Yahoo Bought Out By Verizon - Tumblrinas Across Platform Purportedly Apoplectic

[Bateman]

I have a feeling that some tumblr users could go to soup.io, which has a similar structure to Tumblr.
http://www.soup.io

Well:

 

[Alberto Balsalm]

All they have to do is find some way to let people advertise their blogs/posts and pay for ad credits by sending text messages. Good way of letting kids push their agenda messages using their parent's phone bill.

They did something like that a few years ago. In about 48 hours everyone had figured out how to block sponsored posts and went on their merry way.

 

[Southern Belle]

All they have to do is find some way to let people advertise their blogs/posts and pay for ad credits by sending text messages. Good way of letting kids push their agenda messages using their parent's phone bill.

They actually used to do that. The first time I joined, you could

1. pay for better themes because at the time making your own was hell.
2. pay to have a post pinned to the top of the dash of all the people who followed your blog.
3. pay to have tumblr advertise your blog for you.

and it worked for a while, until people started implementing ad blocking, which caused people to stop paying to have their blogs advertised because it was a waste of money. then people started finding ways around the pinned posts, which caused people to stop paying for pinning their posts for a week at a time. and then they (mostly) fixed how to code your own themes, which caused people to stop paying for premium themes.
after about 3 months of this shit, tumblr was sold to Yahoo.

 

[AnOminous]

They did something like that a few years ago. In about 48 hours everyone had figured out how to block sponsored posts and went on their merry way.

So tumblrinas are very determined to gnaw away the platform they're standing on. If I'd just bought them I would be hard at work figuring out how to get rid of the vermin infestation that were eating at the site like termites while providing nothing in return.

 

[Trollkastel]

I know some websites are able to tell when someone is using adblocker and forces them to deactivate it for the website before they can do anything on it. I don't know if whatever can do that would work on tumblr or not but they might do that. xkit also has a plugin called "anti-capitalism" that removes sponsored posts, vendor buttons and other things that make money for the site. Tumblr would probably block xkit (and any other similar thing) until they removed that plugin if they needed to.

 

[keksz]

If they're aware of how the community reacted to the past attempts of putting ads and paid content they'd know that would be shooting themselves in the foot. They might do it anyway as a last resort or if they don't care enough about preserving the community.

If it was me though I'd try first some donation model. Donors get special badges on their blog saying this user has supported tumblr for this week/month/year. It could become a status thing. Or do something like reddit where it shows all users the donation goal for the month- I can even see people chimping out "guyz we're so close this month please halp", tumblr being what it is. They could'even give away 10% of the monthly goal to a charity or user-sponsored project, since tumblr is a sucker for social causes.

 

[AnOminous]

If they're aware of how the community reacted to the past attempts of putting ads and paid content they'd know that would be shooting themselves in the foot. They might do it anyway as a last resort or if they don't care enough about preserving the community.

That community needs to be nuked to ashes. Partly for the good of humanity and partly because they will never, ever bring a dime into tumblr. It is a doomed business venture so long as these parasites are on it.

 

[ghosthost]

I know some websites are able to tell when someone is using adblocker and forces them to deactivate it for the website before they can do anything on it. I don't know if whatever can do that would work on tumblr or not but they might do that. xkit also has a plugin called "anti-capitalism" that removes sponsored posts, vendor buttons and other things that make money for the site. Tumblr would probably block xkit (and any other similar thing) until they removed that plugin if they needed to.

That could happen, since it already happened before. There was this app called Missing E that xkit is a spiritual successor of, and the staff apparently hated it so much that they actually broke their own damn site trying to get rid of it. Now that tumblr is under new management, maybe history will repeat itself? I still remember how chimpy everyone was when tumblr was down for three days straight, shit was hilarious.

 

[Southern Belle]

That could happen, since it already happened before. There was this app called Missing E that xkit is a spiritual successor of, and the staff apparently hated it so much that they actually broke their own damn site trying to get rid of it. Now that tumblr is under new management, maybe history will repeat itself? I still remember how chimpy everyone was when tumblr was down for three days straight, shit was hilarious.

I remember missing E! I loved it actually.
xKit came out while missing E was still functional, and often the two extensions would conflict to the point you could only run one or the other.
the current xKit isn't the original - Tumblr users ran that guy off with pedo claims and other bullshit. The current one is okay and built on an older version of the original xKit.
What happened with Missing E wasn't that staff deliberately tried to break it, that was a byproduct. Coders were basically there for 3-6 months, and as each new person came in, they'd write a bit of code, and write over what was already there, breaking the site causing missing e and xkit to create new updates to deal with it. There's no copy left of the original Tumblr code because the geniuses at Tumblr let every coder have access to the master file. That's part of why there's so many glitches when they change one little thing. A part of the code from someone who's not even working there anymore might have been the backbone for replies or for likes or whatever, but was for some strange reason written as part of the reblog code. Stupid stuff like that.

