Wednesday 28 April 2010
Tumblr Discourse ☀
“This is where Tumblr comes in. It’s the future of social networking if your image of the future features intelligent discourse. I love reading other Tumblr users replies, because they’re thoughtful by virtue of the fact that if they’re not, they’ll bring the intellectual property value of their own blog down, and that’s a commodity on Tumblr.”John Mayer: Twitter Isn’t “Over”, I’m Over It.
After three years at this, I can’t begin to describe the feeling of having this philosophy — the reason Tumblr will never feature a legacy comment system — described so perfectly.
I love you, John.
(via david)
Regarding a “legacy comment system” — that is a most suitable arrangement, to eschew the traditional comment fare, however there exist quite a number of annoyances and hinderances with the dialogue on Tumblr.
- Formatting reblog posts in the text editor is painful. It appears that the last iteration of rich text editor upgrades solved some of these hassles but in general, the rich text editor (and bookmarklet) still remains a dreadful embarrassment for what otherwise is a polished software platform.
- The notes list presentment does not showcase enough of the message. Or is plagued with redundancy (i.e., showing me the same text as the original post). Or when original content is appended by a responder, there is no indication given.
- Befuddled on how to deal with post “replies”. They’re a virtual dead-end — unable to simply click and respond (requires manual select, copy and paste, and manual creation of a new post entry). Do they even show up in search results?
- Integration of “Ask me anything” posts. Not searchable. Or even available at a “category” level.
(via tanya77)
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