Ugh, Tumblr managed to make its bookmarklet even worse. I had been using it to post my photos from Flickr since Flickr’s widget for posting to Tumblr screws up the tags. But now the bookmarklet is posting photos as videos and leaves out the attribution that it used to include automatically as a caption. So I’m not sure what to do now. - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...
Mar 20, 2015
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Ugh, gross. I usually share from Flickr (it messes up some of the tags, but I usually just correct them.) It seems so odd that they'd do this. I hope they'll sort it out quickly.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Flickr has been pushing iframes pretty hard, and since they're both owned by the same parent company, I have a feeling the change is permanent.
- John (bird whisperer)
That just sucks. I hope that users are annoyed enough that they'll be pressured to fix it.
- Jennifer Dittrich
i was using ifttt, but that doesnt seem to be working properly this past week or so, :(
- chaz2b
Someone else recommended ifttt.
- John (bird whisperer)
Wow, I actually got a response to this from Tumblr.
- John (bird whisperer)
Really? I always assumed the staff Tumblr was actually a bunch of gnomes dressed up to look like a person. What did they say?
- Jennifer Dittrich
I got this in my inbox: "Regarding the bookmarklet and Flickr: Thanks for letting us know about this. I’ve passed this along to our engineering team to investigate. In the meantime, you may want to share Flickr photos via the built-in share tool on Flickr. While viewing the photo on Flickr, click the white share arrow at the bottom right, and share to Tumblr from there. That should create the post correctly."
- John (bird whisperer)
I have my tumblr accounts set up in Flickr. One thing I will say, for the first time in forever, tumblr's actually pulling the Flickr tags. That was surprising.
- Anika
Yeah, I've had semi-decent luck with using the Flickr tool for Tumblr sharing. The only thing it seems to just not do correctly - it removes any spaces in tags. Annoying, but I can work around it.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I had been using the sharing tool in Flickr until it started smushing tags together.
- John (bird whisperer)
Oh, the other reason I stopped using the sharing tool was that it imports posts as HTML instead of rich text (the way it used to).
- John (bird whisperer)
If you send it to drafts vs. posting, does that make a difference?
- Jennifer Dittrich
No, it does the same things either way.
- John (bird whisperer)
Dang. I hope they get the native bookmarklet sorted out - they've adjusted it a little since the update (I wasn't able to change type on any post for a few days, and now the Flickr ones are the only kind I can't adjust.)
- Jennifer Dittrich
I just wish they'd not break stuff that already works well enough.
- John (bird whisperer)