“Third-Party Theme Distribution.
To manage the safety and stability of blog themes, the vast majority of which are contributed by the Tumblr community, it’s important that themes are distributed through our centralized Theme Garden. Third-party theme directories are often used to inject nefarious code that results in spam, ads, or phishing attacks. Since anyone can host and promote their themes in the Theme Garden, don’t create or use third-party services to distribute source code for Tumblr themes. Creating blogs or directories that curate themes in the Theme Garden is a-okay.”
It is about the dumbest and most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Theme makers like me are going to be punished because some people simply don’t use making themes for a good reason, or because their codes result in problems.
My themes have never resulted in this type of problem. Some people have problems installing themes, but this is normal for any theme.
If I’m forced to distribute my themes through the Theme Garden or I risk getting banned, I will not be making themes anymore. I don’t distribute my themes through the Theme Garden because it doesn’t give me the freedom I want.
And I can almost guarantee a lot of theme makers are going to feel the same, so if this rule is enforced, then a lot of theme makers will be disappearing.
Tumblr is trying to make everything better, but they’re making things worse, and this is why I’ve always ended up leaving websites. They change their designs to make it better, but instead it just results in bugs and problems. And Tumblr, the place we all love, is doing the same thing and WORSE.
Contact Tumblr about these issues: policy@tumblr.com
Also, take a lot at ALL of the new policies: https://github.com/tumblr/policy/
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