Dear Tumblr,
500 characters is not a whole lot. This post came in at 560 characters and it’s a five line paragraph and change. That is not a lengthy piece of text in any universe. I know Tumblr was never meant as a longform blogging platform but seriously, there’s no reason for a post that short to be reblogged into a link by default as it (unwittingly?) was. And there’s no reason for every Tumblr user that doesn’t want their blog to have a bunch of cut off paragraphs and links elsewhere to have to go an extra step every time they want to reblog anything that isn’t extremely short, it just seems counterintuitive from a user experience perspective.
If you insist on a limit, make it something reasonable, like 2,500 characters or thereabout. Or better yet, make any limit an opt-in choice because I frankly have a hard time imagining this being a popular change.
Or maybe it’s just me?
