Aug 16, 2024
tumblr removing the backdating option - something basic to almost every blogging platform since the ancient days - has essentially broken my ability to use this platform (mostly to post old newspapers and organize them to make it easier to locate latter). Not sure if I'll even stick around without backdating.
That getting rid of backdating happened right as a moral panic over Palestinian scammers asking for aid to escape genocide broke on tumblr - despite years of people complaining about this issue with backdating - is just cruelty and very telling.
(surely there are better options to track when a post was originally made - if you reblogged a post that is later backdated, the original posted date is visible to users.)
