500 Characters

ckck:

Dear Tumblr,

500 characters is not a whole lot. This post came in at 560 characters and it’s a five line paragraph and change. That is not a lengthy piece of text in any universe. I know Tumblr was never meant as a longform blogging platform but seriously, there’s no reason for a post that short to be reblogged into a link by default as it (unwittingly?) was. And there’s no reason for every Tumblr user that doesn’t want their blog to have a bunch of cut off paragraphs and links elsewhere to have to go an extra step every time they want to reblog a short post, it seems counterintuitive from a user experience perspective.

If you insist on a limit, make it something reasonable, like 2,500 characters or thereabout. Or better yet, make any limit an opt-in choice because I frankly have a hard time imagining this being a popular change.

Or maybe it’s just me?

I concur.

Posted on February 17th at 7:54pm | 58 notes Reblogged from ck/ck
  1. foralsket answered: I agree!
  2. iamdave answered: Really?
  3. unimportantramblings answered: It’s not just you. It doesn’t really make much sense at all.
  4. iamjackscompletelackofsurprise answered: I would have to agree; 2,500 words seems a better amount to expound.. & no it’s not just you :)…..
  5. thechristinastory answered: No I’m with you. I type more than 500 words in a small rant to get it off my chest. Who wants a link to that?
  6. dianneohdeer answered: No I totally agree with this.
  7. sansfin answered: I’m with you on ths one Ck.
  8. misskeyszz answered: I would prefer an opt-in too. I don’t like blogging things as links because I like the entire thing to be displayed.
  9. hurtandheart reblogged this from ckck
  10. jratlee answered: nope, w/ you on this. unnecessary/inappropriate.
  11. desertpalace answered: found.boxofjunk.ws/post…
  12. dyskrasia answered: I agree. Everyone on my dashboard is complaining about it. Should be optional.
  13. dustandpancakes answered: True, but I feel that tumblr is for people who want to look at pretty things and don’t give a fuck to read much. That’s why I have Blogger.
  14. sabujoshuabutler answered: I couldn’t agree more… Sooo true
  15. phrequency answered: instead of the opt-in being on the poster, maybe it can be on the reader instead.
  16. ringingthelibertybell answered: i concur. and i must say i also hate the character limit on answers, i would’ve liked a fuller reply.
  17. dailymeh answered: Relax, people. You still have a choice. 500 chars may be a bit little, but before tumblr, didn’t people used to link, not quote everything??
  18. bildungsroman answered: agreed, this is ridiculous, and a bit of an insult to those of us who still have longer attention spans
  19. belacqua reblogged this from ckck
  20. circuitry answered: Agree. A user who reblogs a 500+ word post is likely one that a)cares how (or whether) to cut a text and b)is followed by like-minded people.
  21. tropdetout answered: I concur, this is kinda ridiculous to impose this without giving people an option.
  22. jesuisperdu answered: No, 500 is not a whole lot at all.
  23. lifeonfiction answered: AGREE AGREE AGREE
  24. thisislobster reblogged this from ckck
  25. jameswelch answered: I’d much rather have a choice. if they want to tidy up streams they should group posts when 3 ppl i follow reblog the same thing.
  26. smackadelic answered: agreed!
  27. tiiigerstyle answered: I didn’t think about it at first, but you’re right - 500 words isn’t long at all.