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I have been trying to do the Tumblr thing and I'm just... not getting it. I follow precisely five fandom peopleand some fun porn Tumblrs because, c'mon, it's the internet and I can't keep up with my feed. I guess most people use it as something you're supposed to constantly check throughout the day, like Twitter? Because some people post dozens of things a day, and even with just those five fandom Tumblrs, I get double and triple reblogs. And it's not practical to keep checking on my phone all day, because a lot of the posts contain multiple gifs and the damn thing takes forever to load, if it loads at all (also, there's no "under the cut" option for the porn, so I feel weird checking it in public at all).
AND I CAN'T JUST FUCKING COMMENT ON SOMETHING. That's what drives me nuts -- it really doesn't work as a replacement for LJ because there's no way to really have communities or dialogues without endless, repetitive reblogging. Don't even get me started on the endless stupid fucking hashtags, which make things impossible to read. And yet, much of fandom seems to be moving over there, and I don't want to be left out.
Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing an obvious comment box? I know about Tumblr Savior, but that doesn't filter out humongous gif posts or reblogs and if I can't run it on my phone, it's not worth much to me, anyway. Plus, I don't want to block every post that mentions, say, Benedict Cumberbatch, because I might miss some Sherlock or Trek news or fanart or something, I just don't want to be constantly bombarded with massive pictures of him. (He's an awesome actor, but I simply cannot get around the fact that he has a weird alien face. YMMV)
I feel like the old lady with a rake screaming "YOU KIDS STOP POSTING SO DAMN MUCH!" I'd love to follow more people, but since I can't keep up with five (one of whom barely posts), it's pretty much impossible. And anything potentially important that I wanted to post would just get lost in the noise. For example, if I wanted to share that I watched the season premiere of Community tonight and got kind of uncomfortably turned on by Jeff tango dancing with the creepy Dean, I would miss the important emotional support that I get (or used to get) from sharing with my followers on LJ.
So congratulations, people who are still reading this, you got to learn one more awkward fact about me! Now how do we go about getting everyone back on LJ?
I have been trying to do the Tumblr thing and I'm just... not getting it. I follow precisely five fandom people
AND I CAN'T JUST FUCKING COMMENT ON SOMETHING. That's what drives me nuts -- it really doesn't work as a replacement for LJ because there's no way to really have communities or dialogues without endless, repetitive reblogging. Don't even get me started on the endless stupid fucking hashtags, which make things impossible to read. And yet, much of fandom seems to be moving over there, and I don't want to be left out.
Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing an obvious comment box? I know about Tumblr Savior, but that doesn't filter out humongous gif posts or reblogs and if I can't run it on my phone, it's not worth much to me, anyway. Plus, I don't want to block every post that mentions, say, Benedict Cumberbatch, because I might miss some Sherlock or Trek news or fanart or something, I just don't want to be constantly bombarded with massive pictures of him. (He's an awesome actor, but I simply cannot get around the fact that he has a weird alien face. YMMV)
I feel like the old lady with a rake screaming "YOU KIDS STOP POSTING SO DAMN MUCH!" I'd love to follow more people, but since I can't keep up with five (one of whom barely posts), it's pretty much impossible. And anything potentially important that I wanted to post would just get lost in the noise. For example, if I wanted to share that I watched the season premiere of Community tonight and got kind of uncomfortably turned on by Jeff tango dancing with the creepy Dean, I would miss the important emotional support that I get (or used to get) from sharing with my followers on LJ.
So congratulations, people who are still reading this, you got to learn one more awkward fact about me! Now how do we go about getting everyone back on LJ?
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Date: 2013-02-08 06:25 am (UTC)This has meant not following some of my friends, because while I love them a lot they might post like 100 reblogs a day and I can't keep up with that. So I try to limit myself to blogs that solely post things relevant to my interests, plus a small handful of friends who aren't that active.
There are also people (like my brother) who don't bother reading every single thing on their dash; it's more like an unending stream of awesome that they can pop by to look at every once in a while for a few minutes before going off to do something else. I can't do that because I'm a completist, but it works for others, perhaps a lot of them. Tumblr is sort of time-dependent; if you post something, there's no guarantee that the people following you are going to see it unless they happen to be online at that time.
