After playing around with Tumblr for months (I’m cdevroe over there), I finally noticed that the little “page curls” that happen on-hover on posts on my Dashboard from those whom I follow are actually the permalinks to those posts. Man do I wish I found that sooner! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve actually gone to the Tumblr page of the user who posted something I wanted to find the permalink to, scrolled down the page to find the post, and clicked on the date (or whatever their theme had that was clickable). Ugh.
Though I do like the idea, I think this link should be much more apparent.
Side note: A single RSS feed for posts from everyone I follow would be stellar. Maybe it is there and I just don’t know it?
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The problem is some tumblrs don’t even include the permalink on their page, or make them so obscure it’s almost impossible to find. And as far as the RSS feed goes, I’d like to find it if it exists as well.
I completely agree about the permalinks on themes but that is the user’s prerogative. Tumblr has control over the Dashboard portion and I think it needs to make it much easier to find the permalink. Although, now that I’ve found it I doubt it will frustrate me a much.
If I find the RSS feed, I’ll let you know. Otherwise, a Yahoo! Pipes mashup might be in order.
I still have quite a lot to learn about tumblr… though I admit I haven’t put a tremendous amount of effort into customizing my theme or looking for other odds and ends.
Example, I’d been using tumblr for several weeks before I took the time to enable commenting.
Not having any real coding background, I think it’s more a result of lack of effort to figure it out than anything.
I’m still quite impressed with tumblr and am quite interested to see where it will be in the next couple years.