Tumblr brings mature content back, after 4 years

https://staff.tumblr.com/post/699744158019190784/this-is-not-a-drill-our-new-community-guidelines

by Giorgi • 4 years ago

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valdiorn• 4 years ago

Tumblr who? Never heard of them.

Seriously, do they think they can revive the platform 4 years after killing it?

rx_tx• 4 years ago

A lot of adult creators moved to Twitter when Tumblr closed. Given what's happening there right now, it may not be the worst timing for Tumblr to again offer their platform as an option.

givemeethekeys• 4 years ago

Given what's happening there right now

Isn't Twitter moving towards allowing more things?

odessacubbage• 4 years ago

visual depictions of sexually explicit acts remain off-limits on Tumblr

looking at the new terms, tumblr still is not an option.

willio58• 4 years ago

Ironically twitter (musk) is bringing back Vine, another neglected would-be giant social media app.

pelagicAustral• 4 years ago

Just went in there and the first recommended trending post is a Twitter screencap...

eatonphil• 4 years ago

Often popular posts on LinkedIn are Twitter screencaps.

And often popular posts on Twitter are just TikTok captures.

Not a huge surprise.

molotovh• 4 years ago

Joke's on y'all, following the link from the hackernews blog on Tumblr is how I get to this site every day.

mrzool• 4 years ago

Afraid literally nobody cares anymore. Too late.

notacoward2• 4 years ago

Who are you calling nobody? Like any social-media site, you have to choose who/what to follow or block, and there are some odd local norms, but it's entirely possible to have a rewarding experience there. Better than a certain other site where every other comment is a low-effort shallow dismissal or continuation of a flame war. There are more people having more fun there than all but a handful of other sites, and there's nothing wrong with that.

bastawhiz• 4 years ago

I think if there was ever a time to make this change, it's right now. I went through much of my teenage years with Tumblr and welcome it's potential return. Hopefully Automattic can be a better custodian than Yahoo/Verizon/Oath/whatever.

digianarchist• 4 years ago

"visual depictions of sexually explicit acts remain off-limits on Tumblr"

This is not the porn site you are looking for...

Overtonwindow• 4 years ago

I'm very amused. After $1 billion dollars blown on this platform, blocking mature content caused everyone to run away.

loceng• 4 years ago

It was sold to Automattic by Verizon for only $3 million.. Deal of the century.

metadat2• 4 years ago

How would you convert the $3m Tumblr investment into a profit? Just ads?

At this point the brand has been trashed and tarnished.

puppable2• 4 years ago

I've personally taken to using Tumblr again after the last few months, and I've been hearing increasing talk of moving back to it with how things have been looking on Twitter, especially with the Musk takeover. This move couldn't have been better timed, and I honestly hope it serves them well.

seydor• 4 years ago

They should allow porn too. Time to compete with twitter.

notacoward2• 4 years ago

TFA links to a detailed explanation of why they can't afford to do that. They even address the issue of Twitter and Reddit getting a free pass not available to others.

bborud• 4 years ago

From wikipedia: "As of July 2021, Tumblr hosts more than 529 million blogs."

That's a lot bigger than I had imagined. I wonder how many of those blogs are active and how many are dead.

throwawaydad12• 4 years ago

Aside, perhaps amusing: A while ago, I used Tumblr as a modest blog of my tech adventures. Put a link to that on my LinkedIn page.

A year or two passed, and while applying for jobs, it occurred to me to check that link. Without telling me, Tumblr had given my URL away to someone who enjoyed posting naked pictures of herself. Lesson learned.

(In truth, given the quality of most tech resumes, I'd be quite happy to click on one and be shown that.)

Kye2• 4 years ago

Tumblr occasionally deletes blogs that don't have active owners. You should have gotten a series of increasingly urgent emails, but I'm sure deliverability is inconsistent.

favorited• 4 years ago

I wonder what their strategy is to avoid what made them ban NSFW content in the first place–the significant amount of CSAM that had been posted to their platform.

LordDragonfang2• 4 years ago

Currently it's "keep most NSFW content banned", since the only thing this change allows are essentially just tasteful nudes.

ducharmdev• 4 years ago

In a weird way, I feel like Tumblr touches on something like the early internet; Tumblr has a distinct culture of curation that I've not seen in other platforms.

climb_stealth• 4 years ago

Meh, possibly a bit late. I miss soup.io though. I always thought it was a much better execution than tumblr as the layout wasn't as chaotic. Looks like nowadays it's just a news-site though.

It had similar NSFW niches which had interesting content to follow. Just people doing their thing and what they are passionate about.

For context:

Soup.io was originally an Austrian social networking and microblogging website. It was launched in 2007, attracting 6 million users per month by the year 2020.
As the network grew over time, maintaining the website and server cost had gone over their budget. Since the site was not generating any revenue, the owners of Soup.io had decided to sell the website with its content.
While the asking price was high with its content, the owners decided to sell just the domain to an Australian entrepreneur named Haider Ali in the year 2020.

pentagrama• 4 years ago

Out of curiosity I logged in to my old Tumblr and seems that this are the new Community labels settings https://imgur.com/a/LI1zrsn (all where turned off).

bkuehl• 4 years ago

It's unfortunate Tumblr made the move to ban explicit content in the first place, but it's definitely not dead. It may not be what it used to be 10 years ago but it's still what I'd rather browse through than what Twitter has become. A lot of the porn/fetish/niche blogs that left may not come back and I don't blame them but at least they have the option.

Tumblr brings mature content back, after 4 years

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