ngl i usually dont have problems with dash updates etc, i get used to it. but for the love of god the new one is just physically painful to use.
I already made a shitty edit of what i meant, but i wanted to improve now that im not fucking exhausted lmao
I am going to be critiquing the new UI, and comparing it to twt, and how poorly they pulled it off dont keep reading if u dont care/think im overreacting
and im not gonna sugar coat my opinion on it. please understand when u read.
Honestly its just bad, its a copy of twt, and I use twitter??? you'd think id have no trouble adjusting since ive used both since 2020. (tumblr first but ykno)
but it just feels totally wrong. the buttons are too small, compared to twitter's much larger ones, the change between the top bar with the post types vs the new +create button is just???
If it was about icons, you could make a form of hover to see what they do. but now it feels so much more painful to use. like i physically struggle to find shit on the new dash because tumblr decided to put shit in weird ass locations.
all the improvements supporters are talking about could have been done without messing with the whole site alignment.
(blogs censored cuz im digging into tumblr here like im not holding back and i dont want randoms being brought into smth)
This would have accomplished the exact same thing
(not perfect but i need to get my idea across.)
Id probably spread out the icons too, to get room for text. especially since theres room over there
AGAIN I DONT WANT IT TO LOOK EXACTLY LIKE THIS!! THIS IS JUST DEMONSTRATING WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT
Or like this so that its even with the tumblr logo
Or hell, just make the upper ui look similar to the post ui where it extended the bar to add the text in.
like this.
(again i dont think this exact layout would be best but Im trying to show what i mean.)
Like I LIKED the explore update
I liked getting recommended blogs!
I even like radar n shit
But the new layout is objectively worse.
this was messing w muscle memory for no reason. and just making the whole site look bizzare
and its not even a GOOD twitter rip off.
Here is my biggest issues with the new ui
(not written but i have a problem with the fyp and shit being so high up, like it s at the same level as the logo)
Here's a direct overlay
The tiny icons is what really confuses me + the placement of the create button? like why????
the misaligned tumblr logo too. like really??? would that be copying too much??? they already had a pretty good ui??? just add the text to that????
Tumblr really wasnt that hard to use? most confusion could be fixed with text under.
anyways if tumblr REAALLLYY wanted to do this like desperately
everything on the right makes slightly more sense, given the fact tumblr has always had right side ui.
(please ignore the shitty parts, im just trying to get a point across not actually make a new ui lol)
Anyways,,, I may be overreacting but its really not the change that bothers me.
its how they changed it
also recent stuff i heard about tumblr recently is making me really not wanna be nice about this, at all.
Its just weird that in their path of adding the text they have removed other accessibility features they used to have.
and the fact that tagging a post with "epilepsy warning" puts it in the epilepsy tag is abysmal.
I kinda dont buy that this was for accessibility given tumblr's other actions.
Anyway i dont blame individual members of staff but cmon yall...
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