You know, I don’t think the sudden massive drop in notes that people have been seeing since November 8th is entirely due to the rollout of the “best first” dashboard feature. I think @staff also broke the activity pane.
A lot of folks have been seeing stuff like this on their blogs:
… and certainly, mine is no different. But let’s look at some specific numbers:
That represents like an 80% reduction in notes over a 72-hour span for me.
But check this out:
Check the timestamp. This post was clearly made during the span that the preceding graph covers – yet this one post has two and half times as many notes as my activity pane is claiming were received in total during that time period, and it’s not even the only trending post I’ve made since then.
Like, I’m sure that the “best first” feature has negatively affected huge numbers of people, there’s quo question about that, but it’s pretty clear that it’s also the case that the activity pane is busted.
Same:
According to the activity pane, in the entire last MONTH I’ve gotten ¾ the number of notes I got on this post I made a week ago. I think @unpretty mentioned seeing this too?
Oh my god, it’s actually even MORE broken.
I got another 700 notes on that post overnight, and according to the activity pane, the number of notes I’ve gotten went down by 56. And the “New followers” count is still 21 even though I gained 3.
Same with me. I took screenshots, because I posted several fics last night and I suspected something like this was going on:
This was taken around 11:30pm November 11. You can see that I had about 120 notes in the 10pm-midnight range.
Here’s that same range from my activity page this morning:
Now it’s telling me that I had less than 20 notes during that same time period. And, as you can see, my follower count went up by 1 between screenshots, but no new followers are shown.
So if you’re wondering why your activity suddenly seems to have dropped like a rock, it’s probably because Tumblr fucked something up on the activity page in addition to that bullshit “best stuff first.”
i forgot how fucking weird november is theres no afternoon its just night after 2pm
Pratchett went back to older throwaway jokes (like dwarves being apparently unisex) and used them as metaphors to discuss social change, racial assimilation, and other complex issues, while reexamining the species he’d thrown in at the margins of his world simply because they existed at the margins of every other fantasy universe. If goblins and orcs and trolls could think, then why were they always just there to be slaughtered by the heroes? And if the heroes slaughtered sentient beings en masse, how heroic exactly were they? It was a long overdue start on redressing issues long swept under the rug by a parade of Tolkien successors who never thought of anyone green and slimy as anything but a notch on the protagonist’s sword, and much of the urgency in Pratchett’s last few books seemed to be related to them. “There’s only one true evil in the world,” he said through his characters. “And that’s treating people like they were things.”
And in the last of his “grown-up” Discworld books, that idea is shouted with the ferocity of those who have only a few words left and want to make them count. Goblins are people. Golems are people. Dwarves are people, and they do not become any less people because they decide to go by the gender they know themselves to be instead of the one society forces on them. Even trains might be people, and you’ll never know one way or the other unless you ask them, because treating someone like they’re a person and not a thing should be your default. And the only people who cling to tradition at the expense of real people are sad, angry dwellers in the darkness who don’t even understand how pathetic they are, clutching and grasping at the things they remember without ever understanding that the world was never that simple to begin with. The future is bright, it is shining, and it belongs to everyone.
Roses are red, and violets are blue, this nice toad has a flower for you! A beautiful red European common toad [Bufo bufo] photographed in Germany by Roba66.
A package Mr. C picked up for me while he was out earlier, as it arrived. 600g weight? I think not 🙄
That was supposed to be a bottle of aquarium plant fertilizer, which someone decided to ship in one of the book-type mailers with totally unsecured ends. With a bottle weighing over a pound rattling around in there. Looks like everything just fell out, since somehow I don’t expect that would be a very tempting item for casual thievery.
Mostly surprised this is the first time I’ve needed to go through Amazon’s returns/replacements procedure, with as much as I’ve been buying through there. But, that was at least quicker and way more painless than anticipated, and more should be on the way. Hopefully packed better this time…
Well, that was pretty quick with the replacement!
Looks like they’re automatically sending it here instead of to the pickup locker again, which is kind of annoying.
But, can’t complain about the quick service otherwise. That item did have Prime shipping, but it wasn’t next day for the original empty box. 😅
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