“The underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use.”

Tumblr plans to make changes to appeal to new users and improve growth. The post states that Tumblr is currently difficult for new users to use and curates content poorly. Tumblr aims to improve how users discover and sign up, encourage frequent engagement, and boost creators’ ability to attract audiences. Specific changes mentioned include updating the confusing reply and reblog system to make conversations clearer and removing duplicate reblogs. Interestingly, the post does not discuss Tumblr’s plans to integrate with the ActivityPub protocol. Tumblr has had a turbulent history but has stabilized under its current ownership, though some long-time users may not want a more optimized social feed.

There’s a soft spot in my heart for Tumblr. I hope they find their way and become a bigger player.

  • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    nah, i don’t even really use tumblr because it is so painful to use. actually, it was their link shortener that was the last straw[1]. i’m just saying i don’t think it’s a site that can ever exist again.

    reddit is just a link aggregator, that’s easy to recreate. twitter is just individual paragraphs, as long as there are people any site will work. tumblr is so broken that it’s used exclusively by people who started using it in the 00s, when it was popular, and never left. they’re not really what i’d call friends, more monkeys in a zoo to laugh at. but as it’s so broken and opaque to start using, it was never marauded by children; so everyone on there is in their 30s but pretending they’re not.

    it’s a coincidence that can never happen again, as any alternative site would first be used by techie early adopters, who would be on average younger than most of the tumblr userbase. maybe we’ll get another tumblr in 10 years though

    1. and the fact that they convert every bleeding image into a webp ↩︎

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago
      and the fact that they convert every bleeding image into a webp ↩︎

      TBF, that’s actually good. .jpg and .png are ancient and .webp is way way better. The fault is not .webp, it’s browsers and clients which stubbornly refuse to support it.

      • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        i personally have had no compatibility issues with webp - i would just rather my image formats are not owned by google, really. i would much rather use jpegxl, but chrome doesn’t support it because it competes with webp and we couldn’t have that, could we.

        but also it’s that webp only works if you convert to webp manually, i find. their automatic conversion just ruins the colours (particularly on pixel art). plus, i do actually prefer png. i can edit what i want in a hex editor, whereas i can’t seem to do that with webp.

        i have a browser extension that refuses webp, so i get served png where possible; but i can’t make sure that images i upload are served as png for others

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          i personally have had no compatibility issues with webp, i would rather my image formats are not owned by google, really. i would much rather use jpegxl, but chrome doesn’t support it because it competes with webp and we couldn’t have that, could we.

          I mean, why do you even use chrome if google is your problem? :D

          • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.eeEnglish
            8·
            1 year ago

            i don’t.[1] but like it or not, chrome dictates what the internet does now. there’s no point in sites hosting jpegxl images if ~3% of their users will see it, and there’s no point in firefox developing a decoder if no sites host jpegxl. so even though it’s objectively better, and is highly supported by non-browser programmes; it has no recourse for gaining traction on the web

            1. an 88x31 button reading "same shit, different arsehole" with the internet explorer, chrome, and brave logos in fact, i loudly decry it to anyone who will listen. but the number of non-chromium browsers i can count on my fingers. ↩︎

              • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.eeEnglish
                6·
                1 year ago

                yeah exactly. that’s why i don’t like webp. i’ve nothing against it as a format, i would just rather use image format that’s not backed by said corpo

              • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.eeEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                just out of interest db0, did this thread in any way change your opinion on webp?[1] i’m just constructing a pet theory on internet discussions

                (sorry to necro an old thread, and i’m sure you have other things on your plate right now; i’m just interested)

                (also completely off-topic; i’m surprised your blog still has the wordpress favicon. i would have thought you of all people would have changed that)

                1. or tumblr, for that matter ↩︎

                  • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.eeEnglish
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    well that’s better than i expected[1]. thank you for answering!

                    1. (although worse than i’d hoped; i’ve stopped using webp altogether, even though it’s objectively better. i think jpeg-xl will be available on chrome soon after hd-dvds are playable on playstations) ↩︎