[JustARandomGuy]

Whatever Tumblr’s political legacy turns out to be, I will always value it for the UI and how it encouraged more people to blog.

When you logged into the Tumblr dashboard, you were presented with several options to post - link post, image post, text post, etc. Other blogging platforms presented you with this huge text box to fill - with the implicit expectation that you should write a huge post. Tumblr was the first that really encouraged sharing this cool new thing you found, or to quickly write down a random thought.

It invited a lot of people to blog, including myself, and I personally consider tumblr as a huge part of the history and legacy of blogs.