By the way, @staff is changing the video player and photo viewer on the mobile app to the one from Tumblr TV. As a result, they have made the abhorrent decision to remove an important accessibility feature in order to TikTok-ifying Tumblr. You can no longer zoom in on photos. Or so I thought. Because the visually impaired are now second-class users to the Tumblr Staff, they just decided to make it harder to zoom in on photos.
So, for all of you who, like me, find the pinch-to-zoom feature on Tumblr invaluable to read and view photos, you now have to:
Tap the Photo > Tap the “more” button in the description > tap the photo again
This will open the old photo viewer (for now, anyway) which was formerly one tap away. It will grant you all the former features of the old photo viewer, including the ability to zoom in.
EDIT: if you’re seeing this on your For You Dash or some other non-reblogged method you will see this edit. Before reblogging and commenting on this, there is addition information in the replies. I have replies disabled, so I am the only person who can add them. I’ve added addition info, as well as an update. Please read them. TLDR: many others, and myself, are now seeing it’s fixed. Many others are not. It may be a roll-out fix from the back-end. Be patient and wait to see if it’ll make its way to you.
There is a reason why someone is hard to love. Something, usually negative from their past, has made the person the way they are. Instead of judging them, if you’re mentally strong enough try to reach out and find ways to help them. You might be saving a life. All they search for is love. They just don’t know how to ask for it. Their hurt shows up as anger.
Whenever I click on a video it full screens it and prompts me to "scroll for more tumblrtv" and if you scroll down there's other random videos as if it was tiktok or instagram reels
My favorite thing about Tumblr is that it is NOT TIKTOK. Adding a short video section to turn it into TikTok 5.0 like every other social media platform is the exact opposite of the right decision when most of the people on this app come here because of how much we hate every other social media. This is especially disappointing considering most of staff’s recent decisions have shown them to be more in touch with their user base than ever before.