Ever Wanted To Know What The Objectively Best Thing In The World Is?

Ever wanted to know what the objectively best thing in the world is?

Hey folks! We figured we’d throw our hat into the ring of Tumblr completions. However, rather than making a themed set of polls, I’ve done just the opposite; anything goes, and you’ll have to make the tough choice between two completely unrelated characters, things, or concepts. Whats better? Your beloved blorbo? Ea-Nasir? Vanilla Extract? Who knows!

Rules— You can submit anything, but said thing must not be inappropriate, offensive, or a real person. Since the past is a lie, I’ll also allow the submission of anyone who was a historical figure.

I’ll be using the tag #nounstourney — follow or block it if you want to.

And there we have it! After a week, I’ll start up the polls and close the submissions. See you then, and may the best noun win!

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Assorted things competition sign up!

Please submit your favourite thing, idea, or concept. Do keep submissions clean though; no excessively dark subjects, political ideas, or in

tumblr blackout proposal

tumblr mobile has steadily become near unusable these past few updates. not just from a user experience perspective (which is important enough in itself) but also from an accessibility perspective.

examples include the new way the image viewer works (if you can call it "working"), the tumblr live button replacing the profile button, and that newly created blogs will be forced to have their main dashboard tab be the 'for you' page.

the demands of the protest would be along the lines of:

reverse the recent image viewer update

scrap the new users 'for you' page default setting

let us turn off tumblr live indefinitely

increase efforts against spam / porn bots

make reporting abuse and hate speech as easy as reporting as reporting spam

let us go nuts show nuts again... for real this time

remove flashing ads, including not accepting blaze campaigns for posts with flashing in them

commit to improving usability and accessibility, and listening to users!

(suggestions welcome!)

to protest against these usability issues, and inspired by the recent reddit blackout, i propose a 48 hour blackout (where you don't use tumblr at all). preferably of both mobile and web (since web has problems too) but mobile is the focus here.

[edit: a 'blackout' is when you don't log in, or interact with the site at all, for [x] amount of time.]

I suggest from the 30th of June.

this marks the end of pride month (for the "queerest place on the internet") and the start of disability month (since accessibility is a massive issue here).

tumblr office is in San Francisco, USA, so the times and dates will be calculated using their time zone (PDT).