Huh. I did not expect buying a domain to automatically turn Custom Theme back on. But it did. But I can turn it off and it’ll just be a redirect to tumblr.com/magess
maybe wander around the house/stretch a little if you’ve been sat at the computer a while (artists especially: sTRETCH THOSE WRISTS)
reply to that text/message from earlier you’d forgotten about
maybe send a nice lil message to someone having a bad day?
I just would like to thank everyone who ever reblogs this so that it somehow ends up back on my dash because I usually need the reminder (especially the drinking water one)
Of all posts to see with a million notes, I’m glad it’s this one.
look. they’re dead if they’re not on the surface. if they’re not, they and everyone else will wish they were. an implosion is the kindest death they could have down there.
here are some things to keep in mind:
the deepest operational depths, meaning the safest depth that a manned crew could, potentially, rescue a submersible, is 300 meters. 980 feet. just under a 1000 feet. classified subs may be able to go deeper but that limit is like maybe 100 feet more. submarines cannot go trawling around sea floors unless they’re relatively close to the coast
the titanic is 2.4 miles deep. 3840 meters. 12,600 feet. 12 times the operational depth of even the best naval submarines.
this tourist submersible’s greatest operating depth? 13,000 feet. they’re already at 96% of their operating depth. there’s about a 4% margin before shit goes sideways, in normal circumstances
96 hours of oxygen is what OceanGate has told everyone this submersible has. this unregulated, untested sub. that they made. 96 hours of oxygen is probably being very, very generous.
there’s only like a handful of submersibles, in the entire world, that can reach those depths. there’s more ROVs that can reach deeper, but what percentage could help pull an entire submersible that can fit five people? their best bet is going to be getting some kind of remotely-operated flotation device attached to the submersible.
descending and ascending in a submersible is an incredibly delicate process that takes careful monitoring and delicate instruments. if they attach the flotation device then they’re going to need something to monitor the internal and external pressure of the submersible. expanding gas could create a leak, which would instantly implode the submersible on the way up. not to mention gases and ballast must be monitored to prevent the occupants from getting the Bends, which can be fatal of itself.
all of this going to be made infinitely harder if the submersible is, as some suspect, tangled in the wreckage itself, which presents a hundred more problems such as zero visibility, structural collapse of several thousand tonnes of rusting iron and steel, punctures, etc..
all of this is assuming they are still conscious inside, and even have power. no power? even more difficult.
There is a goddamn reason they send ROVs down to the Titanic. There is a reason it should only be done by non-profit groups. There is a reason there should be oversight from the Navy and Coastguard. There is a reason that any human visitation is a carefully coordinated and monitored effort, where the majority are trained technicians inside the submersible and out. There is a reason that submarine crew and research crews also go through psychological evaluations, go through training to understand what to do in life-threatening situations. All of them, not just one dude at the controls.
Because they understand that, like Mt. Everest, when things go wrong down there, it is so hazardous to even any would-be rescuers that you will be on your own, and you will, almost certainly, die. And they may not even be able to retrieve your body, because that too is life-threatening to rescuers. Frankly, emergencies at the top of Mt. Everest are less dangerous than emergencies at the bottom of the ocean.
The ocean is actively trying to kill you down there. It’s safer to visit space right now than it is to visit the bottom of the ocean. People haven’t gone down there just to get a looky-loo. People are sent down there because there’s certain things that only human eyes and senses can do, when it comes to research.
The deep ocean is not a place for fucking rich tourists to live out their James Cameron fantasies of seeing the prow come out of the darkness like in the movie. Whether you believe it’s a gravesite that shouldn’t be disturbed at all or not, tourists should not be goddamn down there.
Money won’t save you at 12,000 feet at the bottom of the sea, motherfuckers. A divine miracle won’t save them. But a miracle of human ingenuity, if there’s some merciful force out there, just might.
Oh no, they’re already very fucking dead. I wouldn’t be in the slightest surprised if one if the “we bolted it shut” screws was sheared just ever so slightly and it just caved in as soon as they hit crush depth. Something like that is a feat of engineering. It can’t just be a bunch of bolted together bullshit.
