blazehedgehog
We're going to learn that when Elon Musk fired 99.8% of Twitter's development team, a bunch of them ended up on Tumblr @staff and are the reason we're suffering this UI redesign, aren't we.
blazehedgehog
Hey @staff if you want to make tumblr easier to browse how about you actually make search work properly
How about you stop pushing Tumblr towards needing to be logged in even to just view posts
"Oh we're making it so you have to be logged in to submit anonymous asks to a person's ask box so we can better combat harassment." Don't lie to me. Tumblr already had options to deal with this, including the fact the blog could just turn off anonymous asks if they did not want to risk being open to the public. There are more elegant ways to solve that problem and you went with the clumsy one because it aligned with where you already want to go.
How about you actually fix and improve the new post editor? How many years has that thing been in development, now? And despite it having some cool new features, the old post editor is still infinitely more reliable for things like selecting blocks of text. We've had computer text editors basically since the 1960's. What's your excuse?
How about you stop pushing people away from the public version of my blog with my customized theme and towards your generic, homogenized, one-size-fits-all, you-only-get-to-customize-two-colors, you-have-to-log-in-to-read-it internal blog view?
I literally just submitted a bug report for the Android version of Tumblr after the app failed to keep a queued post in the queue. Editing that post on my tablet caused it to instantly go public at 2am instead of at my normal queued posting time. Did you know I've never once gotten the help I needed from tumblr support? It doesn't matter if I'm reporting a real actual bug or just airing my complaints about the state of the site, nobody over there has ever understood my needs or done anything about it. Ever.
I've had this blog since 2009. I could have told you I was bleeding out on the street and the only reply your support staff would give me is "Can you send me a screenshot of what you're seeing?"
Not even nine months ago you were proud to be different from all the other social media sites. Now you want us to spend money on meme merch you didn't even invent. Including $7.99 on teeny tiny jpegs next to our usernames.
And now this. This, above everything else, was your priority. This "makes tumblr easier to use." Forgive me if I don't trust you, and have never trusted you, and will never trust you.
blazehedgehog
For wanting to make Tumblr "easier to use" it sure took me a long time to figure out where they hid managing my post queue
Takes more effort to get to now, too. Used to be like one click, now it's more like three or four