once again i am crawling out of my den to tell you all that if someone says “women” on a post, and your thoughts automatically jump to “they must be excluding trans women” you do not think trans women are women.
like just saying, your default of women clearly does not include trans women. otherwise you wouldn’t get so tilted if someone says ‘women’ and not ‘women and trans women’. you are acting like trans women are a subset of actual women and it’s disgusting.
and if you wanna cry terf psy-op or whatever, let me be very frank when i say that you need to grow up. its not people’s responsibility to have a huge disclaimer on every post to pander to your lack of critical thought.
hey if you can reblog a ‘trans rights’ post while still having internalized transmisogyny, you are obligated to reblog this post.
we need to go back to hating tumblr. no more hellsite (affectionate). don’t even think of giving these clowns your money. if i see you with a checkmark next to your name i’m opening fire
it’s funny to me how the logic behind tumblr’s new layout changes are to coddle potential new users, to make them feel more comfortable by giving them a layout that’s more familiar to navigate
…..by making the CURRENT users feel LESS comfortable by giving them a layout that’s LESS familiar to navigate.
they’re prioritizing a hypothetical scenario over their established, existing userbase, some of which (like me) who have been here for 10+ years
This is the contact support form which is also the giving feedback form. I imagine this is more likely to get listened to than replying to staff posts with incoherent rage so I recommend just telling them the layout change is really bad before they get a chance to commit to it:
Please be more eloquent than this example. Also to the users with unchecked anger issues that you think makes you cool: no violently threatening the support team please that will help nothing and probably just be counterintuitive Just say the layout is bad and you don’t like it. I believe in my heart that we can perform a #ThisNewLayoutSucksAssSweep
The new layout it a whole mess. Thankfully Xkit can already help with a bunch of this! I’m sure it’ll give more options soon.
Vanilla Tumblr: (I have marked in red what can be removed. The tabs can be set not to stick, so you will really only see them at the top of your dash. Empty box on the left for hidden notifications and shop sparkle, i just didn’t have any. I’m EU so no Live for me).
As this is an experiment for which you have asked feedbacks for, here is my reaction upon seeing it above, and my more detailed feeling of it now. I will start with the overall layout and my feeling of it, and then touch upon it’s accessibility and usability, as seen by me and my experience as a user.
The reason I am not on Twitter and have barely touched Mastodon, is because of this layout. This several columns layout with the “main” one in the middle and squeezed between two other “side” columns feel oppressing, claustrophobic and cluttered.
Due to this layout I have been leaving the Tumblr tab more often than I used to, and it makes me want to come back less and less.
As well, I do not like the create button at the bottom of the column on the left as it feels kind of thrown in there and keeps catching my eye despite me, which is very frustrating and annoying and makes me leave the site faster.
This also goes for the “tabs” feature at the very top, which I wasn’t using in the first place but feels icky to me.
This layout feels very counter-intuitive, as everything has been switched. Long term users and disabled users relying on muscle memory will have a hard time using the website now. Now, I imagine you think “well, they’ll learn”, but this is another bad change amongst other, one that literally makes the website impossible to use. It would be the last straw.
I have caught myself several time moving my mouse to the places were things used to be, and felt frustrated when they weren’t there, which prompted me to close the website and do something else.
As stated before, the “create” button at the bottom is very jarring and makes it uncomfortable to use as I have trouble focusing on the actual posts I’d like to see. This is one of the reason I liked Tumblr layout more than other website, for it’s clean slate look with just the post in the middle, allowing me to easily focus on these and scroll and actually stay on the website, which I’m assuming is what you want.
If you must absolutely go with this design, then I suggest dimming and moving the create button on the right, switching back the search bar and tool bar to left and right respectfully, and removing all the text next to the tool bar, leaving only the icons, maybe with the text appearing when hovering, so it would appear less cluttered and stop battling for my attention with everything else.
TDLR; This layout is overwhelming, cluttered, frustrating, counter-intuitive, and makes me leave the website more often.
