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Did anyone really think that with a Yahoo acquisition this would go any other way? Great for the original Tumblr team getting their probably deserved payday, no
by giobox 9y ago
Did anyone really think that with a Yahoo acquisition this would go any other way? Great for the original Tumblr team getting their probably deserved payday, not much else.
I did love how Tumblr embraced the mess of custom styling etc they supported - was refreshing to visit a crowd driven site where everyone's profile isn't the same stale standard template.
- danso 9y agoI loved Tumblr. I was a casual user but not only was it fun for a time, it opened my eyes to how important details are in implementation. I mean in the sense that I thought Tumblr wouldn't be useful to me because I already had my own WordPress blog (and various Jekyll blogs), but Tumblr's opinionated refinements and limitations made for a substantially new content-creating experience. And it was something I could only grok by trying out Tumblr. Didn't use it much after the Yahoo acquisition. Nothing relating to Yahoo, had just moved onto other things. But I don't know what blame to assign to Yahoo, other than the sin of not being more aggressive in trying to "do" something. But it's not clear that trying to aggressively iterate Tumblr would be better than being hands-off about it. What would Tumblr be like if Yahoo hadn't acquired it? It was a great platform but I never got the sense -- in the way that I have with Instagram and Snapchat -- that Tumblr was capable of rapidly innovating while preserving the core experience.
- dboreham 9y agoIf you look at the DAU graph they sold at pretty much the optimal time.