absolutely not. i know it’s useful for time sensitive posts about current events, but it can really kill the longevity of other posts. not having timestamps used to be a big part of the tumblr experience, and it still should be
I mean you can just not look at it if you don’t want but often it’s good to see if the bad or out of date post you’re looking at is from yesterday or 2014. I have been on this site since 2012 and have a lot of posts floating around from 2014 that I might not necessarily agree with now because I was a teenager then and I’m almost 30 now. On more than one occasion recently someone has come onto posts of mine from 2014 guns blazing because they thought the post was recent and were quite embarrassed to discover that the take they got worked up about wasn’t a recent discourse but was rather a decade old and was part of a larger conversation at the time but now lacks the context with which it was shared. Save yourself the embarrassment of yelling at a ten year old cloud. Turn on timestamps.
WYM it kills the longevity of posts. No tumblr user in their right mind looks at a post they like and chooses not to reblog it because it’s “too old”. I still keep getting notes from posts over a decade ago
amhrancas 