Tumblr is rolling out a major redesign to the way posts are reblogged on the site, and users are not happy about it.
Previously reblogs caused people’s commentary to indent, causing long text chains that bowed out, sometimes into the blue framing space along the Dashboard. —When chains get long, that indention can make the post length stretch on and on. Tumblr called the old style “a crazy-long, indecipherable reblog chain” in their Support post on the transformation, and showed how the old chains compare to the new style, which keeps everything in a straight line and incorporates user icons instead of just user names.
Image via Tumblr Support
However unflattering the old design may be, Tumblr users have adapted to it and used it in their blogging over the years. The update, according to Tumblr, will work retroactively to all posts on the dashboard, but will leave posts on individual blog posts in their original form, “for now.” The update also removed the ability to delete one part of a thread and leave the rest intact. Users must eliminate all of the captions, or leave them all.
Tumblr users have been posting their reactions to the update on the site, overwhelmingly unfavorably.