On this fine Saturday evening.

[rogueslayer452]

++ Pit Babe season 2 trailer has emerged. I have no idea what's going on or what's going to happen get that man pregnant by the end I swear, but I'm excited nonetheless. Race Car Omegaverse 2: Electric Boogaloo, here we go!

++ Automattic, the company that owns Wordpress and Tumblr, laid off 16% of its employees recently. It explains the lack of any April Fool's shenanigans that often appears. Considering that it was already stated that Tumblr itself was run on a skeleton crew for some time, this has led to many people wondering and fretting (for the umpteenth time) about the fate of the site itself. Although I do think some of the worry is mere fearmongering it's definitely something to be prepared for, considering the state of most online spaces and how corrupt companies can ruin something good. We've seen this happen before, so the concern is very real. At the moment there are posts going around about how to back up accounts and to tell others where they may be migrating to as a precaution, which is a good idea anyway regardless of what happens.

I've been tempted on telling people to just come to DreamWidth, although I don't think anyone aside from Fandom Olds will have an interest in a journaling site, and unfortunately I don't think there is an equivalent to Tumblr anywhere. While the sentiment is "never say never", I am just not interested at all in joining Bluesky or Discord or any kind of social media platform like those.

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[rogueslayer452]

Oh yeah, Tumblr users are notorious for finding workarounds of fixing the various unnecessary site changes, which is good because whenever they push something out rather randomly it gets quite a negative response. On one hand, I understand the websites need money in order to keep running and survive and Tumblr is no exception, however it feels like whatever they do push for something, be it an update or something that could get them more money to go about it the wrong way. I think if they were more transparent and communicated with the users they're trying to appeal to with these ideas or approach it in a different way, people would be a little more lenient and actually support paying if they provided something fun and what the users would enjoy the benefits of as a community. But it'll never happen, unfortunately.

So yeah, I don't know what's going to happen. It's just a waiting game at this point, and for that time I'm just going to ride it out and continue to have my fun.

[rhoda_rants]

I'm impressed by how good they are figuring out those workarounds!

On one hand, I understand the websites need money in order to keep running and survive and Tumblr is no exception, however it feels like whatever they do push for something, be it an update or something that could get them more money to go about it the wrong way.

See, that's the thing. Yes, it needs to make money to survive. But they seem to think the best way to do that is to try and make it more like every other algorithm-driven social media site out there, when the reason people stay on Tumblr is because it's NOT like that.

I think DreamWidth has their business model figured out pretty well. I don't know all the details, but the staff is pretty good at letting people know just how and when they're going to implement changes, and seems open to feedback. I know it's not the same (which again, is why I'm here, instead of elsewhere on the web), but knowing their audience is a big plus.

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