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		elliottcarlson on Aug 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IsTumblrDown hit with a Cease & Desist Missing E's warning is to indicate that using a third party plugin to alter the sites behavior - which is constantly being improved and worked on - could have negative effects. If something breaks due to Missing E not working with an update that gets pushed out, then disable Missing E. Check the first page of the Missing E blog, and almost every post is regarding an update due to Missing E breaking in some way due to incompatibility. Seems pretty straight forward to me?

zachinglis on Aug 31, 2013 [–]

Tumblr itself was highly fragile, so this could be the case. But the Tumblr users were used to things breaking a lot and understood.

I think the biggest thing was the fact they spent all the time removing Missing E rather than adding a few features people wanted.

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