Post 9ryeYaVKCI6TDNAMOO by melissasage@radical.town
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 (DIR) Post #9rydXfJkiRwNtokXGC by melissasage@radical.town
       2020-02-12T23:20:25Z
       
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       people who don't use it don't understand just how profoundly bad of a website tumblr is. i'm not even talking about the community, just the actual software itself. to say that tumblr is incompetently coded is an insult to incompetence. tumblr's source code is the programming equivalent of sweet bro and hella jeff.
       
 (DIR) Post #9rydXfa3joz6iONYg4 by melissasage@radical.town
       2020-02-12T23:26:57Z
       
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       for **years** on tumblr there was a bug that let you edit other people's posts. you could just boost someone else's post and make it look like they were professing their love for fat cocks. that was a thing you could just do. it only ever got "fixed" because someone did it to John Green and he complained. and "fixed" is in quotes there because the community immediately found another method to edit other people's posts, that was ALSO not patched for years
       
 (DIR) Post #9rydXfqijsJPY4AreC by melissasage@radical.town
       2020-02-12T23:33:03Z
       
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       this is the kind of thing that happened *all the fucking time* any time the dev team did any kind of aesthetic tweaks to the website
       
 (DIR) Post #9rydXgE7Kt1kid7Y7E by luna@hellsite.site
       2020-02-12T23:36:33Z
       
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       @melissasage Okay but this image is incredible
       
 (DIR) Post #9rydXganyXAvqzjfTk by melissasage@radical.town
       2020-02-12T23:38:40Z
       
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       @luna have another
       
 (DIR) Post #9ryeYYsIFvHuA1tfuq by melissasage@radical.town
       2020-02-12T23:35:56Z
       
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       tumblr would regularly "remove" features by simply adding a "hidden" CSS attribute, rather than actually removing the feature. this notoriously allowed people to undo tumblr staff's automatically marking their blog as explicit, but also allowed people to just manually send each other fan mail, which was a terrible DM feature, long after it was supposedly discontinued, because the backend was still functional and all tumblr did was hide the buttons.
       
 (DIR) Post #9ryeYZ9JEetn0nrGRE by melissasage@radical.town
       2020-02-12T23:37:24Z
       
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       you could get around the automated "moderation" bots that removed porn and other nsfw content by simply tagging your post "sfw".
       
 (DIR) Post #9ryeYZR2Al4ptm9Q48 by melissasage@radical.town
       2020-02-12T23:41:52Z
       
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 (DIR) Post #9ryeYaVKCI6TDNAMOO by melissasage@radical.town
       2020-02-12T23:44:36Z
       
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       here's a diagram of how the tumblr reblog system "works", courtesy of tumblr user canmom
       
 (DIR) Post #9ryeYavCe4nsVdH1jE by melissasage@radical.town
       2020-02-12T23:48:31Z
       
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       tumblr added a volume control slider to their audio player. this is what happened.