Tshepang logs

As much as I love Tumblr, I got a few complaints:

• performance for some tasks is really bad; the most annoying one is the time it takes for the Edit button to appear; sometimes you’ll get a message along the lines of “can’t service your request right now; try again later”
• search is real bad; often it doesn’t find stuff I know is there; sometimes I have redo the search before seeing results
• Pages: I can’t use Markdown to edit them
• Pages: I’m not presented with the Edit button at all; I instead have to do it via the Dashboard, then click Customize, then click Pages, then scroll and find the page I wanna edit!

I’m not sure if these problems will be fixed (I’ve reported one bug, without any real feedback). The collective of these problems makes me wanna search for another blog host, and the 2 major ones (Blogger and Wordpress) suck even harder. The challenge with the move is doing the laborious internal re-linking over again. Since I doubt there’s anyone better than Tumblr, maybe I’ll code something myself (with the help of web2py maybe) and pay someone to host it for me. The problem with this DIY approach is that I’ll be losing the community aspect of Tumblr :-(

What must I do?