This is Garrett Murray's Maniacal Rage

Here’s the frustrating thing about Tumblr: If you ignore all the downtime, errors, server outages and all that annoying stuff, which took sites down for nearly two full days recently and still continues to crop up regularly—if you somehow ignore all of that—simple things still don’t work properly, like the queue.

I use the queue for Prettify* so that I can do lots of future content pre-loading. In fact, Prettify* is currently scheduled with content releases for the next several months. Each post is scheduled for a specific time and date. But then today, for no reason, Tumblr just arbitrarily published some of the scheduled posts at random times. An item scheduled for Thursday at 10AM published itself today at 4PM. Sure, why not? That doesn’t ruin my plans at all.

If you have a feature called a queue, and it allows you to schedule posts, then it had better work. Otherwise, get rid of it. The queue has been buggy and problematic since its launch and even the “new queue”, released in October, did not fix these problems.

I loved Tumblr for the first few years I used it, but these days it feels like headache after headache. Sadly, I have begun to plan for alternate options and will eventually move my site to a different platform. While I’m sure the folks at Tumblr are working on these problems, the amount of time wasted in the past year alone on bugs, outages and frustration are hardly worth it any longer.