how to know if tumblr has been eating your asks: send yourself anywhere between 5-10 asks, ( anon or not ) but have each ask be nothing but an order in which you sent them.
i.e: the first ask says ‘1′, the second says ‘2′, etc etc.
i sent myself ten of these, both on anon and not. This was all i received back:
Tumblr is now eating asks along with notifications. We must be more interactive than ever if we want keep this form of entertainment we call the rpc. Go ahead and warn your friends or test this for yourselves.. This post is reblogable.
I just sent myself five of these. none of them came through.
So, hey, I tested this with numbers from 1-10 too, alternating between anon and logged in, and I also only got the message that said “10″ in my inbox.
But then I tested this by actually typing out the words “one”-”ten” and sending those as asks and well well
would you look at that.
It’s still likely that Tumblr has changed some shitfucking thing again that’s causing asks to get eaten more often, since it looks like single-symbol asks at least get automatically filtered away somehow, but the situation isn’t as dire as “only every tenth message gets through”. I recommend y’all test this out some more.
asks dont get sent if theres no space after a period. if its only one character. if its got more than four periods in a row or if its in all caps. Its part of tumblrs anti spam measures