Fix it Tumblr.

I get it, I get it; comments in entries are not in the spirit of a Tumblelog. But I do not like the trend of having to reblog someone just to comment on their entry and then they reblog you to reply to you which means they also reblog themselves and so on, until everyone has these disgusting-looking threads that sort of work in your dashboard but not at all for the casual viewer who comes to your site to read about you and instead gets this mess of blockquotes that they don’t know what to do with.

Tumblelogs are supposed to be quick and simple and with little commentary, so in theory I can understand not wanting comments to be a part of them. But “Tumblr” itself has evolved into this really amazing connected community, and creating ways for Tumblrs to communicate with each other, to me, is a logical next step. Likes were a beginning, but they are not enough.

I would love to see comments that can be posted and viewed from the dashboard, but coded into layouts if people want them to. Or maybe not— maybe they should be a dashboard-only feature (sort of like Likes) to keep commenting within the Tumblr community. Either would be fine by me. But sometimes I want to do more than tell someone I Liked their post, and I really don’t want to reblog. What is a Tumblr to do?