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Tom Lawrence

16th Aug 2010 at 00:09
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Tumblr Crushes (15/08/2010) Wow, talk about neck and neck on the top row there with three excellent women to whet your female blogging appetite with. Like Karthik, I too appear to exist as a Tumblr womaniser. Where are my bros at people!?

Tumblr Crushes (15/08/2010)

Wow, talk about neck and neck on the top row there with three excellent women to whet your female blogging appetite with.

Like Karthik, I too appear to exist as a Tumblr womaniser. Where are my bros at people!?

11th Aug 2010 at 20:38
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 whatwhatwhat replied to your post:I want more details on the [relatively] new Tumblr crushes system

I want the old crush system back. :(

I still don’t see why they can’t give us a hybrid and provide us with both percentages and actual values. They’ve already written the code for it!

11th Aug 2010 at 20:14
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I want more details on the [relatively] new Tumblr crushes system

If Tumblr is going to provide me with statistics about my activity with other users by providing me with exact percentages, I’d at least like to know what those percentages equate to and over what duration.

From what I’ve gathered, these values are a percentage of likes/reblogs/any form of activity with that particular user’s posts from the last 30 days… but I could be wrong.

Oh the worries in a geek’s mind.

30th Jul 2010 at 23:18
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Anyway, besides having my ideas stolen, I shall present you with my new percentage-based crushes: KG (Duh.) Patricia (Would it be a complement to suggest I wouldn’t even know how to describe her due to how incredibly diverse she is?) Kelsey (The biggest surprise on my list with the new crushes system, she’s relatively new to my dashboard and totally fucking awesome. By that I mean going by her posts she is theoretically half-British, and that’s always a good thing in my books!) Alex (Weezer fan, check. Likes hockey, check. Passion for memes, check. Fellow bro, check. Everything you need to make an awesome guy) Karthik (My incredibly verbose American brother whose posts are of the highest quality you’ll ever find on Tumblr) Justin (A lover of sports who also happens to post whatever he wants, however he wants, whenever he wants. For that alone without even having to mention his many other awesome characteristics I admire him) Darren (Essentially the male equivalent of KG, he’s a sassy drama queen… and he knows it! Haven’t had the pleasure of talking to him outside of Tumblr yet. One day on one of those hilarious-looking Tinychat conversations of yours?) Kelly (A crazy and intense girl who seems to be a tonne of fun to hang out with, she works as a lifeguard and has some great stories from it too. She’s a really open individual when it comes to blogging who posts a tonne of photos too which is always awesome and is definitely someone I’d like to get to know better.) Staff (Yup, the people who run the place. They’re occasionally nice when they update their API to match the current feature set. Besides that, they’re reading my blog for my many ideas on improving Tumblr and doing their best to keep the site from going down, hah. Despite that you’re still the best social network out there so I tip my hat to you sirs.)

Anyway, besides having my ideas stolen, I shall present you with my new percentage-based crushes:

  1. KG (Duh.)
  2. Patricia (Would it be a complement to suggest I wouldn’t even know how to describe her due to how incredibly diverse she is?)
  3. Kelsey (The biggest surprise on my list with the new crushes system, she’s relatively new to my dashboard and totally fucking awesome. By that I mean going by her posts she is theoretically half-British, and that’s always a good thing in my books!)
  4. Alex (Weezer fan, check. Likes hockey, check. Passion for memes, check. Fellow bro, check. Everything you need to make an awesome guy)
  5. Karthik (My incredibly verbose American brother whose posts are of the highest quality you’ll ever find on Tumblr)
  6. Justin (A lover of sports who also happens to post whatever he wants, however he wants, whenever he wants. For that alone without even having to mention his many other awesome characteristics I admire him)
  7. Darren (Essentially the male equivalent of KG, he’s a sassy drama queen… and he knows it! Haven’t had the pleasure of talking to him outside of Tumblr yet. One day on one of those hilarious-looking Tinychat conversations of yours?)
  8. Kelly (A crazy and intense girl who seems to be a tonne of fun to hang out with, she works as a lifeguard and has some great stories from it too. She’s a really open individual when it comes to blogging who posts a tonne of photos too which is always awesome and is definitely someone I’d like to get to know better.)
  9. Staff (Yup, the people who run the place. They’re occasionally nice when they update their API to match the current feature set. Besides that, they’re reading my blog for my many ideas on improving Tumblr and doing their best to keep the site from going down, hah. Despite that you’re still the best social network out there so I tip my hat to you sirs.)
30th Jul 2010 at 22:46
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“Crush” enhancements!

staff:

We’ve fixed a few issues that were making “Tumblr crushes” less fun than they should be:

1) Once you’ve liked a few hundred posts, your Crushes rarely change.

Now they’re pulled from your recent activity, so you can see where your love is going right this second.

2) Crushes only count Likes, and don’t factor in Reblogs.

Now they include both!

3) The total counts don’t give context to all the other blogs you follow.

The counts now show the percentage of your attention that you’re giving your crushes. (Out of everyone you Like and Reblog!)

4) Calculating crushes kills our databases.

Crushes now run on an asynchronous queue that refreshes every 12 hours.

You have got to be kidding me.

I recommended all of these changes to crushes ages ago and brought it up in a conversation with KG one time. Ask her yourself if you don’t believe me.

Damn them for stealing all my good ideas! Tags in dashboard, replies, built-in FormSpring and now this. Plus the many bugs I’ve found with Tumblr, I swear they should hire me pronto.

The only difference with my recommendation was to enable users to view crushes by counts and by percentages by rolling their mouse over or by toggling a radio button or something. The codebase was already there so they might as well provide fellow Tumblr users with options.