everyone please turn off ‘best stuff first’ in your settings on tumblr so you can support your content creators!

having best stuff first makes it so a lot of content creators’ edits and gifs get buried by other posts, so if you want to see your dashboard in… you know… chronological order (still don’t understand why social media keeps thinking we want anything but that) make sure you go:

settings > global settings > dashboard preferences > turn ‘best stuff first’ off.

okay I know for the past few days everyone’s already been freaking out about this, but oh MAN it’s so real.
I haven’t yet met a blog that isn’t affected by this, no matter how big or small. My own activity stats have decreased by at least 10-15 times it’s surreal.
Imagine how negatively this impacts content creators who are just starting out. In addition, a lot of them rely on reblogs/followers to get noticed, to gain interest, earn money and pay their expenses. They need Tumblr to help them put their work out, not bury them alive.
So DO turn this feature off if you want to actually see new posts from the blogs you follow, and support them.

I don’t know if it’d help, but you can try this:

Go to Tumblr support, select “Feature Request”, and ask for the Best Stuff First feature to be turned OFF by default, not on.

If they’re not intending to remove it altogether, the least they could do is not force it to everyone who’s unaware of it. Gotta spam the staff.