You Win or You Learn

#1

Post by Tomte » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 2:25 PM UTC

Re: You Win or You Learn

#2

Post by burkaman » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 3:53 PM UTC

Also mentioned in this thread: Tumblr's ActivityPub integration (discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33716429) was apparently announced without any plan and then immediately cancelled once they started thinking about how to implement it.

- https://mastodon.social/@_jv_/110692236418053393

Re: You Win or You Learn

#3

Post by grftloplthrow » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 4:02 PM UTC

burkaman wrote: post #2

Also mentioned in this thread: Tumblr's ActivityPub integration (discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33716429 ) was apparently announced without any plan and then immediately cancelled once they started thinking about how to implement it. - https://mastodon.social/@_jv_/110692236418053393

lol

Re: You Win or You Learn

#4

Post by ggambetta » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 4:02 PM UTC

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

Re: You Win or You Learn

#5

Post by qingcharles » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 4:04 PM UTC

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.

Re: You Win or You Learn

#6

Post by ClearAndPresent » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 4:11 PM UTC

https://archive.is/WNfDg

Re: You Win or You Learn

#7

Post by altairprime » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 4:11 PM UTC

burkaman wrote: post #2

Also mentioned in this thread: Tumblr's ActivityPub integration (discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33716429 ) was apparently announced without any plan and then immediately cancelled once they started thinking about how to implement it. - https://mastodon.social/@_jv_/110692236418053393

Glad to hear they dodged that bullet. Thanks for pointing this out.

Re: You Win or You Learn

#8

Post by Kye » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 4:30 PM UTC

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.

I always expected them to roll its functionality and community into WordPress.com and essentially turn it into a frontend. There's a lot of redundancy. They already have a whole service dedicated to making and maintaining custom WordPress installs, so that would be the obvious place to go.

Re: You Win or You Learn

#9

Post by thejohnconway » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 4:33 PM UTC

altairprime wrote: post #7

burkaman wrote: post #2

Also mentioned in this thread: Tumblr's ActivityPub integration (discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33716429 ) was apparently announced without any plan and then immediately cancelled once they started thinking about how to implement it. - https://mastodon.social/@_jv_/110692236418053393

Glad to hear they dodged that bullet. Thanks for pointing this out.

Who dodged which bullet? This is all just lose-lose as far as I can make out.

Re: You Win or You Learn

#10

Post by thejohnconway » Thu, Nov 09, 2023, 4:35 PM UTC

It’s not clear to me what this means. Freezing feature development? Rolling the backend into the rest of Automattic? Or the end of Tumblr?