#plus a native shared link now takes people to the crappy default 'mobile' view of a post not the ACTUAL BLOG POST

[xcziel]

i am SO IRRITATED with @support @staff right now

like this detaching a post from its link to each individual reblog in a chain is a NIGHTMARE

-> new hyperfixation, and i'm trying to backread some of the associated blogs that have been around a while, yeah?

and i'm on mobile, which is relevant because hey fuck app users is i guess the motto?

so used to, if you wanted to read a few months/years back on a blog you could: find a tag of theirs, click on a post that was around the time you were interested in, be ported to the blog's dash AS OF THAT TIME IN THE PAST, and just scroll along

but now, because tumblr, for whatever moronic reason, has isolated posts so that

clicking takes you to an individual pane for *only* that post, not where it is on the blog timeline

AND NOW you CANNOT reach a previous reblog from clicking on the username in the reblog (only the og post)

the ONLY way to get back to older posts is to SCROLL MANUALLY FOR LITERAL HOURS

if i want to see posts from 2017, finding an old post and clicking on it does NOTHING to help me - it has been snipped out of its native environment and shown to me, but the other posts available as links at the bottom pane are just whatever tumblr algorithm thinks are 'relevant', not access to the rest of the blog timeline

this is true EVEN ON MY OWN BLOG and

I HATE IT

either make the Archive function work on mobile or GIVE BACK THE FUNCTIONALITY THAT WE HAVE ALWAYS HAD

#tumblr #GODDAMMIT my hand is tired #i KNOW that on desktop you can hotkey around THAT IS WHY I AM COMPLAINING #the are always desktop workarounds for everything it's only mobile users that get treated like trash #give me back a way to click back to 'prev tags' or whatever and GIVE ME BACK A WAY TO 'GO BACK IN TIME' ON A BLOG #that is the entire FUNCTION of a blog or did you blackout everything you know about wordpress somehow? #the point of a blog as opposed to pure 'social media' say twitter is that it fuctions as a RECORD #posts are supposed to remain accessible not vanish never to be accessed after a few days except by direct link #and direct links don't even work anymore!!! bc now you're requiring people to sign in to see posts and comments #plus a native shared link now takes people to the crappy default 'mobile' view of a post not the ACTUAL BLOG POST #that someone made on their ACTUAL BLOG that has their custom theme and header sidelinks bio etc #nowdays if in my notifications someone says something to me referencing my own tags on a post #and i click on that - i CAN NOT navigate back to my own post to see what my tags even were if i don't remember my exact wording #i have to exit notifications go back to my blog and just ... scroll until i reach that old post just to have a reference #like what the fuck tumblr? #i will say it again: STOP FUCKING WITH THE SITE NAVIGATION we NEED that shit this is not tiktok we find posts on OUR OWN #there's a difference between making something accesdible for new people and flat out ruining original infrastructure