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Socchan ([personal profile] soc_puppet) wrote in [community profile] newcomers 2025-04-14 03:14 am (UTC)

Re: Thoughts

>> Ah, so that's where that came from.

Yup, that's where it comes from! From my understanding, the way reblogging worked in early Tumblr days really screwed up the formatting of comments in reblogs, so people moved their commentary to the tags, which didn't get messed up. Tags also don't get replicated in reblogs unless you deliberately copy them in some way, though that's probably not relevant here.

>> There is also a "cloud" display option which shows the more-used tags in larger type

Shoot, I should clarify that. I meant that tags are listed alphabetically where they're listed in posts. For example, I've got a friend on Dreamwidth who has tags that I am 99% sure are a Hitchhiker's Guide reference, but instead of reading, "life," "don't talk to me about life," they read, "don't talk to me about life," "life". So if someone wanted to have tags that go together and say something like, "I can't believe we're really doing this, but here we are," they'd want to change the first tag to "and I can't believe we're really doing this," so it would be listed first in the tag section. (And then they couldn't use any other tag that would alphabetically fall between them...)

>> Some icons are images with labels, some are all text, and occasionally you'll see animated ones that blink between different phrases.

Honestly, this post has only half of what I want to say about icons at best, but I figure it's a good starting point! I wrote the first version of this post about a year ago and only made minimal updates/changes, which is why I'm even sharing it today instead of waiting for tomorrow 😛

>> it can be used to rally a roaming bunch of people

That's an interesting point! It might also be good for future meetups, like, "Meet me at this geographic location," or "The convention will be happening here". The rallying idea might fall a bit flat if Dreamwdth becomes a lot more popular, but I'm not holding my breath.

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