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Geocities worked quite differently from Tumblr. How would you transition from one format to the other, without pissing off current users?

• Svip 13y ago
  Because closing Geocities doesn't piss off current users? If you ask me, Yahoo! should just have done it and damn the consequences! In fairness; regardless of what Yahoo! did with Geocities, they'd still end up buying Tumblr.
  • etha 13y ago
    What users? If Geocities had users to piss off, they wouldn't have needed to shit it down.
    • jychang 13y ago
      Users != revenue. It still had users.
• prawn 13y ago
  This wouldn't be perfect, but it would at least leverage Geocities a bit more than shutting it down: Start Tumblr-style side venture. Pitch it to existing Geocities customers in various ways with advantages like shared logins and some semblance of import tool easing adoption. Let Tumblr roll on from that kick start. Eventually phase out or shut-down Geocities.