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As amazing as writing an application relying on a UIWebView for its core functionality, it still crashes when you scroll for long periods of time, and instacrashes when you attempt to look at your likes.

I am admittedly on v.3.0.x, but the version previous behaved the same way, so I have little hope for future versions.

I must admit, the Tumblr app is one of the few apps that make me want to throw my phone against a brick wall.

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I'm the developer of Tumblr for iPhone and sorry to hear this. I know that web views have their drawbacks and we're working hard to make the app faster and more stable in every way.

Eh, it's not the only thing I find wrong with Tumblr, and I'm yet to try out your latest release (stepped on debit card, broke it, cancelled it, iTunes charge failed, no upgrade for me)

Please try going native, the performance increase would be in the order of magnitudes.

Are you the only one working on the app?

I'm not the only one but it's a very small team at the moment. We have ambitious goals that we're aggressively working towards though.

Tumblr content can be quite diverse and often contains arbitrary user-inputted HTML, numerous inline images, etc. It's non-trivial to render but as I mentioned, we're working hard to provide an even better mobile experience.

While we have your ear: just wondering what the thought process behind the latest redesign is? Yes it's really~pretty...but the functionalities that made the older app attractive are mostly gone.

- cant long press to copy a tumblr link (heaven forbid I'd like to share a link OUTSIDE of the app - cant post YouTube urls in video post - reblogs won't let you delete prior comments by others (sometimes you have to clean up cluttered reblogs) - you took away options to open in safari in many instances as well.

These were not intentional omissions. 3.0 was a complete rewrite and there are still many features that we know we need to add in order to be on par with the web experience.

I strongly encourage any users with feedback or feature requests to hit up my ask box: http://blog.bryanirace.com/ask. We really are listening and plan on providing the best mobile Tumblr experience we possibly can.

Edit: Worth noting that we added post sharing options in 3.1 (long press on the 'Like' button).

Yup. The latest versions of the app has actually driven me away from tumblr. It is un-intuitive, clunky, and poorly thought out. I'm not the only one who feels this way too.

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