Hello folks. Since you last read me I haven’t had much internet, largely because I’ve moved to a new flat. Today I got the internet back so now I can start reading what you were posting a month ago, hurrah! And maybe eventually I’ll catch up and can read things within a day or two of your posting them, which will be lovely.
Hope you’re all well. Do drop me an ask if you want to say hello.
(Hmm, that ‘mysterious minor ailments’ tag has become a bit inaccurate now, hasn’t it? Oh well.)
Argh, I’m normally quite good at pressing ‘answer privately’ or ‘publish’ accurately but this phone-based tumblin is all different. Sorry for the confusion, folks.
Oh, I’ve caught up. I was less far behind than I thought… Confusing.
And if I’m still following you now, you were not one of the people mentioned in the previous post.
Gonna do a little bit of unfollowing, just three or four people who I don’t really interact with and whose main topics of discussion don’t overlap with mine. Very nothing personal! I like you! And some of you don’t even follow me anyway!
And maybe, just possibly, I’ll find that that makes space on my dashboard so I can start following one or two of the gazillions of you I’ve been wanting to follow for ages. Fingers crossed!
Okay so I made a post a few days ago that I initially saved as private so I could have a think about it and now I’ve made it public but I can’t get the time-stamp to update so it will appear on your dashboards among other posts from 9 January.
Matters arising:
Oh pants, I forgot I was going to stop putting ‘read more’ cuts in stuff. Sorry Sparkles! Gonna take it out now.
Okay, so I’m really really tired now and I’m not going to finish sending ‘happy today’ messages to everyone I meant to send them to. If you haven’t had one, I probably did intend to send you one and in any event I still wish you a very happy today.
I’m almost caught up on Tumblr after several months of chronic behind-ness and at least a couple of weeks of being too busy and / or exhausted to read Tumblr at all. Oddly in the time when I’ve been posting almost nothing I did gain a couple of new followers, but less oddly I have also lost about the same number. Don’t know whether they were the same people — if not, and if the new people are still here, hello! There will be some content on this tumblr fairly soon, I promise.
In the mean time, good night everyone, and hugs and holiday thoughts if you like that kind of thing.
Why do ‘<sup>’ tags work on the dashboard but not on my tumblr, while ‘<u>’ tags work on my tumblr but not on the dashboard?
Gah.
I always get a bit stumped about whether or not to Like posts that consist of somebody saying something not-okay and then somebody else reblogging and pointing out that it isn’t okay. Because I feel like if I Like it then nobody who doesn’t know me will be able to tell that it’s got an extra Like because someone supported the original post or the rebuttal. And I worry that the original poster will interpret the large number of notes as support. Especially when it’s a post that has been reblogged in agreement as well as in disagreement.
Sometimes I just Like it and then instantly unLike it again. Don’t know why that makes me feel better. There’s no logic to it really.
Flurgh.
perseidbadger replied to your post: curiosity has driven me here to inquire whyfor the new posting style (with the summaries and the read mores etc.)?
You can always post a summary, then advise those who would like to skip it to press J to go to the next post on their dash. (That doesn’t work on phones, but I personally would rather scroll to skip than click “read more” when it comes to my phone.)
Good idea! I shall try that, thanks.
curiosity has driven me here to inquire whyfor the new posting style (with the summaries and the read mores etc.)?
Hi hi, sorry for not getting to this for a long time (though actually there are messages that have been waiting for a reply for much much longer than this because I’m totally rubbish).
Yeah, it was kind of for a mess of reasons. One was that I’ve never been very confident about knowing what sorts of things needed trigger warnings, especially since although I’m aware of the most common things I’m also aware that some people get triggered by really unexpected things, and some people aren’t exactly triggered but just don’t want to read about some types of thing, and it seemed like possibly a super-safe bet was to just put everything behind a cut and give a summary.
And then also I know I sometimes (though not so much these days because I have no time ever) write really really long posts and feel guilty about taking up so much space on people’s dashboards, and that factors in to the way I just a lot of the time worry that I’m forcing myself into people’s awareness and I’d really rather be quite unobtrusive and give people as much opportunity as possible to not pay attention to me if they don’t want to. Which doesn’t make a great deal of sense on Tumblr because if people are following me then I suppose they probably don’t want to ignore me but I don’t know, stuff.
And I did do a sort of consultation thing before I started doing it, to see what people thought, and I think basically one person said it seemed like a good idea and nobody else said anything at all about it, so that seemed to be 100% in favour.
But I know it’s really pants for you because you hate ‘read more’ cuts because of phone reasons (sorry, by unfortunate coincidence my brain has decided to shut down for the night while I’m doing this reply, so I’ll try to finish it while I can still spelling), so now I’m thinking of maybe just doing the summaries but without the cuts, which should have mostly the same advantages except for the silly one that was only really ever an advantage because of my irrational desire to take up as little space as possible anyway. Would that be better?
Summary: plea for help with a CSS accessibility fix that people are recommending.
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A continuing conversation about bookmarking / favouriting things straight from the dashboard.
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