It's official, Verizon sold Tumblr

It's official, Verizon sold Tumblr.
How long before Tumblr gets killed for good and all of its engineers get moved to WordPress?
reuters.com/article/us-verizon-tumblr/verizon-to-sell-tumblr-to-wordpress-owner-idUSKCN1V21W8

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OH NO NONONONONOONNON VERIZON??? THE VERIZON???
OH MY GOD THIS IS A DISASTER!!!!

tumblr is already kill

tumblr has engineers?

Maybe they'll bring back the porn

Tumblr died the day they killed the porn.

Tumblr died the day verizon decided to strip it down like a cheap slave whore and toss it aside, which came long before they decided to remove the porn. I saw this coming ages ago, it's basically the same as shuttering it considering Verizon cut their workforce to ribbons at the end of last year. You can bet it's mostly just IP/copyright that's being sold, operations probably has next to no one useful left in it

One of Tumblr's engineers open-sourced some container stuff a while ago.

The CEO confirmed porn will not be coming back.

>How long before Tumblr gets killed for goo
And that's a good thing.
>all of its engineers get moved to WordPress?
You mean H1B applicants? I hope they screwed up with their paperwork and cannot freely join another job. I hope they get kicked out of the country back to where they belong.

I know it was originally Yahoo's fault for blowing $1 billion, but what the fuck was Verizon thinking that by buying decrepit portals like Yahoo & AOL they could get in on digital advertising? Last I checked this has cost them at least $4-5 billion.
They aren't bringing it back.

Is wordpress the site that owns "gravatar"? That's actually a blessed concept. Why shouldn't I have faith in wordpress?

If tumblr brings back porn they will probably be fine again though it will be an uphill battle getting people back

Where the fuck has the Tumblr porn gone?
Did they move to a new platform?

>They sold it to turdpress
Can't wait until nudes like into the hands of Mr Rajesh Sir.

They dispersed. Of course, the people who know anything technology jumped on the band wagon of profiting or creating alternative platforms for porn. Majority were built with node or php and didn't really catch on as much as people would like.
Plenty of people did move to Patreon, OnlyFans and the likes of that though

My GitHub gravatar is a literal swastika

Surely that's just cockblocking yourself with no conceivable benefit

Definitely newgrounds. Virtually every western image on any booru is sourced to newgrounds now.

There's other shit that came out in response to tumblr's bullshit, but I'm pretty sure newgrounds won the audience.

>over a decade+ of this site being told "YOU'LL DIE ANY DAY NOW"
>tumblr even tries to kill us
>fails
>now tumblr is kill instead
BA BA BUM BUM BUM

AND ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

If Cloudflare pulls the plug I'm blaming you

Bad news, pal, they're not changing anything about the Verizon policy:

>"Mr. Mullenweg said his company intends to maintain the existing policy that bans adult content. He said he has long been a Tumblr user and sees the site as complementary to WordPress.com. “It’s just fun,” he said of Tumblr. “We’re not going to change any of that."

Ok so fuck this faggot.

CEO said that they believe Verizon was doing things right and they'll continue down the same path.

Ugh, why, newgrounds is fucking garbage

Then...what's the point of selling it to anyone but PornHub? It'll be shit under anyone that doesn't bring back porn.

How so in any way

The point is to get a quick couple of million from a company that wants to acquire engineers from a dying social media site. Automattic doesn't have any other uses for Tumblr.

It's literally an assault on the eyes and everything about it makes media a pain to browse.

sure convinced me

Why did they even remove the porn? They must have lost something like half their traffic.

>>Why did they even remove the porn?
Verizon.

They got removed from the App Store for failing to remove child porn in a timely manner, so instead of hiring competent moderators, they set a bot loose on the site to get rid of anything it interpreted as NSFW. It was a spectacular disaster.

What's Verizon

Advertisers. If you want to really milk a userbase and extract the most possible from it, you want the broadest possible number of advertisers. Advertisers shy away from anything lewd or politically incorrect, you have to make your site a safe space so big multinationals and their PR departments will come and spend. Wordpress is probably the same in this as Verizon was. Of course the suits at Verizon probably got blindsided and it never crossed their mind that most people were there for the porn, because they think like those same brand-safety-uber-alles admen. They never guessed that if they ditched it they'd have fewer users to milk and the numbers wouldn't add up.

