Tumblr’s Support Problem with ‘Missing e’
As many users have observed, Tumblr has recently given users a choice to uninstall Missing e or revoke support for your account.
The reasons they give for suggesting that you uninstall Missing e are the worst-case scenario for installing browser extensions or browser modifications of any kind. However, Missing e is not a source of these kinds of problems.
At worst, Missing e may cause problems when Tumblr makes changes to their interface and Missing e has not yet been updated to deal with the changes. I usually work very quickly to restore compatibility in these cases.
It is very unlikely that Missing e will cause any data loss. This is especially true of existing posts. Without your interaction, Missing e will not delete anything!
As for privacy, Missing e does not obtain, use or store your email address, password, IP address, search queries or contents of any of your existing posts.
Missing e implements only a small amount of what Tumblr calls page scraping. It is not done regularly, nor is it excessive. The removed features Follow Checker and Unfollower used page scraping a lot more and were taken out of Missing e quite some time ago for this very reason.
All users are encouraged to examine Missing e’s source code to confirm all of the claims I have made!
If you choose to continue using Missing e and want to continue receiving support, you should follow these guidelines:
• If you experience problems with Tumblr, deactivate Missing e in your browser’s extensions list (you can get to this list using the first part of the Missing e uninstall instructions and turning off “Enable” or clicking on the “Disable” button, depending on your browser). If the problem remains, it is most likely not a Missing e issue.
• Before contacting Tumblr support, deactivate Missing e. Regardless of whether or not you acknowledged that using Missing e means Tumblr will not provide you with support, if you have it deactivated or uninstalled, it is not running! You will be accurately presenting your issue to Tumblr support in informing them that you are not currently using Missing e.
Because it needs to be said.
I Wish Tumblr Had A Feature Where We Could Filter Our Dashboard
livejournal has this feature. Your “Friends” page is basically your Dashboard. You can make groups out of the people you follow. When you’re on the “Friends” page, you click on “filter” and a drop down menu appears. Click on the group you want to view and your Friends page will only show you posts from people in the group you selected. Oh so very organized. I love it and I wish tumblr had something like that.
It would be a big help. I really don’t have time to look through my entire dashboard. I always miss out on so many cool posts. I sometimes have to unfollow people just so I can have less dashboard traffic. Or something I hate even more is finding blogs that I love but not following them because they post too often and would likely fill up my dash. Having dashboard groups would address these problems.
Does this sound like a feature that you would like to see on tumblr?
*co-op knock*
I’d love to see this. Twitter has this too. It would make it a lot easier to separate out the posts by people I always want to read from the posts by people I don’t always want to read. Tumblr, bow thine ear to our prayer.