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Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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You shouldn't equal what tumblr considers to be "adult content" to "porn".

They flagged several classic paintings as porn on my account. Justice Stewart they are not.

I had a photo of a Premier Inn[1] bedroom flagged on my account. Presumably because my rucksack was being too seductive on the bed.

[1] UK equivalent of somewhere between a motel and a hotel.

Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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Then why was Yahoo able to deal with it?

They arguably weren’t: they no longer have tumblr.

They also neither have Flickr; a similar hotbed of porn. Surprised SmugMug haven't started a purge there, yet.

Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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how is nobody talking about the absolutely terrible decision to purchase or manage this acquisition by Marissa Meyer? How do you spend $1.1B on something in 2013 and then sell it 6 years later for $3M? I mean that's about as total of a loss as exists.

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>Whether it's seen next to porn should be irrelevant. It does not work that way. If some average person sees some brand advertised on WSJ and FT, and another competing brand on PornHub he will attach more 'premium' value to a first brand, and will pay more for owning product from this brand. It's only normal and a part of human nature. People enjoy content from PornHub, but they want to be associated with something a…

> It does not work that way. If some average person sees some brand advertised on WSJ and FT, and another competing brand on PornHub he will attach more 'premium' value to a first brand, and will pay more for owning product from this brand. That doesn't explain the connection of "porn" with "less than premium". You call it "normal and part of human nature" but looks like totally cultural. Historical prudery, and a pa…

There is still massive stigma around consuming porn. Less than half of Americans think that watching porn is morally acceptable. https://news.gallup.com/poll/235280/americans-say-pornograph...

Brands don't want to be next to content that has that stigma.

Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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Two things I loved about Tumblr that were very much not the social aspect (something about the community did just never work for me) were the stupid easy to use publishing tools and simple template language. I may have made some 600 of those site templates over the years and it was FUN. Later design changes tried to push the social thing more to the front (which, again, idgaf about) and so I left. But it'd pretty cool to start seeing SOME of that in wp, which is in this kinda weird middle spot right now where it's not hard to work with but enough of a chore to pay someone to do it for you.

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I blogged on the Wordpress site for a time. They like to lock options down tight. A -little- less tight than Stumbleupon, but not much Keeps it simple? Yes, that and nothing more. As a blogger, there's not much room for innovation.

At one time Tumbler (tried it a bit very early on) -did- have that option going for it. But Tumbler's obviously been fading. If WordPress tries WordPress-like 'reforms', I see little hope for Tumbler.

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That chart is based on Google Trends, which is a terrible way to measure social network activity/popularity.

A lot of people don't use bookmarks and even when they know very well it is facebook.com they still hit search "facebook" on Google.

That doesn't matter much. The largest difference is that the majority of people access social networks through mobile apps now, and Google Trends can't reflect that at all.

For example, Facebook shows a 71% drop worldwide in Google Trends over the last 5 years. Their Q2 2019 earnings showed a 20% worldwide growth in monthly users over the last two years alone.

Google Trends can't tell you anything useful about a site's growth or activity.

Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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According to this article [1], you plan to move Tumblr's backend onto WordPress. Considering that Tumblr's infra stores over 1 trillion distinct product objects, this would be one of the most technically ambitious migrations in history. Can you share any thoughts of how it will be approached? Will you be pruning/purging old content or inactive users? [1] https://poststatus.com/automattic-has-purchased-tumblr/

I have no idea precisely what we're going to do or how, but if I were spitballing, I'd think something like ... Currently I think Tumblr stores all posts across all sites in one big table? WP.com does different tables per site. I also think Tumblr's post ids are often above php's int max for 32-bit systems ( 2,147,483,647 ) -- I know I've seen some issues trying to parse tumblr's post ids to integers rather than stri…

Something about its heydays

http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/2/13/tumblr-architectur...

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