I’d be more sympathetic to the staff’s worries about “Missing e”
if they could prove to me that they deserved praise for their programming and design skills. Unfortunately, the app crashes all the time (it is currently frozen on my phone, and it often force quits on me), and the website’s usability grades very low on my scale.
If you’re having such a problem with people using an extension to make your website better, maybe you should take the hint and fix it yourself. I understand that tumblr is your creation, and you can do whatever you want with it, but if so many of your users are telling you they’d like more options (such as reblogging their own posts, or seeing their follower count back on their dash) that you have to send a message out, you should try to compromise with them. Threatening your users, the people who keep your site alive, is childish, and I’m not sure how much longer I want to stay here (and I love tumblr). People are going to do whatever they can to make their experience better. If you don’t like what they’re doing, that’s fine, but you have an obligation to your users to make your site as accessible as possible, especially when that’s one of your major selling points. I wonder what The Times would say about that notice you sent out.