Tumblr Domains: That thing you do in the place they already know
Hello, [tumblr]. Look at you all here vibing. Some of you are out here providing essential services, like making art—and people happy in the process. Maybe you’re creating pfps for your followers. Or painting people’s OCs in intricate and enlightening detail. Or taking beautiful pictures of mushrooms. Or sharing your homestead life with the world. Or coming up with entire ARG universes for your followers to immerse themselves in. Maybe you’re making memes for that one show that existed for fifteen seasons and stopped airing years ago. Perhaps you’re simply fulfilling the age-old societal need of staying silly :3. Whatever it is you come here to do, why not make it official and claim your domain?
Having a domain can add a little professional gleam to your online presence. It can be a funny little joke from you to you. It can also add an extra layer of this-is-what-this-is to your online persona.
blog.tumblr.com will remain free for everyone.
Here’s how you get your very own slice of the internet, right here on Tumblr:
Click on your account icon and select “Domains” from the drop-down.
Register your info, pop in your payment details, and hey presto. You’re now an official Tumblr citizen.
If you already have a custom domain purchased elsewhere, it’ll continue to work for now, but you will no longer be able to connect a new custom domain bought elsewhere to your blog.
Eventually, we will implement domain transfers (outbound and inbound) and paid domain connection.
And, to celebrate this historic moment, we’ve got a little offer for those interested in a .blog domain:
First year (through to July 31): $3.00
First year (from August 1 – December 31): $5.00
Annual Renewal: $10.00
Curious about other available domains? Check ‘em out here. More questions? The Support page has all the details!
Make it official, merge your online homes, and bring your Tumblr family along for the ride.
So here’s the thing. This is a cool, neat feature for people who didn’t already have their own domain names. It’s relatively inexpensive (and in the notes people are talking about how it’s not tiered pricing for local economies so it’s NOT cheap for everyone, which is an important point) domain name hosting made easy if all you want is a cool “username.com” type domain pointing to your blog. That’s great, and a good feature!
However, some of us have our own domain names. I’ve owned annakie.com for over 20 years. It’s registered with a hosting company. I point annakie.com to my tumblr, so if you just type in annakie.com you go to my blog.
However, I ALSO use annakie.com for email. I have several (name)@annakie.com email addresses set up for several reasons. I have a lot of files hosted that are linked to certain message boards and websites to host images, word documents, small videos, etc. I pay about $100 a year to a hosting company for the domain name + several gigs of file hosting + several gigs of bandwidth per month. It’s a small expense I’m aware I’ll need to pay every year.
It took me about fifteen minutes to set up the redirect on the other site and it’s worked fine this way for the last eight or so years that I’ve had annakie.com pointed to tumblr.
but now…
“If you already have a custom domain purchased elsewhere, it’ll continue to work for now, but you will no longer be able to connect a new custom domain bought elsewhere to your blog.”
Basically, unless I’m reading this wrong, at some point in the future, this will stop working. I’ll have to either stop pointing annakie.com to tumblr and find somewhere else to point it (or just let it point to nowhere and get a 404 error or something) OR I transfer the domain here to tumblr’s registrar service and then the ONLY thing that works is that it points to my tumblr and I will no longer be able to use the email address and anyplace that links to a file with the annakie.com URL will no longer work.
This is literally taking functionality away from me, for something that’s worked fine for a very long time.
I am obviously not going to move my domain here and lose all the functionality for my email addresses and file hosting. So all this does is stops something I’ve used that works fine. It’s… not great. It’s not the end of the world but it’s really annoying that it’s going to stop.
I understand that tumblr needs to find new revenue streams. I support tumblr by paying for ad-free browsing even though I use an adblocker anyway. I’ve sent a little more money for dumb things like blue checkmarks and blazed a post full of my cat pictures in the past for some silly fun. And letting people who want to just easily grab a domain name is a new function that is GOOD.
But taking a working function away from those of us who have used it for years sometime in the nebulous future.. is not good.
Please reconsider that part of it, tumblr. People have reasons for not wanting to host their domains with you, especially with the extremely limited functionality.
@cyle Will the “paid connection” mentioned in the original post cover the use case above?