I really wish they had been bought by Pornhub.
Then we could have our porn back. Now that's gone forever.

Fuck.

Its the "Advertiser Friendly Autism" were they fuck over the installed userbase because advertisers are too fucking stupid to realize WHY the platform is even popular to begin and they start the purge, people just up and leave to another platform and the cycle repeats.

Its not like Tumblr was even good but fuck, how retarded have you be to understand at least 1/3 of the users are in for the adult stuff and removing it just leads to most of the people will just up and leave as a result?

>The decision to ban all types of adult content led many to boycott the site, and the ban alienated a significant portion of Tumblr’s user base. There are no plans to reverse those decisions, Automattic Inc.’s CEO Matt Mullenweg told the Journal. Instead, Tumblr will act as as a “complementary” site to WordPress.

So basically, Tumblr loses relevance as internet culture shifts away from blogging towards "microblogging" systems like Twitter. Yahoo buys it up as a package deal that is $1.1B. They move on, and ban porn, one of the few reasons people still used Tumblr. Userbase declines almost 30% immediately, the shit becomes worthless and has to be mothballed months later for a loss in excess of hundreds of millions of dollars. The new owner then looks at it and goes "Yeah we'll keep the content ban"

What exactly is this guy thinking? They already own Wordpress, so they buy another blogging site and keep its only value removed, therefore adding NOTHING to their company that they didn't already have before with Wordpress.

Is this some sort of disguised bailout or something?

Look at the bright side, keeping the porn ban just means Tumblr will be worth $25,000 in a year and gets sold off again, maybe PornHub can afford it then.

God I hope that's how it turns out.

>muh porn
cumbrains, not even once

Better off on Twitter or Pixiv

>Twitter
jpeg-compressed images the site doesn't even want you to be able to save
>Pixiv
censorship, also lack of audience for many western artists, on top of being unable to go viral (with every share being public) the way you can on twitter

What other alternatives are there? Deviantart ain't an option and we almost lost sadpanda. The Helen Lovejoys are locking down....

>bought for well over a billion in 2013
>bought for less than 20 million now

Boy, its worth sure has tumbled!

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fuck off Carlos

Ok Han I won't get cocky :)

Unfortunately people just go with what's popular, so everyone posts to twitter alongside anything else. Some people post exclusively to twitter cause anything else is just for other people's sake.

Tumblr only costed 20 million? I know that's out of my price range but that's really nothing relative to who could actually buy it.

>Tumblr only costed 20 million? I know that's out of my price range but that's really nothing relative to who could actually buy it.
20 was the maximum, they updated the article to say 3m now.

They should have handled the spam porn accounts much better.

Twitter is a TERRIBLE alternative. There's no simple way to filter by content type like image or video only, no way to gallery view their entire media selection, tags don't exist and only a hashtag can be used to simulate it, and even then you can't filter a single twitter by hashtags to find the posts.

I'm not saying Twitter isn't shit but holy fuck put some minimum effort into your life user.

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Well, the porn and also being able to post pics of, say, sand dunes without a retarded filter flagging it as porn.

Psst, PornHub, it's not too late to buy Tumblr.

Would it be difficult to make a clone of Tumblr with ads?

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when they started to remove porn it was obvious that it will die.

Whoa yahoo sold it already?

I'm really dissapoint they want to integrate tumblr into wordpress, I have a wordpress blog and it's so abysmal
>All my interactions and followers are bots
>I can only upload images and I have a limited storage space to do so
Also is it just me or wordpress sites rarely show up on google search results? In general wordpress just feels like a graveyard to me.

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Tumblr artists all moved to Twitter.
To be fair, that's WAAAAAAAAAY better.

Automattic doesn't sell dead assets. Even if they can't find a way to increase the ads revenue, they will just roll with it, integrate Tumblr in Jetpack and just move all the developers to other teams.

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WordPress sites are 30% of the internet. They are ubiquitous.

In any case, they will be managed as separated entities, at least for now. Tumblr can't hurt WP.

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Sites using wordpress software but I mean blogs hosted by wordpress with their free blog plan
My experience with a free blog and their site has been so underwhelming

Most .com free sites are shit, but their DNS performance is great and the SEO works as it should - dnsperf.com/
I think they are okay as a free option for people that need a more guided experience -at least their ads are not too intrusive- even with all their limitations.

