[ SECRET POST #5541 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5541 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 29 secrets from Secret Submission Post #793.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Tumblr's going belly up? Since when?

[(Anonymous)]

Since always. If I had to guess, it's going belly up NOW because they've introduced a service where you can pay and not see ads, and this is TERRIBLE for some reason.

[(Anonymous)]

There are ads on tumblr?

Sorry, I use my computer and have ad block so I don't think I've ever seen one.

I am taking tumblr down by myself.

[tabaqui]

Same - i've never seen an ad on Tumblr....

[(Anonymous)]

Me neither. I'm sure that tumblr will pile on more ads to 'convince' users to sign up for premium. Sucks if you're on mobile, I guess.

[tabaqui]

Pretty much everything seems to suck on the mobile platform, and seeing FB and i think Twitter on the Monstrous Bebe's phone makes me squint in pain. They're weird and hard to navigate and just BAD. I am so very glad I have a PC and don't have to use my phone for everything. I'd never read another fic or write one if I had to use G.docs on my freakin' *phone*.

[(Anonymous)]

I am on Tumblr and I've seen ads. I just surf right on past them.

[tabaqui]

I've got the XKitt thing and have a ton of stuff blocked, so...that might be it.

[(Anonymous)]

I can't believe there are people in TYOL 2022 who DON'T use an ad blocker...

[(Anonymous)]

can't use ad blocker on mobile tho

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT
I will just use it for free and keep on scrolling past ads.

[(Anonymous)]

Tumblr just added a premium subscription service option. Everyone assumes that, since they need subscribers to pay their bills, they're going belly-up because no one will subscribe.

[(Anonymous)]

Fair assumption if you ask me. I gladly pay for DW and AO3 but tumblr? not getting a cent unless they bring back the porn first.

[(Anonymous)]

They can't bring back the porn while they rely on ada for revenue

[(Anonymous)]

Then fuck it, I'd rather see it die its slow, painful death.

[(Anonymous)]

I subscribed to Tumblr for the same reason I have two paid accounts here on DW, and I use Tumblr a lot more hours in a day than I do DW.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly (to you and secret OP), I think Tumblr right now is in a stronger position than it ever has been. People have already noticed that since Tumblr's 2018 porn ban, Twitter has become the platform of choice among young, sheltered, fired-up SJ cyberbullies who spend most of their time trying to pressure people into not shipping problematic ships. The remaining group of people left on Tumblr is smaller but still active and more importantly CHILL. So Tumblr has already been undergoing a renaissance/internet rebranding as the social media site with the best culture, and it's still the hub for chill fannish activity.

Tumblr has also implemented the toggle switch needed in order to get their app back on the Apple Store, so the last round of Tumblr vs. its users drama (a second inept porn crackdown where Tumblr announced some commonly-used tags just wouldn't return content) seems to be behind us too. (Even after this kerfuffle, the reaction from users was largely, "Hello, we're a cockroach userbase. If you couldn't get us to leave with the last dozen bad user-experience updates, then you're not getting rid of us now. ♥")

And then with this Tumblr subscription thing: this is actually a step in the direction of a sustainable profit model like the one Dreamwidth has, which makes its relationship with its users much less dysfunctional than free social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Tumblr will still most likely be a money-loser, but at least now it gives users a way to financially support a site they find useful*, without relying (solely) on ad revenue and information-collection, which is GOOD. I know a lot of people who have spent over a decade on Tumblr and have posted and still post tons of media-heavy content, which takes money to host. They WANT to support a site that pulls so much weight for them; it's a voluntary donation. The ads don't even matter. (Also, in general, Tumblr's ads themselves, because they are so weird and surreal, have also become a Tumblr inside joke. So there's that too.)

In short, I think in terms of userbase culture and funding model, Tumblr is in the strongest position I've ever seen it. Also, wile I love AO3 and DW (and am staying forever on DW as my main fannish social site), they both lack an important feature that people now expect in web 2.0 sites, which is image and video hosting. Image hosting in particular is really important for many kinds of modern fannish activity and goes especially well with another feature of modern social media which is easily consumable and shareable content (scrolling through your feed is like eating bite-sized candy when you don't have time for anything more in-depth). DW has image hosting but it's clunky and very difficult to work with, and it still has a culture of actually hiding images behind cuts, which makes it easier to browse in a work-safe manner (old school forum culture which I appreciate). AO3 doesn't have image hosting and I understand why as it could easily bump the costs of hosting AO3 up several orders of magnitude and so has to be done carefully if at all. But yeah, Tumblr is happy to fill the gap here, and provides something unique in the fandom space. It doesn't surprise me people are willing to throw money at it for being a positive thing in their fannish life.

* Not counting Post+ or whatever, which SUCKED.

[(Anonymous)]

Those Tumblr antis are AWFUL. ABSOLUTELY AWFUL AND DUMB.