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Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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Post by pluma »

joeyprr wrote: post #388
mattmanser wrote: post #375

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I don't know if you've ever been to Europe, but the number of topless beaches are low and you won't see women walking around without a top on the street. It's not taboo-less, nipples are still sexual. Nipples seems a pretty silly thing to start focusing on when he clearly said they weren't interested in adult content.

I'm from Europe and I've visited quite a few countries in Europe, and to me it seems like it's pretty normal to be topless on _any_ beach... Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Greece...

Add Belgium to the list. And East Germany.

EDIT: Generally I'd say in Europe while women's breasts are sexualised, they're not considered sexually explicit. The US is exceptionally prudish in comparison and for well-known historical reasons, too.

Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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Post by technion »

evanelias wrote: post #267
mikeschinkel wrote: post #261

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Just curious about your just curious; what is the architecture of the current Tumblr back end? This appears to be 6 years old. Is it still relevant? http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/2/13/tumblr-architectur...

Ehhh parts of that article were never accurate, especially the stuff about having an hbase-powered dashboard feed. Primarily the product backend is monolithic PHP (custom framework) + services in various languages + sharded MySQL + Memcached + Gearman. Lots of other technologies in use though too, but I'll defer to current employees if they want to answer.

That's a really underrated statement - as a lot of "scale blogs" are often referred to as fact. I'll have to reconsider a lot of those in hindsight.

Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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Post by prepend »

artpi wrote: post #360
echelon wrote: post #348

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Please actually do this. Find a way to get Verizon to sign off on this, and then get in touch with an established documentary maker. Pair them with an engineer and follow the story of the migration efforts. It will take time, and it'll certainly have a narrative. Nothing like this has been done before. I struggle with making what I do relatable to people, but having a technical or semi-technical documentary following…

From the documentaries I've seen, its lots of people walking to a meeting, meetings themselves, etc. For that kind of documentary, probably people walking into servers rooms, or having heated discussions. In Automattic, we basically evolved to remove all that :) There would be basically zoom calls and slack discussions. The most ambitious project I worked on in Automattic were just me, looking at the code and trying…

This would be an interesting new type of documentary. A few shots of people with laptops on beaches around the world to establish characters, then just animated slack chats, terminal sessions and whiteboard sessions.

Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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Post by gpderetta »

joeyprr wrote: post #388
mattmanser wrote: post #375

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know if you've ever been to Europe, but the number of topless beaches are low and you won't see women walking around without a top on the street. It's not taboo-less, nipples are still sexual. Nipples seems a pretty silly thing to start focusing on when he clearly said they weren't interested in adult content.

I'm from Europe and I've visited quite a few countries in Europe, and to me it seems like it's pretty normal to be topless on _any_ beach... Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Greece...

Italy as well.

Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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Post by tpush »

mattmanser wrote: post #375
elliekelly wrote: post #109

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> it creates a huge number of potential issues with app stores, payment providers, trust and safety... I completely understand that “Adult Content” can cause a ton of headaches for a business but Tumblr’s current definition of “Adult Content” is very broad and I hope when the transaction is complete you’ll at least be open to reviewing the scope of the definition. Right now it includes many things that aren’t adult a…

I don't know if you've ever been to Europe, but the number of topless beaches are low and you won't see women walking around without a top on the street. It's not taboo-less, nipples are still sexual. Nipples seems a pretty silly thing to start focusing on when he clearly said they weren't interested in adult content.

There literally are beaches/sections of beaches in Germany where you have to be nude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freikörperkultur

Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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Post by senorjazz »

photomatt wrote: post #57
knd775 wrote: post #22

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I'm curious why you would choose to maintain Verizon's policy changes that alienated the majority of the user-base.

Adult content is not our forte either, and it creates a huge number of potential issues with app stores, payment providers, trust and safety... it's a problem area best suited for companies fully dedicated to creating a great experience there. I personally have very liberal views on these things, but supporting adult content as a business is very different.

err twitter?

Re: Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

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Post by jsjohnst »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #364
jsjohnst wrote: post #281

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> To the tune of putting approx $1 billion through the corporate paper shredder. Arguably, that happened June 20th, 2013, the day the Tumblr acquisition was closed.

Arguably, it happened throug gross miss-management. Can you think of one good decision they made?

Who is they in this case? Tumblr leadership, Yahoo! leadership, Oath leadership, or Verizon leadership?
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