Yahoo is buying Tumblr, so I'm not sure the comparision with Geocities works.
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Fred Pete - May 20, 2013 4:48:30 am PDT #22463 of 25497
Ann, that's a ferret.
Tom Scola - May 20, 2013 4:52:21 am PDT #22464 of 25497
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Jessica - May 20, 2013 5:54:11 am PDT #22465 of 25497
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I should probably call my friend who was just hired by Tumblr and warn her that the end is nigh...
§ ita § - May 20, 2013 6:10:37 am PDT #22466 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd be surprised if she didn't know, but does anyone have news on what plans Yahoo has for it? It fills a number of visual niches, not least of all because the pictures are only limited by a general sense of legality.
But I don't see how this is necessarily a worse thing than going to MS or FB, which seemed to be the other options.
Someone was buying that puppy, sooner rather than later.
Jessica - May 20, 2013 6:12:22 am PDT #22467 of 25497
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'd be surprised if she didn't know
Oh, I just meant the Geocities parallels. I don't remember how long that brand persisted after 1999.
§ ita § - May 20, 2013 6:15:12 am PDT #22468 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Maybe they'll be a Flickr and not a Geocities--Flickr's limping around still. But does Yahoo need more staff?
DebetEsse - May 20, 2013 11:44:38 am PDT #22469 of 25497
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I was just going to be off Tumblr for 2 months (Shelock spoilers and no Tumblr Savior for the iPad, which is all I have with me). Now I wonder what shape it will be in when I get back.
I'm sure the children are gnashing their teeth and rending their garments.
Dana - May 21, 2013 1:26:49 pm PDT #22470 of 25497
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Thoughts on the Flickr redesign? My first impression, as someone who manages an account for my work, is that it's much less useful to us now.
Beverly - May 21, 2013 2:10:22 pm PDT #22471 of 25497
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Yeah, linear functionality pretty much doesn't exist any longer. For those of us with high difficulty processing visual polyglot, it's confusing, disorienting, and ultimately not worth perservering in trying to work with the new format. I'm looking for a downloader. There are pics on Flickr I only have on internal or external hard drives five computers back. But if Flickr doesn't restore some function, or provide alternate options for page views, I'm grabbing my pictures, even if I have to right-click-save each one individually, and deleting my pro account.
§ ita § - May 21, 2013 2:13:57 pm PDT #22472 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Annoyingly work sent out a link to pictures on Flickr today, and IE 8 (corporate standard) hung on the first page, and Mozilla's been trying to load the second page for over half an hour now.
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