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by StellarTabi 1828 days ago
Maybe you need to provide a citation?

According to https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/14/18266013/tumblr-porn-ban-...

they've had a 30% reduction in traffic.

If that means all the weirdos with genitalia in their profile pics are gone and stop messaging me randomly (which is who actually left as far as I can tell), then good!

The remaining MAU might actually be the users they wanted to keep.

But as someone who never used tumblr for porn, I've seen no evidence that tumblr is dying for anyone other than aficionados of porn.
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moralestapia 1828 days ago
>Maybe you need to provide a citation?

No, educate yourself about the "burden of proof".

But I'ma do your homework for you,

https://financesonline.com/number-of-tumblr-blogs/

"The microblogging and social media site still make money with an estimated annual revenue of $65 million."

LMAO! With 400+ employees, plus operating expenses I imagine they barely see any profit.

They have 1/10th of Facebooks MAUs in the States (according to them), yet nowhere near revenue and profit (proportionately).

Sold on 2019 for ... $3 million! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/13/tumblr-...

But yeah, keep deluding yourselves, tumblr is doing juuuust right :D

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StellarTabi 1828 days ago
Did you even look at your link? Almost all the bar graphs suggest tumblr is doing great. If doing as good as Facebook is your bar for success, then you've just defined almost all businesses as failures. Those numbers beat owning a restaurant, and every startup I've ever worked at (which are all profitable).

So anyways, the tumblr that's basically the same as it was 10 years ago (unless you used it for porn), that's also still growing, is dying according to you, but not the numbers. Interesting. This is kind of like reading about your own death in the newspaper.

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whateveracct 1828 days ago
Who cares how it's doing financially? I'm not an investor. If the VCs who gave them money are never made whole, I do not care.

If their loss results in decades of free tumblr for me, all the better! I really doubt the site is gonna disappear tomorrow. And every indication so far is they aren't going to ruin it in the name of monetization.

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whateveracct 1828 days ago
HNers seem to think tumblr's profit margins affect UX.

Terminal wannabe-VC-brain is rampant around here. Contagious with PG as patient 0.

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