no non-member comments on tumblr?

[darkoshi]

One of the people whose blogs I've been following for several years changed the format of their blog a few months ago. It uses tumblr now, and I just realized that there's no way for me to leave comments on the posts anymore. Apparently you need to have a tumblr account and be logged into it, to even see any options for leaving comments. I viewed the site in both Firefox and IE, and all I can do is look at the "notes" other people have left, which mostly consist of "likes" and "reblogs" but do include an occasional comment... but all these are linked to another tumbler account. There's an "Ask me anything" link on the main page, but even that brings up a window where you need to login to tumblr before you can post your question.

I encountered this same bewildering lack of being able to leave feedback a while back on someone else's tumblr page... but I figured it must be because that person didn't want comments and had disabled them. But it sounds like tumblr doesn't even have a normal commenting system built in.

Inconceivable!