Willing Participants Needed!
Tumblr Labs opens today with an exciting opportunity for healthy volunteers. Simply go to your Labs settings on the web and flip the switch ON to enroll. Choose from any of these completely safe experiments:
- Themed Posts by @cyle: Changes the color of a post to the color of its Tumblr, turning your dashboard into a beautiful illegible rainbow.
- Reblog Graphs by @idiot: Adds a button on posts that shows you where they’ve been and where they got all those crazy ideas.
- Queue+ by @jixson12: Fine-grained scheduling options for your queue, for more fine-grained queuing.
- Inside Tumblrs by @cyle: Helpful stuff for group blogs. Private ones will show up in your dash, and public ones can have “Members only” posts for members-only business.
Qualifications:
- Current Tumblr user
- Web dashboard access
- Thrill liker
Disclaimer: Tumblr Labs are experimental features that were designed and developed in someone’s spare time. Labs experiments are not guaranteed to work the first time or any time. Labs experiments may abruptly and unexpectedly cease functioning, or disappear altogether. Real features are not regularly tested for compatibility with Labs experiments. To disable a Tumblr Labs experiment, turn the switch off. New Labs experiments will be added and old ones removed, possibly (probably) without notice. By reading this message you imply a positive disposition towards Labs experiments as long as they last and accept that things will inevitably change as time moves on and on. Labs experiments have not been tested on live animals, your taxonomic rank notwithstanding. Please participate in Tumblr Labs only as directed.
Fresh subjects requested for exciting new opportunity
Tumblr Labs seeks additional volunteers to undergo new, non-invasive experiments on Android. To participate, go to Labs settings on your Android device and flip the switch ON. (Web-based subjects apply here.)
Exposure to the following experiments falls within acceptable limits:
- Doodle Posts by @vanillaburritos: Enables a new kind of post you can draw on with your finger.
- Sticky Audio Player by @bitterorca and @brendanp: Docks audio posts to your dash so you can play them and scroll.
- Tap to Play GIFs by @vanillaburritos: Keeps gifs in a Schrodinger state until you tap them into life so they don’t bog down your phone’s memory.
Qualifications
- Android machine with the latest Tumblr update.
- Tolerance to extreme euphoria.
Standard disclaimer: Tumblr Labs are experimental features that were designed and developed in someone’s spare time. Labs experiments are not guaranteed to work the first time or any time. Labs experiments may abruptly and unexpectedly cease functioning, or disappear altogether. Real features are not regularly tested for compatibility with Labs experiments. To disable a Tumblr Labs feature, turn the switch off. New Labs experiments will be added and old ones removed, possibly (probably) without notice. By reading this message you imply a positive predisposition towards Labs experiments as long as they last and accept that things will inevitably change as time moves on and on. Labs experiments have not been tested on live animals, your taxonomic rank notwithstanding. Please participate in Tumblr Labs only as prescribed.