“The underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use.”
They’re bringing back the porn?
It’s disturbing how many platforms would be improved by just making that one change.
As the old saying goes, “The internet is made for porn.” I’m not crazy about this whole push to mainstream the internet for the sake of advertisers. I don’t give a damn about advertisers, and I don’t want them to clean up the web the way Ghoul-iani cleaned up New York or people in Nevada sanitized Las Vegas.
Sadly, sanitized ad-driven walled gardens have been prevalent for some long you’ll find grown-ass adults who follow and upvote blatant but barely allowed thirst traps talking that porn is evil and that those platforms are better without it. Their brains have been molded by the constraints of corporate prudishness.
Nah they added a “mature” and “sexual” content option for posts but they will still restrict posts to only be visible to you. And it seems that there’s no clear line. I’ve had posted restricted of women in bikinis
Ah, so it’s even worse now?
I love !CuratedTumblr but that’s as far as I go.
I don’t understand the comment that it’s not easy to use? The tagging system is probably the most functional one for discovering fandom or aesthetically grouped content.
The main gripes I gave are with the constant ui pushes to sign up for their app and their half assed way of dealing with nsfw content.
Easy to use is defined differently for the guys trying to make money off the site. For us, easy to use means easy to figure out the interface and find our friends. For them, easy to use means easy to find top-rated posts and ads.
“Why don’t we have any influencers?” “Well, nothing pushes popular posts to people’s feeds.” “That’s horrible! We need to fix that to attract influencers!”
tl;dr: clueless tumblr staff want to turn the dashboard into a twitter feed. Needless to say, everyone (including myself) is angry about it.
I think Tumblr’s brand just got ruined. They were known for their nsfw material and now they don’t know what else to do with their lack of users.
Tumblr was never easy to use; that was my main issue with the site well before its resurrection by Automattic. (Also, the whiners. Oh god, that place was chock full of bleeding heart weenies who tried to out-white knight each other at every turn.)