Tumblr

#1

Post by rmason » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 6:58 PM UTC

Tumblr
avc.com

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#2

Post by elbac » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 7:16 PM UTC

We DDOS'd Fred.

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#3

Post by csbartus » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 7:24 PM UTC

I’m still using it since 2009 everyday. For design inspiration. As a moodboard. And still works as in the good old days.

Tumblr made me a better designer. By catching up with the latest in print and graphic design and porting thse trends to web I had a work featured very early in Brutalist Websites.

I use no other social network. It’s simply too much. And yes a heart is good enough.

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#4

Post by cwmma » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 7:24 PM UTC

elbac wrote: post #2

We DDOS'd Fred.

if he still hosted his blog on tumblr he wouldn't have this problem

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#5

Post by rolltiide » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 7:28 PM UTC

Diversity of decision making would still help Tumblr.

You know in which ways.

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#6

Post by aylmao » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 7:33 PM UTC

> But it is also true that Tumblr was bypassed by native mobile applications like Instagram and Snapchat where it was even easier to post about your life.

This. It's understated how much Tumblr's clunky composing hurt it as a platform. I know people connected to Tumblr, and from what I hear there was a lot of ideas but little direction.

There was a time when Tumblr was bigger than Instagram— Tumblr could've focused more on making it an amazing photo-sharing service. Snapchat was/is loved by its anonymity and ephemerality, but Tumblr was already an anonymous social network well before it. They could've added features for ephemerality and explored that market.

I used tumblr for consuming a lot of content, and it was great for that, but I always thought it had potential to be better for sharing too.

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#7

Post by galfarragem » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 7:34 PM UTC

Tumblr is an hidden secret and totally underrated.

I run two niche blogs on tumblr since 2011 with full control of themes and content, https, social sharing, without compulsory ads and using my own domain. SEO was a negative point but nowadays is good enough. All of this for free. Wordpress offer, AFAIK, is not nearly as good.

Thank you Tumblr.

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#8

Post by tnorthcutt » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 7:35 PM UTC

The news hit yesterday that WordPress has purchased Tumblr

WordPress != Automattic.

More context here: https://poststatus.com/resources/wordpress-versus-automattic...

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#9

Post by bitwize » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 7:35 PM UTC

aylmao wrote: post #6

> But it is also true that Tumblr was bypassed by native mobile applications like Instagram and Snapchat where it was even easier to post about your life. This. It's understated how much Tumblr's clunky composing hurt it as a platform. I know people connected to Tumblr, and from what I hear there was a lot of ideas but little direction. There was a time when Tumblr was bigger than Instagram— Tumblr could've focused m…

> This. It's understated how much Tumblr's clunky composing hurt it as a platform.

Indeed. I called it Fumblr for a reason -- I was always fumbling with its UI.

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#10

Post by codesushi42 » Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 7:37 PM UTC

Now we are stuck with Facebook, a closed platform. Or Reddit, which masquerades as an open platform, but is really closed shut.

There's only Twitter now. And Twitter kind of sucks.