Tag: best stuff first

warriorvolga:

Here is your daily friendly reminder to support your local small internet artists by following these simple steps:

  1. Turning off “Best stuff first” on the tumblr app, it’s in the account settings under Dashboard Preferences
  2. Reblogging, instead of liking and moving on:
    Especially now with the new bullshit tumbr rolled out, its more important than ever to not only like something you see and like. No-one is gonna see your likes, only through reblogging an artist’s work will be shared with as many people as possible.

This has been a PSA, thank you and good night

To turn off Best Stuff first in the Android app, go into your account (the little person on the bottom right), then settings (the little wheel at the top right), click on General Settings (the first heading), then Dashboard Preferences, and flip the little switch OFF.

And I really want to second the “reblog, don’t just like” message. This includes fics and links to fics on AO3 as well as artworks.

@staff, you’re killing small-time creators. Maybe that’s your goal, being all evil and corporate and whatnot, but everyone I know hates this feature and has seen a huge drop-off in blog interaction since it was rolled out.

yourplayersaidwhat:

space-australians:

drferox:

clintfbarton:

hiddlescheekbones:

sergle:

jasper-appreciation:

unpretty:

unpretty:

Tumblr: *rolls out “best stuff first”*

My blog:

on the one hand this is a joke post because lol i have never made a good post in my life, but also, if i hadn’t made the connection

between this update and my sudden nosedive in activity, i would have been really fucking discouraged about all the shit i’ve been working on lately. i guarantee there are people on tumblr right now who haven’t made that connection, and who are trying to figure out why suddenly no one likes anything they’ve made. and that fucking sucks.

Reminder to go into your settings and turn off ‘Best Stuff First’ because my activity’s tanked a couple days ago for no reason so this stuff IS happening.

You WILL miss content with that setting on.

i ain’t joking when i say that my activity looks JUST like this too and i wasn’t sure why

I can only find the option on the app under Settings > Dashboard Preferences.

To support content creators do us a favour and turn off “Best stuff first”. Open the tumblr app (Android or iOs) and go to “Settings > Dashboard Preferences. And please reblog this post, so that everybody will see this. Thank you very much!

I assumed I just wasn’t writing very well, but maybe it’s not just me.

Am I supposed to pay to get my writing in front of followers now?

We interrupt your regularly-scheduled sci-fi content because this is important for app users, and it sucks. We all follow blogs because we want to see their content, not to have a crappy algorithm decide what’s best.

This blog is down approximately 80%, which doesn’t affect me other than as an annoyance (as this is a hobby and @okayto is small-ish) but the issue undoubtedly hurts others.

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Below are instructions for turning it off. You have to do it individually–it doesn’t matter if a blog you follow turns it off, you’ll still be affected unless you do the same.

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We don’t normally reblog PSAs, but this is very clearly affecting us, too! If you haven’t been getting your daily dose of RPG humor, this setting is probably why. Turn it off so you can see all the silly shit players say!

clintfbarton:

hiddlescheekbones:

sergle:

jasper-appreciation:

unpretty:

unpretty:

Tumblr: *rolls out “best stuff first”*

My blog:

on the one hand this is a joke post because lol i have never made a good post in my life, but also, if i hadn’t made the connection

between this update and my sudden nosedive in activity, i would have been really fucking discouraged about all the shit i’ve been working on lately. i guarantee there are people on tumblr right now who haven’t made that connection, and who are trying to figure out why suddenly no one likes anything they’ve made. and that fucking sucks.

Reminder to go into your settings and turn off ‘Best Stuff First’ because my activity’s tanked a couple days ago for no reason so this stuff IS happening.

You WILL miss content with that setting on.

i ain’t joking when i say that my activity looks JUST like this too and i wasn’t sure why

I can only find the option on the app under Settings > Dashboard Preferences.

To support content creators do us a favour and turn off “Best stuff first”. Open the tumblr app (Android or iOs) and go to “Settings > Dashboard Preferences. And please reblog this post, so that everybody will see this. Thank you very much!

The shape of my graph is the same (though of course the numbers are much lower). Is anyone actually benefiting from this change?

astraas:

bundibird:

sergle:

jasper-appreciation:

unpretty:

unpretty:

Tumblr: *rolls out “best stuff first”*

My blog:

on the one hand this is a joke post because lol i have never made a good post in my life, but also, if i hadn’t made the connection

between this update and my sudden nosedive in activity, i would have been really fucking discouraged about all the shit i’ve been working on lately. i guarantee there are people on tumblr right now who haven’t made that connection, and who are trying to figure out why suddenly no one likes anything they’ve made. and that fucking sucks.