Pornhub was offering to buy it for some time but Verizon didn't want to because they'd get rid of the porn ban

Yes but compared to tumblr or twitter it seem so lacking.

Fuckin' hilarious

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>because they'd get rid of the porn ban
What? Why does Verizon care anyway? Is their CEO a mormon or something?
I don't think an ISP should be this opinionated about what happens on websites they have no relation with.

This has to be some kind of scam. How is the Yahoo CEO still working that job?

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I'm less "disappointed" and more amused that anyone believes they can pull this off. Wordpress themselves talk tough about scale but it's only because they run a tonne sites.

Noone's tried scaling a single website this much with Wordpress and frankly I look forward to it crashing and burning and forcing them to accept what a fuckup this software is.

Pretty much yes. Verizon is extremely conservative as a company.

Holy shit. I knew they destroyed money when they disabled porn and lost all the users, but I wasn't sure it would be this extreme.

This must be pretty close to a new world record, right?

On the other hand, so did all the crazy "i sexually identify as an attack helicopter" types.

>every news website quoting Tumblr gets sold to Wordpress
Holy Shit open sauce Tumblr here we go
>its sold to the guy who owns Automattic Inc, the company which sells managed Wordpress blogs
wooooow

Tumblr died when an account was required to view porn.

Go cry harder there, you cum skinned faggot

Also, Wordpress is shit.

femoid

WordPress is okay, that's why it's so used.

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Presumably because it looks bad for them. Whereas pornhub is already a porn company and would only get good PR as a result.

>jpeg-compressed images the site doesn't even want you to be able to save
you literally open them in new tab and add :orig

Wordpress is the worst shit i have ever had the displeasure of using. such a shame to see tumblr handed around like that.
Anyways isn't verizon a fucking mobile company? why do they care about things like that?

Haha, holy shit.

> Imagine actually caring about this

Google search traffic

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Test

I hope to fuck it doesn't die. I use it for memes because Instagram is cancer and Twitter is retarded. It's easier to avoid the cancer there than it is here.
You only have a broken filter system on Jow Forums whereas on Tumblr you just unfollow.

Also I don't fucking get you faggots who claimed it died with the porn. You can look at site revenue and shit but who gives a fuck. Nothing about the site has changed for me, people still produce art and still make memes.

I honestly wouldn't doubt it if it ever did die. But I would miss it for it's plain simplicity and community. It's comfortable as hell to use on mobile.

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Advertising. Hiromoot has the same issue

A lot of people I used to follow went inactive. Of course if you weren't following any porn blogs already you wouldn't see any difference. But the porn that's there now is extremely low quality (yes, you can still find porn). And the site activity as a whole has declined. At least for the gay part.

they would just purge Jow Forums

sex sells, seething puritan

>Stop enjoying things

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I had some porn caps occasionally but seeing those go meant nothing. The site is still booming and easily had more users than Jow Forums ever will. It's just far more expensive to host and manage. I would understand if it shut down completely but I would be beyond pissed if they pulled the plug without prior notice so that we could reclaim our shit.

There are so many good takes there. Browsing Tumblr while also browsing Jow Forums is honestly the best.

>Verizon buys Tumblr for 1.1 billion
>Sell it for less than 20 million

OH NO NO NO NO NO NO

they sold it for 3 million

Holy shit. Marissa Mayer truly was a pinnacle of incompetence.

What exactly even happened to it?

Yes
Engineers of homosexuality

>$20 million
PornHub would have paid way more.

>you literally open them in new tab and add :orig
I'm unable to replicate right now it but a few days ago I was unable to right click for image options when viewing a tweet. I refreshed, opened in a new tab, nothing. I had to view page source to fetch the URLs. I just tried Firefox, Chrome, and Chrome mobile and none of them exhibited that behavior now, so what the fuck.

But regardless, that rename method breaks images on Chrome mobile (and probably every mobile browser) since it saves as a generic "file" rather than an image. And you didn't learn about it by reading any official resource, nor have virtually all twitter users ever heard of it. In practice the site doesn't serve full-res images.

anyone know a good way to download your blog or maybe even your likes? i'm ready to pack up shop and delete.