What do you want to know about tumblr?

[dicta_contrion]

leviosa2016 has been a blast!! So many thought-provoking panels, and so many amazing, fantastic, phenomenal, creative, excited, exciting fellow fans!!

One theme that's come up, particularly in yesterday's H/D Panel (which...still fangirling a little, ngl) but elsewhere as well is the continuing divide between tumblr and lj. As it happens, and as some of you may already know, I'm a bit of a tumblr enthusiast, and I've volunteered to put together a "tumblr 101" post (perhaps a bit like this but in reverse) for the great many people who are interested in exploring that side of fandom but are put off by the mysteries of how tumblr works.

While I think I got a sense for what people might find helpful, I'd like to put out general questions to anyone who thought of something post-panel or heard tumblr discussed elsewhere and open it to everyone who wasn't at Leviosa.

What would you like to know about how to use tumblr? What sorts of content do you want to find? (Fan art? Fic? Fic recs? Headcanon posts? Aesthetics? Meta? Gifs and gifets? fancasts?) What sorts of interactions would you like to have? Are there particular things you find confusing about the interface, community norms, anything at all?

It'll probably take about a week (thanks, work) to get the post up, and I suspect we may need more than one (which is fine!!! I am so, so, so, so excited about more people finding new fannish content and maaaaaybe hopefully becoming more active!!! Three exclamation points doesn't really cover it!!!) but please, ask away, and I'll see what I can do!


Also, to follow up on a few things mentioned over the course of the weekend, links to: my masterlist of recs (also available, though less organized, on tumblr), daily h/d quotes (which are also recs), my (more recent) salty tumblr rants, tumblr posts about representation, tumblr posts about queerness in the HP canon, the recent discussion about the term "genderbend," and my ask box for anyone who's got questions and wants to ask them on tumblr.

More soon! And please, ask away!

Comments

[oakstone730.livejournal.com]

The most vexxing things I find is
- trying to find original poster and original posting date (I use Xkit but that only gives the date of the reblog that is in my dash).
- trying to read all the notes a post has, many time there is interesting info shared but almost impossible to find in a popular post because you have to scroll past all the notices to find ones where people commented
- trying to search tags and content effectively. This is mostly a vain one, but I stumble across recs that people give for my stories but it is by pure happenchance or when someone sends me a link. I'm tracking Oakstone730 tags and get bupkus- never get a notice unless someone uses that @oakstone730 to tag it, if it is in the main body of the post there is no way to find it.

[the other thing that gets me is untagged NSFW posts but that is for a vent for another day}

[oakstone730.livejournal.com]

AND...thank you for doing this and it was SO LOVELY MEETING YOU!

[dicta-contrion.livejournal.com]

SO SO SO SO SO LOVELY!!!! I'm already ready to go back and hang out some more! ♥

[dicta-contrion.livejournal.com]

Yessss, that vent. Vents - the NSFW one and the recs one. With you on both. Tagging is one of the things to talk about, try to stop that happening more.

Some of those things are where tumblr is clunkiest, and you know, I don't know if I know how to find the original posting date. That's curious! But the rest I can get on top of!!