Tumblr without porn is pointless
Yep, just a weak version of Pinterest and better message boards otherwise.
I want to argue this, because that seems to me to be more true of DeviantArt, but I’ll admit I never really used Tumblr before anyhow so…
Was it really so porn centric before? The few times I was directed there it never really seemed that way, however it may just be a small sample size thing.
When searching for images, the top sites seemed to be Pinterest, DeviantArt and then tumblr, and tumblr would be very, very heavy in adult photos as opposed to nude art. Yes, you can still find nude photos on DeviantArt though.
During the Tumblr purge, I’d say about 3-4 message boards I participate in created teams to search the site for tumblr links and replace them, usually with local wiki type storage. That will teach people to stop hotlinking in the first place; it’s just impolite.
DeviantArt doesn’t allow hard stuff. Only nudity and soft.
As to tumblr being porn centric, that’s pretty much my experience. Or was, I should say.
$3 million is amazing. They truly comprehensively destroyed that property.
On the other hand, $3m is probably a more sensible price for a blogging platform than $1bn. I doubt Google values Blogger at much more than that.
Presumably they will allow it again?
They said not, actually.
And that makes me wonder who they want their audience to be.
They can just use it to sell custom tumblers and be done with it.
I get the feeling that they saw the chance to buy 23 million users for a mere $3 million and figured that was a no brainer. Don’t need much monetization to come out on top of that equation.
My interest is far more basic that that. I just kind of wanted to know what Tumblr is supposed to be now. I’ve got a general idea about the appeal and attraction of most the other ones, but since they lost their adults can play here niche, not sure about this one anymore.
The only things I ever used Tumblr for were Fashion It So and Liartown.
From what I can tell, a big part of the problem was how badly they fucked up implementing the porn bans. Their algorithms were terrible, and they flagged stuff totally indiscriminately. So, while the “no more porn” might have been the intent, its hard to say if the issue was losing the porn users, vs. losing pretty much all users through shitty implementation.
Ya, I think this was the calculus they used.
I think the guys making the call though have missed the fact that users of these kinds of social media platforms are a fickle bunch… folks use things for a while, then they move on. Once that happens, it’s rare they ever go back.
Although, apparently folks are talking about going back to deviant art, at least according to something that was trending on twitter a few days back.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s a place where I occasionally see interesting things by/about Paul F Tompkins.
Stupid question maybe, but what is the current most popular place to show off art/photos? I am still using DeviantArt and Flickr.
Tumblr’s that place where people write long series of rote “booky geeky quirky nerd” zingers that relentlessly and yet unoriginally build off of each other in response to another poster’s blandly generic twist on an old trope or “fun weird fan theory” about a popular culture phenomenon, and then other people horribly crop a grainy screenshot of the exchange and share it on other social media platforms, where my friends see it and share it, further damaging my opinion of their senses of humor.