#useless features

[patrickat]

So apparently there was an update to the mobile ap...

Every favorite or reblog is now a number on what was formerly just notification of direct messages. But boy howdy did I panic for a moment wondering which fandom or political camp I'd pissed off.

[the-heart-of-leo]

I might just be missing something but...

What's the point of communities if you can't like/reblog the posts from them?

[mockramblings]

Reactions? For Emails?

Outlook is now sending me a little digest of the reactions people have had to my emails, which... why is that even a thing? Not just, Why are people doing that? -- you give folks a way to slap an emoji on something and some percentage of them inevitably will -- but Why is that a feature at all? Having someone "react" to my email tells me nothing of use, I don't even see it for twenty-four hours, and I can't think of any possible situation where it would actually have a use case. It looks like something that Microsoft implemented just for the sake of implementing it, and oh God their products do not need any more useless features. We're full up already. Let my damned electronic mails just act like regular fucking correspondence, would you?

[sure-am-existing]

just let me shut tumblr live off permanently @staff i don't have any interest and never will

[darkwaves-strangetides]

I'm sorry this ass appreciation blog is about what now?

[septicart-appreciation]

Hey tumblr stop auto subscribing me to posts????

it’s awful i don’t like it, it makes navigating my notifications impossible 

[someotheruser]

Really? I had no fucking idea. Thanks, phone.

[goatatemynametag]

fic: *is on fanfiction.net*

fic: *is marked as complete*

fic: *has a clear ending, all plot points resolved*

fic: *hasn’t been touched by the author in 10 years*

fic: *is buried on some distant back page of the archive*

someone on ff.net: *follows story* this might update soon, I don’t want to miss it when it does.