wait so pillowfort doesn’t e-mail you notifi

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wait so pillowfort doesn’t e-mail you notifications of likes or comments or replies you’ve received

but it doesn’t have a notifications pane either 

so like

how do you have a conversation???

Do you just

do you

i don’t know, leave every comment thread you’ve participated in open in a new tab and refresh them all periodically until you decide you’re done having a conversation?? 

how do other people know to respond to you?

I’m sorry, I’ve been on the Internet a long time and I’m just sort of boggled by this. I guess I remember that forums used to work like that, circa 2001, and you’d just go back to the threads you’d been responding to and manually reload them to see if anyone had replied to them. 

It’s just. That was almost two decades ago and I thought we had come up with solutions since then.
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bomberqueen17: wait so pillowfort doesn’t e-mail

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bomberqueen17:

wait so pillowfort doesn’t e-mail you notifications of likes or comments or replies you’ve received

but it doesn’t have a notifications pane either 

so like

how do you have a conversation???

Do you just

do you

i don’t know, leave every comment thread you’ve participated in open in a new tab and refresh them all periodically until you decide you’re done having a conversation?? 

how do other people know to respond to you?

I’m sorry, I’ve been on the Internet a long time and I’m just sort of boggled by this. I guess I remember that forums used to work like that, circa 2001, and you’d just go back to the threads you’d been responding to and manually reload them to see if anyone had replied to them. 

It’s just. That was almost two decades ago and I thought we had come up with solutions since then.

NOT LIKE I’LL KNOW IF ANYONE RESPONDS TO THIS POST OR ANYTHING THANKS TUMBLR FOR BEING BROKEN I GUESS I’LL SIT ALONE IN SILENCE IN A DARK ROOM GOSH!!!!
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bomberqueen17: wait so pillowfort doesn’t e-mail

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bomberqueen17:

wait so pillowfort doesn’t e-mail you notifications of likes or comments or replies you’ve received

but it doesn’t have a notifications pane either 

so like

how do you have a conversation???

Do you just

do you

i don’t know, leave every comment thread you’ve participated in open in a new tab and refresh them all periodically until you decide you’re done having a conversation?? 

how do other people know to respond to you?

I’m sorry, I’ve been on the Internet a long time and I’m just sort of boggled by this. I guess I remember that forums used to work like that, circa 2001, and you’d just go back to the threads you’d been responding to and manually reload them to see if anyone had replied to them. 

It’s just. That was almost two decades ago and I thought we had come up with solutions since then.

ah-ah-ah!

There’s a Replies button in the slidey-outy sidebar!

it shows you uh. every single reply to a thread. but not. well, not the thread itself. That button there in the middle. 

It brings you to a page that’s just every reply to one of your comments. Including comments you’ve made in reply to yourself, which, okay. Hey, if not there then where.

It doesn’t, however, give any context, so you’re never sure who’s actually replying to what. (You can click through but do be careful, it doesn’t open a new window, it’s all in the same window so you’ll lose your place if you’re as ADHD and easily confused as I am.) But I am encouraged to see that all this time tons of people have actually been interacting with content I assumed was being shouted into the void. It’s sort of a shame, actually, but. I mean. Learning curve, I guess. 

It’d be keen if you got notifs of likes and reblogs in that same spot but i get why you don’t. You just– don’t get any notifs of those things, literally at all, I looked it up and that’s actually true. You can see on the interacted-with post in question whether someone has interacted with it, but if it’s not a comment it won’t show up in the replies pane, and there’s literally no way to get comments emailed to you, so you really have to want to know whether you’re shouting into the void or not. 
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In this house, we love, support, and respect Murderbot and leave it alone so it can watch Sanctuary

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drumroll please

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So I sell film developing on Etsy, and someone purchased the service uhhh literally a year ago, and just sent me a message about 2 months ago “I never got my pictures! how do I get them?” 

and I wrote back “you have to mail your film to me for me to develop it” as politely as I could. (I know I wrote about this on here.)

She wrote back “Do I mail it to you first?”

and i was like “… yes?” and pasted my previous reply into the body.

The package just arrived. I recognized the name. 

I was like, “OK, everybody, gather around, because I want someone else to witness this in case there’s something really fucking weird in this package, because clearly this person has a fundamentally different understanding of how the world works.”

I let the suspense draw out as I fumbled some scissors through the tape and got the package open.

I don’t know if I’m relieved or disappointed that the package, which was supposed to contain 4 rolls of 35 mm film, did actually contain 1 roll of film, 2 disposable cameras, and 1 roll of APS film which isn’t the same thing but close enough.

It also contained fifteen pages of email correspondence between me and the customer, none of which included the order receipt, and 14 pages of which were mangled code garbage from Microsoft Outlook or somesuch. 

Hey. Suspense ended, I guess. Of course, Etsy just let me auto-archive all my way-beyond-due orders where customers never sent me things and I gave up on trying to email them, so I just had to do a fascinating spelunking expedition to try to find this order since her 15 pages of correspondence did not include the specifics of what she had ordered. But hey. I’ll take it.

(like, for the record, i’m not hating, I’m just sort of perpetually bewildered and astonished by the very, very different ways in which people unexpectedly experience the world. i literally had to explain to someone the entire concept of how non-digital photography even worked, recently, and I’m not judging; clearly, there are people to whom this is all news, and honestly that’s not that surprising, it just is to me because I lived through it, you know? I’m not playing, I have genuine compassion here, it’s just so astonishing sometimes to realize how different a place other people are genuinely coming from.)
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The Self-Defeating Myth Of “Pulling It

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The Self-Defeating Myth Of “Pulling It Off”:

When you live in a fat body, well-meaning people love to tell you that the only barrier between you and whatever you want to wear is your own self-confidence. That’s incorrect, but I understand why people say it—it’s convenient to believe that the only barriers for others are in their own heads, partly because it means fixing the problem might be simple, but also because it allows anyone who has never been plus size to neatly abdicate their complicity in how the world treats fat women and obscure the gap in their own empathy. In reality, there are two phases of choosing to do anything, including choosing what to wear: deciding there’s a thing you want to do, and deciding that doing it is an option reasonably available to you.
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