One of the most telling things about how this website is basically falling apart is the userbase itself. Everyone claims the the BIG BAD STAFF is doing this shit out of ignorance and laziness and incompetence, which is sometimes true and I join in on the jokes, but let’s be honest here:
Graphic design updates are normal for websites and are only aesthetic changes, so shut up about those
Technical changes, like that apparent change to the tags system that I have yet to experience as well as the removal of replies, all have been triggered by something in the userbase.
Now, all you people kicking and screaming in your own little corners of Tumblr are always blissfully unaware of people in other corners, so you only think about your own corner (bit hypocritical of a lot of you). In the past, groups from 4chan and whatever have launched “attacks” on the tags by spamming them with porn, gore, etc. It was a well-known problem, and a common tactic when they would happen would be to report the posts and block the posters, which notified Staff, who all of you think don’t listen.
Thanks to this new system, the posts in Search are much more randomized, so assholes can’t flood them with triggering shit anymore. No, it’s not perfect, but you can’t EXPECT it to be perfect when they had to basically overhaul a working system thanks to a bunch of assholes exploiting the tag system. They found a real problem and addressed it the best they could, but everyone threw it back in their faces.
So, looking at just that one instance of Staff identifying a problem, fixing it, and then being met with their userbase kicking and screaming like toddlers and sending them nothing but shit in response to updates, it’s no surprise they’re not too receptive to messages.
After all, looking at yourselves, would YOU want to deal with you?