Tumblr is finally bringing comments back and making them way more useful

Tumblr is announcing a couple of updates to its platform today that should make it a much better tool for hosting online discussions, and a lot of users happy. First up, Tumblr is bringing back replies and making them much more conversational; the company had killed them off in November after people were upset about a September redesign. Removing replies altogether made some users even more upset, but Tumblr said they’d make a return soon. Now that they’re back, authors can reply to their own post. That’s a big difference from before, when replies were essentially a comments section where the author had no agency as…
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