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I was discussing companies who use Tumblr for official communication, like System76 and NPM, on another story earlier this week, and how it's cringy and not a g
by Lowkeyloki 7y ago
I was discussing companies who use Tumblr for official communication, like System76 and NPM, on another story earlier this week, and how it's cringy and not a good look IMHO. (My comment was flagged for some reason despite having 5 points and 8 replies. How does this site work?)
I hope PornHub does buy Tumblr! Can you imagine how quickly all the corporate blogs would scramble off of the platform to avoid association with a porn site!?
- imgabe 7y agoWhy is it cringy? It's an easy way to host a blog. I'd rather any company focus on their main business rather than futz around with blog hosting.
- leesalminen 7y agoMedium would be a better place to host a corporate blog. When I think Tumblr, I think porn not corporate blogging. Although to be honest, that image is fairly recent for me. I only heard about the depths of Tumblr porn after it died.
- the8472 7y agotumblr is (was) dual-use. so are twitter and reddit by the way. It's like saying corporations don't want to associate with the internet because there's porn on it.
- zius 7y agoYou still really think that? I am not so sure. A self-hosted blog, e.g. Ghost, is much more user-friendly. The amount of popups before you can read an article on Medium is embarrassing. That "You have a moment?" is really getting old. Besides, I can't remember last time I read a quality article on there.
- j_4 7y agoI would argue the exact opposite. Tumblr is pretty agnostic when it comes to the way your content is presented, you can even hide all social features without a problem. I roll my eyes when I see a serious company using Medium as its blog platform, with its absolutely obnoxious "haha lets make it official ;)" popups.
- jseliger 7y agoMy impression (perhaps outdated) is that making the blog part of your primary domain (e.g. www.company.com/blog) is a better strategy for improving search engine traffic.
- 80386 7y agoIt's an easy way to host a blog, but so was Livejournal. The connotations are similar too.
- Lowkeyloki 7y agoIt's cringy because it's unprofessional and amateurish. Not to mention that you only have a certain amount of control over your content and hence your SEO. For example, how would you like it if "beyoncescock" or "dildoreo" (both real usernames, by the way) were to reblog your serious announcement from your serious company? Now those usernames are associated with your company's name when you search for it on the web.
- jlarocco 7y agoI don't think most people associate Tumblr with porn. If you weren't searching for it, you weren't likely to find it. I used Tumblr, and didn't know it was used for porn until the complaining when Verizon banned it.
- drb91 7y agoIn my circles, it’s been a running joke since about 2014 that the porn was the only quality content left.
- jlarocco 7y agoLike I said, if you weren't searching for it, you wouldn't normally find it. Probably applied to other content there as well.
- Lowkeyloki 7y agoMy point is not that Tumblr is necessarily all porn in terms of content. It's that if it's owned by a porn company, other companies wouldn't want to be associated with it.
- sincerely 7y agoDo you feel the same way about companies that use Twitter for official communication?
- Lowkeyloki 7y agoPeople in the replies are missing my point. It's not that Tumblr's content is porn or that Tumblr is associated with porn _right now_. It's that Tumblr will absolutely be associated with porn if a porn company buys it. And these various companies will abandon ship in order to avoid association with a porn company.