Are we back?

[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.

Comments

[zortified.livejournal.com]

I'm gilajames over there. I use it mostly to look at pretty pictures. :-) I don't post much, but I do sometimes post a) pictures of quilts and b) snippet of fic that aren't ready for prime time.

[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.

[meinterrupted]

Tumblr has a DEFINITE learning curve and a society with its own rules which is close to LJ fandom rules, but just different enough that you kind of go "bzuh?" sometimes. I was a n00b not too long ago, so I might be able to help. :)

I'm shinykari over there (because some hipster kid took my username and I'm still bitter four months later yes I am).

Yeah, pages are like... well, an extra random page, so you could (conceivably) post a list of your fandoms, an 'about me' page, that sort of thing. I had a couple, but I got annoyed with them and then found a layout that didn't allow for extra links, so I tossed most of them. :P

[norahy.livejournal.com]

it might make me cry to keep trying to use it

echo this sentiment so hard

[amalthia]

My advice is don't follow more than 20 people. Otherwise you'll never be able to keep up. It takes me 30 minutes to check my tumblr and some days much longer than that. So I sort of give up. Basically, there is no harm in not catching up on all posts. If it's good enough someone will reblog.

I'm Amalthia at tumblr.

[destina.livejournal.com]

I'm destinaf over there. I enjoy tumblr, but only for posting and looking at pretty pictures. In fact, I don't follow people who make text posts, with rare exceptions, because I think words just screw up tumblr. *g* I don't mess with adding links on sidebars or anything else, so I can't be of any help to you on that.

I highly recommend the Tumblr Savior extension for firefox - all you have to do is type in words which are attached to images you don't want to see - for instance, in my case, Cumberbatch, Avengers, Thor, etc - and those posts are hidden from you. It's like a miracle, and it makes Tumblr manageable.)

This post might also be helpful to you (not mine, reblogged from another source):
http://destinaf.tumblr.com/post/38208762041/tumblr-tips

[johanirae.livejournal.com]

Woah yay darlinG!!! :D Following ya right back!

Oh I think the picture thing depends on what layout you use, some have it some don't. You can upload a userpic here:

http://www.tumblr.com/preferences (under the last subheader is an option to upload your user pic)

You can add some info about yourself when you customize your layout (also in the same subheader under theme, it would be under the INFO area)

[xcziel.livejournal.com]

I'm xcziel on Tumblr too - I mostly just reblog Avengers/comics/Supernatural/Jeremy Renner/Jensen Ackles/fandom fun stuff - I'm pretty boring.

But if you want to find people, feel free to look through my follows - I've got a lot of LJ people on there! Comics people too. Plus, like, The HawkeyeInitiative, ThisIsJeremyFuckingRennerTalkin and Mansplained...

The best way to find people is just to go to the Tumblr of anyone you do know- or a general Stony or Renner or Teen Wolf or "fuckyeah...whatever" blog and follow the posts they've reblogged that you like back to the source. It can be easy to get carried away - I was just gonna follow scifigrl47 for her fic, now I've got like a hundred blogs on my dash. But it's so pretty, all the pretty ...

Ummmm... dauntdraws is daunt over there. I bet you'd enjoy flatbear's comics - ooh and rascalparadyne's C/C art is gorgeous. shawarmababy has an awesome Steve/Tony master rec list going. ordinaryink, laria-gwyn, queenklu, meh-guh, gyzym, devildoll, therealfoxxcub and radiophile are all over there too

Tumblr is more like Twitter than LJ - it's not really made for talking- people make announcements, give heads-ups, post pictures, etc. and let others respond by reblogging or liking the posts (you comment by using the "say" icon if it's turned on or simply reblogging with your added comments.) Some people like to do memes and informal polls through their asks (send someone an ask to talk to them - it works like a text or PM on LJ - they will reply to your ask box, or maybe post their reply linked to your ask on their blog, so others can join in the discussion!) Another thing to remember is that people like to mess around with their URLs a lot, so someone may be one thing Tuesday and something else on Wednesday (if you see weird names on your dash that you don't recognize, this may be why)

Welcome! I like your shoelaces.

P.S. a lot of the page decor stuff is from custom themes - some you have to pay for, some you can just nab from someone's blog you like the look of. Look for the "Install Theme" button on their URL (not your dash). The free themes you find with the "customize" button on your URL page (again, not your dash, this messed me up so bad at first) also have limited custom CSS, color options, etc. Beware super fancy themes that don't work well in mobile format, though!

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

What you said.

I just returned to lj a couple of weeks ago, cause I got tired of all the moving, beautiful pictures, missed discussions that had words and in them and made me think (I'm probably just not going to the right places in tumblr, I'd love recs). Never really figured out tumblr, so I can't be much help.

[laria-gwyn.livejournal.com]

Join the dark side, we have cookies! ;) and by cookies i mean pretty pictures

[fufaraw]

I'm arliss there too, and I'm a'ready following you. I have several special interests (landscapes, skyscapes, horses, therapy dogs, forests, otters, mountains, etc.) "followed". My Tumblr started out as a respite from fandom, but we know how that usually goes. I geek over teacups and fountain pens, and okay, some sociopolitical stuff. I am random and eclectic, and I like not being fandom-focussed. My Tumblr is heavily weighted toward photography and art, and I use it far differently than LJ/DW, even though much of my flists duplicate (triplicate?). In any case, welcome!