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DO NOT REMOVE THE REBLOG CHAIN FEATURE
Please.
Please do not change your image viewer, please do not remove access to previous tags, please do not remove custom blog themes and most importantly, please do not remove your reblog chain feature. I'm literally begging you. This is the unique identity of tumblr and many of your users, including myself, stay and use your site/app for this very feature.
We do not need another tiktok, we do not need another twitter, we do not need another facebook or instagram-we need tumblr to be just tumblr. You're throwing your early users under the bus to attract new ones when the majority of your demographic are the former and they are the ones who are keeping your site afloat. I've been using your site since 2012 and stayed despite all the bad decisions you've made since, but I will leave if these features are implemented and I'm sure I'm speaking for most of your users. Tumblr currently is a haven from all the monotony of other social media platforms because these features make it personal and highly interactive; they make it fun. Take those away and you're nothing, and you will be just like the others.Show lessannoyeduser#idk
Changes
The website is changing its core identity to be like everyone else. It’s much easier to replace something that is the same and people already don’t like these changes. Nobody wants Tumblr Live (a dataminer trying to be like live tiktoks), and nobody wants the website to look more like twitter (which people are leaving en mass)
If you want to use tumblr, at the very least don’t use the app, it is a glitchy mess, stick to the website, but with these changes that Tumblr keeps making that’s only making both the website worse and the app *even* worse because they’re not listening to users or using the poll feature to get user opinions themselves (polls being the only recent-ish addition that’s actually pretty good), it’s probably best to hop on a replacement like Cohost or do what been threatened for a while and go back to Internet 1.0 with personalised forums, a time when the internet was a little better and had individuality, which Tumblr is trying to rid itself of.
I’d say “I expect them to start properly crumbling like Twitter and Reddit within a year or two.” but the self-titled Hellsite has survived worse, somehow…
I still miss what it was, though.Show lessR.Moron
bad
not only are staff driving this site into the ground—updates no one wants, useless features no one likes (hello tumblr live), planned changes that would literally ruin the site as we know it—the mobile app is borderline unusable as it is right now. i can’t scroll for more than fifteen minutes without being kicked back to my home screen and having to start all over. the ads take up a ridiculous amount of space and they’re almost all videos that autoplay, and are just plain obnoxious to scroll past. half the time when i try to reblog something it glitches and doesn’t finish reblogging, and i have to cancel it and re-reblog it. the video player is an absolute piece of garbage—i have to click to fullscreen it to get it to start playing, but then it stops, and i have to exit fullscreen mode, and when i try to adjust the volume half the time it automatically mutes the video for. Some reason. it’s such an enormous hassle just to play one video. i used to use the app and desktop versions interchangeably, but with the state the app is in, i genuinely cannot stomach using it for more than fifteen minutes because it’s such a headache. and again, that’s just the bugs with the app, that’s not even getting into all the ways that tumblr management is ruining the site by ignoring its current users in favor of trying to change the site to appeal to hypothetical new users. i’ve loved tumblr for so long, and it’s really frustrating and disappointing to see what it’s becoming.Show lessArieavart
Potential to be great- selling out
I’ve been on Tumblr for at least 10 years and it’s a social media site I adore. As it existed before they started making broad “improvements”.
Tumblr has been recently making some nice changes (adding polls, streamlining old features, attempting to highlight some of the artists using the site). But more so, it’s been making a lot of ‘improvements’ that make the site a lot worse. Tumblr Live was added to the site despite no one using it. It can’t be opted out of, and it also data mines information from those who do use it. There have been updates to the video player and the photo viewer that make it impossible to zoom in and WAY too easy to swipe into more videos I didn’t ask for and didn’t want. Most importantly, in an attempt to “streamline” the application, they’re trying to collapse Reblogs. So instead of being able to have a conversation with other users and share a sense of community, the website will function like a comment section on Facebook.
I adore Tumblr, for what it CAN be. A unique, chronologically ordered dashboard with so much interaction and creativity. And I’m terrified that it’s hurtling towards what’s “trending” (ie: what makes other social media so annoying and unusable for me) to try and gain some of the traffic from those websites. I think allowing Tumblr to stay as unique as it is is the healthiest possible thing for the site. Because if I wanted anything else, I would’ve just downloaded Tiktok.Show lessIcaruru
Getting worse and worse every day
I can tell tumblr wants so desperate to capitalise on the fall of twitter by trying to change the entire format of the app and site to hopefully bring in new users. I've never had a problem with tumblr making changes and updates in the past, but in this year alone, they've managed to make everything uniquely convoluted, and riddled with unflattering useless features and merch plugs. Its like this pathetically desperate scramble to make money any way possible and failing at every turn. These decisions have been worse than twitters and i dont mean that lightly.
