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[kellifer]

Livejournal, I'm seriously trying to hang on, I don't want to quit you, but you keep freaking out and also telling me that unknown users are accessing my account when IT'S ALWAYS ME.

So, I made a tumblr. Or, well, I HALF-ASSED a tumblr before I realized that it might make me cry to keep trying to use it and then that site went down too. I'm kellifer-k on there but it's just an expanse of nothing that I haven't fixed yet because of aforementioned site down-age. However, I am going to try and figure this thing out so if you're on there, let me know because buggered if I can find out how to find people any other way other than asking them. (johanirae is the only person I have found and is therefore the only person I'm following at the moment).

It kind of scares me, so I'd also appreciate any noob tips. How do you get pictures/your profile/anything on the sidebars, is that all pages stuff? Ugh, I don't know, I love how this is advertised as a simple blog platform and my brain is all OH MY GOD NO, WHAT IS THIS FRESH HELL? Googling 'how do I use tumblr' isn't as helpful as you might think.

ETA: H-okay - I think I've figured this thing out, so for better or for worse, here i am on tumblr. My first act was to reblog something so I feel I'm getting into the spirit of the thing.

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[miera-c.livejournal.com]

There's really not much to your Tumblr profile but a userpic. You can customize a bunch of things about how it displays or put an image as the wallpaper but I find that distracting myself.

Important tip #1: although "dashboard" sounds like the control panel, since it refers to the thing in the car where you see how everything is working, the Tumblr dashboard is your viewing page, rather like the lj friends page. That messed me up for a while.

Important tip #2: if you want to change stuff about how Tumblr looks, you can't do that from your actual page (the one with your username in it). You have to do that from settings button at the top of the Dashboard.

Finding people is a total crap shoot. The "tags" on Tumblr may help to some extent but the tags are curated by people from Tumblr, especially the popular ones, so stuff gets left out. The search function does not work well at all. Your best bet is to either know the person's user name or find someone who is sharing stuff you enjoy and track back to where they're getting it from and follow those people.

Tumblr has no idea what it wants to be when it grows up, IMNSHO.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

:)

I got the dashboard thingie - I figured it was a friends-page type view and managed to find the button to switch off being bombarded with "popular" stuff, ugh.

I can't change the settings at the moment because I need the email they sent to my yahoo so it's a big blank untitled page. I don't get why NOTHING is restricted about your new tumblr except for changing how it looks by the set-up email. THAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. I can post and follow and comment without the email but not change the look... wha??

Ugh, I figured out pretty quickly that the search function is completely crap. I searched for myself (I know, don't do it!) and a few recs came up, but then I searched for different titles of my stories (weird way of trying to find people but I couldn't think of anything else) and other stuff came up on each one of those that had my name in it too but didn't come up in the name search.

I just thought it would be kind of useful to rec and post fic bits and look at shiny things - but I've decided this is a trial run only - if it makes my soul cry I'm deleting it... hee!