As an IT person who occasionally comments on the current state of our blue hellsite, do you know if there’s any way to *reply* to a post from the OP’s blog (and/or the post’s permalink)? Having to scroll endlessly through the dashboard to find the post I want to comment on feels extremely counterintuitive, but that is sometimes the Tumblr experience…

I'm assuming you're talking about a situation where you know where to find the post on a blog's public-facing theme, but they've got an older or custom theme that's missing the "reply" UI. If so, you can always get to the dashboard version of that post fairly easily if you're willing to fiddle with your browser's address bar a little. For example, given the following public-facing URL:…