aeternamente: anonsally: Dear Tumblr @staff, The new “forward” button on posts is very nice. But…
Dear Tumblr @staff,
The new “forward” button on posts is very nice. But it is not a “reply” button.
The reply button, since none of you seem to understand how it was used before it was cruelly taken from us, allowed us to write a short, semi-public response to things posted by our friends, without having to reblog the original post. Maybe just “*hugs*” to someone who’d posted about an upsetting experience, or “I love medium-aged gouda too!”, or “what a great turn of phrase!”.
The forward button might potentially be useful. I can imagine myself using it to send a post to a friend if I don’t want to reblog it.
But that’s a totally different thing. It does not make up for the missing reply button.
Please, please give us back the reply button!
Reblogging because yes this. But also because if there was a reply button, I could tell Sally directly that I completely agree with everything she said.
Taking away the reply feature is the biggest act of user-hostile fuckery I’ve seen on Tumblr since the horror-movie sponsored posts. As someone who’s worked in commercial web development as long as the commercial web has existed, it’s hard for me to explain it as anything other than a company leadership with too little experience and too high an opinion of their own decision-making left to run roughshod over users because eh, who cares? They’re only users.
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