Posts tagged tumblr

tumblr’s “add another blog” feature was in theory exactly what I was after when I created an account for wrongun - content management across my personal and collaborative blog from a single login, and the ability to host multiple authors being the main draws.

However after a few days, a few issues have cropped up with the system that make me wonder if this was a wiser choice than just opening a whole new account and giving the other author the login details.

twitter
I can’t cross-post to wrongun’s twitter account from the wrongun tumblr dashboard - it wants to use my twitter details associated with my personal account.

Following
I can’t follow anyone as wrongun, people can only follow it if they find it. This makes it difficult for the blog to naturally slip into the appropriate corners of the network (in this case, I can’t have wrongun follow other artists and designers); people have to look for it or be shown it on purpose.

tumblr iPhone app
The app has plenty of issues, but the one that’s relevant here is that a sub-blog on my account doesn’t show up in the app, so I can’t post to it from my phone unless I use the web dashboard.

Basically, the issue is that I feel like a sub-blog on a master account should really behave like a master account in its own right. Twitter accounts and follows should work on a per-dashboard, not per-login basis. I feel like the wrongun account is nonsensically hobbled, and I can’t really do anything about it save deleting it and starting over. And I don’t want to do that.

Edit: And this is what I get for not reading the FAQ - “Only the default blog for an account can follow others. Additional blogs on an account can be followed but cannot follow others.” Still seems like strange behaviour to me; I’m sure this makes sense to those upstairs, but as a user I simply don’t understand why this has to be the case.