lollipop Sept. 2nd, 2025

Hi, Ashton here to rant about websites adding features/changing the UI with seemingly zero imput from users or an option to remove the feature if a user doesn't want it.

Our target this time? Tumblr and it's god awful change of it's UI!

So, Tumblr, we all know it. Blogging website that everyone thinks is dead when it really isn't (and we'd like to keep that rumor up, thank you very much). It has a pretty simple UI in my opinion. When you reblog a post, you hit... Well, this'll sound crazy, but you hit the reblog button. This then takes you to a post editor where you can add your own text and/or tags. It was so simple! So easy! You click a button, straight to the point.

So how could anyone possibly fuck that up???

Cue today's update! The first obvious change is that the buttons at the bottom of posts (the comments, the reblog button, and the like button) got bigger, and they took away the "notes" button. Which, hey, it's really weird to see, but I personally can't complain too much? Bigger buttons means it'll be easier for people with bad vision to see them, so, pretty cool, I'm just wishing there was an option to make them smaller.

... And then comes their new reblog menu.

Now, instead of just immediately taking you to the reblogged post editor, it opens up a menu, giving you the option to go to that post editor, reblog immediately, or send the reblog to your que.

And I have one simple but very important question... WHY?!

The way reblogs functioned worked perfectly fine before! WHY are we suddenly changing the format?! Now there's an entirely new step to condition myself to using, which I know doesn't sound that hard and I sound like a whiner, but you try using the same format for ~two years only to have it suddenly switched up on you. It's fucked up I tell you!

I would have taken anything that would have let users input their opinion on this before they rolled the feature out, but NOPE! It's just shoved in our faces! I just... Really hope it's simply a test run and I'm one of the unlucky users who got picked to test it out, and when staff sees that people hate it (becuase why WOULDN'T people hate it???) they'll undo it.

But then again I swear people hated the fucking Twitter-ification of the site's UI and I'm pretty sure that hasn't been undone (I wouldn't know, I use an extension to get the old site layout back), so... Fuck man, new stupid menu, how wonderful- (/sarcasm)


lollipop Aug. 30th, 2025

Bwugh,,, Okay, after... An entire month, and then some, of letting this sit collect dust, as you can tell I'm finally deciding to revamp it! And hopefully this'll be the last time I do so, at least until I get a proper laptop and can do even more fun stuff (because as it stands, I'm just working with a Chromebook and the extreme limits that comes with. Heck, maybe someday I'll even understand how to create one of these from complete scratch!)

I'm not entirely sure how often I'll update this specific page. I'm going to try and keep it to much longer posts, like multiparagraph posts, and then my Tumblr can be used for short one to two sentance 3am thoughts. I'm also going to try and not complain as much, like my last blog was, because hi it's 2025 and I've made this year my year of imporvement in my arts and silly vibes! Even if it kills me!

Um... I guess some little updates since I last used this site as a blog? I got into Ace Attorney back in February thanks to its anime and it has consumed my life, help me- I started reading Witch Hat Atelier, and I think that that's the greatest piece of fantasy literature I have ever read, just straight up. Go to your local bookstore or library and read Witch Hat Atelier, it's so fucking gorgeous. Um... I finally got my ID in July, which is pretty cool. Which meant that I got my own library card finally, I've been wanting one for ages because of all the cool graphic novels and manga they have.

I've also gotten super into Vocaloid and virtual singers. My favorite is Kasane Teto, she's my GOAT. But I also love Kagamine Rin and Len and, obviously, Hatsune Miku. Vocaloid has majorly inspired one of my fursonas, Kibby, whose playlist is almost entirely full of various Vocaloid songs (there's at least one in there that isn't a virtual singer, but it still has his vibes). Honestly this year has been a big year of me branching out with artists I listen to, it's been very fun :3

Um... I don't know, that feels like a good update? I improved significantly with my art! But I can't really share any here lest they fuck with the formatting, but they're all on my Tumblr if you wanna see any of it. And, well, I guess that's it, see ya :3


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