I appreciate the efforts of open sourcing parts of tech businesses. Though tumblr isn't exactly known for its recommendation engine. Though I must say, the recommended blogs they show me are usually what I would want to follow, so from my limited experience, it's not bad.<p>Now, I honestly don't think in 2023 recommendations are such a hard problem that we struggle to get a decent solution out. I mean, not everyone is Tiktok of course; but not everyone needs to be. Still, love to see it.<p>That being said, my main problem with tumblr right now is its usability. Not only is my blogged flagged for NSFW even though I follow un-flagged blogs that post much, much more NSFW things than I do as well as having applied to get the flag removed plenty of times with very little response. But really, I'm talking about the act of using the dashboard itself. I noticed after a long period of absence (I basically left when the porn ban was applied, now I have been back for a few months) that they've gotten rid of pages to favour a single-page-app solution even though I still have to manually click next page. This leads to a big problem: any missclick might "refresh" the dashboard making me lose my place and worse of all come to face my own posts again and again which basically makes the app unusable for around a day for me.<p>In the past I would rely on extensions and so on that would hide posts I've already rebloged or liked from my dashboard, it's incredible that to this day, default tumblr does "not have the technology" for this. Not only that, they also show me my own posts on my own dashboard. Seriously; what's the point of this? Sometimes it feels like no one at tumblr actually uses tumblr as these don't even seem like "hardcore user".