challenged confessions

rach:

(via patrickmoberg)

It’s too good.

For Nostrich who’s probably already seen it.

mylifeinacube:

thanks a lot CC-everyone-guy.

staff:

Please help us test Tumblr v4!

We’re getting ready to push our biggest interface overhaul since last November, and we’d love to get your feedback.

Nearly every piece of the interface has changed. We’ve tried to perfect the presentation of the Dashboard, and the retooled interface will enable a lot of the new functionality we’re prepping to launch.

It’s still early, so please let us know if anything seems funny.

You can access the beta at www.tumblr-beta.com.

My first impressions:

• Login text is HUGE
• It’s nice to have both username and site name on the following pages but is all that info needed all the time?  I liked the spread of huge icons.
• I like the permalink fold animation but it’s not entirely obvious it’s even a link to someone not familiar with it already
• The slightly larger gap between posts of different users is nice as is the full size images.  I had actually been using a custom stylesheet to auto-enlarge the dashboard images before.
• When viewing a group’s dashboard, I miss the direct link back to my dashboard
• Lose the lines between the new post icons
• BUG: User icons aren’t showing up for ‘notes’ on certain posts.  It appears to only happen on posts without an author icon (ie, posts with the “same_user_as_last” class).
  
• I had talked to Marco before about it before so I definitely appreciate the new ‘new posts’ notification.  Specifically that it doesn’t shift the page when it pops in.
• Not that the old/current system has it right, but when in a group and creating or editing a post, the dashboard link should go back to the group you’re working on, not your main dashboard
• As many others have said, not a huge fan of the new color scheme
• Navigation links (next/prev) are better situated now
• Where’d the reblog icon go?

I’m sure I’ll have more comments later but I think that’s enough for now.

Apparently the Olympic opening ceremonies were powered by 120 HES Axon media servers running XPe and this slipped through.

jacobbijani:

I love this sort of super obscure easter egg. You know the only people who would know how to find that URL would enjoy it.

Related, Episode 1 of This American Life: New Beginnings is mostly about…Episode 1 of This American Life.

I discovered this about a year ago and actually made a userscript to take advantage of the fact.  It rewrites the streaming links on the archive page to link directly to the mp3.  I never publicly released it before since I had just made it to help a friend so I just threw it online here.  I wrote it quickly but it’s real simple so it shouldn’t have any issues.  Should be useful for anyone downloading old episodes for mobile listening.  If you use this, please consider donating to the show since you’re saving money.

energyface:

kayfabe: Bugs

These are cool.

I like.