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> But it is also true that Tumblr was bypassed by native mobile applications like Instagram and Snapchat where it was even easier to post about your life. This

by aylmao 7y ago

> But it is also true that Tumblr was bypassed by native mobile applications like Instagram and Snapchat where it was even easier to post about your life. This. It's understated how much Tumblr's clunky composing hurt it as a platform. I know people connected to Tumblr, and from what I hear there was a lot of ideas but little direction. There was a time when Tumblr was bigger than Instagram— Tumblr could've focused more on making it an amazing photo-sharing service. Snapchat was/is loved by its anonymity and ephemerality, but Tumblr was already an anonymous social network well before it. They could've added features for ephemerality and explored that market. I used tumblr for consuming a lot of content, and it was great for that, but I always thought it had potential to be better for sharing too.

bitwize 7y ago
> This. It's understated how much Tumblr's clunky composing hurt it as a platform. Indeed. I called it Fumblr for a reason -- I was always fumbling with its UI.
markandrewj 7y ago
I think you are talking about current developments, but it is worth mentioning that when Twitter launched it was just as flip phones started to be replaced by smartphones. Most people were interacting with the service through SMS. To me, it felt like the progress with further developing tumblr slowed after Marco Arment moved onto other projects. From a historic perspective, this may an interesting article to some people. https://marco.org/2013/05/20/one-person-product?utm_source=feedly https://marco.org/2013/05/20/one-person-product?utm_source=f...
- scarface74 7y ago
  Tumblr has given my family a strong safety net and given me the freedom to work on whatever I want. And that’s exactly what I plan to do. Rumors are that he made $5-$7 million. But he definitely made enough to have f%%#-you money.
danso 7y ago
And this is ironic in how much Tumblr itself simplified the blogging experience, by having several pre-built formats (e.g. photo, text, video). I had a regular Wordpress blog but found it so much easier to casually post photos to my Tumblr.
bnjms 7y ago
Heh, "tumblr ephemral" That would be an interesting mobile app. There's nothing that does one to many ephemeral text messaging. I imagine they still have enough of a certain subgroup of adolescents to make a go of a new idea based on ephemerality. I don't know any young people that would use FB anymore than they would watch cable news. I imagine they'll screw up insta at some point too.

by aylmao 7y ago

bitwize 7y ago

> This. It's understated how much Tumblr's clunky composing hurt it as a platform. Indeed. I called it Fumblr for a reason -- I was always fumbling with its UI.

markandrewj 7y ago

I think you are talking about current developments, but it is worth mentioning that when Twitter launched it was just as flip phones started to be replaced by smartphones. Most people were interacting with the service through SMS. To me, it felt like the progress with further developing tumblr slowed after Marco Arment moved onto other projects. From a historic perspective, this may an interesting article to some people. https://marco.org/2013/05/20/one-person-product?utm_source=feedly https://marco.org/2013/05/20/one-person-product?utm_source=f...

scarface74 7y ago
Tumblr has given my family a strong safety net and given me the freedom to work on whatever I want. And that’s exactly what I plan to do. Rumors are that he made $5-$7 million. But he definitely made enough to have f%%#-you money.

danso 7y ago

And this is ironic in how much Tumblr itself simplified the blogging experience, by having several pre-built formats (e.g. photo, text, video). I had a regular Wordpress blog but found it so much easier to casually post photos to my Tumblr.

bnjms 7y ago

Heh, "tumblr ephemral" That would be an interesting mobile app. There's nothing that does one to many ephemeral text messaging. I imagine they still have enough of a certain subgroup of adolescents to make a go of a new idea based on ephemerality. I don't know any young people that would use FB anymore than they would watch cable news. I imagine they'll screw up insta at some point too.