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[astridv]

You know, tumblr has many shortcomings and part of me will always loathe that site and wait for fandom to finally find a new platform to move to.

But their tagging system is vastly superior to LJ/DW, no two ways about it.

p.s. I can't believe it's been almost a year since I posted here. Yikes. Between tumblr and my job there just was so little time left to hang out here.

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[havocthecat]

I think Tumblr might just have the next evolution of tags. I wouldn't mind if Dreamwidth rejiggered their tags to include a more tumblr-like search feature.

It takes a concerted effort to stay in touch on all the social media sites. Tumblr works for so many people, but I'm holding out for the next iteration of fandom's social media. I just don't go for Tumblr the way so many others do, it seems.

[astridv]

I think Tumblr might just have the next evolution of tags. I wouldn't mind if Dreamwidth rejiggered their tags to include a more tumblr-like search feature.

IA. if DW could incorporate tumblrs tag system into their code, we'd get the best of both worlds. But I don't even know if that would be technically possible.

It takes a concerted effort to stay in touch on all the social media sites.

Yeah. I'm on facebook too, that's where all my real life friends and acquaintances are, so I try to remember to check there every once in a while.

tumblr is really not bad for art. Pretty and funny pics. vids. gifsets! Oh, I love the gifsets.

[havocthecat]

Yeah, I don't know if they could without overhauling the whole code (and I have no idea what any of that entails), and the tag search here isn't terrible. I do wish it was easier for pictures to be uploaded or embedded on Dreamwidth, in some ways, but since animated gifs are hell to be around when I have a migraine, I'm actually OK without it. I like being in a place where I don't have to deal with avoiding animations.

[ratcreature]

I never use the tags on Tumblr. I can't figure out how you can combine them to filter a particular Tumblr, like to only display art in a specific fandom like you can easily do on bookmarking sites and with a bit of effort on LJ/DW, and the chatty tags do nothing for me (I don't get why people write fic in tags). What do you like about them?

[astridv]

Well, for example when I post fanart, I tag it with the fandom and the names of the characters, and everyone, not just people who follow me, will be able to see it right away when they check the tag. So I can reach many more interested viewers much more easily. Same for finding stuff that interests me. LJ/DW search doesn't compare for me.

The downside is that sometimes you get obnoxious hate posts in the tag of something you love, as well as trolls and spammers, but tumblr improved their blocking feature so it's pretty easy to get rid of that.

Took me some trial and error to figure out how tags work, though.

The chatting in tags grows on you. :)

[ratcreature]

The chatting in tags grows on you. :)

Like mold.

I think I use tags more to organize my own things. In theory there exist the function to browse DW posts across journals by tags via the latest posts page, but somehow it doesn't work with the tag filters, I think because it doesn't go back further through the posts with the tags to match.

[jae]

Just what I needed, another reason to hate tumblr. *g*

-J

[astridv]

There are really so many reasons to hate tumblr...

Hey, do you know when The Americans comes back? I couldn't find a date for s4.

[jae]

All they've said so far is "March," but I'd imagine an official date is coming soon!

-J

[astridv]

I'm so looking forward to it. I read the most amazing TA fic for Yuletide, I bet you've seen it (if you haven't written it yourself, heh) and it totally got me in the mood and reminded me why I love that show so much.

eta: oh, I checked and saw that Selena wrote it! I didn't know she was writing in this fandom. That is awesome. :D

[jae]

She wrote something for last year's yuletide too!

-J