Alfredo (tumblr)
Aug 7, 2023, 11:24 AM EDT
Hello,
Thanks for reaching out and providing your first impressions of Tumblr's redesigned dashboard and explore pages. Major changes in appearance and workflows can be jarring or disruptive initially and is to be expected. We appreciate your continued use of Tumblr and sharing your experience with this redesign over time to help us with further research and development.
Thanks for your patience while we work on this! You may see your Tumblr experience return to normal as we continue testing.
Alfredo
Tumblr, this is the kind of response to feedback that gets users to stop giving you money, especially users who are sharing impressions after having used something for two weeks. -_-*
Okay, replied to the e-mail (and stayed polite - it took all my power, but I did it) with more detail on my issues, and got this response:
Hello,
Thanks for following up. I understand your feelings, we hear you. I've shared your feedback with the engineering team here. You can now send us an ask or contribution on Work in Progress if you want to start a conversation with us and the wider Tumblr community about your ideas. By following our Changes blog, you can get bi-weekly updates on new features, improvements, and issues that we've fixed.
Best,
Ray R
So, moral of this: if you get a kind of hand-wave response to your feedback on the twitter-tumblr layout, reply to that e-mail, because that apparently gets more attention!
as a kid i had one of those “there’s a monster under my bed” moments except real.
every night i would cry about a ghost or something trying to scare me by knocking on my bedroom windows and walls. like, really loudly, every hour or so, every night. only at night. so my dad was like “heh okay kiddo let’s check it out :) ah see? there’s nothing here :)” and left.
until years later he admitted to me that he did in fact hear the unexplainable knocking when he slept in that room one night, and it kept him awake with fear. and suddenly felt awful for not believing little kid me.
imagine your kid being like “daddy there’s a demon in my closet” and you being like ok son lemme just check that for you :). and you open the door and there’s a demon in the closet











