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Congrats David, prove them wrong! I’m amazed that this story don’t get much traction on HN.

unalone 18y ago
HN isn't a big pro-Tumblr site. I know the Tumblr founders are pretty separate from YCombinator (I read Marco's blog, and the only time he's ever mentioned a HN company was when he dismissed Posterous out-of-hand a few months ago), and perhaps it's just disinterest in a company that's so distant from the seed funding mentality that we find here. Oh, well. Tumblr's an excellent service and this is great news for them.
- markessien 18y ago
  Posterous are going to stop growing then start losing users if they just stick to all these technical fixes and don't fix the social part of their site.
  - rantfoil 18y ago
    We got lots coming in the pipe. Thanks for the feedback -- had a great discussion here a few weeks ago with unalone about the social aspect of reblogging. I think that will move the needle.
    - unalone 18y ago
      Absolutely. I've got nothing bad to say about Posterous whatsoever. And I doubt Marco does, for that matter. He was irritated at how TechCrunch announced Posterous as the new Tumblr, which is a fair thing to be irritated at.
- jwesley 18y ago
  Tumblr is for hipsters. Wordpres FTW...
  - unalone 18y ago
    I've used both and I prefer Tumblr. I'm not a fan of straight-out blogging. I like writing lengthy pieces when I've got a chance. For me, a blog ought to be a put-everything-that-doesn't-fit-in-an-essay place. Wordpress is decent for that, but Tumblr makes it very easy for me to share things that I've found and to write about them. I can write a lot in a day and get a bunch of great scraps that focus my eventual piece. Further: all due respect to Wordpress, but Tumblr is beautiful. It's one of the best-designed sites I've ever seen. The great thing about Tumblr is you can use it for anything. You can use it like you would Twitter, you could get images like you would on Ffffound, you can make it into a lengthy posting place, or a portfolio, or a jukebox. It's extremely versatile. And it uses the opt-in approach of seeing people, so you can build whatever community you want and still get fascinating results.
halo 18y ago
When I was weighing up blogging sites, Tumblr fast ended up on the bottom of my list for having terms and conditions that were suspiciously unclear: "Tumblr will have a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable right, under all of Subscriber’s intellectual property rights, to copy, cache, publish, display, perform, distribute, translate and store such Subscriber Content and to allow others to do so." So they have copyright to do what they wish with my content, and I can't withdraw it? Hm... Contrast this to Wordpress.com's much clearer T&Cs: "By submitting Content to Automattic for inclusion on your Website, you grant Automattic a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your blog. If you delete Content, Automattic will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable."

HN isn't a big pro-Tumblr site. I know the Tumblr founders are pretty separate from YCombinator (I read Marco's blog, and the only time he's ever mentioned a HN company was when he dismissed Posterous out-of-hand a few months ago), and perhaps it's just disinterest in a company that's so distant from the seed funding mentality that we find here. Oh, well. Tumblr's an excellent service and this is great news for them.

markessien 18y ago
Posterous are going to stop growing then start losing users if they just stick to all these technical fixes and don't fix the social part of their site.
- rantfoil 18y ago
  We got lots coming in the pipe. Thanks for the feedback -- had a great discussion here a few weeks ago with unalone about the social aspect of reblogging. I think that will move the needle.
  - unalone 18y ago
    Absolutely. I've got nothing bad to say about Posterous whatsoever. And I doubt Marco does, for that matter. He was irritated at how TechCrunch announced Posterous as the new Tumblr, which is a fair thing to be irritated at.
jwesley 18y ago
Tumblr is for hipsters. Wordpres FTW...
- unalone 18y ago
  I've used both and I prefer Tumblr. I'm not a fan of straight-out blogging. I like writing lengthy pieces when I've got a chance. For me, a blog ought to be a put-everything-that-doesn't-fit-in-an-essay place. Wordpress is decent for that, but Tumblr makes it very easy for me to share things that I've found and to write about them. I can write a lot in a day and get a bunch of great scraps that focus my eventual piece. Further: all due respect to Wordpress, but Tumblr is beautiful. It's one of the best-designed sites I've ever seen. The great thing about Tumblr is you can use it for anything. You can use it like you would Twitter, you could get images like you would on Ffffound, you can make it into a lengthy posting place, or a portfolio, or a jukebox. It's extremely versatile. And it uses the opt-in approach of seeing people, so you can build whatever community you want and still get fascinating results.

halo 18y ago

When I was weighing up blogging sites, Tumblr fast ended up on the bottom of my list for having terms and conditions that were suspiciously unclear: "Tumblr will have a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable right, under all of Subscriber’s intellectual property rights, to copy, cache, publish, display, perform, distribute, translate and store such Subscriber Content and to allow others to do so." So they have copyright to do what they wish with my content, and I can't withdraw it? Hm... Contrast this to Wordpress.com's much clearer T&Cs: "By submitting Content to Automattic for inclusion on your Website, you grant Automattic a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your blog. If you delete Content, Automattic will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable."