Tumblr – Fandom, Art, Chaos Reviews

by TumblrIsDead

Via tumblrs new guidelines they’ve yet again screwed over their audience and sent thousands of their users scattered to the winds most of them going onto twitter instead of this app.
You screwed up the site majorly by blindsiding and censoring the majority of this app. You let loose bots on the site that still haven’t been fixed. Allowed bigotry and racists to be allowed to roam free and haven’t done a thing about nazis that are still allowed to post genocidal rhetoric without shame.
The main reason that this app was taken off of Tumblr Store was because you being the staff of this app allowed pedophiles to run rampant and scar minors on the site, polluting the waters of every inch of almost every fan base. Instead of trying to react that problem rationally the staff of this app decided to ban all nsfw art on this app alienating a large portion of their users and striking down on sex workers who use this site to gain a following on a day that was supposed to represent a day against exactly this.
I have been on this site for over 3+ years and have migrated to twitter with many of my followers and people who I follow because you people won’t get your crap together and start truly giving a crap about the people involve themselves on Tumblr.
Until you, meaning staff and higher ups, get your self straightened out- good riddance.

by Razir_3

Don’t get me wrong, I like this app. I have been on this site since 2011 or 2012. I like the art community and the chronological dash and being able to show or hide my likes and following lists. Your experience is fully what/who you follow and what you search. That said, the tagging system that used to make the site so good has been screwed over yet again in the most recent update. this app has added more banned words and suppressed more content supposedly in the name of following Apple’s guidelines. This ruins the search function and will prevent people from tagging things appropriately and will defeat the entire purpose of tagging and personal filters. They want to hide “unsafe” or “explicit” content and yet everything they do with the tags does the exact opposite. Why would anyone use the correct tags if it will immediately be suppressed? Also the old system of giving a warning on explicit blogs worked fine. Now on iOS you don’t even get the choice of continuing with that search or not. You get booted back to the search function. I don’t know the exact age demographics of this app but especially these days it seems to be a site for adults who grew up with it so the fact that they treat their user base like children needing to be censored is frustrating and useless. If they keep going down this path of censorship and incompetent search functions I might be forced to abandon it all together rather than continue trying to make it work.

by Sonosuser7

Listen, i love this app. However, the new iOS update changed the way and number of banned tags that users on the mobile app were using to help make the site a safe and fun place for everyone. The fact that this is only for users on Apple products makes me more than a little annoyed, and I no longer want to use Tumblr if it means that the content I used to engage with isn’t there on iOS. A lot of my mutuals and I are into horror, and so blocking tags like ‘scopophobia’ and ‘body horror’ means that I can’t see ANY of the fan art when I’m on the iOS app. I’ve looked through the list of newly-banned tags and I’ve gotta say, I’m disappointed. None of them actually will work to ban the harmful or hateful content that might be uploaded, because they were being used in a way that I don’t think Apple understands. When someone is being transphobic, they do not end their posts with ‘transphobia tw’. Those tags are used by ACTUAL TRANS PEOPLE, who are talking about their life experiences or calling someone else’s transphobia out. Blocking that tag and removing the content means that we no longer get to share those stories anymore, and it does nothing to the actual transphobic content one might come across. The same thing can be said for racist and antisemitic posts.
Additionally, some of the banned words are flat out ridiculous. Why is #girls banned? Or #long post? It doesn’t make sense, and it makes me not want to use the iOS app anymore. :(

by Why Do You Need To Know, Cop?

Tumblr has so many issues that have yet to be solved after at least a year or two of them existing. Despite the messaging system, which I’m sure has been critiqued plenty, inconsistently and unreliably updating or not updating while you’re using Tumblr - you also can’t click on asks or even keep track of your asks in any way through Tumblr . If you want to go look at one of your apps, you had better be keeping constant track of whoever asked it because all you’re going to get is a notification, and clicking on the notification (if it was answered) only takes you to the person’s profile. Tumblr will randomly crash for seemingly no reason, even while under little to no stress. The double-click-to-like feature doesn’t work unless you tap a large body of text or an image and even then, it may not register properly (maybe user error but still inconvenient). You also can’t keep track of submissions in any way unless you just miraculously remember- I think you get notified but I don’t even think you get that much. Aside from all this, there’s a myriad of other functionalities and nuances that are almost entirely unimportant (like how if you click on a person’s name that’s attached to a post, it’ll take you to a dedicated page with nothing but that post and a couple other posts from that person’s profile below it). This was a poorly-thought-through review but I think it covers most bases. Otherwise, it works enough.

