>I think Tumblr has it right when it comes to blog commenting
Tumblr's model is absolutely awful, though, because it conflates likes, plain reblogs and reblogs that actually add commentary together (and sometimes doesn't even note all of the latter?) into a single stream of "notes", making it basically impossible to trace or even find the actual conversations and commentary from all the noise. Their quote inlining can be terribly confusing at times too. I honestly wonder how anyone manages to discuss anything on the site.
> I honestly wonder how anyone manages to discuss anything on the site.
There's an assumption that both Tumblr and Twitter make: if two people want to have a back-and-forth conversation, they'll mutually follow one-another, so that their replies to one-another will show up naturally in their feeds. And if they aren't following one-another, that must mean they want to basically ignore one-another.
Tumblr's model is absolutely awful, though, because it conflates likes, plain reblogs and reblogs that actually add commentary together (and sometimes doesn't even note all of the latter?) into a single stream of "notes", making it basically impossible to trace or even find the actual conversations and commentary from all the noise. Their quote inlining can be terribly confusing at times too. I honestly wonder how anyone manages to discuss anything on the site.