Uh oh, Maybe I Spoke Too Soon About Tumblr – The Mary Sue

In the midst of so much social media hullaballoo—most recently Twitter’s seemingly nonsensical rebranding to “X,”—I have been very quick and happy to point out that Tumblr is still a pretty great website. As someone who’s been using it for right around a decade, I still find it to be the optimal social media site: It’s fairly private, user interactivity is limited to whatever you want to see, and unlike most sites that actively try to sell you things, Tumblr’s advertising methods are more memeable than anything else. However. I might have spoken too soon, as the site recently underwent a massive UI overhaul on desktop that literally nobody asked for. Behold: (screengrab via Madeline’s account, oh-so-cleverly hidden by that emoji) No one is happy about this. Compared to the old UI, this just feels clunky and overly congested for what should be a simple scrolling experience. Moreover, as one user pointed out, much of this UI is just a one-to-one Twitter copycat, with Tumblr features jammed into there: Considering just how much of a dumpster-fire Twitter has become, one has to wonder: why did they do this? Did anyone ask for this? Because it’s very clear that none of
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