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New notifications are unusable
I'm a long time tumblr user with two popular blogs. I post mostly text posts without titles. In order to find out which post is getting notes in the new notification I actually have to click through to the user name of someone who has reblogged a post of mine, then scroll until I see something reblogged from me. And that's assuming they even display usernames correctly - sometimes it shows people who only liked posts under reblogs and I find nothing at all. And it doesn't even show reblog comments separately!! So if a post gets more than 4 notes there is no way to see comments in your notes. This might seem like a small thing, but being able to see who is interacting with your posts is essential to using this site. Not being able to see when people at reblog comments is especially bad because it prevents conversion, feedback, & interactions. And I have to waste a stupid amount of time just to figure out which of my posts are getting notes. This has removed all the community feel I had and despite still getting notes I basically feel I am screaming into the void now with no simple way to see what my followers are sharing, what they like, or what they're trying to say back to me.Show lessNotoriousNina
Crashed in big time
I have being using tumblr for over a year now and it crashes me in big time. As I clean up on blogs that I follow the number stays on 514 but nothing to click on follow or unfollow and dashboard did not move at all as I tab for the update. Both web and app absolutely failed to move at all. Social media site like tumblr needs to be significantly improved on the platform. I am working very hard on my leisure to develop tumblr society for the world. The system video, photo, and multiple formats are very restrictive. We need tumblr to admit that most of there users are not children in fact very small percentage and so the platform needs to be a whole lot more adult friendly and at the same time more true society interactive social friendly. It is being existing for ten years already right? Please completely redesign and turn your app to be minimum 18 years or older and preferably 21 years and older. It doesn’t make any sense to do what Twitter or Facebook can already do and in other format alright. Seriously, can your team member truly just listen and truly make that difference? Most of your tumblr user don’t mind of paying for subscription, however, all of us care about all the inconvenience. This cannot wait, please make the major redesign and changes at once and not waiting at all. Your teams technology is too outdated, it needs completely overhaul and be five thousand times better and I mean it.Show lessDchen78998
As of yesterday...
I have a constant grey message box at the bottom saying “Hmm...try again?” And that I should log out and back in if it keeps happening. So I log out and back in, and it’ll work...until I leave the app and come back, the it happens again, and it’s a huge pain to have to keep logging back in. Stuff won’t really update while this message box is running.
Also, the app is still eating my photo posts. Last time I tried was before this grey-box issue. Two days ago.
Also, I do not like my activity notifications stacking. In particular, the reblog ones. I don’t mind the likes being stacked. But I liked clicking on individual reblog to look at tags. Some people communicate via tags. Granted, I could just visit the post itself, but that has become a pain now too - where I used to just be able to view everything I wanted from my activity section, now I have to jump out and hunt the post down through my profile. God forbid I’m not looking for an old post.
To be honest, right now it’s hard to double check on feature with that grey message box saying I have to log out and back in constantly. Nothing refreshes.
Edit: logging out and back in does nothing for me after all. App currently does nothing for me except show me pop-up notifications (clicking into then shows a “no-post-here” page).Show lessPxlatedTraveler
Take off the safe mode!!!! 😡😡😡
I have been using the Tumblr app for over 2 years. I actually was a fan of the major update that happened because I believe it made everything much more organized. Unfortunately I absolutely despise the latest update that moved the safe search to the settings. What's the point?!? The icon in the major update that let you press on it to show unfiltered posts and pictures and not show those posts and pictures was perfect. It was on the side, so it was not in the way of anything and worked perfectly. So why in the world did you get rid of it!?!?! The reason why I'm so mad at this in the first place is because certain things don't show in "safe mode." For example, the search "soft beige", which is not an inappropriate search at all, doesn't let me see any pictures because of this "safe mode." And I can't see any of these pictures by going into setting anyway because for some reason I have to be 18?!?! So you're telling me a 17 year old (my age) can't see pictures of a color because of this safe mode feature?!?!? This wouldn't be a problem if that icon was back. If you don't want to lose users because I know A LOT of other people probably have the same concerns as me. Return safe mode the way it used to be, an icon that you could press.
