We’ve fixed a few issues that were making “Tumblr crushes” less fun than they should be:
1)
Once you’ve liked a few hundred posts, your Crushes rarely change.Now they’re pulled from your recent activity, so you can see where your love is going right this second.
2)
Crushes only count Likes, and don’t factor in Reblogs.Now they include both!
3)
The total counts don’t give context to all the other blogs you follow.The counts now show the percentage of your attention that you’re giving your crushes. (Out of everyone you Like and Reblog!)
4)
Calculating crushes kills our databases.Crushes now run on an asynchronous queue that refreshes every 12 hours.
You have got to be kidding me.
I recommended all of these changes to crushes ages ago and brought it up in a conversation with KG one time. Ask her yourself if you don’t believe me.
Damn them for stealing all my good ideas! Tags in dashboard, replies, built-in FormSpring and now this. Plus the many bugs I’ve found with Tumblr, I swear they should hire me pronto.
The only difference with my recommendation was to enable users to view crushes by counts and by percentages by rolling their mouse over or by toggling a radio button or something. The codebase was already there so they might as well provide fellow Tumblr users with options.