Reminder to go into your settings and turn off ‘Best Stuff First’ because my activity’s tanked a couple days ago for no reason so this stuff IS happening.

You WILL miss content with that setting on.

i ain’t joking when i say that my activity looks JUST like this too and i wasn’t sure why

Reminder of how to fix it:

rb to save a content creator’s ass

le-wendigogo-reblogs:

le-wendigogo:

le-wendigogo:

staff:

Here it is: Best stuff first

Extremely handy if you follow a lot of people and hate missing anything good. 

Best Stuff First moves the best stuff on your dashboard—mhm!—right up to the top. 

It’s rolling out this week on iOS and Android, and comes with this Help Center article.  

Thanks! ✌️

I don’t have the option to turn it off yet, but chances are good that my dash is still affected. Chances are good that y’all have been affected. Whatever you do, keep checking your settings tab for the ability to TURN THIS OFF. Because we creators are gonna suffer from this.

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There’s a chance that y’all might not have gotten this option yet, but i finally did. For the sake of all creators out there, check your general settings and look for this option. If you have it, TURN IT OFF. Don’t let some algorithm dictate what you see.

Don’t just like this. It needs to be spread so people know. Not only will your feed be out of chronological order, but creators who aren’t hella popular are suffering lack of exposure because of this. This is the one thing i WILL pressure to reblog.

Can I just…

lunariagold:

shieldagent1:

zephrbabe:

dresupi:

In lieu of the new tumblr settings, can I make yet another plea with those of you who read fics and consume art on tumblr to please reblog them?   

Fics and art will die on a creator’s dash if they aren’t reblogged.  It’s never been more true than now. 

If you want to keep receiving content from creators, reblog the the content. If it’s something you enjoyed?  Reblog it.  It’s not hard.  I am going to make a point to reblog everything I read from now on.  (With the proper tags of course), as well as all the art that I see on my dash.  

I cannot make it simpler.  Posts WILL die unless they’re reblogged.  No one will see your ‘like’.  Your like is a bookmark for YOU to find it later.  Your reblog means the world to a creator because it means you are willing to go the little extra distance and recommend this to your followers.  

Don’t let creations die on the dash of those who created them.  

Reblog to save a creation.  

Reblog to keep a creator creating.

Reblog, please. 

Ironically, Tumblr ate my last attempt at this post, so I’ll keep it sweet:

1. It makes content creators’ day when you interact with us, especially reblog.

2. Comments and tag blathering are really, really special to me, and I look at allllll my reblogs just in case someone said something interesting in the tags.

3. It works. @dresupi reblogged something of mine and I immediately got more notes.

This. I am less and less motivated to post anything on here lately because there are so little responses I’m thinking people are sick and tired of my stuff. (maybe they are, idk…)

I would like to know what is the reason why so many people will like but not reblog. Are they just shy? Do they not understand that it is barely a tiny blip?

The only things I ever like without also reblogging are personal thoughts from people I follow that I don’t feel close or intimate enough to actively reblog or comment on; but I want the OP to see that I saw it and that I acknowledge them. It’s like a little friendly wink in a crowd; a discreet, personal nod.

Creators need propagation (and, yes, attention; everyone need to stop acting like this is such an evil thing in social creatures) to survive. The whole point of creating art of any kind is communicating something. Communication requires an audience. If you love it help it grow and reblog it.

I’m really concerned that this “Best stuff first” setting will screw over obscure creators who don’t get a lot of reblogs… because that means me. I’ve been in the fandom for 2 years, which feels like a long time but isn’t comparatively, and I’m told by people who have been around longer that they built up a readership (or viewership, for artists) with time, so just be patient and people will start noticing. But that can only happen if the process of gradually picking up readers/viewers is allowed to start. If Tumblr won’t let people see your shit in the first place because you don’t have a large following, then anyone who came in after or only shortly before the shift will just be permanently shut out.

[[Minor note: in the OP it should be “in view of” or “in light of,” not “in lieu of”… that’s a common confusion. “In lieu of” means “in place of” or “instead of.”]]