by PxlatedTraveler

I have a constant grey message box at the bottom saying “Hmm...try again?” And that I should log out and back in if it keeps happening. So I log out and back in, and it’ll work...until I leave Tumblr and come back, the it happens again, and it’s a huge pain to have to keep logging back in. Stuff won’t really update while this message box is running.
Also, Tumblr is still eating my photo posts. Last time I tried was before this grey-box issue. Two days ago.
Also, I do not like my activity notifications stacking. In particular, the reblog ones. I don’t mind the likes being stacked. But I liked clicking on individual reblog to look at tags. Some people communicate via tags. Granted, I could just visit the post itself, but that has become a pain now too - where I used to just be able to view everything I wanted from my activity section, now I have to jump out and hunt the post down through my profile. God forbid I’m not looking for an old post.
To be honest, right now it’s hard to double check on feature with that grey message box saying I have to log out and back in constantly. Nothing refreshes.
Edit: logging out and back in does nothing for me after all. App currently does nothing for me except show me pop-up notifications (clicking into then shows a “no-post-here” page).

by Idkhere'saname

The staff of this app have recently rolled out the censorship of any posts flagged as explicit. While this would be a great way to stop p*dophiliac content, n*zis, and anything else potentially harmful for other users, the system is broken and till this day (december 24th, 2018) continues to flag and censor posts that do not meet the nsfw requirement for being taken out of public viewing. Instead of content that could harm other users, the system-which is completely run by a simple bot not meant to handle this complicated of a task-instead flags posts that fit within the new guidelines. All over the site and app pictures, artwork, text posts, etc have been wrongly censored despite having saw content. Thousands of complaints have gone to staff about this issue, yet they have done nothing to help the user base on this app.

This has ended up hurting many people on the site. People now rely on websites to promote their online services-for example, an artist taking commissions to pay for bills-and have been receiving less and less exposure/traffic due to this flagging system hiding their content for others to see. Thousands of people have fled to other websites to find work due to their loss of the ability to rely on this app as a means of exposure.

Staff has done nothing to help us with the issues this new bot has been causing.

by Dchen78998

I have being using this app for over a year now and it crashes me in big time. As I clean up on blogs that I follow the number stays on 514 but nothing to click on follow or unfollow and dashboard did not move at all as I tab for the update. Both web and app absolutely failed to move at all. Social media site like this app needs to be significantly improved on the platform. I am working very hard on my leisure to develop this app society for the world. The system video, photo, and multiple formats are very restrictive. We need this app to admit that most of there users are not children in fact very small percentage and so the platform needs to be a whole lot more adult friendly and at the same time more true society interactive social friendly. It is being existing for ten years already right? Please completely redesign and turn your app to be minimum 18 years or older and preferably 21 years and older. It doesn’t make any sense to do what Twitter or Facebook can already do and in other format alright. Seriously, can your team member truly just listen and truly make that difference? Most of your this app user don’t mind of paying for subscription, however, all of us care about all the inconvenience. This cannot wait, please make the major redesign and changes at once and not waiting at all. Your teams technology is too outdated, it needs completely overhaul and be five thousand times better and I mean it.

by Desssssssssssssi

I’ve been using this app since 2010... my best friend put me on to it. I’ve been on and off for a few years now since i graduated high school. Tumblr used to be good but now it’s just annoying. Still has funny post and is very informative but i hate the auto-reload feature. Since i don’t get on often, i like how i can scroll til forever without getting bored or seeing the same thing... but if i were to screen shot and send the funny or motivating picture to my friends or boyfriend, it refreshes as soon as i get back on. Small issue but highly annoying, i end up just not coming back for awhile again. Instagram i think is the only social media that doesn’t automatically reload. Yes you took away the NSFW content due to child pornographers which i 100% agree, get rid of the creeps! BUT to get rid of all nudity even if it’s pictures that are tastefully done or meant to be seen as art and not porn eh.... i think there should be a filter process... this app was great for expressing and exposing talent and creativity. You can’t put a limit on that. I don’t want porn back, but i don’t want my pictures being taken down because of an exposed nipple. this app just not the same. People that were on before ALL the many many changes, know what i mean. this app was a different outlet from your regular instagram or Twitter... it felt more private.. it felt more free... a place for creatives.... now it’s just.... blah. 🤷🏾‍♀️

