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Looks like a good opportunity for someone to build something tumblr-like strictly for NSFW content that encourages people to build connections like tumblr does
by agscala 13y ago
Looks like a good opportunity for someone to build something tumblr-like strictly for NSFW content that encourages people to build connections like tumblr does (or did)
- dspillett 13y agoThe problem with a site explicitly being for NSFW content is users avoiding it in case it accidentally shows in history/logs. With tumblr they can claim to have been looking at/for something else entirely.
- sp332 13y agoThe subdomain would already show up in history and logs. It's hard to explain away e.g. fuckyeahboobies.tumblr.com
- LoganCale 13y agoThe vast majority of Tumblr users browse via the dashboard rather than the subdomains.
- sp332 13y agoIs there a way to follow somebody without visiting the subdomain?
- elliottcarlson 13y agoYes - all via the dashboard/search functionality.
- jseliger 13y agoGreat comment. Strategic ambiguity is important. Most sites, including community sites, built explicitly around NSFW content are, for lack of a better word, gross. I want little to do with them and most women I know want even less to do with them. It's hard or impossible for them to have any taste. One key to the success of NSFW communities on Reddit (like GoneWild) and Tumblr may be their "dual use" purpose; they tend not to be completely gross (though there are obviously exceptions) and consequently they also attract women.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoI think this is basically correct (and I love the term "strategic ambiguity" as much as I like "plausible deniability"), so the market opportunity is to create a new Tumblr. At least initially the code wasn't particularly complicated. The challenges are two fold, one if you put a stake in the sand vis-a-vis porn and nsfw content then you may find yourself without an exit strategy. That is just another way of saying that you will want this new thing to be self supporting (unlike the original Tumblr) which might mean ads earlier rather than later. But it also might mean a membership fee of some sort.
- wiremine 13y agoSeems like a job for reddit.
- px1999 13y agoSounds like a good opportunity for a third-party (robots.txt ignoring) tumblr indexer. That said, yahoo's probably trying to remove NSFW content to fill the ad spots that they're invariably planning on throwing down everywhere, so I'm not sure how well an indexer would do on its own.