As of today, November 17, 2018, any post with links, any links, even to other tumblr posts, just don’t show up anymore in tumblr’s search engine.
I just found out about it, after I posted a fic with a link to my masterlist and it got little to no notes (it shuldn’t). I was right – the moment I deleted the links, my post magically appeared in the search again. Wow.
Please spread the word to warn the others.
This affects artists who want to cross promote their work, writers who want to link to previous chapters or to a masterlist, and editors who want to link to their YouTube channels, among just a few. This new policy will kill content creators’ ability to spread their work, and for what? A poor attempt to use the algorithm to crack down on porn bots and scammers? Sad.
In the meantime, here’s what I suggest: post your work with no added links, and tell people to check the notes for your masterlist, story navigation, links to ko-fi, patreon, and other social media sites. Make sure you have all those things ready, then paste it into a reblog and have people access them that way. It’s stupid, but it’s a work around we’ll have to use until tumblr gets their act together.
Reblogging this here because I put links in pretty much all my posts so I’m going to basically disappear from Tumblr searches, more so than I already have (as a NSFW blog I’m already mostly invisible). I’ve been using a redirect for my patreon link that doesn’t even work on mobile, as many of you have contacted me about, but since it doesn’t matter anymore I’m just going to go back to using the direct link. All of my comics have links to other pages so this will also be unsearchable through the main tumblr platform.
Reblogging is pretty much the only way new folks are going to be able to find works with links in them anymore so consider reblogging works you like more frequently so that people will see them. At least until this terrible website dies lol.
nick cage, internet explorer, comic sans, and crocs
WHAT IF TUMBLR WAS A SCHOOL?
“this is the only sex gif i’ll ever reblog”
posts written as an anNOYING CRESCENDO
david karp unironically being called daddy
peasant
based on the notes of this post, i’ve decided to give an update!
2017 tumblr dashboard, Tumblr Veteran Edition:
people who genuinely think that people on tumblr were nicer in 2012 because you could say the n word without getting run off the site
every few months you hear of a new scam. you wonder where people get the money to get scammed in the first place
at least 10 posts on your dash of people with Gofundmes begging to not die on the streets because the economy is so fucked up
thinking it can’t get worse, politically, but news breaks that donald trump publicly admits to using sliced onions as deodorant. nobody blinks an eye.
an article blatantly from the onion or clickhole that people take at face value
seeing a meme that’s genuinely funny and sighing in pain because you know you’ll grow to hate it in two days time
somehow still being on this site after almost half a decade, hardened. you want to quit so fucking badly. and yet you continue to scroll. your body cries out for you to stop but you do not. you scroll and there is no end.
tumblr “a massive porn botnet has visibly propagated itself across nearly every post with over 1,000 notes for the past four weeks on a site whose tos allows 13 year olds to use it and its moderators are either powerless to do anything about it or simply don’t care” dot com
Why is it on Tumblr Mobile™ you can close the app and open it 3 days later and still be on the same spot of your dash, but then other times you switch out of the app to respond to a text, and when you immediately come back, it’s gone, your family is gone, your house is gone, your dignity is gone.
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