by Its_johnkat

Tumblr is terrible and I don’t really recommend it if you get easily frustrated by broken assets that you can’t even use even though they’re everywhere. An example of this is the search option on everyone’s blog. When I go to type something in on someone’s blog so I can search for a tag that they have, even if they have a lot of posts in that tag it’ll give me the “Oops nothing here in this tag! It just doesn’t exist!”. This has been an issue for YEARS. I have never been able to go in someone’s blog, manually type a tag and be able to click search to get me all the posts in that tag. This is also an issue for my personal blog. I haven’t been able to search a tag by manually typing it in. I have to put the tag on a post that is COMPLETELY unrelated to the tag just so I can get into it, and then I have to remove the tag from that post after just because I wanted to find it...... it’s a lot of extra work because of a bug that has gone unfixed for a long time. I can’t tell you how much time I’ve wasted having to scroll far down to a miscellaneous post so my followers don’t see a weird tag on an unrelated post, typing the tag on the post so I can click on it, and then deleting the tag from that post after I’ve gotten into the tag. Why is there a manual typing search option for specific blog tags when it doesn’t even work???

by Bo 👌🏻

No app that contained any amount childporn should never be put back up for download. Blocking all “adult” content does not actually solve anything. this app was slacking big time in keeping their users safe and keeping pedophiles and other disgusting people off of their site for years. I have had this app for 7 years and have used it about everyday because I love pictures, but no other site that I’ve ever been on can you accidentally run into illegal porn or dead bodies without having to search for it. We have been asking for years that this app’s age of use be moved up to 18+ because of the literally mentally damaging images you can accidentally see. not even mentioning that this app does nothing when someone under the age of use is on the site and refuse to delete them even though they are breaking the terms of service. banning adult content isn’t keeping the minors on the site safe because they have already been exposed to this stuff since this app has never cared enough to properly filter things and remove abusive and illegal content. this app is not and has never been a safe or family friendly site. I was really hoping apple wouldn’t put this app back up and I’m honestly disappointed in the morals of both corporations but then again they’re corporations and don’t listen to what their user want so I’m not exactly shocked.

by Concerned For Censorship

Most recent update is abysmal, and it’s Apple’s fault! What happened? Posts on Tumblr have a tagging system for both organization and discoverability, and staff has just banned innumerable innocuous words as tags, meaning for IOS users, these posts will be unviewable. Some of these are aimed at s*xual content, which was the idea (though that’s not one I can get behind either, not every social media needs to be appropriate for 10 year olds), but many others are completely inane and constitute simple user-aggression by being banned: such as “girl” and “long post”. Others still are actively sinister under the pretenses of banning hate speech. To ban the tags “antisemitism”, “racism”, and “transphobia” is not to dissuade hateful posting, but to silence discussion about this issues, which is something anyone can see. this app devs are a bit inept, perhaps, but mostly they are just trying to comply with Apple in the face of THREATS to take their app of Tumblr Store, which would lose them about 40% of their revenue and tank the company. This is a shameful move for Apple, using their power for censorship to silence users discussion social issues, destroying a sites usability for the sake of creating a sanitized, advertiser-friendly platform. This is a gross first step towards the future of the internet that Apple wants, and we should not sit by and let them Inact that.