Its even more frustrating because theyre making all these unnecessary changes while still refusing to add login authentication to stave off some of the relentless bots that infest the site.Show lessLeech.o
13 year user - bad tumblr policy
I don’t support the changes recently outlined to come by this app in their recent news post. I want reverse-chronological newsfeeds based on who I follow only. I don’t want suggestions. If you insist on making suggestions, then you should apply those changes strictly to the “for you” tab. It’s a click away. Even the people you seem to think too stupid to use the platform, which you are somehow trying to lure to be content creators, could figure that one out. It just makes the site absolutely worthless. Tumblr itself is not a subreddit or facebook or twitter page showcasing “the best of tumblr” or something. The claims about trying to showcase newer users just seems incredibly stupid. If they are humans that want to connect with other people, then they should be making posts that you can connect with others of its kind through pre-existing functions. For example: tumblr search, tumblr tags, recommended blogs, recommended posts, because you liked! posts, liked by people you follow, for you page, the list goes on. On top of that, the bot problem is horrible and the blogs most likely to be promoted by this stupid system will be bots. Guess there’s that to look forward to. Tumblr will not beat out competitors or gain interest by copying other social media platforms, poorly. Fix the assets you have and make them function, stop building a treehouse on a tree with dying roots.Show lessBlahblahbahshdhdjdnfhd
deserves 0 stars. DO NOT SIGN UP.
while every other social media site crumbles, all tumblr had to do was not shoot themself in the foot. well it seems like theyre trying to shoot themself on purpose because NONE of the new changes being rolled in are good. we do not want algorithms. we do not care about for you pages. we do not want tumblr live. we want to see posts in chronological order. we want to be able to see reblog chains. we want to be able to see prev tags. we want custom themes. we want tumblr to be tumblr, not another tiktok or twitter or instagram clone.
if you are thinking of joining tumblr bc youve heard how good it is, forget about it because its not good anymore. staff actively HATE THEIR USERBASE.
if you want to use tiktok use that app if you want twitter use that app. tumblr trying to be like that wont make tumblr better, because the things that made tumblr good in the first place was that it DIDNT have features like those sites/apps. its uniqueness is what made it good. now its just a worse buggier version of already existing apps. do not download.Show lesstinymanticore
Stop trying to make tumblr into other, worse websites
The website’s always been a bit buggy. I can deal with that. But right now it’s under active sabotage.
It’s getting harder to see people’s previous tags, an important way that users talk to each other. Custom blog themes are being axed, which has already forced some historical photo blogs I liked to shut down. You used to be able to zoom in on the photo viewer, which was often necessary on mobile, for disabled people, etc. but they took the working viewer away and tried to put some trash in its place. Why do I have to log in to see stuff?! Searching my tags on my own blog from within the mobile app doesn’t work - buggy, but I could deal by searching “#pose ref” in a browser tab. Now? No. Intentionally made nonfunctional. No one likes Tumblr Live (illegal in many countries due to privacy violations) or the For You page (now the default for new accounts). If I wanted TikTok… I would use TikTok. TikTok is a better TikTok than Tumblr. But I don’t. I want a low stress place to look at cool art and see my friends read Dracula. All staff has to do is remove these features that are getting on the user base’s nerves and reallow porn and Tumblr would be booming.
As the rest of the Internet moves towards being an ad-packed, data mining cesspit where grown adults are deemed too stupid to decide whether or not they want to see a nutsack today, Tumblr has the chance to be different. And it should take it.Show lessAprilStorms
The recent updates :(
Hi there long time tumblr user here. In your recent updates you’ve added collapsed reblogs, so users can no longer see a full conversation in a post. This is a terrible idea. You’re also keeping tumblr live, a feature that is a mine for data. This is a terrible idea. You’re also keeping it that you can’t permanently turn off tumblr live. This is a terrible idea. You also changed the photo viewer and now users can no longer zoom. This is a terrible idea. You also took away the ability to look at the previous tags. This is a terrible idea. You are taking away everything that makes tumblr good. Tumblr is great all on its own, you do not need to make it more like tiktok or Twitter. Doing so, will only make the current (and loyal) users leave the site. Please do not continue with these updates.Show lesscannonalex
The new updates are concerning.
I love the community on tumblr, and it’s absolutely been an incredible experience. However- with the recent changes on Twitter, Reddit, and Tiktok this app has been changing too. It’s been changing to take on more of those apps “good features” to make it more palatable to audiences coming in. Those that have used tumblr for a long time are becoming increasingly annoyed with the updates to the desktop and the mobile apps. Many tumblr users don’t want collapsible reblogs, or to log in to view anything like on Twitter. It’s a severe deviation from how tumblr has consistently thrived off of old web functions. Taking away some users abilities to access the original post from their url is a huge issue that comes to mind, as well as the change to where the post button sits.
Tumblr has a lot of amazing features but making something like “tumblr live” a thing that you can’t permanently turn off on your dash, when it’s nothing but clunky and as tan is concerning. I urge tumblr to look at the concerns that your og user base has. The whole reason people are coming from other apps is because they are rapidly seeing the functionality of these apps go down hill. Tumblr has been an amazing community for years now. I would hate to see its customization and community worn down due to add ons NO ONE asked for.Show lessFesten M.
