professional maunderer

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

I cannot view tags people left on my posts anymore unless they directly reblogged it from me. Which excludes more than half of the tags I often get on posts because things get reblogged from other blogs, tags I usually like to read. And now I cant read them.

Posts on my blog appear to have less notes to me because they do not account for notes given to the post from sources outside of me. How am I supposed to know how many notes a post got now.

Old, historic posts that used to have hundreds of thousands of notes now only show up with a couple.

If I want to read every potentially left tag I have to go visit each blog who reblogged the post to see if anyone reblogged from them with notes, and then I have to see who reblogged from them- and them- this is crazy are you kidding me? Give me all my tags and notes in one spot back please