My Tumblr Wishlist

As many of you know, I’ve been having tons of fun playing around with Tumblr, the web-based tumblelogging application created by Davidville. I’ve been using it to host my linklog, Squandrous.com, and I have nothing but great things to say about the service. I’ve always been wary of hosted services, but so far, Tumblr has not disappointed.

That being said, there’s so much more that I want to do with Tumblr that I’ve decided to create my very own Tumblr wishlist. Despite the relative lack of updates on the blog, I know the Tumblr team is doing a lot to make the service even better, so I’m not complaining. Instead, I’m offering a few suggestions (apart from comments — I know everyone is clamoring for comments, but I don’t want them) to the team if they are ever bored and don’t have much to do:

• Audio embedding: The video embedding option is fantastic already. Audio should definitely be next.
• Automatic ‘reblog’ referral links: I’ve been using the ‘reblog’ function quite a bit, but it doesn’t automatically insert a link to the referring blog when I post, so I’ve had to do that by hand.
• Daily digest RSS feeds: I update my Squandrous linklog obsessively, and I know it’s getting a bit annoying for some of the people who subscribe to get 20-30 posts a day in their feed readers. By offering a daily digest feed, I can not only reduce the amount of clutter people receive, but I can roll my Squandrous blog into my Eloquation feed like I used to do with del.icio.us without overwhelming my few subscribers.
• Personally hosted version: Part of my reason for wanting this, I’ll admit, is because I’m scared that if anything happens to Davidville, I’m going to lose all my content, but giving me the option to host Tumblr on my own server will also reduce the load on Tumblr’s resources. Sounds like a win-win to me.
• Archiving: I’d love a simple drop-down list that will take me to all posts from a particular month. Simple, but effective.
• Search: Along the same lines, I’d especially love a small search box so that I can quickly find the posts I’m looking for without having to do a Google site-specific search.

So that’s my short Tumblr wishlist. And for all you guys over at Davidville, just to let you know, I’d pay for these services. Heck, even if you didn’t offer any of the options on my wishlist, I want you to know that Tumblr is such a fantastic application, I’d pay to use it now, as it is. Thanks for listening.