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What do you mean? You can't even comment on a Tumblr! There is no community there by design.

by dcurtis 18y ago

unalone 18y ago
Are you a Tumblr user? Because the large part of the community occurs on the Dashboard, through reblogging and passing things along. You get some people who comment back-and-forth, some people who act as nodes for large amounts of content. I'd love to map it: you get a brilliant web built up. Tumblr isn't about the individual blog community. It's about the Tumblr community. And I like, actually, that when you look at a blog it seems entirely personal, but that from the dashboard it seems like parts of a larger community. Also: see http://tumblelog.marco.org/61329864 http://tumblelog.marco.org/61329864, where you can see the actions of an item in the community. They've also beta-tested a "questions" module, which you can see here: http://www.davidslog.com/58675697/where-should-i-get-cupcakes-in-williamsburg http://www.davidslog.com/58675697/where-should-i-get-cupcake... The Tumblr founders are very against comments, and I love that. Comments don't form a community. They add a facade of a community in all but the best cases. Community relies on the form of the medium, and commenting very rarely is the answer. With forums, you have threads; with Tumblr, you have likes, reblogs, and answers. It's a wonderful solution.
- rantfoil 18y ago
  The concept of bubbling up conversation to the top level of one's own published blog is fascinating. I didn't quite understand reblogging before reading your explanation, and I think that's the main downside to the scheme, but there is certainly value in making the act of commenting ALSO an act of publishing on one's own blog.
  - unalone 18y ago
    Yeah. It's tough to understand, and sometimes I feel that it detracts from the blog entirely (extended back-and-forth conversations start to look amateur), but it's a very neat system that gives you a lot of freedom in how you choose to handle interaction.

What do you mean? You can't even comment on a Tumblr! There is no community there by design.

by dcurtis 18y ago

What do you mean? You can't even comment on a Tumblr! There is no community there by design.

Are you a Tumblr user? Because the large part of the community occurs on the Dashboard, through reblogging and passing things along. You get some people who comment back-and-forth, some people who act as nodes for large amounts of content. I'd love to map it: you get a brilliant web built up. Tumblr isn't about the individual blog community. It's about the Tumblr community. And I like, actually, that when you look at a blog it seems entirely personal, but that from the dashboard it seems like parts of a larger community. Also: see http://tumblelog.marco.org/61329864 http://tumblelog.marco.org/61329864, where you can see the actions of an item in the community. They've also beta-tested a "questions" module, which you can see here: http://www.davidslog.com/58675697/where-should-i-get-cupcakes-in-williamsburg http://www.davidslog.com/58675697/where-should-i-get-cupcake... The Tumblr founders are very against comments, and I love that. Comments don't form a community. They add a facade of a community in all but the best cases. Community relies on the form of the medium, and commenting very rarely is the answer. With forums, you have threads; with Tumblr, you have likes, reblogs, and answers. It's a wonderful solution.

rantfoil 18y ago
The concept of bubbling up conversation to the top level of one's own published blog is fascinating. I didn't quite understand reblogging before reading your explanation, and I think that's the main downside to the scheme, but there is certainly value in making the act of commenting ALSO an act of publishing on one's own blog.
- unalone 18y ago
  Yeah. It's tough to understand, and sometimes I feel that it detracts from the blog entirely (extended back-and-forth conversations start to look amateur), but it's a very neat system that gives you a lot of freedom in how you choose to handle interaction.