Tumblr is doing fine though. The people making good posts & talking to each other didn't leave.
It may be fewer users (and fewer $$), but tumblr is waaay better since the NSFW ban. And I'd even say due to it.
It may be fewer users (and fewer $$), but tumblr is waaay better since the NSFW ban. And I'd even say due to it.
There are people like you describe, but it doesn't dominate the platform imo. It's easy enough to get a lot out of tumblr.
Citation needed. My impression is their MAU and time spent on site went to the floor.
maybe if you have your business boy hat on for some reason it isn't doing fine?
I don’t know what you mean by “business boy hat” - could this be a typo?
When it comes to tumblr, I quite frankly don't give 2 shits about their advertisers. Why should I? Maybe the site will be shut down someday? You'd think that ship would've sailed.
Those metrics are literally the bread and butter of social networks.
The users that remain on tumblr seem pretty happy about the effects of the nsfw ban. The people that left due to it weren't the good ones for the most part.
Whether or not you like it now that porn is gone doesn't matter.
Why do I need to align my values of good and bad with market forces? You literally cannot make an argument that your "objective" value system about business is the only True one.
I'd bet tumblr will continue to exist and I'd get to enjoy it for free (modulo ads) for at least another half decade if not more. And I bet throughout that time the company won't do much to monetize their users beyond what they already do. The userbase has long since proven it doesn't give tumblr money beyond a stray click. But it'll continue to plug along - "failing" the whole way.
According to https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/14/18266013/tumblr-porn-ban-...
they've had a 30% reduction in traffic.
If that means all the weirdos with genitalia in their profile pics are gone and stop messaging me randomly (which is who actually left as far as I can tell), then good!
The remaining MAU might actually be the users they wanted to keep.
But as someone who never used tumblr for porn, I've seen no evidence that tumblr is dying for anyone other than aficionados of porn.
No, educate yourself about the "burden of proof".
But I'ma do your homework for you,
https://financesonline.com/number-of-tumblr-blogs/
"The microblogging and social media site still make money with an estimated annual revenue of $65 million."
LMAO! With 400+ employees, plus operating expenses I imagine they barely see any profit.
They have 1/10th of Facebooks MAUs in the States (according to them), yet nowhere near revenue and profit (proportionately).
Sold on 2019 for ... $3 million! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/13/tumblr-...
But yeah, keep deluding yourselves, tumblr is doing juuuust right :D
If their loss results in decades of free tumblr for me, all the better! I really doubt the site is gonna disappear tomorrow. And every indication so far is they aren't going to ruin it in the name of monetization.
So anyways, the tumblr that's basically the same as it was 10 years ago (unless you used it for porn), that's also still growing, is dying according to you, but not the numbers. Interesting. This is kind of like reading about your own death in the newspaper.
Terminal wannabe-VC-brain is rampant around here. Contagious with PG as patient 0.
"tumblr is waaay better since the NSFW ban" and "It may be fewer users (and fewer $$)"
These don't seem to add up.
There's as much or more tumblr activity for my dashboard & on my blog. I get way fewer porn spam bots following me now. And people generally seem to be happy with the website & are continuing to use it to talk about the stuff they like.