For commenting - some posts have a comment option in the form of a little dialogue bubble icon at the top right hand corner of the post, or a 'reply to this post' field at the bottom. Or you could just reblog something 'as text', and delete the earlier comments so that it's just the latest comment plus the one you're replying to, rather than the entire post and resulting conversation. Also, hashtags! Commentary can go in there. Why do they make things hard to read? :/
Also, blame LJ for chasing everyone off with their new features. >_> have you seen their new friends page template which will soon be forced on everyone? They basically want to make LJ into Facebook and Tumblr. We'd probably have a better chance of getting fandom to move to DW.
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Date: 2013-02-08 06:28 am (UTC)Also there's the ask boxes for one-on-one conversations that you can choose to make public if you want.
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Date: 2013-02-08 08:58 am (UTC)CAN WE JUST TAKE A MINUTE TO TALK ABOUT HOW UNCOMFORTABLY HOT THAT TANGO SCENE WAS? BECAUSE JFC. WHERE DID THAT COME FROM???
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Date: 2013-02-08 01:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-08 04:38 pm (UTC)I like DW okay but I still feel like LJ is my comfort zone.
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Date: 2013-02-08 04:52 pm (UTC)my thoughts exactly when i first embarked on the mystery that is tumblr. i had no idea how to make posts and whatnot, and i'm still in the dark concerning certain things (<--- especially since tumblr changed its layout), so i mainly reblog things.
thank god i had a friend who's had a tumblr for longer, so she helped me out quite a bit. it takes some time to get used to, but it's grown on me and i love being on tumblr :) i dun follow a lot of people, but some of them post quite a lot and there is no way of keeping accurate track of it, so i just 'go with the flow' and, if time permits, usually go back between 10-50 pages at times and see what the peeps i follow have posted :)
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Date: 2013-02-08 05:35 pm (UTC)you should download missing e. with it, the tags will all wrap up in continuous lines so they're easy to read. the reason why people use them a lot instead of adding comments is that adding comments is, frankly, lame as shit. unless you have something very relevant and interesting to add, the person who made the post will not have any interest in seeing your reblog notification with whatever random comment you added. kudos to your followers. i know i, at least, always remove comments made by other people unless they're vital to the post.
and you can reply! you just have to follow those people for more than one week, or have a mutual follow with them! if for some reason they have the reply option off, just go to their askbox.
tumblr is really easy to use, but it's not livejournal and you shouldn't try to make it livejournal? people there usually dont say anything unless they either a) have a good reason and something to add themselves or b) know you and want to talk to you. so if you make a post about the newest episode of community, there's a high chance you won't get any replies until you get a good number of followers and make a bunch of friendships.
hope this helps?
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Date: 2013-02-08 08:05 pm (UTC)i completely agree on that's lacking a sense of community but i guess most people work that out with the tracked tags.
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Date: 2013-02-09 02:07 am (UTC)(Except about Benedict Cumberbatch's face. Omg, I would lick him.)
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Date: 2013-02-09 05:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-09 05:23 am (UTC)CAN WE JUST TAKE A MINUTE TO TALK ABOUT HOW UNCOMFORTABLY HOT THAT TANGO SCENE WAS? BECAUSE JFC. WHERE DID THAT COME FROM???
WTF I HAVE NO IDEA I'M JUST ALL FLUSHED AND CONFUSED NOW
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Date: 2013-02-09 05:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-09 05:26 am (UTC)Right? At least LJ has a FAQ and instructions and shit.
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Date: 2013-02-09 05:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-09 05:29 am (UTC)But where is this reply option? I've seen the speech bubble at the top or the text box at the bottom only a handful of times. Does the person have to have it specially enabled?
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Date: 2013-02-09 05:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-09 05:31 am (UTC)(And more power to you. He's just not my cup of tea.)
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Date: 2013-02-09 05:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-09 08:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-09 01:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-02-11 05:28 am (UTC)THIS EXPLAINS SO MUCH. It's dumb, but it explains so much.
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Date: 2013-02-11 11:50 am (UTC)no subject
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