#Edit: Tumblr PLEASE stop deleting my alt text every time I try and post something with it

[royalarchivist]

It's so wild seeing the official Tazercraft account posting old videos of the boys doing random stuff when they were all teenagers, but it's also sorta sweet seeing Pac, Mike, Cellbit, and Felps all hanging out and being friends, even way back then. :')

[condensed-theorem-shop]

things I would like @throne3d and @marrinikari to fix about tumblr, please:

give me a way to reblog-to-queue directly from dash, the same way you can reblog directly from dash with alt+reblog, so I don’t have to open up the reblog pop-up each time

an option on my queue page to enter a tag or set of tags and have all queued posts automatically tagged with those

right now if I accidentally add something to my queue and then realize I want to edit or delete it, I have to scroll through my entire queue to reach the post. instead, give me an option to view my queue in reverse chronological order.

just ... get rid of chat posts. no.

for some reason unless you’re specifically making an image post, you can only add images from your computer, not from the web? surely it can’t be too hard to fix this, given that we do have the functionality for image posts.

while we’re on the topic: give me the functionality from image posts where I can click and drag images to put them next to each other, but on all posts

when I try to upload a gif but it’s too big, actually give me an error message? indicating that? and telling me what the maximum size is? this will take you like FIVE MINUTES to implement okay? if you want to be really fancy you could offer to resize it automatically for me but I understand if that’s too hard

stop making ( c ) automatically convert to (c). if you won’t do that, at least have it do that in the rich text editor too, instead of doing so without warning when I actually make the post.

when posts get beyond a certain length, the little pop-up with options to add an image or horizontal line or read-more stops appearing on new lines. this is an annoying interface in the first place, can it just be always visible instead of appearing when I go to a new blank line? otherwise, can it at least do that reliably?

if I try to preview a post with a read-more, it shows me the stuff above that fine, but if I try to click on the read-more link, it tells me there’s no such post, so I can’t actually preview that part of it. please fix.

if I’m binge-reading someone’s infinite-scrolling blog and decide I want to reblog a post, clicking “reblog” will take me to my dashboard, pull up the reblog interface pop-up over that, and then when I’m finished reload the page I was originally on, of course losing my infinite-scrolling place in the process. can this please be fixed? can the reblog pop-up just come up over the page I’m already on?

for that matter, instead of having a reblog pop-up at all, could we have a “quick reblog” option or something that just opened up a text field within the page, let us enter commentary and/or tags, and then could be reblogged just like that? this would be a vast improvement on my experience

have some kind of “default page theme” with an option available to toggle any tumblr you’re reading into that theme, for when tumblrs have terrible themes. bonus points for letting us customize our default page theme. please make sure it has like, reblog, and comment buttons available for every post, a bizarre number of themes don’t have those.

let me view all posts with a certain tag including reblogs. I get that most of the time I don’t want to see a thousand copies of the same post tagged “pretty” or w/e but sometimes I really do want to see reblogs too. please.

a straightforward way to “orphan” a tumblr, like you can do with works on ao3, for when you don’t want to have it on your list anymore but also don’t want to delete it altogether. (this can be achieved OK via workarounds at the moment but it would be nice not to have to use them.)

an option to choose the preview image for link posts

maybe go through some tumblr extensions and think about adding some of their functionality? like. an option to only play gifs when you hover over them/click on them. a “block this post and all reblogs thereof from my dash” option. a “hide all posts with this tag from me” option. a way to reply to comments. you get the gist.

between submissions/comments/asks/messages the “talk to other people” system is a mess. this is a bad thing on a social platform. please consolidate

if I’m making a post and switch to another tab and then come back, my cursor always goes to the beginning of the post. why does it do this and can you make it stop please

the user settings are all over the place in different locations in a completely unintuitive matter. please consolidate

can we have some kind of master changelog?? please??

a way to view all posts on a tumblr in chronological order

is there a reason that in order to add tags when replying to an ask you have to save it as a draft first. could we just. not have that be how it works

a “jump to the oldest unread post on my dash, let me read forwards from there” option would be p cool if you could implement it

notes. just ... everything about the notes dropdown. can we rethink this please

when I’m on a post’s page and viewing notes, and I get to one where someone has reblogged it, there’s no way to just go to their reblog and see what they’ve said. the only option is to go to the main page of their tumblr and scroll down and hope it hasn’t been too long since they reblogged it. why.

when there’s a little pop-up on my dash to let me know someone reblogged my post, clicking on it takes me to ... my original post? not their reblog? why

the little social-map thing that shows you how reblogs have spread for a given post is cool! but one most often wants to see it for one’s own posts, and can only do that when they happen to show up on one’s dash. maybe make it possible to access directly from one’s blog?

honestly I just. can’t believe you guys on this overall. what went wrong? the constellation is so great, and then ... this? step it up please