spaceships:

• Ability to search your likes. Just because I liked something instead of reblogging it doesn’t mean I never want to see it again / wade through 1000+ likes to find it.
• Ability to optionally filter by post type. Why did you take that away? Tumblr at its most basic is a way to collect and share media. Finding stuff you like and drilling down past the ever-growing mountains of irrelevance should be as easy as possible.
• Improving search capabilities overall. I’ve noticed: 1) search results are now based almost exclusively on tags and not content, 2) when I search for music, rarely does an actual song pop up. It’s just “My Top 5 Artists” and crap.
• Ability to hide tumblarity without 3rd party hacks. Not everybody gives a shit.
• More notifications options. e.g. - to be notified about reblogs and follows, but not likes. Also: notifications whenever a reblogger comments on your original post (currently, you have to click on “notes” to see this). I noticed when marco used to display notes on his tumblr, the reblogs were grouped at the top and the likes were banished to the bottom.
• Ability to look at all the posts of a certain type by a certain user. e.g. - spaceships.tumblr.com/quotes.
• Separate “additional comments/description” box for quotes posts. I mean for the love of god. Some of the most interesting discussions are taking place entirely in bold-face type.
• A link to the original poster’s original post. As in: the permalink and not just a username hidden in the notes. On the dash, each post is topped with Z reblogged it (directly) from Y. I think this can be extended to, essentially, “posted (first) by X.” Some of the themes already feature this, but it would be nice to see it on the dash. Purpose: to allow newer tumblrs to gain exposure for “discovering” cool shit, something new users tend to get their panties in a knot about (including myself at 1 point).
• More importantly, a way to prevent stripping source/artist credit, esp for photo posts. Like the URL appears in a box you can’t mess with or something. How come Tumblr staff seem to have no problem with all the photos, posters, etc snagged from personal flickr pages and portfolios that are just floating around in a vacuum with nary a link for attribution? What’s the point of all those dead-end pictures of pretty buildings on architectureblog?
• Ability to comment on a post without reblogging it. Disqus is unbelievably poorly integrated. From my dash, I cant tell if any given tumblr has even added Disqus. People have been clamoring for some built-in commenting or communication system (like MeMail) since the dawn of Tumblr to no avail. But the thing is, the broken-ass way people have been attempting conversation with each other via reblogs are some of the most hopeful signs of intelligent life on Tumblr. More and more, Tumblr has become an echo chamber of mindless reblogging and liking — i.e. a center of frantic but ultimately futile activity. You’ve got all these notes, but what are they tracking really?  Nothing substantial at all. But there’s still a good chunk of users who want to use it as a platform to actually interact with each other meaningfully. Do you see Tumblr as a publishing “community” or not? If so, don’t half ass it.
• If that’s off the table, how about a more sensible way to follow an ongoing conversation among 3+ people through reblogs? As it stands, after 2 people have struck up a discussion, anyone who jumps in later gets lost in the shuffle and their comments are not readily incorporated into the running thread, which eventually fragments, and you don’t know which response to reblog and tack on your comments to, and all hell breaks loose and aahh I almost stepped on a baby bird wtf?
• Ability to edit and delete posts from a permalink on secondary blogs.
• Ability to put a photo and a song together in one post. (Spinning off the newfound ability to add photos to a text post, which is nice.)
• Less degradation of photo quality in photosets.

All that said, I want to say Tumblr is awesome. Thanks it for keeping it simple, free and ad-free while consistently rolling out new features and improvements. This is really the first “blog” I ever had that I didn’t wander away from after a few months, and the things posted by the people I follow continue to amaze and inspire me every day.

That is amazingly put. I’d add the ability of preserving the original tags when you reblog.

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