Why is tumblr so weird?

seeyouguyslater:
tahthetrickster:
manga-and-stuff:
hunter-rodrigez:
And I am not talking about the content on this website… I am talking about the website itself, like from a technical standpoint…
for example: the Create Post window looks like this:
but when you zoom in 200% with your browser it suddenly changes to this?
and this window doesn’t just look different, it is miles ahead of the other one in every single way, for example this his the build in text editor:
yeah, you can change color and font without doing any HTML bullshit…
And the wildest thing… you’re not limited to one kind of post with this create post window…
You want to create a hybrid post that has pictures, text, a video and music? you can just do that no problem…
WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU HIDE THIS BEHIND 200% ZOOM????
I didn’t know this so I am guessing quite a few of you probably don’t know about it either…
#looks kinda like a hybrid of mobile and of desktop
……………yknow i saw this and i thought to myself “i wonder if the devs here are so incompetent that they set up css @media breakpoints but only used single min-widths and max-widths instead of both min-widths and max-widths so that at certain viewports it gets confused and uses the css from multiple breakpoints” and yknow what
i think thats exactly what the fuck they did dfhjkdjk
MAN….GKDHFJDNGJDGEGFFGGFGGF
Okay I know I don’t normally reblog this kind of stuff, but I was fascinated by it, so I sent this post to my girlfriend (she knows way more about coding than I do) and messed around a bit on my own, and here’s what I learned:
1. in plain English, the “css breakpoint” stuff means that Tumblr’s mobile and desktop features are coded to work at specific zoom values, rather than working across a range of zooms, so if you zoom in far enough on desktop, it’ll activate the mobile features
2. on my laptop, the mobile features start showing up at 150% zoom
3. if I start writing a post at 125% and then zoom in to 150% - or if I start at 150% and then zoom out to 125% - the post gets completely erased (probably because it’s not meant to happen and the code breaks down)
4. it’s impossible to discard a post the normal way on 150% zoom (I had to refresh the whole page to get rid of my test draft. My best theory for why that happened is that the only method of closing the draft was with smartphone controls.)
5. zooming to 150% and then trying to reblog a post resets the desktop to its normal function, and it stays that way until I refresh the page
conclusion: Tumblr is a hellsite at every level