as someone whoās worked in software development for a few years and been through the process many times, I find myself getting personally offended every time tumblr releases shit like this.
Itās not even a resistance to change; weāve all rolled with some major site updates (raise your hand if you remember the tag box being on the side of the new post window) and adapted to them just fine.
Itās the team spending time on updates that nobody asked for and that dramatically upset years of work, rather than fixing bugs or addressing actually useful enhancements.
Users still canāt customize their sponsored ad content. So weāre all subjected to jump scares and horror gifs that may be upsetting or triggering.
The āreport forā function still doesnāt work. It broke years ago and hasnāt been fixed. You can click āreport for harassment/spamā all the livelong day, but as soon as you refresh that page: thereās no indication that you reported the user.
They still havenāt figured out how to release the URLs of terminated users.
It took them five years to fix their video player.
Thereās no mobile option to change reblog types, so text posts that are arbitrarily ātoo longā get changed to links.
Fanmail and asks get eaten. Speaking of, what good did it do to block the ability to add links to asks? None.
Thereās no way to turn off fanmail. If you want or need to have no incoming contact, you canāt. Youāre stuck blocking everyone.
Theyāve implemented flashing and optical illusion gifs in the radar and background of the login page with no option to disable. Sorry, people whose seizures and migraines are triggered by that kind of input.
Thereās no way to keep a public post from being reblogged.
Thereās no way to actually block a user. You can ignore them, and not see notifications they make and they wonāt see your posts on their dash or be able to send non-anon asks. But that doesnāt stop them from going to your blog and seeing/liking/reblogging your posts from there.
Itās giving logic like there was no reason not to when there was clearly a reason not to. Itās having obviously no clue what their userbase actually does with their product. Itās having no clue how their userbase interacts with their product.
Itās having an unresponsive and largely useless support team.
Itās refusing to have any sort of dialogue with users about what we want out of their product.
I mean yeah. Tumblrās free and so theyāre under no financial obligation to not be a shitty company when it comes to updates. And there are enough people using the site that even if the entire fandom side got up and left tomorrow theyād still have a sizable userbase.
But itās astonishing to me that they consistently release an upgrade that nobody asked for and most people hate, and that there are frequently huge breaking bugs in that update. You canāt find all bugs in testing, but you sure should notice your image that is sized perfectly looking weird when you upload it because your code resizes it twice in the upload process.
We can fix a lot of things with xkit, but the point is: we shouldnāt have to use a third-party extension to get a website to work for us.
This is such a crap website with so many things wrong and broken with it, but itās like staff knows theyāve got this spark of something we all like so weāll never leave, and therefore they can do whatever the fuck they want. And that is an incredibly shitty way to run a company.
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