In a nutshell, Tumblr queues are no longer the headache-inducing deathtraps they once were.
For many Tumblr users, the queue is a sort of hub for saving masses of inspiring or interesting content, including images, text, videos and more, then rolling the content out in even intervals over a designated period of time, thus shielding one's followers from the sad fact that you actually spend hours upon endless hours surfing the web and hand-selecting blog post material at 3 a.m. on a Friday.
Sometimes, queues end up being hundreds of posts long. The marathon process of reordering a queue could take hours in some cases; for a hobbyist blogger/curator, the task was daunting if worth doing at all.
But thanks to some awesome new UI/UX tweaks, Tumblr queuing will no longer occupy hours of your lonely nights.
The interface itself is much sleeker, with relevant data taking a front seat and actual content no longer dominating the screen -- Tumblr now saves that for the pages of the actual blog itself. Your queued posts are lazy-loaded for efficiency and speed.
Best of all, posts can now be reordered quickly through a simple drag/drop mechanism. Previously, the queuing wasn't so much "drag-and-drop" as it was just a plain old drag. You had to reorder your queue by painstakingly shifting one post at a time, and posts could only be moved to the top of the queue.
Tumblr also gives you a nifty "page up" button that hovers in the top right corner and brings you back to the top of the page in a single mouse-click.
Here's what the new interface looks like:
Allowing users to save time and giving them a simpler way to accomplish tasks is what Tumblr blogging is all about, and we fully approve of these changes.