maybe eventually people could create these and sell them or gift them to each other!

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

A desert outpost I designed!

twitter limiting the amount of tweets you get to read per day is ridiculous but if tiktok limited the amount of videos people got to see per day it would be the biggest win for mental health since ssris

Palpatine in the despecialized version of The Empire Strikes Back

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!

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).