by Jo Irwin

Tumblr is... frustrating on a good day. When everything seems to be functioning properly, it’s fine but that so rarely happens anymore. So many things go wrong on any given day, it’s hard to keep track. Right now, asks seem to be busted for me and several others. We’ve gone through batches of “test asks” to see if they’re sending and receiving properly, after noticing a lack in our normal ask activity. I’ve also noticed a lot of trouble with posts disappearing after hitting send, not postings at all, connection issues, replies not showing up, and more. Most of this was noticed prior to the update but have shown no improvement after updating. I’ve had numerous issues with Tumblr , especially after the December 2018 update. Please please please take your user base into account in a more interactive and comprehensive way. I’m sure you’re doing your best, but I think it’s time to re-evaluate your tactics. I’ve seen nothing but complaints about user interface for years now (to the point where it’s become a sarcastic joke) and a huge lack of addressing those issues from staff. I can’t see myself not using Tumblr for good, just bc it’s where so much of my own following and work is. But I do frequent it less and less, due to these issues. So only two stars for now. Hoping to bump it up in the future.

by Zamalie Lamms

I could frankly care less about whatever features Tumblr has or what kind of content is allowed in the rules. As long as I get to scroll mindlessly through my dash and occasionally spit out the odd text post that nobody will read, I’m pretty much set. So here’s the thing: I’ve got a phone and an iPad, both of which are ancient by technology standards. Probably not a decade old, but they can’t be far at this point. Tumblr works fine on them. Glitchier than most I’ve used, but I can still do all two of the things I usually do on this app with ease, so I can look past it. With all that said, WHY does Tumblr crash incessantly on my brand new phone? It’s the only app I have that does this, so I know the phone itself isn’t the problem. It freezes if I exit out of Tumblr for a bit, sometimes if I reblog a post or look in the notes, it’ll freeze if I look at someone’s blog too long. The only thing I can do that doesn’t have a chance of crashing Tumblr is scroll - and even then I can’t go down TOO far. I’m genuinely confused at how Tumblr functions perfectly fine on the oldest devices that I have, and yet can’t seem to stay open for longer than ten minutes at a time on a two day old phone. I’m open to any reasonable explanations for this, because I’m honestly at a loss, but mostly I just hope this gets resolved soon. I can’t use my iPad out of the house and I absolutely refuse to redownload Twitter. This hellsite is my one source of entertainment, man, cmon

by Standpoor

For one of the most popular social networking sites in the world, and after all this time, and given that most people access it through their phones, you'd think this app would manage to put together a decent app. Alas, their army of nerds has failed. If you follow more than a few active users and only check your account a couple times a day, you have to scroll and scroll and scroll, waiting for each new page to load, to find the specific kind of content you're looking for (say, videos, images, etc.). If Tumblr crashes, you have to spend another five minutes scrolling to get back to your place. It's 2017. How is this still such an issue? There should be some kind of comprehensive, accessible filter that lets you fine-tune your feed. And automatically brings you back to where you had last scrolled? There's not even a reliable workaround: the archive button doesn't exist or the user has to choose a separate app theme or something with that specific function? It's definitely not there by default. And the ads. They're so large. Again, it makes infinite scrolling a chore; a quarter of each scroll is ad space, meaning more pauses for loading and less easily accessible content. I'd happily by a reasonable subscription to disable the ads. Is programming really this impossible?

by Charlie & Punkin

I’ve reviewed before but gave it the same rating. Before this app was a mess because of their bad coding — crashing after a little while of use, GIFs and images refusing to load almost constantly, videos not playing correctly, the list goes on.

But the new algorithm for detecting NSFW content to be “kid friendly” when it was never meant to be a website for kids is lazy. Staff are condescending and don’t listen to the user base. Not only that, but a large portion of users are here for nsfw content. I understand that there is legal trouble and it’s not necessarily this app’s fault, but what is their fault is not doing anything about actually illegal content and instead punishing everyone whether they were involved or not. Porn bots are still rampant, neo-nazis and white nationalists and pedophiles are still free to roam while artists and content creators suffer greatly from the way this algorithm works. Up the age requirement to be on and keep your safe mode thing, it wasn’t perfect but it was way better than getting my post removed for having a single pixel of skin tones visible on a selfie or a piece of innocent fan art.

