May 8th, 1:31 pm
quote
127 notes

tumbularity

lonelysandwich:

As a matter of principle, I fear and thus despise the new and the different. That said, notes on tumblr’s new feature, Tumblarity.

1. The design is really neat. Keep it up, tumblr designers!

2. The Tumbluality score in my Dashboard reminds me of my mortality. Stop that. Let me hide that rapidly decaying metric or I swear to Christ I’ll never visit my Dashboard again. Consider yourself threatened. (J/K love you, tumblr!)

I know your intent was to incentivize kids to keep on putting change in the slot to watch the number grow, but it makes me all nervous and pukey. What happens when my number shrinks ever towards zero? Do my body parts start vanishing from pictures? Seriously. Stop it.

3. Across the quad at Twitter, we play a little game called Favrd. It’s fun to play because (like tumblr), it’s fun to keep track of how many people faved something you wrote. At the end of the day, Favrd keeps tabs on who got the most faves on the Leaderboard. And a spot on the Leaderboard is a real kick in the pants. Makes you feel good. Makes you want to keep playing. And the best part? It starts all over the next day. Tabula rasa. The only number that persists is the number of people who read your content. If I had a running all-time tally of how many times I’d been faved, synthesized into an ambiguous number that punished my mellow post frequency by dropping rapidly, I’d hate Favrd and I wouldn’t play the game.

From points 1 through 7, Adam Lisagor has some interesting things to say on the new Tumblarity. After reading, you might not be sure whether he’s happy overall or not with the change, but it’s a good read.

  1. sinkbelow reblogged this from amotion
  2. belle-brita reblogged this from lonelysandwich
  3. amotion reblogged this from lonelysandwich
  4. heathershae reblogged this from lonelysandwich
  5. proximityaffect reblogged this from lonelysandwich
  6. ohyeahpaulchin reblogged this from lonelysandwich
  7. whybird reblogged this from lonelysandwich
  8. suddenly reblogged this from lonelysandwich
  9. assortednerdery reblogged this from lonelysandwich and added:
    Mr. Sandwich makes some good points about...“Tumblarity” feature - overall,
  10. davidchen reblogged this from lonelysandwich
  11. mopostal reblogged this from lonelysandwich and added:
    brilliant. Evidence...man named his company Sandwich Dynamics

All opinions expressed here are those of the author, Chris Bowler. Cupertino Kool-Aid may have had some affect. More laughs and giggles to be found here.

If you like what you've read, some of the my favorite posts are compiled here.

Older
Newer