Fennec-dragon, tech-obsessed, vaguely fandomish, hardly ever on here anymore - also active on my nsfw blogs fuzzbitch (furfag things) and suddenlyshaft (general gay things)
A former staff engineer, who recently left Tumblr and asked to remain
anonymous for professional reasons, tells Vox that the NSFW ban was “in
the works for about six months as an official project,” adding that it
was given additional resources and named “Project X” in September,
shortly before it was announced to the rest of the company at an
all-hands meeting. “[The NSFW ban] was going to happen anyway,” the
former engineer told me. “Verizon pushed it out the door after the child
pornography thing and made the deadline sooner,” but the real problem
was always that Verizon couldn’t sell ads next to porn.
Porn on Tumblr is something Verizon needs to wipe out if it’s going to
make any money off what it thinks is actually valuable about the
platform — enormous fandom and social justice communities that, just
before the Verizon acquisition, Khalaf was insisting the staff figure
out how to better monetize.
On that note-
Two former Tumblr employees said they were alarmed when Khalaf chose
Black Lives Matter as an example of a community that the company should
focus on converting into Yahoo media consumers. One told The Verge,
“Simon explicitly said that Black Lives Matter was an opportunity to
[make] a ton of money.”
hey y’all! I’ve been inactive for a while but I’ve met some seriously great friends through this site, figure I’ll ping here to remind anyone who wants to keep in touch in case things go poof!
I’m pretty easy to find cuz I just use radruler everywhere – if you want to chat, use discord (radruler#0621), telegram (radruler, might take a while to respond tho) or twitter ( https://twitter.com/radruler ), and if you find me elsewhere and wanna keep up there, feel free to drop a follow! I’m on weasyl, fa, furrynetwork, whatever, but rarely use those tbh. Gonna miss the vibe on this site tbh! :c
You can force Twitter to post the “raw” quality of your pics by adding one (1) pixel of transparency in the image.
Twitter uses some algorithm to compress images into .jpg, but it cannot do that if there’s transparency involved in the image, forcing it to be .png in its full quality. Literally one singular pixel ANYWHEREcounts for this, it can be on a corner if you don’t want it to be bothersome.
Figured some folks might be interested in this, considering Tumblr no longer supports the _raw trick.
For the sake of example instead of hearsay, I’ve posted a comparison in my Twitter here, but will also explain here. All images are 2000x2000px versions of my logo you can see on the top left of this post:
Finally finished this comic! The moon bear’s name is Julio, nickname is Momo The coyote’s name is Fernando, Feri for short. Feri and Momo / Julio and Fernando :3
The guys at the table in panel 3: Silver, Ty, LancerBuck and Mark, thanks for taking the ych slots and supporting me :3
Also thanks to my friend Rob @sonsofnortherndarkness for his suggestions to make the layout and letters of the fist page more fun and readable. Big improvement! :3
