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Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by sneak »

swagempire wrote: post #32
MatthiasPortzel wrote: post #29

From a live-stream from the Tumblr staff convention this year, their CEO: > Yeah, so right now, we're burning. Which means spending more than we make. About 30 million per year more than we make. > So, that's a lot. We can't do that forever and so that's why we're really trying to figure out things that y'all would value. Whether that's merch or upgrades or badges or gifts or Blaze or other things. Every little bit h…

Didn't Tumblr do a whole "alienate your user base" thing like Reddit did recently? They got rid of all the racey hot content and basically made it super boring no? This always seems like a really bad idea.

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Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by n8cpdx »

sneak wrote: post #51
swagempire wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't Tumblr do a whole "alienate your user base" thing like Reddit did recently? They got rid of all the racey hot content and basically made it super boring no? This always seems like a really bad idea.

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No it wasn’t. Instead of deleting the porn they could have just hid it from iOS users.

Twitter, Threads, Instagram, Chrome, and countless other App Store apps are perfectly comfortable serving up racey content.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by n8cpdx »

jacooper wrote: post #36
ggambetta wrote: post #4

Anyone knows when will Threads be available in the EU? :(

Don't worry, you're not missing much, it's really dead out there.

It was up until a few weeks ago. There was a real change, loads of content and activity now. I’m getting decent engagement even without many followers. Good mix of local and national/international content. The algorithm got a lot better, too.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by gumby »

A side point, but: the title holds another important lesson. It’s a well known truism that smart people learn from their failures. But most people also don’t bother to learn from their successes, thus have trouble repeating them.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by Fabricio20 »

spondylosaurus wrote: post #18
qingcharles wrote: post #5

Damn it. I love Tumblr, but it is really hard to sell advertising against the content on there, I'm guessing. I wonder if it will get sold again? I wish it hadn't been cleansed. Reddit just ploughed through all the objections to their adult content and came out the other side unharmed. Tumblr could have done the same.

> Tumblr could have done the same. Not without being removed from the iOS app store. Apple played their hand.

Yes they could have, just like other platforms do like Twitter or Discord, by simply hiding the NSFW content on iOS.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by troupe »

Interesting to see this was posted on Threads instead of Tumblr which might kind of show the root of some of their problems.

Does $30 Million a year spend rate seem typical for their size? I'm assuming a large part of that is the salaries for 139 people.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by Kye »

gumby wrote: post #54

A side point, but: the title holds another important lesson. It’s a well known truism that smart people learn from their failures. But most people also don’t bother to learn from their successes , thus have trouble repeating them.

It seems like success is luck (usually timing) more often than anything else, while failure has a more diverse range of modes.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by notatoad »

swagempire wrote: post #32
MatthiasPortzel wrote: post #29

From a live-stream from the Tumblr staff convention this year, their CEO: > Yeah, so right now, we're burning. Which means spending more than we make. About 30 million per year more than we make. > So, that's a lot. We can't do that forever and so that's why we're really trying to figure out things that y'all would value. Whether that's merch or upgrades or badges or gifts or Blaze or other things. Every little bit h…

Didn't Tumblr do a whole "alienate your user base" thing like Reddit did recently? They got rid of all the racey hot content and basically made it super boring no? This always seems like a really bad idea.

that was a long time ago, under a previous owner. Automattic has seemingly tried to be a good steward of the tumblr brand, but it seems like at this point, the only people left using tumblr are unmonetizable.

the bad idea was buying tumblr. but i think automattic knew that when they bought it, and just thought it would be fun to set some money on fire for a while.

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