Ok this is ugly. Just plain ugly.
Tumblr implemented a feature that makes this website actively worse. I'll show you how worse.
I'll show you an example with 1 post of mine and 1 post from another OP that I reblogged.
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Yesterday I made a normal post. It got reblogged a bunch of times. How many? DEPENDS if you're looking at your pc, where the update is AREADY integrated, or the app where it seems it still has to be implemented.
On my pc the reblog number is much lower than the one I see on my phone. Why you ask? because the new tumblr feature makes it so that your original post will ONLY SEE YOUR DIRECT REBLOGS. Everyone seeing your post from another user's reblog and reblogging that version will not add to your number. And even if they leave a comment or a tag for you to read, YOU WILL NOT SEE IT.
Now for some reason the reblog graphic still works on pc, and it clearly shows 14 reblogs. But from pc I'll never see them. I won't know if they added a comment or tags. If someone starts a chain of comments on a post, the OP will never see it.
And you can see it from the other side too:
This is a post I reblogged yesterday from @personajan, and as you can see, from the computer it only counts the reblogs that I GOT from My blog. They should have gone to them but now it's like I stole them from the original post!! And guess what! People farther up the reblog chain left little comments for the OP to read! I left comments for the OP to read! And they'll never see them. They'll never even know how many people liked their creation enough to re-share it.
I wanted to SHARE their work, not cut the engagement of the original post in HALF.
What the actual FUCK, Tumblr.
Idk how much time until the update is enrolled on phones too, but I'm already livid. Everyone's gonna lose.
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Now I'm not here to just complain, I'm here to say:
Tumblr has a help center, tell them that you're having issues with the update: https://www.tumblr.com/support.
Tell them that it's inconvenient and ruins the platform experience (but be polite, don't give them a reason to dismiss your complaints)
Go on their twitter and their instagram and make sure they know this latest update did NOT spark joy.
Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your