Hi there, I'm Wesley (He/Him), 27, decidedly male, and I have a Kevin Bacon number of 4. I'm a leftist, a PHP and Java web developer, and I enjoy a good laugh. This blog is a grab bag, really.
everyone’s talking about how “prev tags” is an integral part of how people use the site and now the update’s ruined it and blah blah blah, but you can’t fool me! I remember back when everyone was griping about how it’s a degenerate innovation from twitter migrants and that real tumblr users write out the tags themselves
oh my god. they changed the “hide my blog from search results” setting to “discourage searching of my blog”. ie it’s no longer possible to stop google & co from indexing your blog.
this feels like the kind of change tumblr should give a heads up about rather than silently make. if you have a blog, google is indexing it now. there is no way to stop google from indexing your blog now. regardless of previous settings, your blog is now being indexed by search engines. you can’t turn this off.
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i think the only way to know for sure is if @staff confirms one way or the other
It is semantic - they are actually doing what they can. Which makes sense if you look at the actual setting, they specifically call out that it’s up to search engines to honor the request but they have no way to ensure that they will. The joys of little to no regulation in meta tag behavior.
This is just a copy and not a functional change, it’s working exactly how it’s always worked we just wanted to make it clearer that we can’t guarantee that search engines won’t index something we can only ask them not to.
[ID: a reimagining of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks; the diner is now an aquarium, the people gone and several different types of fish slowly circling above the counter. the ripples of light through water move on the street outside. /end ID]
The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.
Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.
So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.
Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.