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I thought this is what they did on Geocities. But don't people still do that on Tumblr?

• rocky1138 10y ago
  Yes and no. Tumblr is a lot more curated. The hashtag and featured list makes aimlessly strolling obsolete.
  • frandroid 10y ago
    The hashtags are what streets were to the flâneur. You know which direction you're going but you don't know what you'll find on there...
  • niftich 10y ago
    Depends on your circles. Tumblr, like Twitter, is really defined by who you follow. If you follow 'professional', curated blogs where the author is promoting their own content, they will care about SEO and discoverability and they will tag their own posts with topical hashtags. But most personal blogs don't care about that, they tag their posts with custom, made-up categories or use the tag field as additional meta-commentary. There's a much-reblogged Tumblr post chain [1] that talks about this; ironically the only way I was able to find the post again is because one of the commenters tagged it with topical tags. So Tumblr is an amalgam of discoverable posts, long chains, and many posts that are completely untagged. If the blog's author has disabled the built-in integration Tumblr has with making search engines aware of posts, a lot of this content can only be found by going directly to the source through a friend-of-a-friend. [1] (shortened due to NSFW words in url, in deference to those at work) http://bit.ly/2cuwzE0 http://bit.ly/2cuwzE0