in my head whenever i hear this post i imagine an american idol type auditorium thats completely empty except for one judge and the people trying their best are all idling on stage on a conveyor belt like this waiting for their turn to try
i don’t think tumblr actually eats asks i think that was made up by someone who was caught in the crossfire of some petty tumblr drama years ago and we all just ran with it because it’s both plausible and incredibly convenient. for the record if i don’t answer your ask it’s because i didn’t want to. peace peace ✌️
It doesn’t eat asks nowadays. It actually used to be a thing you could test. We know what caused it.
It’s been fixed for a long time, but if your ask contained “…” in it, Tumblr would eat it: You’d get the notification but there would be no new ask in your inbox. We eventually found out it was “…” that caused it through trial and error, and eventually, it was quietly fixed, but for years, spaghetti code in tumblr just didn’t allow you to triple ellipsis others in any capacity. Seasoned RP blogs back in the day would include this tip in their About, even: “Don’t send asks with … in them, Tumblr eats those”.
every day i learn about another way this hellsite used to be even more fucked up than now
