Dear Tumblr

Now Tumblr, In a lot of ways, you're a nice service. You provide a good way to share short, quick things, and easily like and re-share things that others have shared. You're not set up great for long, in-depth posts, so there are definitely certain kinds of blogs that shouldn't be hosted by you. That's fine, you're trying to provide service more for blogs that are tons of quick things, many people posting dozens of times a day.

The problem is, you're also lacking a lot of things. Now, I understand that most people follow a bunch of Tumblr's and their dashboard is filled a crazy amount of posts, and generally there's more content then they could realistically look at. So you're set up in a way with most recent stuff at the top. But here's the thing, if I follow someone, then that means I want to actually see everything they post. There is no good way to do that. I have to just scroll down until I recognize old posts that I've already looked at. You need a way to mark where I "left off" last time I was there. And ideally, I'd like to be able to start with the old stuff and work my way to more recent stuff, so I can see things in the proper order that they were posted in. I know this isn't a problem for everyone, but you should really have some sort of option to at least mark where I left off.

That's not the worst part though. When people post things, in any context, other people are going to have things to say about it. You can't have a site centered around sharing things, and not allow commenting. You really need to include a way for people to comment on all posts. That's the main reason I left you, I just couldn't stand not being able to comment on things. It's such a basic and important feature for... well pretty much everything on the internet.

Add the ability to comment, and maybe I'll come back.
-SF