i am in a weird nexus of "not surprised" and "surprised" with this cuz on one hand post Blazing and tipping and double-triple-quad checkmarks or whatever was like... ok Tumblr is carving out its niche and making stuff work for itself within its scope
but also it trying to corporatize smol bean posting and changing the dashboard to look like twitter and shove Live™ content in your face was like... idk. very clear floundering.
sucks. i'm surprised, i'm not surprised, mostly i'm sad because it seems like automattic were/are actually pretty good to them and tumblr probably wouldn't have had a chance to do anything new under different/more vulturous ownership
