tumblr’s Fail
tumblr’s comment functionality is a huge FAIL. tumblr has a model set up where it is utilizing a third-party, Disqus, to enable comments on tumblr sites. The problem is this: the third party commenting functionality isn’t available on all the themes. It gives you a work around where you can go into custom HTML and paste in some codes, but they may mess with your site design and not sure you can really make it work with all. It’s complicated, messy and hard. For a blog platform, one of the MOST critical functions is commenting. This to me, is a critical flaw.
As such, this blog may move. For now, please feel free to leaves comments in the ‘Answers’ box.
Side note on Disqus - they have sweet functionality for comments, enabling conversations to be aggregated off your site, sent through twitter, and lets you allow people to use their Facebook Connect, Twitter account login and more to leave coments. But not helpful if you can’t enable it on a blog.
Community and dialogue is the heart of what differentiates what people call traditional media and digital and if you make it hard for a community to talk, then why bother.
