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Tumblr CEO David Karp is stepping down from the company

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Re: Tumblr CEO David Karp is stepping down from the company

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Post by krisdol »

mrmekon wrote: post #6

Tumblr was the easiest way to setup a simple stream-of-photos blog, so I used it often. I recently moved all of my "blogs" off of it because visiting one slowed desktop browsers to a crawl, and literally crashed mobile browsers. Dev tools showed a minimum of 20MB transferred when visiting my site, and it quickly ran up to 60+MB if you touched the scrollbar. That is a lot of prefetching. Just visiting tumblr.com while…

Exploring tumblr today is like exploring myspace pages in 2006. No matter how powerful your PC, it's a miserably slow site to browse and, in my opinion, difficult to mentally ingest content from.

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Post by dboreham »

giobox wrote: post #9

Did anyone really think that with a Yahoo acquisition this would go any other way? Great for the original Tumblr team getting their probably deserved payday, not much else. I did love how Tumblr embraced the mess of custom styling etc they supported - was refreshing to visit a crowd driven site where everyone's profile isn't the same stale standard template.

If you look at the DAU graph they sold at pretty much the optimal time.

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Post by Doctor_Fegg »

mrmekon wrote: post #6

Tumblr was the easiest way to setup a simple stream-of-photos blog, so I used it often. I recently moved all of my "blogs" off of it because visiting one slowed desktop browsers to a crawl, and literally crashed mobile browsers. Dev tools showed a minimum of 20MB transferred when visiting my site, and it quickly ran up to 60+MB if you touched the scrollbar. That is a lot of prefetching. Just visiting tumblr.com while…

Ironically, one of the other sites that has that effect on my Mac is theverge.com, host of TFA.

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Post by Laforet »

mrmekon wrote: post #6

Tumblr was the easiest way to setup a simple stream-of-photos blog, so I used it often. I recently moved all of my "blogs" off of it because visiting one slowed desktop browsers to a crawl, and literally crashed mobile browsers. Dev tools showed a minimum of 20MB transferred when visiting my site, and it quickly ran up to 60+MB if you touched the scrollbar. That is a lot of prefetching. Just visiting tumblr.com while…

I have a reasonably powerful desktop computer (i7 3770, 12GB ram) and tumblr seems to be the only site capable of consistently crashing firefox and chrome every 30 minutes with only a couple of tabs open. I have no idea how they managed that.

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Post by daggerr »

alfithehermutt wrote: post #23

I would too tumblr's day has passed. Marissa made a huge mistake betting on tumblr. The pornography and toxic community killed what could have been a strong twitter microblog service.

How did it kill if this sort of content attracted people there in the first place? It was the Tumblr's "culture".

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Post by asdfasdfas112 »

1_2__4 wrote: post #16
manigandham wrote: post #15

WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. are the popular networks now. Tumblr naturally declined regardless of Yahoo (which definitely failed at integrating its adtech and never made any money). That's how it goes with social networks, it's a cycle of latest and greatest, and the whims of the public can change in a few short years.

None of those have adult communities in the rounding error of the scale Tumblr does.

uhmm... are you kidding? they all do... only exception might be WhatsApp.

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Post by dna_polymerase »

alfithehermutt wrote: post #23

I would too tumblr's day has passed. Marissa made a huge mistake betting on tumblr. The pornography and toxic community killed what could have been a strong twitter microblog service.

I get the pornography part, whenever you are checking a simple site it can happen that there is NSFW stuff visible without a warning.

However, toxic community? I never had that impression. That said I never used Tumblr for longer periods and I don't get how to comment on stuff or really interact there.

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Post by rsynnott »

alfithehermutt wrote: post #23

I would too tumblr's day has passed. Marissa made a huge mistake betting on tumblr. The pornography and toxic community killed what could have been a strong twitter microblog service.

It was fairly soon after she started as CEO, wasn’t it? Possibly before she fully internalized Yahoo’s uncanny ability to make everything it buys just slowly become irrelevant.

On the plus side, Yahoo probably does now have the world’s largest collection of meticulously catalogued porn.

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