Tumblr Domains: That thing you do in the place they already know
Hello, [tumblr]. Look at you all here vibing. Some of you are out here providing essential services, like making art—and people happy in the process. Maybe you’re creating pfps for your followers. Or painting people’s OCs in intricate and enlightening detail. Or taking beautiful pictures of mushrooms. Or sharing your homestead life with the world. Or coming up with entire ARG universes for your followers to immerse themselves in. Maybe you’re making memes for that one show that existed for fifteen seasons and stopped airing years ago. Perhaps you’re simply fulfilling the age-old societal need of staying silly :3. Whatever it is you come here to do, why not make it official and claim your domain?
Having a domain can add a little professional gleam to your online presence. It can be a funny little joke from you to you. It can also add an extra layer of this-is-what-this-is to your online persona.
blog.tumblr.com will remain free for everyone.
Here’s how you get your very own slice of the internet, right here on Tumblr:
Click on your account icon and select “Domains” from the drop-down.
Register your info, pop in your payment details, and hey presto. You’re now an official Tumblr citizen.
If you already have a custom domain purchased elsewhere, it’ll continue to work for now, but you will no longer be able to connect a new custom domain bought elsewhere to your blog.
Eventually, we will implement domain transfers (outbound and inbound) and paid domain connection.
And, to celebrate this historic moment, we’ve got a little offer for those interested in a .blog domain:
First year (through to July 31): $3.00
First year (from August 1 – December 31): $5.00
Annual Renewal: $10.00
Curious about other available domains? Check ‘em out here. More questions? The Support page has all the details!
Make it official, merge your online homes, and bring your Tumblr family along for the ride.
bruh fuckin-
these sites literally would not be as successful and profitable if it wasnt for the users who, yknow, use them.
ever heard of “dont bite the hand that feeds you”?
for fucks sake like are all websites just actively trying to die off?
this site isn’t profitable already. it never has been
it loses $3m a month
why are you so mad about them making custom URLs more accessible to people and keeping some money so the developers can get paid? The vast majority of people don’t know what “update your DNS registry” even means, much less how to do it. But now they can click a button and have a custom URL for their blog if they want.
Tumblr Domains: That thing you do in the place they already know
Hello, [tumblr]. Look at you all here vibing. Some of you are out here providing essential services, like making art—and people happy in the process. Maybe you’re creating pfps for your followers. Or painting people’s OCs in intricate and enlightening detail. Or taking beautiful pictures of mushrooms. Or sharing your homestead life with the world. Or coming up with entire ARG universes for your followers to immerse themselves in. Maybe you’re making memes for that one show that existed for fifteen seasons and stopped airing years ago. Perhaps you’re simply fulfilling the age-old societal need of staying silly :3. Whatever it is you come here to do, why not make it official and claim your domain?
Having a domain can add a little professional gleam to your online presence. It can be a funny little joke from you to you. It can also add an extra layer of this-is-what-this-is to your online persona.
Here’s how you get your very own slice of the internet, right here on Tumblr:
Click on your account icon and select “Domains” from the drop-down.
Register your info, pop in your payment details, and hey presto. You’re now an official Tumblr citizen.
If you already have a custom domain purchased elsewhere, it’ll continue to work for now, but you will no longer be able to connect a new custom domain bought elsewhere to your blog.
Eventually, we will implement domain transfers (outbound and inbound) and paid domain connection.
And, to celebrate this historic moment, we’ve got a little offer for those interested in a .blog domain:
First year (through to July 31): $3.00
First year (from August 1 – December 31): $5.00
Annual Renewal: $10.00
Curious about other available domains? Check ‘em out here. More questions? The Support page has all the details!
Make it official, merge your online homes, and bring your Tumblr family along for the ride.
Swear to god every time an app looks good and promising they let their greed take contorl
oh thanks! i'm like a technology grandpa so i appreciate the information :-)
I think @staff have overestimated people’s understanding of how domains work. They should have included actual examples in their announcement.
You used to be able to buy a URL from, say, GoDaddy.com and direct it to your Tumblr. They are going to phase that out so you have to buy the URL from them instead, so they can capture a little income. And also it means they do the work of setting up the redirect rather than people having to know what “Setting up a DNS record” is.
So I think it actually makes it easier for someone who has no understanding of internet architecture to have a custom URL for their blog if they want one. It’ll be as easy as buying crabs.
