My Tumblr: Now with Functional Comments!
Feb. 13th, 2012 12:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7I added the Disqus comment feature to this here Tumblr, and I have to say, finding clear instructions for it was far more difficult than it should have been.
Perhaps (probably) this is a sentiment which is dying out as the internet becomes more of a solipsistic mess of an echo chamber until eventually we'll all be Pointland, reblogging our own reblogs into the void that is also us, but, personally? A blog is an invitation to a conversation.
Why the fuck else would I bother? So you can think I'm so clever? Well what the fuck good is that, if you can't at least tell me how clever you think I am?
But, in all honesty, I like to talk to people and yeah, sure, Tumblr has something akin to a native comments feature, but I have to repost my own whole goddamn post in order to respond to you. What is this, the 19th century? And that, in itself, is just symptomatic of the whole structure! When Tumblr sends you a notification that someone has started following you, there is no way to act upon that information within the body of the email.
I mean, shit. Is it that hard to make the name of the person who's started reading your stuff appear as a link? No. It isn't. < a href="whatever the fuck url" >Whoeverthefuckitis< /a >. You already wrote the script for the automated email. That is two extra lines of code, at most. Done. What the fuck, people?!
Anyway. Look! Comments Feature! Use it. Let's have a conversation.
(cross-posted from the Tumblr
Perhaps (probably) this is a sentiment which is dying out as the internet becomes more of a solipsistic mess of an echo chamber until eventually we'll all be Pointland, reblogging our own reblogs into the void that is also us, but, personally? A blog is an invitation to a conversation.
Why the fuck else would I bother? So you can think I'm so clever? Well what the fuck good is that, if you can't at least tell me how clever you think I am?
But, in all honesty, I like to talk to people and yeah, sure, Tumblr has something akin to a native comments feature, but I have to repost my own whole goddamn post in order to respond to you. What is this, the 19th century? And that, in itself, is just symptomatic of the whole structure! When Tumblr sends you a notification that someone has started following you, there is no way to act upon that information within the body of the email.
I mean, shit. Is it that hard to make the name of the person who's started reading your stuff appear as a link? No. It isn't. < a href="whatever the fuck url" >Whoeverthefuckitis< /a >. You already wrote the script for the automated email. That is two extra lines of code, at most. Done. What the fuck, people?!
Anyway. Look! Comments Feature! Use it. Let's have a conversation.
(cross-posted from the Tumblr
