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Re: Introducing: Tumblr v5 | Tumblr Staff

Álber — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:16:24 -0000

Tumblr, that was sadly awful. I tell you I'm so, so glad there's that solution to keep a GAGAWONDERFUL search mode for Tumblr, and you NUKE IT? That was not a bug, that was one of your awesomest features!

I have killed my dear, dear Global Search.

Ugly.

Re: Introducing: Tumblr v5 | Tumblr Staff

Álber — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:11:22 -0000

Okay, now I understand it: 'Search > Dashboard' does Global Search if you DO NOT follow anybody.

I can attest to that. For some reason, I prefer to follow tumblelogs directly, going there periodically, so I don't use 'Follow'. Since v4 I have been using 'Filter > All posts' to do global searches. It's amazing, it's great, it's wonderful, it's Tumblr at its heist.

I take from your words that it didn't do that if you were following people, just the same as now, with v5.

Now my last comments might make a bit more sense.

Re: Introducing: Tumblr v5 | Tumblr Staff

Álber — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:13:05 -0000

WHOP! I thought I had tried that, but old-style tumblr search seems to be at Search > My Dashboard.

Search > Tumblr apparently choses SOME of the (best, last) results. A bit unintuitive, but I am happy with that.

Still no filters, sadly.

Re: Introducing: Tumblr v5 | Tumblr Staff

Álber — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:12:45 -0000

Yeah. I think we are going to need some API-savvy hero-tumblrer to rebuild the GREAT GREAT GAGAWONDERFUL Tumblr search as it was in v4 in a brand new external webapp.

Now it may be sexy and ajax enabled, but it's mostly unreadable, hides any relevant info, ignores every precious former post and has lost all filtering options.

The alternative to the made-it-yourself route would be for the good Tumblr folks to give us some Tumblr love in the form of a secret gorgeous v4 search URL, and then to apply some greasemonkey-fu to substitute v5 for v4 search, but i suppose we can only hope for that while the Great Tumblr Search mashup is being built by a teenage mutant armadillo in a hidden arctic base in Uranus.

Now I'll begin another hybrid v3 userstyle. Heigh-ho.

Re: Tumblr MP3 Player

Álber — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:01:44 -0000

Yay!

Re: Tumblr MP3 Player

Álber — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:49:15 -0000

Dan, this is awesome: Outstanding tumblr add-on, and excellent user support here on comments!

I have one suggestion/question/request: Could the progress bar have some kind of CLICK & JUMP (or DRAG & JUMP, at least)?

Would it be too hard to code?

Re: Please help us test Tumblr v4! We’re getting... | Tumblr Staff

Álber — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:40:11 -0000

Sigh.

Re: Please help us test Tumblr v4! We’re getting... | Tumblr Staff

Álber — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:14:22 -0000

I'm sorry, guys, but I'd prefer the current design, and I was expecting other changes. So I'm going to be the annoying grunting nay-sayer kid here. Sorry, again.

I think the whole aesthetics would go for the worse:

- That gradient thing is ugly, distracting, and breaks the visual balance.
- The current background color is more classy and subtle, you didn't need to change it. It seems a random 2.0 design, not OUR tumblr.
- If you turn all the blue into grey, the color palette becomes much more somber. Is tumblr somber?
- The text would be way too big. For some of us it hampers reading.
- Your logo is great as it is, who thought it needs to be bigger? The vertical and horizontal visual balance of the header seems broken that way, with that right-handed curve and the options too high.
- Too much rounded corners. You found a nice balance between rounded and non-rounded, don't lose it.
- Why do you want to kil all the good beautiful useful Tumblr icons? Seriously, "Delete" instead of the big X? Are we losing the Customize / Filter / Following visual aids? ...Why?
- Why do you move away private and share? They are conceptually and functionally linked. Also, private looks like a button, but it does nothing. Why not use it to publish from there, by the way? Share should not use the space below, pushing content down, but use the same line, like it currently does.
- Clicking the blog title unintuitively opens the "Create a new tumblelog" option. Creating a new tumblr is not something we do every day; it shouldn't be so prominent. It should do as it currently does: Go to the tumblelog. The arrow is enough to switch tumblelog accounts, although it's confusing to open a dropdown with just one option, and it could be placed elsewhere.
-Those dogears cannot be the best way to show a permalink. A small static arrow in the bottom-right corner of the post may be more clear and less distracting.
- It's good to have Customize linked from Preferences, they are conceptually related.
- Just... just erase that grey bottom-border of dashboard posts, please.
- Watch/hide video works worse in beta, it jumps around its place.

Your current design is universally applauded as the summum of (micro)blogging ellegance; that was something you didn't need to change. It's a lot of effort for a non-request that could upset an unknown number of users. I think what most of us are expecting are ...features.. like, for example:

- Better filter (filter private posts)
- Better rich-text editor (inline -non-pop-up- insert photo/link, the way gmail inserts links; insert a photo and its link in one go, for when you want to do a thumbnail)
- Option for more posts per page, both in tumblelog and dashboard (endless scrolling, maybe?)
- Glad to hear a better customize is on the way. It's really needed.
- Search.
- Schedule posts for later.
- Bigger full-size pics.
- Higher edit-boxes.
- When you are writing a post you should be able to upload pictures on the go. Now I have to post it private, share-select-copy-paste in urlbar, wait, copy pic url or copy image, go to post, paste or insert pic. It's unortodhox tumblrness, I know, but sometimes you want to be able to easily do a classic blog post.

I'm truly grateful for Tumblr, I love it, I love you guys. And it's a no-win situation: You won't throw all that work to the can and keep the current visuals, and I'm problably just being disruptive and annoying. I'm sorry, again.