My mom’s birthday is the ides of march and mine is 2 days later on st patrick’s day and I was talking to a friend of mine about it the other day and said “oh my mom’s birthday is 2 days before mine” but she must have heard “my mom was born 2 days before me” because it took me about 5 minutes to explain to a full grown adult that birthdays happen every year and that my mother just so happened to be celebrating hers for 30 years before me

Like. Okay. The reply inline system they were using before has been used on forums and threads for DECADES. Ever since we first use the computer we see the reply system that tumblr used to have. Our eyes have been trained to read conversations on the internet like that. And then Tumblr applies this new system, of reading a convo the same way we read an article. It doesn’t work because we’re used to seeing a new line, a new indentation, as a new person talking. The new system is set up like an article, without much of a visual queue to indicate that a new person is speaking. That’s my main problem. It’s making everything so much more difficult to read, especially for people with trouble reading. It makes me wonder just what kind of site the staff thinks they’re running. This is not an article site. This is a chat site. Its a conversation site. This is a multiple narrative site. They’re going against how literally every other thread site on the internet goes. They’ve made a horrible move here, in my opinion.