topherchris

It’s called LibPOP, and it’s basically “left-leaning political Digg meets social networking.”

And ohmigod, it’s running on Drupal, not Tumblr. I did most of the work on this a year ago, then remembered it this weekend, then put some final touches on it last night. (Drupal is a monster, but I do enjoy working with it.)

If your interested, I’d love it if you could sign up and post a link and vote on somebody else’s link and make a comment and fill out your profile and… Well, just head over there and do whatever you feel like. Thanks, guys!

Gah, I already see a couple bugs.

Comments: on.

openletters:

I wish I didn’t have to log in so I could write a truly anonymous open letter…

Sincerely,
dears

A fine feature-request here, for the ability to allow anonymous Open Letters. I’d absolutely love to do that.

The problem though, as I see it, is that anonymous stuff on the internet turns into garbage really quickly. Or at least the ratio of content to garbage becomes incredibly skewed in the wrong direction. Either way, you end up with a worthless site.

The first 24-hours of Confessionizer were enlightening. It went from being pretty cool to getting totally swamped with the worst kind of crap you can imagine — hundreds of ‘em. Nowadays it’s moderated by a real, live human being, which has eliminated that problem but has also given the poor bastard who approves all the submissions severe psychological trauma.

Still… Is there anything I’m missing here? Any way around this problem? If anyone has any input on any of this, I’m all ears.

Thanks!

Recent comments widget.

Kinda cool.

Wondering how to remove a person from a public group. Seriously, am I fucked? I think I’m fucked.

jessicalouise:

Comparing Tumblinas to Testumblrone is like comparing all female knitting circle to an all male circle jerk.

Whatever the “ha ha joke” is it’s … not funny. I’d be the first to be amused if it was.  

I get that Testumblrone started as a joke to take the piss out of Tumblinas and that’s great, more than great, could have even actually been funny, but it’s starting to get really uncomfortable and weird. I’m almost starting to think the Testumblroners really are that threatened by an innocuous and pretty tame girl group.

Sorry you feel that way. Discomfort is not what I was going for. I reject that we’re an “all male circlejerk.” If anything, we’re “men dressed as clowns who happen to be having a good circlejerk,” but I digress. It’s a little weird to read people who I follow (like you) trying to guess what motivated me to start the group in the first place, when I’m happy to explain it to anybody who will listen.

For the record: I’m not threatened by the girl group. I had never heard of it until Tumblr launched their whole “Females can blog, too!” section. And I thought that was a poor choice. To me, it was the sexism of lowered expectations. There are successful women bloggers in every other category on the Tumblr homepage, as there should be — so why does there need to be a “well, you’re a girl and at least you’re trying” section?

That was part of my motivation. To take it the other way. To show that when men get together we will devolve to our base instincts: sex, sex, our dicks, and chicks.

We’re making fun of ourselves. At least I hope the other authors know that.