I've been watching the new season of True Detective (my first experience with the show) and I think its cool as fuck
EXCEPT
that shows like Hannibal or Stranger Things show how much their aesthetics/moods can be iconic when they embrace their own OSTs
this show (or at least season) could have been way cooler if it didn't use real vocal songs anytime something meaningful happened
For a long time now, it's been impossible to see comments or reblogs with comment/tags on posts over a certain age when using the mobile app or blog view. Today I was looking at a post from 2015 that I knew had at least one reblog comment and lots of tags, but all the reblogs were under "other". I found the comment (but couldn't see any tags) by going to the [blog name].tumblr.com/post/[###] link and scrolling through all the notes in one list, but it's impossible anywhere else.
I know this probably has to do with the many changes Tumblr has gone through in that time, but it's still really inconvenient to have disappearing notes on the platform where part of the charm is that posts can survive for, at this point, almost a decade and a half.
Is it even possible to fix this, and of so, is it something you would consider?
Answer: Hey there, @maplerosekisses!
It is possible to fix this, and we would like to fix it, but it’s a daunting problem at Tumblr’s scale. Buckle up for storytime.
Long, long ago, Tumblr was created, and in the beginning, there weren’t even notes on posts. There weren’t even reblogs or likes. In fact, we were one of the first platforms to introduce the heart icon and the concept of “likes”! We created the reblog! Back in those days, each of these actions were tracked separately. Likes were tracked in one database table and reblogs weren’t tracked at all as notes. When we introduced replies, those had yet another way of being tracked in our database. Totally separate entities on the platform for years.
Eventually, we wanted to consolidate these into one number—so we had to count each of those different places. That’s horribly inefficient, and as Tumblr grew in size and popularity, this became a bottleneck that hurt the whole platform. So one of the things we did was to invent a new denormalized database table called “notes,” to track all of these different things in one place so we could easily count them. We still have that table, and it’s still the fallback whenever we need to count the notes on a post.
But this itself is ancient history. Since then, the product has changed even more, and we removed replies and re-added them later, back in 2015 or so—and made some changes in that process to help further improve efficiency. These improvements allowed us to include media in the notes view, and be able to split out replies versus reblogs-with-comment versus likes (kind of going back to the way it was originally.) Even then, we didn’t yet support showing tag usage in the notes—that would come even later.
In the process of making all of these changes for efficiency and functionality, we had to ask ourselves, as you point out: should we try to backfill these new database tables with all of the data from before? For a long while, we were using both systems to power the notes view, so we could display as much information from “before” as we could. Eventually, we didn’t need to do that anymore, because the number of people scrolling back to that “before” time became infinitesimally small. And that's the situation we’re in today.
Because if we wanted to backfill the data, we would need to process literally tens of billions of posts and notes from before 2015, at a conservative estimate. Let’s say it’s 10,000,000,000, for the sake of argument: if we started an automated process to go through them at ~100 per second (which would be relatively safe at our scale, so Tumblr doesn’t break as we’re digging up these old rows in the database), it would take over three years of continuous operation to complete that task.
In situations like this, we have to ask ourselves if that’s worth it. So far, the answer we’ve determined is no. But we may find a more efficient way to do it, there’s undoubtedly a way, and when we do, we will re-evaluate the decision again. We hope that makes sense—trying to make changes to Tumblr can be really, really hard.
But thank you for your question. We appreciate them and hope that goes some way to answering your query. Keep 'em coming, y'all.
I have thought for a long time that Riku going back into Sora's dream destiny islands is only younger again because the team literally did not have the time/money/space resources to make Riku the exact same combat/explorative wise, just with his older model
and realizing that Sora is in his KH2 appearance at a certain point in TWTNW in cutscenes, but not when exploring makes me think this even more.
Someone in the last post, I've lost the reblog, said something like they can imagine Terra's in game sprite standing there watching
and I could not get the image of Terra's low resolution, empty head looking sprite standing awkwardly in the corner of the pub out of my head.
Call me Tron.
OMG, the latest chapter for KH3 manga was just released (In Japanese) not in English yet.
After being defeated in the game, Vantias' mask cracks, and in the manga Sora's the reason it breaks.
Wayfinder Trio reunion:
The Wayfinder Trio reunion is so heartfelt that even Sora's tearing up 😭
if I dont get some major gulava action in the future I will rip open the space-time continuum
yeah i dabble in powerscaling
My half of an art trade
I SWEAR I am not a KH hate blog obviously i love this series. I just miss the style of KH that got me on the hook in the first place.
its like a restaurant that changed recipes but you keep going because you feel like NEXT TIME will be like old times
literally what are we gonna do if it turns out skuld isn't subject x
i'm half convinced that the reason it hasn't been confirmed is because nomura hadn't decided who it was yet either. excluding that possibility, there's just NO REASON to be coy about it
thought too hard about it and got worked up
but this is the core of my issue with how ux was handled. so much of the storytelling was done in choppy, sporadic updates that left WAY too much up to interpretation. which wouldn't have been a problem if it had all been self contained, but it's NOT.
and it's not just the one game either. all of the current ongoing story threads—nameless star, yozora, verum rex, quadratum, strelitzia, subject x, ava, master of masters, luxu, black box—have been teased over and over and over without resolving anything. it's all set up and never any pay off. and when there is pay off, it's abruptly swept under the rug because nomura stopped caring about those plotlines years ago.
between 2002 and 2012 we had games that delivered complete, satisfying stories, with a beginning, middle, and end. but since then, all the actual games turned into pay to win mobile experiences or awkward cutscene collections or dlc or cut content that got revived as a kh3 demo. the only full games we've got in the last decade are kh3 and a rhythm game, the latter of which had a main plot development implausibly grafted onto the end of it, like it's just another one of ux's updates where information is unceremoniously dumped.
and now we're (theoretically) going in for another round of this with khml sometime this year, assuming it doesn't immediately get delayed and canceled like the last mobile game did. see this post for my thoughts on that.
like do you see the problem?? at some point the games and stories were gradually stripped apart for their raw components and now they're just plot and characters and buttons to press.
following the story feels like playing a gacha game now. press the button and maybe you'll find out what happened to skuld. or maybe you won't. but at least we still have your attention.
“You feel nothing. Nothing is real. I can give you purpose.”