Comment by Grue3 | Hacker News Reader

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This comment is just plain false. Pretty much every feature has been objectively improved since Yahoo acquisition.

- search is actually usable now, was completely useless before acquisition

- new messaging features are better than stuff they had before

- rich text editor better than the one they had before (except if you want to edit in HTML or Markdown in which case it completely sucks now, but very few people probably post in HTML or Markdown)

- replies, I have hardly ever seen them used before they were removed. in any case, the new implementation is much better

- should I even mention the freaking video player?

Of course the users will complain, but I mean this is Tumblr, the userbase will complain about everything.

You didn't address most of the items I listed, but I will note for fairness' sake that as I said, I'm a former user. I left in November or so. I've heard good things about messaging, but not anything else you mention.

Replies were HEAVILY used by my part of the Tumblr community, and the changes to them really screwed things up for us. Like I said, lots of use cases for the site.

I certainly don't feel on the whole that tumblr was better when I stopped using it than it was when I started. Even if that is true now, it wasn't true for a long time, so my argument remains the same: its decline is due to inadequate tech work for a long period of time.

> replies, I have hardly ever seen them used before they were removed. in any case, the new implementation is much better

How are so you sure that a feature you never used is better than it was before it changed? Even if I'd never used tumblr, I would find this response to be incredible, in the original sense of the word.

Replies are so bad that I don't use tumblr anymore. They used to just load in a normal HTML page, but now you get a page with lots of suggested posts, and some sort of pop-over with replies that's too slow to really be usable even on my brand new iPhone. It's usable on desktop if you want to wait a few seconds for enough CSS and javascript to load that the pop-over shows up, and then scroll through and read a long list of replies.

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