I have a very old Tumblr account that I got locked out of (I forgot to update my email address, don't have access to the old domain email, and therefore can't reset. When I tried contacting Tumblr recently, they wouldn't help me even try anything at all to verify the account. Will Automattic allow me to get my old account back?
If you don't have access to your identifier, what should they do about it?
Social engineering is a surprisingly large attack vector. I'd be concerned if it were possible to gain control over an account this way.
I've observed most discussions about Tumblr outside of HN. Most discussion revolves around how banning adult content from Tumblr removed any reason to go to Tumblr for many people. These are your average kinksters, artists, creative types who have been forced off the platform because it no longer caters to their interests. Not sure what any of this has to do with HN.
This subthread is discussing a misconception prevalent among HN users. But this same misconception may also be shared by other groups; no one is saying it's exclusive to HN. I believe your anecdotal experience in this area is true and accurate. But at the same time, the raw stats just don't reflect it being universally accurate across all users. A similar phenomenon has occurred regarding people saying they're quitti…
Do you base that on anything but a suspicion on your part? You are claiming this to be a misconception, can you actually back that up? I have no idea who those new content creators are supposed to be, like everyone else i just saw people with a decade or more of content producing behind them leaving. And not some of the people i knew but all of them. If there are great hidden communities that grew in the vacuum left, please share.
This subthread is discussing a misconception prevalent among HN users. But this same misconception may also be shared by other groups; no one is saying it's exclusive to HN. I believe your anecdotal experience in this area is true and accurate. But at the same time, the raw stats just don't reflect it being universally accurate across all users. A similar phenomenon has occurred regarding people saying they're quitti…
Do you base that on anything but a suspicion on your part? You are claiming this to be a misconception, can you actually back that up? I have no idea who those new content creators are supposed to be, like everyone else i just saw people with a decade or more of content producing behind them leaving. And not some of the people i knew but all of them. If there are great hidden communities that grew in the vacuum left,…
I am basing my statements on knowledge from personal experience. As I said above, I'm a primary source with first-hand factual knowledge about this topic. (If you do a lot of capacity planning for a UGC / social network infrastructure over many years, you become intimately familiar with changes in growth rate over time...)
At this point it is more like a salvage operation and I am unable to see anything good that will come of out this. Verizon should not be selling Tumblr they should be offering money to someone to take it.
I was a big fan of Tumblr porn. I havent visited the site since they stopped serving porn.
> 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.
The people with that stigma aren't going to be looking at that content anyway.
Tumblr was censored to drive traffic to Reddit and Twitter, which creates a more centralized crowd. The decision to censor Tumblr makes absolutely no business sense for tumblr, which means the main motivator is something else.
Every time I go to visit Tumblr, it asks me to log in. If I can't lurk on a content site, I'm moving on.
Every time I visit a Tumblog subdomain it just kicks me back to my own Tumblr dashboard and has for around 2 years now. When it started happening people said it was a bug but seemingly it's intentional? Not sure I understand the point but presumably this is for some sort of metrics they push?
They set their blog to private. You can only view it from a sidebar in your main dashboard.