tags

there are like 15 suggested tags made up of some combination of “game”, “dev”, and “indie”, and i have no idea which to use and do not wish to use all 15. i think the list of suggestions is in a different order every time i see it so i don’t trust it to put like, the most popular one first

but i found out that if you browse a tag, tumblr tells you how many people are following it. it will even suggest similar tags, but only tell you the follow count for the current tag. this sure is a ui decision but here are results of some Research™ at least for this particular case

  • #indie games — 2000k
  • #gamedev — 900k
  • #indiedev — 662k
  • #game development — 440k
  • #devlog — 240k
  • #game dev — 2k
  • #indie game — 2k
  • #indiegamedev — 1k
  • #gamedevelopment — ??? not shown
  • #indiegames — ??? not shown
  • #screenshotsaturday — ??? not shown
  • #screenshot saturday — ??? not shown

i can only guess that a missing count means under 1000 people are following it, which means… no one is following any permutation of screenshot saturday?? how is that possible

also tumblr has been really excited about suggesting #indiegamedev so i’m floored that it’s orders of magnitude less followed than #indiedev

anyway this website and its design choices remain just ever so slightly incomprehensible to me. it’s like, it mostly makes sense, but the moment i start to sit down in a normal-looking chair i realize it has five legs. keeps me slightly on edge all the time

i wonder if anyone actually follows #tumblr meta

tumblr is adamant about showing me (a) thumbnails of the same few people on “tumblr live” and (b) twist’s latest comic at the top of my dash no matter what i do. like the dashboard seems to be simple chronological except that this comic is stuck to the top?? i do not understand this website

Maybe if i make more posts i can bump it down

edit: lol they only let you SNOOZE tumblr live?? so they know people want to get rid of it but they’re adamant about making you see it anyway. fucking incredible

sorry everyone it seems like tumblr just straight up refuses to put paragraphs inside list items even if i explicitly write them out as html, which is why that last post is practically a single unbroken block of text. i guess i will edit it to use unicode bullets or something?? absolute clown website