branchflowercuriosa
mariposima

That’s FOUR changes Tumblr has made this week that make my life harder.

Way to go.

moorewr

What were the four? I’ve managed to miss what any of them were…

mariposima

  1. For some reason you can no longer see which blog a message is sent to in your inbox.  I run a lot of blogs and get a lot of messages, so this is a pretty big problem for me.  
  2. You can no longer remove tags whilst typing them in the editng box by hitting the backspace key.  You have to manually click on every tag to make it go away if you make a typo.  I suffer from bad RSI so every extra click is pain.
  3. Tumblr has completely overhauled the Theme Garden and reduced the number of free themes available from around 1700 to about 50.  I can understand why they want to push the premium themes, but the selection of free themes is back to where it was in 2007 with around 100 million more users.  Is this progress?
  4. Then there’s the major issue of Tumblr hiding posts from everyone but the last 100 people you followed after the first page of your dashboard. I know they are doing it to lighten the load on the servers and reduce downtime, but I still can’t get my head around it and quite frankly it makes me really upset.

I would also include being forced to manually add in a caption every time you want to send a post to Twitter, whereas you used to just tick a box and it was done for you… but they rolled that one out a few weeks ago now.

I’m starting to wonder when they are going to do something that actually benefits users.  It’s like anti-functionality has become de rigeur… 

57 notes

  1. gameboygirl reblogged this from cream-and-stars and added:
    ^ Thank you for checking. I didn’t follow enough blogs to check #4, which worried me the most.
  2. cream-and-stars reblogged this from gameboygirl and added:
    #4 isn’t a thing. I checked - there are posts deep (30 pages?) into my dash from follows in the 150s and 200s for me....
  3. floipenstein reblogged this from riddlesinthedork
  4. patrickdiomedes reblogged this from angryfeministbabe-movingsoon and added:
    Wait What the fuck is with #4 seriously what the fuck
  5. angryfeministbabe-movingsoon reblogged this from alimarko
  6. amazingmichelleman reblogged this from hajikelist
  7. shmeemsy reblogged this from alimarko
  8. alimarko reblogged this from hajikelist and added:
    GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, TUMBLR.
  9. vvvarinn reblogged this from neveoyeah and added:
    #4 is still not a real thing, yall
  10. neveoyeah reblogged this from riddlesinthedork and added:
    at this point it seems like they’re pushing people away on purpose
  11. hajikelist reblogged this from riddlesinthedork
  12. riddlesinthedork reblogged this from miraclekid and added:
    Wow is #4 the reason my dash has been so boring and shit lately
  13. navis-old-blog-blog reblogged this from 267198
  14. 267198 reblogged this from spockvarietyhour and added:
    I con’t even imagine how terrible tumblr would be without missing-e now that they’ve made such awful changes, it is...
  15. sydicus-blog reblogged this from spockvarietyhour
  16. spockvarietyhour reblogged this from branchflowercuriosa and added:
    yeerrsh
  17. rweroom reblogged this from branchflowercuriosa and added:
    Thanks - and yes, I’m not down with any of those wave forms…
  18. johnl3m0n reblogged this from branchflowercuriosa
  19. juliekhay reblogged this from branchflowercuriosa and added:
    Number four. I no like et. Not at all.
  20. branchflowercuriosa reblogged this from rweroom and added:
    For some reason you can no longer see which blog a message is sent to in your inbox. I run a lot of blogs and get a lot...