I saw somebody mention that the reason why staff is so fixated on changing the way that reblogs work is most likely because of server costs. Paraphrasing a little bit so this might be inaccurate but something along the lines of "decoupling reblogs and changing the way notes work helps decrease on server load, and staff wants to save some money and move old data onto newer hardware and the change was mostly designed to help with lessening that load".
Tbqh I'm really not surprised to hear it's money related, tumblr is the biggest money pit on the mainstream web, but it would be nice if they were just honest about Why this was all done in the first place 🙄
I’m confused how adding in more counting statistics (so each reblog version is keeping score of its own notes rather than collectively) would reduce the server load?? Again I do not code and don’t know how running apps or websites work, but off of assumption would that not add more to the load eventually?
However, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s still related to costs that’s what it seems to come down to
