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Every time I go to visit Tumblr, it asks me to log in. If I can't lurk on a content site, I'm moving on.

by PopeDotNinja 7y ago

ryanisnan 7y ago
Exactly this. I'm surprised they can even operate on such a policy.
bduerst 7y ago
Is that for mobile only? I can access different tumblr sites w/o login walls.
derefr 7y ago
Individual Tumblr blogs get to decide whether example.tumblr.com is "only visible to logged-in users." If they turn on that setting, the site 1. forces you to log in, and 2. renders the site inline as part of the Tumblr dashboard SPA. If you don't turn it on, though, your Tumblr blog is a public/static website indexable by Google.
- adjkant 7y ago
  Importantly left out here is what the default is. It sounds like the default is must log in - I can't imagine how many tumblr users would choose to only have logged in viewers. I've left a while though so feel free to correct that.
  - derefr 7y ago
    The default is public. Usually, the users who choose “must log in” choose it either because they’re paranoid about privacy, or because it is a prerequisite to having the site enforce a viewer blacklist for them (to block incessant stalkers.) There is also, above and beyond that, the ability to make a blog private, by setting a password to access it. A blog with a password is still rendered out to a static site, though, strangely enough; just one with the equivalent of an .htaccess password-gate behaviour.
whywhywhywhy 7y ago
Every time I visit a Tumblog subdomain it just kicks me back to my own Tumblr dashboard and has for around 2 years now. When it started happening people said it was a bug but seemingly it's intentional? Not sure I understand the point but presumably this is for some sort of metrics they push?
- fireattack 7y ago
  They set their blog to private. You can only view it from a sidebar in your main dashboard.
- saigin 7y ago
  Hi, can you pls share your blog name? I can check what is the problem. I think it may be because your blog is private.
mattwad 7y ago
Twitter's website does this to me on my phone. Half the time I decide not to read the tweet.

Every time I go to visit Tumblr, it asks me to log in. If I can't lurk on a content site, I'm moving on.

ryanisnan 7y ago

Exactly this. I'm surprised they can even operate on such a policy.

bduerst 7y ago

Is that for mobile only? I can access different tumblr sites w/o login walls.

derefr 7y ago

Individual Tumblr blogs get to decide whether example.tumblr.com is "only visible to logged-in users." If they turn on that setting, the site 1. forces you to log in, and 2. renders the site inline as part of the Tumblr dashboard SPA. If you don't turn it on, though, your Tumblr blog is a public/static website indexable by Google.

adjkant 7y ago
Importantly left out here is what the default is. It sounds like the default is must log in - I can't imagine how many tumblr users would choose to only have logged in viewers. I've left a while though so feel free to correct that.
- derefr 7y ago
  The default is public. Usually, the users who choose “must log in” choose it either because they’re paranoid about privacy, or because it is a prerequisite to having the site enforce a viewer blacklist for them (to block incessant stalkers.) There is also, above and beyond that, the ability to make a blog private, by setting a password to access it. A blog with a password is still rendered out to a static site, though, strangely enough; just one with the equivalent of an .htaccess password-gate behaviour.

whywhywhywhy 7y ago

Every time I visit a Tumblog subdomain it just kicks me back to my own Tumblr dashboard and has for around 2 years now. When it started happening people said it was a bug but seemingly it's intentional? Not sure I understand the point but presumably this is for some sort of metrics they push?

fireattack 7y ago
They set their blog to private. You can only view it from a sidebar in your main dashboard.
saigin 7y ago
Hi, can you pls share your blog name? I can check what is the problem. I think it may be because your blog is private.

mattwad 7y ago

Twitter's website does this to me on my phone. Half the time I decide not to read the tweet.