I don’t know if you’ve heard about Tumblr’s recent change denying PC users the ability to edit posts made by app via web browser, but it’s rolled out for me.
Here’s the thing: I’m physically disabled. I have chronic pain in my fingers, wrist and right shoulder. To be able to blog at all, I rely on both PC and my iPad. I put posts in my draft folder by scrolling Tumblr on my iPad (as I cannot use a mouse for very long because of thumb/shoulder pain) and I tag posts on PC (as I cannot type on my iPad for very long because of shoulder pain–a traditional keyboard is more accessible for me). I do not have the ability to edit and tag posts via iPad. To be able to add to posts in a text discussion is also impossible for me, as I cannot type more than a couple of lines at best on my iPad the way I can on a keyboard.
(Nor do I live in a space where it safe to use voice to text, and it doesn’t work well with my tendency to use long words and speak quickly. It’s okay for short and casual communication, but I could never compose long posts, often using community-specific terminology, using it.)
To say I’m beyond upset is about the understatement of the year. It’s stopped me, completely, from being able to interact with the majority of other people’s posts–because most of them are made by app.
If this isn’t rolled back, I will not be able to run this blog the way I currently am. I have no money with which to buy keyboards or accessories that work with my iPad (and even then I still won’t know if they’ll work as comfortably for me as my current ergonomic/curved PC keyboard, so I could be spending money I don’t have on accessories that don’t work or even worsen my pain). None. Zero.
I would really, really appreciate it if you could protest this. Write to Tumblr. Complain. Even reblog this post. Do something to get this talked about. If this doesn’t change, I won’t be able to reblog other people’s content on this blog. I won’t be able to engage with or add to other people’s posts. This blog will have to either become a tiny imitation of what it was or run entirely without tags (so I can just send things straight to queue from iPad) because I do not have the spoons to tag and reblog posts via the iOS app when it causes me so much more pain than just using my PC ergonomic keyboard. That, though, will still deny me the ability to add to other people’s posts, because if I don’t have the spoons to tag via iOS, I don’t have them for text additions.
(And yes, if I run this blog without tags, it won’t be safe for all followers, and that isn’t acceptable.)
The core feature of Tumblr–being able to reblog and add to other people’s content–will be entirely locked out for me, all because I’m a disabled blogger unable to do everything via app.
Please make a big thing about this. Please get everyone talking and protesting. Please. I am incredibly distressed by the fact that the features I have been using and enjoying for years will no longer be accessible to me.
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