castielsteenwolf:

jasper-rolls:

for those who dont get it missing e was like the proto-xkit, a browser extension from the early 2010s designed to improve tumblr cause believe it or not this website used to be a lot fucking worse technically

but the thing about it was that tumblr absolutely DESPISED missing e, like i cannot overstate how livid they were at the time that someone was better at designing their website than they were. they started having these popups appear saying that missing e was like, a virus or some shit and it was malevolent and that the act of having missing e installed meant you weren’t allowed to receive support from tumblr staff.

like forget whatever happened with the original xkit guy, tumblr, as in the website, the staff behind the website itself, ACTIVELY ran missing e’s creator off the website because he was doing a better job of making their site than they were

Back then I’m pretty sure you were able to edit posts as well so people would like make posts that said “IF YOU USE MISSIN E YOUR BLOG MAY BE DELETED” and made it look like the staff wrote it even tho that was literally a lie

Or maybe it wasn’t idk