[mrmekon]

Tumblr was the easiest way to setup a simple stream-of-photos blog, so I used it often.

I recently moved all of my "blogs" off of it because visiting one slowed desktop browsers to a crawl, and literally crashed mobile browsers. Dev tools showed a minimum of 20MB transferred when visiting my site, and it quickly ran up to 60+MB if you touched the scrollbar.

That is a lot of prefetching.

Just visiting tumblr.com while not logged in currently transfers 8MB, and displays a content-less landing page.

[krisdol]

Exploring tumblr today is like exploring myspace pages in 2006. No matter how powerful your PC, it's a miserably slow site to browse and, in my opinion, difficult to mentally ingest content from.

[Laforet]

I have a reasonably powerful desktop computer (i7 3770, 12GB ram) and tumblr seems to be the only site capable of consistently crashing firefox and chrome every 30 minutes with only a couple of tabs open. I have no idea how they managed that.

[Doctor_Fegg]

Ironically, one of the other sites that has that effect on my Mac is theverge.com, host of TFA.