Sincerely,
An ex-Tumblr userShow lessSuoerlilyapplover
Won't stop crashing + update summaries are frustrating
Keeps crashing a few seconds after opening, making it unusable. The only way of fixing it is to redownload the app. This happens at least once a day, often more than that. This has not been fixed for several updates.
Everytime there's an update, the update summary is some ridiculous text that tries to be witty or strange, but it's not. It's not cute. It's annoying because we have no idea what is being changed in the update, and, knowing Tumblr, it could be some app-breaking bug-riddled nonsense that isn't even worth downloadingShow lessgardenome70
No Excuse for this App
For one of the most popular social networking sites in the world, and after all this time, and given that most people access it through their phones, you'd think Tumblr would manage to put together a decent app. Alas, their army of nerds has failed. If you follow more than a few active users and only check your account a couple times a day, you have to scroll and scroll and scroll, waiting for each new page to load, to find the specific kind of content you're looking for (say, videos, images, etc.). If the app crashes, you have to spend another five minutes scrolling to get back to your place. It's 2017. How is this still such an issue? There should be some kind of comprehensive, accessible filter that lets you fine-tune your feed. And automatically brings you back to where you had last scrolled? There's not even a reliable workaround: the archive button doesn't exist or the user has to choose a separate app theme or something with that specific function? It's definitely not there by default. And the ads. They're so large. Again, it makes infinite scrolling a chore; a quarter of each scroll is ad space, meaning more pauses for loading and less easily accessible content. I'd happily by a reasonable subscription to disable the ads. Is programming really this impossible?Show lessStandpoor
Aaand back to barely usable
I use this app because the mobile website is non-functional and there don't appear to be any third-party options. It's not unusable, but there are a lot of odd and downright bad UX decisions made on a regular basis, and it's crystal clear that no user testing is done before updates.
Most recent update can no longer reblog chat posts, crashes every five minutes, often refuses to update notifications and gets stuck, and takes you through three different screens to reblog something. Quotes are also ridiculously big, making most of them unreadable.
There's also no feedback / bug report option within the app, meaning that any reports about broken functionality get the staff asking you if you've turned it off and on again. Thus the review.
Other than all this, it's great. The messaging system works, my dash is accessible, the cute little button cloud when you go to post is appropriately cute, cuts now appear to work on iPhone, and the queue updates with a bit of prompting. It could be a lot worse.Show lessKendraRohanna
Awful, don't get it please
I've been using this stupid website for 6 years and got the app on my phone some years ago and it's been a pain ever since david karp left and the xkit guy was run off. audios were horrible video playing has generally been horrible. nothing ever loads in a timely fashion even when there's full wifi bars. sometimes when i quick reblog things on my dash, the silhouette of my blog will stay there while i scroll, once this starts there's no end. the silhouettes keep appearing until the stupid app crashes and then you can't use it until tomorrow, even if you restart your phone. stupid app, stupid web developers, shame on you for fixing things that don't need fixing and ignoring ALL of the numerous bugs you have.
Edit: with the latest update it keeps freezing once u scroll through every 5 posts or so and if you leave the app it will freeze, if u decide you want to reopen the app and use it like any normal person would, TOO BAD it won't open, will freeze your phone, then crash. The only way I have seen to fix this problem is to uninstall the app and reinstall, every single time i would like to enjoy these stupid memes. Where's the xkit guy? does tumblr staff actually exist??? why is this so hard for yahoo to figure out?? We may never knowShow lessJules211111111111110
still buggy
update as of september 13th - the app still times out every time i try to log on. this has been a problem since the crashing update and has still not been resolved despite the 2 newest updates. decidedly unimpressedholidayeyes
Ugh
Tumblr itself is awesome but this app constantly crashes and refuses to open and you have to delete and redownload to get anywhereSeppie420
