the situation with tumblr just kinda reinforces the notion that most big social networks are grifts that are just constantly hemorrhaging money and the founders are just trying to trick venture capital investors into thinking they can make money off of ads just long enough for them to sell the site for a fat check and retire while the site slowly dies
this is, tragically, why vine died. you can’t put ads in front of a six second video. tumblr’s lasted much longer, and i don’t expect it to implode overnight, but it’s clearly very difficult to monetize tumblr. remember how staff said they were going to implement an ad program we could make money off of in, oh… 2016? that sure went nowhere
go view your blog and you’ll see stuff from 2 years ago or six months ago mixed in with your most recent posts. go back further and you’ll start seeing recent posts out of order. every blog i’ve clicked on so far has had this glitch. it’s because when something is flagged and unflagged, it reposts to the top of your blog and gets pinned there.
some people have reported that drafts they made that got flagged got unflagged and posted without their permission. there have been quite a few reports of it so beware.
if you click on notifications for someone’s blog, the post will show as a ghost post because blogs are physically out of order now. time stamps are messed up, too.
some people are reporting that nsfw posts are the only thing that show up in their archive. some people are reporting that because blogs can no longer index nsfw, if you had anything in your archive that even mentioned it, it will mess up your entire blog.
you can still view people’s posts as normal on dash for the most part it seems? but viewing anywhere else is completely messed up if not impossible. on my blog you need to click back one page and you’ll start seeing my newer posts–but everything i made the day the ban was announced is pinned to the top of my blog, too.
all of this seems universal. it’s rolling out in waves so good luck lol.
the in-house export blog function doesn’t work for people with more than 2k posts. don’t bother.
Gay Hell 