Grazie mille, my friend! It’s nice to see the actual blog appreciated. I say “actual blog” because I don’t consider the one that people see in the Tumblr app as the REAL one. The problem with the app is it completely deprives anyone of the blog’s full features.
Why did I mention the Tumblr app at all, you may ask. Because we are beginning to highly suspect that most (if not all) people who send us questions already addressed in our FAQ or even our own rules have likely only browsed our blog with the Tumblr app. The recent census results have already proven that there is a very high majority of people using their mobile devices to browse the blog, and it’s very likely that most of them are using the app (and not using their web browsers).
It is extremely disheartening, to be honest, because as someone who has designed websites for nearly 20 years now I’m very particular with how a website should be experienced. I’ll do everything to make sure that the website I’ve designed is cross-browser friendly, etc. But the app completely deprives me of this. I cannot control a user’s experience and make it optimal for them. We are basically under the mercy of Tumblr itself because the app severely limits our options.
Which is why we have done all we can to make sure that the app users are aware of our subpages. Those “Got a question?” and “On Mobile?” links you see aren’t just there for decoration. We added them there because that’s the only way we can have our app users see what they’re missing.
And I’m not even including the fact that using the app completely deprives anyone of certain other features – like our birthday reminder script, and even our music player. You can’t even use nifty extras like xKit with the app!
Ah, I’ve rambled way too much. I apologise! ;^_^ This is really a problem for us. I believe we are not alone when we say that the Tumblr app needs a LOT of work to be even at par on how we view Tumblr and its blogs with actual computers.
Grazie, and thank you so much for reading!
~ Signora Paola