 

[ghosthost]

I remember missing E! I loved it actually.
xKit came out while missing E was still functional, and often the two extensions would conflict to the point you could only run one or the other.
the current xKit isn't the original - Tumblr users ran that guy off with pedo claims and other bullshit. The current one is okay and built on an older version of the original xKit.
What happened with Missing E wasn't that staff deliberately tried to break it, that was a byproduct. Coders were basically there for 3-6 months, and as each new person came in, they'd write a bit of code, and write over what was already there, breaking the site causing missing e and xkit to create new updates to deal with it. There's no copy left of the original Tumblr code because the geniuses at Tumblr let every coder have access to the master file. That's part of why there's so many glitches when they change one little thing. A part of the code from someone who's not even working there anymore might have been the backbone for replies or for likes or whatever, but was for some strange reason written as part of the reblog code. Stupid stuff like that.

Same! I think part of my fondness for it is that Missing E was around when tumblr was still just about sharing funny gifs and cat pics. Simpler, better times…
And holy shit, I didn't know that about the coding. I knew tumblr was shit but that's just hilariously awful. Honestly, what the hell is Verizon gonna do with this cluster fuck of a site?

 

[Southern Belle]

we can only hope that the sane people will leave it, Verizon uses it as containment just before killing it and everything trapped within with fire.

lots and lots of fire.

 

[BroccoliBrain]

A lot of arty Tumblerinas will jump to DeviantArt.

The ones that already did always have they/them and whatnot in their profile pages.

 

[Meowthkip]

If they're aware of how the community reacted to the past attempts of putting ads and paid content they'd know that would be shooting themselves in the foot. They might do it anyway as a last resort or if they don't care enough about preserving the community.

If it was me though I'd try first some donation model. Donors get special badges on their blog saying this user has supported tumblr for this week/month/year. It could become a status thing. Or do something like reddit where it shows all users the donation goal for the month- I can even see people chimping out "guyz we're so close this month please halp", tumblr being what it is. They could'even give away 10% of the monthly goal to a charity or user-sponsored project, since tumblr is a sucker for social causes.

Remember that April Fools where Tumblr just put hats on everybody's icons?

Maybe they could put crowns for donors. Different ones each month. You can collect them.

People on Tumblr will dump a ton of dosh into free-to-play app games, because they're compulsive and bad with money. Tumblr just needs to give the userbase something it wants: a thing that's completely useless aside from an aesthetic.

 

[Splendid]

Good. One more social network down.

 

[TiredConlanger]

Though Tumblr is where these sorts of lolcows congregate and where many of them got extreme enough to be lolcows, after at least four years of being stuck in their thinking patterns, they will not suddenly stop being lolcows, attention whores, and so on if they lose Tumblr.

I also don't want Tumblr to go, because Tumblr is a boon for lolcow milking, given the subculture that's formed so many lolcows. They may still exist wherever they scatter off to if/when Tumblr goes, but it will then take more searching to find the usual stupidity we point and laugh at.

 

[Elysian]

Well:

Well to be fair I did just look at the homepage and an "alternatives to Tumblr" list.

While old 2010 Tumblr probably had lots of shit on it that would be considered "problematic" by ultra-SJW Tumblr today I don't think it was straight up just filled with porn so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Alberto Balsalm]

Well to be fair I did just look at the homepage and an "alternatives to Tumblr" list.Wyświetl załącznik 121688

While old 2010 Tumblr probably had lots of shit on it that would be considered "problematic" by ultra-SJW Tumblr today I don't think it was straight up just filled with porn so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Tumblr is crawling with porn spambots, though, and the management does nothing about it despite the huge proportion of underage users.

 

[Jaimas]

It would be hilariously ironic if the scummy, shitty people who plague the rest of the world via tumblr manage to destroy it themselves because of their idiotic hatred of capitalism.

I'd laugh, but defense of Capitalism is what got Wu declared Haram by the rest of the usual suspects.

And the best thing would be that a lot of the blame lies with the users. For example, some of the most reblogged posts in the last few days have been about how to disable ads on your blog, like it's the most important thing in the world to make sure the free service you heavily rely on is as unprofitable as possible.

What's amazing (to me at least) is that - historically - this has always been true.

Social Justice and Tumblrinas in general are not profitable. There's fucking infinite examples of this in every single cocksucking field, to boot. They don't buy games that their own side recommends. They don't attend movies their own side recommends (u mad, Paul Fieg?). They can barely manage to get off Social Media to participate in the causes they claim to represent. Again, I've always said that this is due to them never being the majority of any community, but even on communities with an absolute profusion of these fiends, none of them can be arsed to help keep their site active.

Come to think of it.... Can you think of a single profitable work involved with these clowns that wasn't (A) crowdfunded by them in the first place OR (B) had more mass public appeal than god going in?

Because I fucking can't.

 

[AnOminous]

Come to think of it.... Can you think of a single profitable work involved with these clowns that wasn't (A) crowdfunded by them in the first place OR (B) had more mass public appeal than god going in?

I can't think of a single profitable work these turds have been involved with even when both of those things were true. Everything they've been involved with where both of those things were true turned out to be an outright scam and whoever was raising money for it stole it all and ran away.

 

[Jaimas]

I can't think of a single profitable work these turds have been involved with even when both of those things were true. Everything they've been involved with where both of those things were true turned out to be an outright scam and whoever was raising money for it stole it all and ran away.

Anything that's actually successful they enjoy is successful in spite of their liking it, not because of it.