I’m Ngl I Know People Want The Bots Gone And The Tumblr Staff To Focus On That Instead Of Fun Stuff,

I’m Ngl I know people want the bots gone and the tumblr staff to focus on that instead of fun stuff, but two things:

A) Bots are extraordinarily difficult to get rid of. It’s like trench warfare and bots adapt to every new security measure you might take. The staff want them gone as much as you do if not more because it probably actually affects their daily job tasks lol

B) Fun shit like checkmarks and vanilla extract tumblers help fund the site so we don’t have to have ads that suck on it.

I know you want a better experience, but the staff are probably working on multiple things at the same time. Fun shit and maintenance shit. And they’re probably doing everything they can. Re-fucking-lax.

Beta editor tips and tricks

Uhh, getting all fancy here. Anyway, jokes aside, let me share a few details that make using the beta editor a pretty nice experience, and you may not be aware of (or at least, some of them!)

1. The Drawer

See, my favorite feature, the one I use most often, and the one I think it's more useful when writing tumblrstuff, it's the / drawer. When you are at the start of a new line and write /, a drawer gets open where you can, using only your keyboard, select what do you want to happen in that line:

Ok, Some Time Ago Someone Suggested We Should Do A Quick Post With Tips & Trips For The Beta Editor,

It allows you to select the text style without having to write first and then select the text to change it. It also allows for media blocks insertion (which I don't use quite often, but hey, maybe you do!)

2. Quick links!

There's this great way to add links to a post that ... well, after using it, any other way feels pretty terrible. Just copy whatever url you want to link, write the text, select it and paste the url ... boom, link created!

3. Image handling

Yeah, the image sets have been pretty borken on the beta editor for a long time. We know, we are sorry. But we have been working a lot in the last couple of months on that area and now it's so much better! functional, even!

4. Tag! Tags!!! TAGSSSS!!!

You may know this already because it has been widely reblogged, but now you can edit tags in the beta editor!

5. Down to Markdown

Well, if for some reason you like to write your posts using markdown, but you don't like the beta editor (admittedly spartan) markdown mode, you can just use whatever fancier editor you like, copy/paste the markdown text, and see it being converted from engineerlish to well-adjusted-humanlish format before your eyes!

And well, that's all I can think of on this sunny morning on the outskirts of Madrid. We keep working on it heavily, so cool things are coming! I don't really feel comfortable leaking any incoming features that I'm not directly working at, so I better shut up before I tell you about sdlgkjsñlgkl

Another Tumblr dev: [appears out of nothing] Another Tumblr dev: [kicks my keyboard out of the window] Me: hey!! that was my good keyboard! Now I'll have to write on my laptop, like a nerd!

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