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Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by starcraft2wol »

echelon wrote: post #44
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…

The lesson: "Don't remove porn when the userbase is left-leaning and embraces it." Reddit and Twitter do it the right way: hiding adult-rated content behind the curtains.

Aren’t left leaning people all about “ethical porn” and power dynamics now?

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by photomatt »

p1necone wrote: post #140
MatthiasPortzel wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the CEO’s blog today: > You mention Blaze and Ad-free doing well, but their adoption is so small relative to the use of Tumblr their revenue couldn't support a fraction of the ~1,000 servers it takes to run Tumblr, much less any salaries.

(person who doesn't really know what they're talking about when it comes to services of this scale asking) Why does Tumblr need 1000 servers to run? You can serve a lot of text and relatively well compressed image files with not a lot of hardware.

For the YC audience: Tumblr has about 60B images using 8 petabytes of storage. 205TB of memory, 46,752 CPU threads, 250 kW of energy. About 100k requests a second, a petabyte a day of bandwidth.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by photomatt »

evanelias wrote: post #114
durable_queue wrote: post #88

MindGeek should buy Tumblr and allow adult content again. Tumblr's success was that it was an adult space that wasn't strictly pornography. It was a "cool sex" to PornHub's "hot sex".

> Tumblr's success was that it was an adult space that wasn't strictly pornography. This is a common talking point here, but it just isn't historically accurate in terms of absolute numbers. Tumblr was most successful in 2011-2012. It started getting huge in 2010 in large part due to having built-in photo and video support, at a time when Twitter didn't have these, and Instagram and Pinterest were still both tiny. Tu…

I think this is a pretty fair assessment.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by photomatt »

kevmarsden wrote: post #28

I'm surprised that memo leaked. Automattic is very open with employees and trusts them not to share internal information. While I worked there (2013-2018) I don't remember any news leaking.

Even when we do leak, it's thoughtful. You can tell whoever did it cropped out a bunch of stuff, including the text that would have tripped the Texts acquisition that wasn't announced at the time. I still don't love it, but at least it speaks to our hiring process finding people with high integrity.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by raincole »

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.

Reddit-fuck-up is not even remotely comparable to Tumblr-fuck-up. What Tumblr did was more like if Reddit banned edgy memes.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by evanelias »

n8cpdx wrote: post #150
sneak wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those are too big to fail. Nobody would buy an iPhone that doesn’t have Instagram. 500px is another example of a site full of nudity that has to arbitrarily censor for iOS, all because Apple is protecting their 10x-market-rate credit card processing business (30% instead of 3%) by preventing sideloading. It’s bullshit that Apple decides for me what I am allowed to view. How convenient that it also protects their reve…

I think you might be forgetting that Tumblr had a completely fine status quo, including showing me very much adult content on my iPhone, until Verizon bought them. Blaming the App Store was always an excuse. Tumblr just didn’t want to put the effort in to keep CSAM off their site. https://www.pcmag.com/news/tumblr-to-ban-pornography-startin... Some would say it is disappointing that Apple draws the line at child sexu…

What you've said above is completely incorrect, and as a former Tumblr employee I find it deeply offensive.

Why confidently state these things when you seriously have no idea whatsoever what actually happened here? GP's statements were much closer to the situation in reality.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by callalex »

underseacables wrote: post #121
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.

They did that because a lot of the people creating and posting that Content were kids…

How did you quantify that?

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by ryanbrunner »

abdullahkhalids wrote: post #87
DanielleMolloy wrote: post #69

Is there any alternative for having a gallery of text&photo posts without forced login and exploitative social media distractions? (except for self-hosting) When I looked for this 11 years ago, tumblr was the only platform ticking these boxes. I just wanted to share a link to photos of what we are up to with family and friends without asking them to register at another platform, and only tumblr allowed that and did n…

Wordpress can be quite close to the aesthetic of tumblr. One blog post per event, with pictures and text in whatever form you want. You will have to pay for it though.

Tumblr hasn't been primarily about your styled hosted "x.tumblr.com" site for a long time. Most users hang out on the dashboard and don't really expect non-Tumblr users to be visiting their blog. It's a lot closer to Twitter than a blog these days.

Re: You Win or You Learn

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Post by lmm »

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.

> Didn't Tumblr do a whole "alienate your user base" thing like Reddit did recently?

No, they did that years ago (getting on for literally 10 years ago), and that's what ultimately resulted in selling it to its current owners for like 1/1000th of what Yahoo paid for it.

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