My take on the Sharks/Cats thing

(Background: In August 2009, Tumblr did a very weird thing and started a contest in which users could identify as either a Shark or a Cat, and they kept track of the total Tumblarity of each team over about four days.)

Mostly harmless.

Wish they’d instead spend their time fixing the iPhone app, or maybe improving Search so that it goes back more than two months, or fixing Drafts so they aren’t accessible by anyone on the internet without logging in, or even adding one or two reasonable features that people have actually asked for. But hey, Tumblr is an awesome platform and if they need to blow off steam once in a while, so be it, and besides, I’m not enough of an asshole to complain about something I get for free.

Oops.

(Update: in a comment, meaghano informs me that the Drafts behavior is a feature, not a bug. In that case, I think Tumblr should make it clear what’s going on: maybe a “Share this draft” link similar to the ones on private posts would be appropriate.)