We’ve started rolling out a small, huge improvement to Tumblr.
The small part is that we’re rearranging reblog comments so that they’re actually readable. The huge part is that we’re rearranging reblog comments so that they’re actually readable.
This has been a long time coming, and you might be startled at how suddenly easy it is to understand what’s going on. That’s alright. Relax your eyes, let them adjust, and enjoy the readability of it all.
Should be out to everyone by tomorrow afternoon. Love ya, Tumblr.
it’s so incredibly bad
it would be silly to threaten to delete my Tumblr in response to an interface tweak, but I do expect to be using Tumblr a lot less now. this takes one of the site’s essential and unique features – reblogging with commentary in a way that highlights discussion, cross-currents, reaction and response – and recasts it as an Instagram comments thread. that’s not very interesting to me, so I expect that as the new, undemanded form takes hold, the site, too, will hold less interest for me.
it’s kind of like if somebody hung an old shoe that smelled bad from your rearview and said hey, some people like the shoe, give it a try. driving with shoe! it tested well in focus groups. well: sometimes, you’d still need to drive places, so you’d smear some essential oil on your upper lip and get in the car. but otherwise you’d probably walk more. you wouldn’t throw away your car, that’d be absurd. but getting into it would involve this old shoe smell experience that’d just sort of naturally put you off it.
oh, well! it was nice while it lasted!