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HI staff I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT WANT A LIST OF BUGS IN YOUR WEBSITE?  SINCE IT SEEMS LIKE YOU’RE AT A LOSS FOR WHAT TO DO WITH IT AND ARE JUST MOVING THINGS AROUND EVERY TWO MONTHS

WEB:

There are no post options when replying to an ask, so I can neither use Markdown nor add tags.

With the rich text editor, it’s impossible to add more than one level of indentation.

If I click on an ask that appears on my dashboard, it takes me to the “submissions” page rather than my “inbox”, which is not enough to make the number on my inbox go away.

My default format is Markdown.  If I reblog a post with several levels of existing quoting, then switch to rich text formatting, all the quoting is lost.  The text remains, but none of it is wrapped in <blockquote>, and because of the above issue it’s impossible to fix.

Embedding images is only possible with the rich editor.  There’s no technical limitation here; I should be able to drag-and-drop or push a button and just have the appropriate Markdown or HTML added.  Anyway I’m sure you can see how these last three items combine to be super duper frustrating.

It’s similarly impossible to use @ in the Markdown editor, which is the sole reason I’m typing this in the rich editor.

In several places, the Alt key toggles between modes on keydown.  For example, when creating a photo post that already has one image, Alt toggles between “upload another image” and “add another image by URL”.  If you Alt-Tab away from your browser (say, to get to another app that has a photo you want to drag-and-drop into the post), the initial press of Alt will toggle you into URL mode, and then drag-and-drop won’t work any more!  It’s not at all obvious what’s going on here, either, and if you try to drop then you risk having the browser just load the image (the default behavior) and lose your post so far.

I still, still, regularly get a number appearing over the home icon and in the <title> of my dashboard, and I refresh, and there are zero new posts.  Sometimes there is no number, and I refresh, and there are bunches of new posts.  I don’t understand what this number is supposed to be telling me.  Also it’s very rarely anything other than (1).

Y’all should probably start showing retags, since it’s extremely common now for people to put their actual thoughts on a post they’ve reblogged in the tags.

I don’t really get how you’re supposed to develop a theme when you can only see the first page of either your or a demo blog.  How do you test search results or tag pages or day pages without actually saving the theme and just browsing your blog, which is a huge pain?

In a theme that doesn’t explicitly support asks (i.e. no Answer block), the original answer is injected into a blockquote and the post is rendered like text again.  Clever!  But last time I checked the answer is injected into the last blockquote, when it should be injected into the first, in case someone did a bunch of inline replies.  (I have done this several times and it ends up looking totally ridiculous.)

It seems pretty bad that some of the blessed themes still don’t support asks in the first place, come to think of it.  Here’s looking at you, Pink Touch 2.  Some of the standard themes also don’t include important information like timestamps.

This is more a philosophical complaint, but there’s not really any way to tell if a post is popular because of its original content or because of something someone else added.  If I were a huge nerd I might want to see a collapsed graph of the spread of a post, forking wherever someone added to it or edited it.

In most places on my dashboard, whenever I see a username attached to a post or a reblog or whatever, it links to their post.  In the actual notes of a post within a blog theme, the username just links to their blog; there is no link to the reblog unless they added commentary.  So I can’t see which version of a post someone reblogged, or when they reblogged it, without going hunting.

A few months ago, for seemingly no rhyme or reason, all the HTML was stripped from the description (the blurb at the top under the title) of my blog.  I had a bunch of links in there, and it was turned into just plain text.  Same thing happened to Mel, who says it happened again right around the recent dashboard change.

ANDROID:

On more than one occasion I’ve answered an ask and had both the answer and the ask vanish into the æther.

As far as I can tell, it’s impossible to see the timestamp for anything anywhere in the app.

There’s no way to just look at a person’s blog.  Anywhere I can tap their name probably takes me to a particular post on their blog.  And because there’s no real view of a post, just a blog starting from a post and continuing backwards, I can never tell if I’m looking at a blog from the beginning or from some arbitrary place.  There’s no button to jump back to the beginning if I’m not already there; I would expect tapping their avatar to do this (I believe it does in the similar website theme), but it just shows me their avatar full-size.  You’d think I could use the search tab to find their blog, but sometimes I’ve typed in a (short?) username of a regular public blog and it has not appeared as a result!

Sometimes a blog gets “stuck” on a post.  As in: I will tap a post of mine (via the icon on the right, so I see my version of it) on the activity tab, and I’ll see that post on my blog.  Then I’ll go back to the activity tab and tap a different post on the same blog.  And my blog will come up, and the spinner will spin, and when it’s done, I’m still looking at the first post.

The activity tab sort of arbitrarily decides to switch to a particular group blog of its own accord sometimes, even though I have never deliberately looked at that blog‘s activity on my phone.  Sometimes it will even show that group blog as the current one selected, but show activity for my main blog

It’s actually kind of ridiculous that if someone leaves a long reply (as in, not a reblog, but a follower actually replying right in the notes) to a post of mine, it gets truncated in the activity feed…  so to see the whole thing I have to load the post on my blog, scroll to the bottom, tap the notes, and then scroll through them to find the actual reply!  It’s limited to 250 characters of plain text, just show the whole damn thing.

The “view in Tumblr” button on the website, when viewed on my phone, doesn’t actually launch the Tumblr app; it just takes me to the Play Store website where I can install Tumblr.  Which is already installed.

Formatting is completely fucked up.  The default is “plain text”, but if I make any line breaks, they are collapsed into single spaces.  (It appears the entire post just gets wrapped in a single <p>…</p>, which of course doesn’t work.)  If I switch to Markdown, the post metadata thinks it’s markdown, but it ends up rendered like plain text — I have to go edit it on the web and immediately save to get it to actually render correctly.  I can’t change the format for existing posts; the radio buttons are there, but tapping them does nothing.

Relatedly, it doesn’t seem to be possible to embed images into posts in the app, or…  really do any formatting of note at all, even though my phone is kind of a prime source of images to embed.  See, phones nowadays are also cameras, so I’d expect to be able to take a photo and just jam it into a reblog or the answer to an ask or something.

I also can’t edit any of the quoted text (or even see the quoted text when reblogging, presumably because the editor doesn’t support formatting of any kind and couldn’t show a blockquote.  Seriously how did you make a syntax-highlighted Markdown editor in HTML but you can’t make a textbox that supports anything other than plain text in a native app?

Once or twice I’ve attempted to edit my answer to an ask, and just got a blank editor window, which I think suggested I was writing a new answer, but I didn’t risk trying it.

I can’t see the ask while I’m writing an answer, and I can’t see what I’m reblogging while I’m commenting on it.

UI rage: when I’m looking at post options, I expect the top right button to be “save these options”, but it’s actually still “publish the post”!  I have to hit the top left button, which would usually mean “cancel”.

I don’t know why there is sometimes a lingering notification for “uploaded reblog” as though that’s an interesting and noteworthy thing to have happened that I need to know about and then actively dismiss.

Can I just pay you five bucks and never see ads on the app again because goddamn.

Please fix at your earliest convenience, thanks!