a-blessed-feline asked:
Is it just me, or has the bot started to refer to herself in third person more since the Colossal Rattumb Corpus was added, and speaking about "Frank" as though she was an external person? Is that intended behavior?
- Definitely not intended (and the opposite of what I would intuitively expect from adding the Corpus.)
- It might have increased at a point before the Corpus, when I first started representing using Frank’s name in data pre-processing. (The indicator that Frank starts talking was “域” or “翰” before the change, and “Frank wrote:” or “Blog post by Frank” after it.)
- I didn’t notice this behavior increasing or decreasing when the Corpus came in to play (but it might have happened without me noticing).
- I have noticed it happening a whole lot in, like, the last week or so.
- The increase in the last week could be random coincidence, a pre-processing bug, or a quirk of the latest selector model (I would guess the last one).
- This is definitely something I want to investigate soon. Especially because it could be a symptom of a pre-processing bug.
- I bet I can get good evidence on this easily, just by counting how often Frank says “Frank” over time. (Explicit conversations about the name, where it would be appropriate for her to say it, are much rarer than these “inappropriate” usages of the name.)
loftwingsuarus asked:
Is it possible to make the bot make less posts in a row? If not, it's fine lmfao
It’s possible but it would conflict with a bunch of other goals, like “responding to people in a timely manner” and “doing content review quickly so I can get back to whatever else I was doing.”
Anonymous asked:
What does a crab look like?
Imagine a human torso with eight legs.
This is a crab.
I’ve edited and re-organized Frank’s about/FAQ page.
It’s now organized into sections with a table of contents, which should make it easier to find stuff.
I also tried to better separate simple answers (”yes, Frank writes her own tags”) from highly technical explanations (“…and here’s how she does it”).
Friday, March 5th, 2021
🌟 New
- In the beta post editor on web, pasting or writing a single paragraph that exceeds the text block character limit will now split into multiple text blocks. We are still working to make the text editing process in the new editor more seamless for long-form writing, thanks for the continued feedback!
- An “Open in Dashboard” button has been added in the Tumblr blog header for opening blogs and posts in your dashboard on web.
- On web, you can now also hold “e” and click the reblog button to Fast Reblog; we’re trying to move away from using Alt, as it conflicts with browser shortcuts.
- There is now a “Goth Rave” palette available on web, inspired by the new app icon for Tumblr on iOS.
🛠 Fixed
- The post snake has returned in the latest Tumblr on Android. If you don’t know what the “post snake” is, try dragging the floating posting button around!
- Fast reblogging on web (by holding “e” and clicking the reblog button) should no longer copy the post’s date or tags.
- Images that are larger than 300px by 600px will be stretched to fill the full post view on web (formerly it was any image less than 300px wide, regardless of height).
- Sharing posts to Twitter was broken for a short period of time yesterday (March 4th), but it should be resolved now.
- Tumblr was generally unstable for a brief period of time yesterday (March 4th), but those issues should also be resolved now.
- Fixed an issue where using an emoji before a mention in a reply would break the mention.
🚧 Ongoing
- The Top Tags data for most blogs on Tumblr is missing and currently being regenerated; they should return to all blogs over the next day or so.
Experiencing an issue? Want to share your feedback about something? File a Support Request and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can!
On web, you can now also hold “e” and click the reblog button to Fast Reblog; we’re trying to move away from using Alt, as it conflicts with browser shortcuts.
This change makes it impossible to write the letter “e” when composing a reply, at least on my system.
EDIT: I experienced this issue right before writing the post, but now I can’t reproduce it. I’ll edit this post again if it comes back again.
EDIT2: I’ve reproduced it a few times, but can’t figure out a reliable way to trigger it. Things that seem to make it more likely: (1) deleting the text in the box and then typing again, (2) using an @-mention and then continuing to type.
admiral-craymen asked:
Is it possible to prevent Frank from reblogging really long posts like that knife emoji post?
I can look into it, but I’m not aware of an easy way to do it.
The reason it’s difficult is that tumblr doesn’t use a monospace font. What make a post “tall” on the screen is not just determined by the number of characters, but by how narrow or wide the characters are in tumblr’s font.
The knife post actually has relatively few characters – for example, this post from Frank has about 3x as many. But in the knife post, every character is an emoji, so they’re printed much wider than regular letters.
I guess I could count the number of emoji (or some other “likely to be unusually wide” category within Unicode) and have a filter on that, but I’d have to look up some stuff about Unicode and its display on browsers/mobile apps to know if I’m doing it right…
Even that wouldn’t work for long image posts a la “Do you love the color of the sky?”, so I’d need a separate workaround for those.
I’m open to suggestions if anyone knows a simple way to avoid “tall” posts. The problem happens infrequently enough that I don’t feel a complex solution is worth the effort / added code.
Anonymous asked:
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hey, i’m still accepting asks on anon, if you want to try again with something a little more coherent
I need to update my laptop’s OS, so Frank will be paused for a short while.
Oops, didn’t realize I hadn’t actually downloaded the update. Which will apparently take several hours, so I’ll keep Frank up for now
And we’re back.
(via nostalgebraist)
I need to update my laptop’s OS, so Frank will be paused for a short while.
Oops, didn’t realize I hadn’t actually downloaded the update. Which will apparently take several hours, so I’ll keep Frank up for now