First Snags With Tumblr

I discovered a pernicious Tumblr bug because of the strip-mining I am doing on the old /Message blog to populate this new Stowe Boyd blog.

I create a Tumblr text post, drag text from the corresponding Squarespace post, add tags, title, and then change the date field in Tumblr to match the original posted date of the /Message post. Fine.

But the Tumblr theme elements that point from one post to the previous or next posts, chronologically, don’t use the newly assigned date field: they appear to use the time of the creation of the post.

As a result, I have had to disable the ‘next’ and ‘previous’ navigation that is built into the wonderful Scaffold theme by Mike Harding I am using here, and on Underpaid Genius.

I hope the nice folks at Tumblr will fix this bug, soon.