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Aug. 13th, 2019 01:56 pmTumblr, bought for 1.1 Billion and sold for under 3 Million. Yahoo, you are a legend. The article I put in my last post updated with that info. Wow.
I have no real point to this post. I just want to make a bunch of random statements.
People are talking about Mastodon again and ugh.
It didn't happen, but Dreamwidth buying Tumblr was a possibility. Goddam I want that timeline. I am glad they aren't taking on too much, but damn if that had happened I'd be sore from laughing.
Auttomatic is talking about making Tumblr more WP. When they talk about tumblr having a backend like WP, do they meant for the coders or for the actual users? If they try to have actual users using a backend style stsrem for content updating that is going to be chaos. While backends are things intuitive to those who grew up with LJ and DW, they are completely obtuse to people who didn't. When I tried doing an online course about WP the first few hours were trying to ELI5 backends versus frontends. If they really do this tumblr is going to change dramatically and lose most of it's userbase, possibly deliberately. One problem with trying to get most of fandom onto any platform is that most people cannot handle a site where you don't upload images directly into the post.
Bets on whether there is a huge 'accidental' data loss ala MySpace when they move Tumblr off of Verizon infrastructure?
[edit] If I am posting about social media, I should likely link this article about possible executive orders to censor the net.
I have no real point to this post. I just want to make a bunch of random statements.
People are talking about Mastodon again and ugh.
It didn't happen, but Dreamwidth buying Tumblr was a possibility. Goddam I want that timeline. I am glad they aren't taking on too much, but damn if that had happened I'd be sore from laughing.
Auttomatic is talking about making Tumblr more WP. When they talk about tumblr having a backend like WP, do they meant for the coders or for the actual users? If they try to have actual users using a backend style stsrem for content updating that is going to be chaos. While backends are things intuitive to those who grew up with LJ and DW, they are completely obtuse to people who didn't. When I tried doing an online course about WP the first few hours were trying to ELI5 backends versus frontends. If they really do this tumblr is going to change dramatically and lose most of it's userbase, possibly deliberately. One problem with trying to get most of fandom onto any platform is that most people cannot handle a site where you don't upload images directly into the post.
Bets on whether there is a huge 'accidental' data loss ala MySpace when they move Tumblr off of Verizon infrastructure?
[edit] If I am posting about social media, I should likely link this article about possible executive orders to censor the net.
