nickkreiss:
there’s always money in the banana stand.
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nostrich:
Tumblr Suggests That You Stop Using Chrome Extension:
Third-party extensions and hacks are a part of the web, perhaps Tumblr should focus on building new features or its own official “app store” instead of whining about support and server issues.
The Missing e Chrome extension — and it’s an extension, not a “hack” — has quarter of a million installs just on Chrome, and all of those people just got forced to give up either some useful and clearly in-demand features or their right to support. This post on TNW is pretty harsh, but the apparent aggressiveness they’re treating Missing e with suggests a weird lack of interest in what Tumblr’s users actually want. As far as I can tell, they have no interest in implementing any of its features — and all anyone ever has is assumptions since Tumblr continues to refuse to engage its community publicly (and I thought it was great that Tumblr chose to activate this at around 5pm EST on a Friday, way to bury the backlash).
Objecting to the extension I can understand — it uses some pretty weird and definitely unsupported methods to do what it does — but forcing its users to give up support (and I bet there’s no way to opt back in) is pretty shitty. This is what support teams are for; how hard is it to send a canned email to the effect of “sorry, this is probably caused by an extension”? (They have no qualms with sending useless canned responses for every other issue you might have.) If developers were really encouraged to build off the platform, Tumblr wouldn’t be forcing users to give up their use of support for using third-party extensions. You’re either willing to provide support or you’re not. Tumblr, it seems, would rather not.
inky:
reddit: “This is how the machines win.”
Steve Jobs
(H/T Dustin Curtis)
merlin:
From Jan 8, 2010:
merlin:
Please don’t let me hit the ground
Featuring an extremely rare public performance of my critically-acclaimed “Ian Curtis Move.”
That’s me again this morning. Now 45.
I’m thankful for Merlin Mann.
crushedglass:
forever an auto-reblog
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maxsilvestri:
Um, let’s all quit comedy because apparently Liam Neeson is already the best at it. Incredible.
(This is a clip from that new Ricky Gervais/Warwick Davis show.)
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“Dude. They don’t mention Ron Paul in this _whole_ Newsweek!”
House Republicans took the government to the brink of shutdown last spring by demanding across-the-board budget cuts to many vital programs. Instead of focusing on job creation, as Americans wanted them to, the GOP turned its attention to slashing funds for programs that…
Stephen Fry
(H/T John Gruber)
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