Tumblr features I would actually find useful and enjoyable

airyairyquitecontrary:

1. The obvious biggie, a built-in blacklist function for the dashboard. Users can enter words and tags to filter out triggering or distressing content, avoid spoilers, and/or avoid innocuous topics that they’re simply not interested in. Ideally this would have three levels. Blacklist hides the relevant content entirely, greylist inserts a message, “This post is hidden because it contains the word [whatever] – click to view it anyway,” for material you may decide to look at when you’re ready for it but don’t want to see unexpectedly and whitelist prevents content containing a blacklisted word from being hidden if it also contains a whitelisted word.
2. Two levels of blocking – one-way block is the present option in which the blocked user can’t view or interact with your posts. Two-way block means that you also can’t view or interact with their posts, and if someone you follow reblogs from them, you won’t see it. If you don’t want to have to blacklist or greylist a term you’re interested in just to avoid seeing what this one irritating person says about it, two-way block is for you. If you’ve fallen out with someone and it will just upset you to see their posts or if you want to remove the temptation to go “AND ANOTHER THING,” when you know no good will come of it, it’s also for you.
3. Non-rebloggable posts. If you want to tell your followers about something personal but not have it leave your own blog, for example, you can set it as non-rebloggable and they can still reply to it or message you about it. You may have noticed how many of these features would help people to avoid unwanted confrontations and conflict while leaving open the option to engage with others as they wish. That’s deliberate. That’s how social media should be.
4. A clearly visible original date and time stamp on each post so it’s clear how old it is. If you can see that someone said something incorrect six months ago, you probably don’t need to correct them now. Likewise, if a missing person or lost pet post is months old, you can check whether they’ve actually been found in the meantime and avoid reblogging unnecessarily.
5. The ability to save your instant messaging chat logs – purely because sometimes I’ve had good ideas in discussions with friends that I haven’t been able to refer to later, and it felt like a waste.