It’s funny because, I do like the thought of being able to get a better idea of which/how many reblogs of a post were sharing a specific reblog of it?

Like, if I reblog a post and add a clever comment, it would be kinda nice to see a count of how many reblogs were in response to my comment (though it’s not exactly important, especially since I do get notifications and I can count those by hand if I really care)

Or, if someone reblogs my original post with a comment saying I suck, and that gets more reblogs than my original post, there’s situations where it would be important to know that

But it’s just absolute lunacy to go from that to “let’s ONLY count reblogs of individual cases, only notify the person who reblogged it, and not let the original poster have ANY IDEA how many times, if any, the post has been shared”

But then, I personally I think the reblogging system of fucking Livejournal was the peak, and everything went downhill from there because we live in an economy that’s forced to change things even when they can’t be improved and any change can only worsen them

Anyway, as for Tumblr and things that would make actual sense to fix:

- whatever fucked-up process they have for deciding who gets banned and what posts get flagged. there is so much bigotry baked into that and idk what needs to happen exactly to stop it but it’s the biggest problem

- a way to indicate which Comments are in response to which reblog of the post

- fix the “download a backup of your Tumblr” function. make it so the image and media links in the backup html documents actually link to the images and media in the actual media folder that you go through all the trouble of including as part of the download. Instead of what they do now, which is link to those images and media on the Tumblr website, which you can’t access if you’ve lost your Tumblr, which defeats the whole damn purpose of making a backup.

(that one is worth doing even– especially – if staff’s real goal is to drive all of us off the site so they can eventually just kill it quietly with no one caring, like Geocities. If I could download a backup and actually have the links in it work so I could functionally turn it into part of my own website, I would seriously consider leaving Tumblr.)