#reblog changes

Edit to note: you can come back to check if they’ve rolled it back of course but I recommend not *doing* anything. Don’t post new art or reblog memes. Make tumblr a ghost town for ~2-3 days

Wake up babe, ides two just dropped

So please direct a copy of your feedback to that blog by reblogging this version of the announcement post with a comment

Bad idea!

If you want to let adders know that their add is being reblogged, which I did always think was a feature we were missing, just implement it to the notification tab! Please please please DO NOT change how it is displayed!

kryptidfiles

if trans women aren't able to get moderation mistakes resolved, this opens the door for malicious reports to take their blogs down. the timing of people flooding the feedback forms about the reblog change might've led staff to automate the whole report process to speed things up, leading to the same transphobic moderation decisions but at once. I sure have gotten 99% automated messages any time I've reported something, asked a question or tried to fix a problem

I really wish you'd stop making unhelpful UI changes and focus on your actual issue: moderation. The UI worked perfectly up until the notes format, reblog menu, and now the worst change yet; seperate note counts for reblogs. You must understand this is completely unwanted, unecessary, and for many, a final nail in the coffin for an already dying art and fandom community. The previous format was what made tumblr unique, and what made people love it over other social media formats. seeing what everyone has to say and seeing how much reach a post actually has by the unbroken note count was a core feature of tumblr. as you've rolled out this feature, I can already feel how it's made tumblr feel more empty and isolated. a mutual reblogs a post with something to say, and I want to join in on the topic, only to open the notes and see that it's completely empty, with no comments to read or note count to see. how am I meant to find out what other people are saying? click through every single reblog in the chain to see if anyone else left any comments? that's an awful way to run this site… it's incredibly frustrating and unintuitive. I don't know why you're so hell bent on making all these changes when there are so many glaring moderation issues. tumblr is rife with bots, bigots, and harrassment campaigns, but those things run rampant while people get banned for posting classical art nudes, being trans, or making slightly risqué jokes. the bot problem is already making tumblr unusable, if you make tumblr feel even harder to use by implimenting this new notes format change, for a lot of people, myself included, it will be the final push we need to drive us to pinterest and blue sky and leave tumblr behind with a heavy heart, because we love this site, but the way you act really leaves people feeling like you don't care for your dedicated userbase whatsoever. when you do superficial changes like this and leave the glaring issues untouched, we feel like we're not valued here at all. it shows that you have the means to change things but choose to ignore the things that matter. please do better, we're trying our best to be patient with you and maintain our beautiful digital eco system and symbiotic relationship between staff and users that makes tumblr what it is, but we're tired. we're frustrated. there's no tumblr without its users, there's no tumblr without staff, but you need to throw us a bone here. you need to do something that's in our best interests for once.