Tumblr fans, your benevolent overlords have just bestowed upon you a gift the likes of which you can never hope to repay.
In a nutshell, Tumblr queues are no longer the headache-inducing deathtraps they once were.
For many Tumblr users, the queue is a sort of hub for saving masses of inspiring or interesting content, including images, text, videos and more, then rolling the content out in even intervals over a designated period of time, thus shielding one’s followers from the sad fact that you actually spend hours upon endless hours surfing the web and hand-selecting blog post material at 3 a.m. on a Friday.
Sometimes, queues end up being hundreds of posts long. The marathon process of reordering a queue could take hours in some cases; for a hobbyist blogger/curator, the task was daunting if worth doing at all.
But thanks to some awesome new UI/UX tweaks, Tumblr queuing will no longer occupy hours of your lonely nights.
The interface itself is much sleeker, with relevant data taking a front seat and actual content no longer dominating the screen — Tumblr now saves that for the pages of the actual blog itself. Your queued posts are lazy-loaded for efficiency and speed.
Best of all, posts can now be reordered quickly through a simple drag/drop mechanism. Previously, the queuing wasn’t so much “drag-and-drop” as it was just a plain old drag. You had to reorder your queue by painstakingly shifting one post at a time, and posts could only be moved to the top of the queue.
Tumblr also gives you a nifty “page up” button that hovers in the top right corner and brings you back to the top of the page in a single mouse-click.
Here’s what the new interface looks like:
Allowing users to save time and giving them a simpler way to accomplish tasks is what Tumblr blogging is all about, and we fully approve of these changes.
What do the Tumblr users among you think of the new Tumblr queue?
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