Scarlet Piano Wires

It Is Dying

scarletpianowires:

Recently a lot of people are particularly perturbed by the current happenings on tumblr and I can’t really say that I blame them. Honestly, I hadn’t really been keeping up on tumblr since their app updated one day and decided it wasn’t going to support being on my samsung captivate glide, (I’ve long since gotten a oneplus one, but it had been so long that I was just used to using the browser on my phone so I never really re-downloaded the app). For me, it was strike 1 because tumlbr was making it harder for me to access a thing I was trying to keep updated for commissions at the time.

Another thing that happened when they just updated willy-nilly was links and tags got real funky. I can’t hardly find anything on my own blog because the tags are weird now. I’ve also never been a fan of infinite scrolling, all it does is make it harder for me to look at things and clog up my browser’s memory. I WILL ALWAYS HATE BAD WEB DESIGN AS A FORMER WEB DEVELOPMENT MAJOR!!! Also, tumblr’s spellcheck blows. Can you please not tell me I’ve misspelled the most basic of contractions?! (Strike 2)

Now, none of my posts have been flagged in light of recent events, (thank goodness), but seeing the things that get flagged, how long will it be? I mean, I feel like my character sketches for D&D are the most vulnerable at this point in time, so I can’t say I’m not worried, because I am since I was really hoping to brush off the rust and repolish my drawing skills. I mean I’d really like to start working on prophesied again and get eyes that tell no lies off the ground, but I can’t do that if the place I would primarily post will be fickle. The fact that Tumblr has decided to not show adult content is fine, but the fact that Tumblr gets to define what adult content is ISN’T fine, (messed up algorithms aside). (Strike 3)

The thing that really puts the nail in the coffin for me though is that most people are leaving, and I honestly can’t blame them. Their livelihoods are being toyed with, and no one appreciates that, myself included. So while I’m sad that most people I follow are jumping ship to other platforms and not all of them are moving to the same ones, I can’t blame them in the slightest. All these things compiled together brings me to the decision to leave as well honestly. So the following links will be where you can still keep up with me if any of you are interested:

https://www.instagram.com/scarletpianowires/
https://twitter.com/SPWires
https://www.deviantart.com/scarletpianowires

I will also be getting a pillowfort.io account when they come back online because they look pretty snazzy so far from what I’ve heard and seen from their kickstarter page and it seems like they’ll be having just about everything I’ll be looking for to rebuild my art blog that was here on tumblr.  I won’t be deleting anything, just not really actively trying to update either.

Got my pillowfort invite today so that’s all set up :D

https://www.pillowfort.io/ScarletPianoWires

It Is Dying

Recently a lot of people are particularly perturbed by the current happenings on tumblr and I can’t really say that I blame them. Honestly, I hadn’t really been keeping up on tumblr since their app updated one day and decided it wasn’t going to support being on my samsung captivate glide, (I’ve long since gotten a oneplus one, but it had been so long that I was just used to using the browser on my phone so I never really re-downloaded the app). For me, it was strike 1 because tumlbr was making it harder for me to access a thing I was trying to keep updated for commissions at the time.

Another thing that happened when they just updated willy-nilly was links and tags got real funky. I can’t hardly find anything on my own blog because the tags are weird now. I’ve also never been a fan of infinite scrolling, all it does is make it harder for me to look at things and clog up my browser’s memory. I WILL ALWAYS HATE BAD WEB DESIGN AS A FORMER WEB DEVELOPMENT MAJOR!!! Also, tumblr’s spellcheck blows. Can you please not tell me I’ve misspelled the most basic of contractions?! (Strike 2)

Now, none of my posts have been flagged in light of recent events, (thank goodness), but seeing the things that get flagged, how long will it be? I mean, I feel like my character sketches for D&D are the most vulnerable at this point in time, so I can’t say I’m not worried, because I am since I was really hoping to brush off the rust and repolish my drawing skills. I mean I’d really like to start working on prophesied again and get eyes that tell no lies off the ground, but I can’t do that if the place I would primarily post will be fickle. The fact that Tumblr has decided to not show adult content is fine, but the fact that Tumblr gets to define what adult content is ISN’T fine, (messed up algorithms aside). (Strike 3)

The thing that really puts the nail in the coffin for me though is that most people are leaving, and I honestly can’t blame them. Their livelihoods are being toyed with, and no one appreciates that, myself included. So while I’m sad that most people I follow are jumping ship to other platforms and not all of them are moving to the same ones, I can’t blame them in the slightest. All these things compiled together brings me to the decision to leave as well honestly. So the following links will be where you can still keep up with me if any of you are interested:

https://www.instagram.com/scarletpianowires/
https://twitter.com/SPWires
https://www.deviantart.com/scarletpianowires

I will also be getting a pillowfort.io account when they come back online because they look pretty snazzy so far from what I’ve heard and seen from their kickstarter page and it seems like they’ll be having just about everything I’ll be looking for to rebuild my art blog that was here on tumblr.  I won’t be deleting anything, just not really actively trying to update either.