LOL they got rid of the directory

prettybooks:

flashfiction365:

As I understand, Tumblr is in the process of changing it so that you could search for certain types of posts rather than types of blogs… but isn’t that what “tracked tags” are for? Lame.

Argh. That’s really annoying. It was already hard to find blogs about a specific topic even with the directory! I was already annoyed that the “tracked tags” only, uh, tracked tags. For example, it used to find posts mentioning “books” even if someone didn’t tag the post as “books”. Now it doesn’t. Now all I see is spam. 

The problem is that the directory was broken from start. Forcing people to beg for recommendations just so they wouldn’t be buried deep down in the categories ism more of a pyramid scheme than a directory. The only was a directory would work with out turn into  a popularity game is to chose a category to belong to and then the listing is randomized. Or based on who you follow, and that makes it a personal order.

The tracked tags have a different set of problems. The curated ones though, seem to share the popularity problem in that it’s a competition about lead editor. Shiny and popular over quality. As usual.