The only reason this isn’t one star is because I’ve been using this site for years and years and it is honestly my favorite social media platform. It’s niche, doesn’t invade your privacy, and has a lot to offer within its user base. It has so much potential wasted by a terrible management.

by Keytothetruth

this app has been a place I’ve come to for years to express myself. It’s somewhat my secret outlet. Having an app available is super convenient and I honestly prefer to use Tumblr versus a desktop. If there wasn’t an app available i probably wouldn’t even use this app anymore. It’s extremely annoying when you’re in the middle of using Tumblr and it crashes out of nowhere exiting you out Tumblr . It seems like every time you guys update Tumblr to fix bugs etc. there’s just another bug that’s created. How difficult can it possible be to finally get this right. Don’t update Tumblr if you’re not sure it’s absolutely going to fix the problem. Sometimes posts are missing from my blog or others. I can’t even refresh my notifications without it freezing and me having to exit out he app and enter into Tumblr again just to see new notifications. I can’t even view my drafts on one tab without exiting out my blog, which was one of my favorite features. Now I have to go to settings to view my drafts which is INCONVENIENT! Would be 5 stars if I didn’t have to exit Tumblr 20 times a day just to use it. Using this app shouldn’t be a job people. Fix it or you’re going to lose people’s interest in a great website.

by Hangry Uber Customer

this app is, at least to a large extent, a very good porn site. Adults ought to be free to make their own decisions about the content they choose to view and contribute. TMBLR is free to set its own moderation policies. The way this app has approached this reality- and I understand the choices it has made, and why- has been an attempt to reach a middle ground, but it has been lackluster. In the 21st century, there are ways to set age limits for certain content, to moderate very highly offensive and illegal content reasonably well, and to do so without punishing the conscientious and law abiding adults that want to exercise their perfectly sound inclination to engage porn. Content providers should tag content as porn and Tumblr should filter pornographic content for all accept those that opt to view/contribute porn. For those users that opt, require some authentication that has a reasonable association with age, and make it binding. If the user is caught lying about their age, ban them- ban their isp# or whatever number IDs their device, etc. If the content provider fails to tag content, ban them. If a user posts illegal content, block them, give them an opportunity to appeal, and then block them if they don’t or if the appeal fails.

this app is a great app- for all things, not only porn. It’s a worthy contender, and more than anything it can support the (legal, ethical) interests of everyone… users, advertisers, this app, and even the US Congress.

by Klause1

Yeah there’s occasionally a lot of discourse but you can block posts with the discourse tag in your settings if it makes you uncomfy.
A lot of reviews are angry about how staff took away all the porn on the website, staff did that a few years back and the people who are angry only came to this app to find pornography instead of using an actual porn website or just going to reddit.
The apps got a lot of glitches i know, but that’s because staff isn’t the best at managing Tumblr , they’re doing their best but every update there’s an even bigger bug which is kinda funny.
Somehow this is one of the only apps where straight people are actually a minority, LGBTQIA+ thrive on Tumblr which is so fun, being on this app was one of the first times i got to see people actually like me.
The ad’s aren’t as bad as some people in the reviews say, there short and easy to skip even though they pop up frequently, also sometimes they’re super obscure, the most common ad I get just says “my wife told me to put vinegar on bread and leave it in the trash can” and I always chuckle whenever I see it

by Colleen Campbell

I’ve been on this app since 2010, and I have seen the changes over the years. this app is a great site and whatever you’re looking for you’ll find it if you look hard enough (the same goes for literally every site, though) and this app’s attempts to create ways to block users, tags, and content from your personal feed is slowly getting better as the years go on. There are still some issues there (I have had to block at least five versions of the same tag before) but that’s more because the users themselves make up new tags daily and it’s hard to keep on top of for everyone. In all, it’s a great site for art and writing, as well as a variety of other things ranging from recipes to history to writing or drawing advice, with the only remaining drawback being it’s quite reactionary at times and the reblogging webs can lead to very different and isolated takes on the same thing without any cross-conversation. As a final note, instead of attempting a this app+ system (which is only going to end badly), the site moderators would get more out of fundraising like Ao3 or Wikipedia does.

by KelM95

Been using Tumblr since long before Yahoo & the pedos ‘ruined’ it & it’s taken a few years but I love this site just as I did in 2012. It’s not quite as unmonitored as it used to be, but for gods sake there was a TON of child pornography all over the site. I would hope that if my child had lewd photos/videos leaked all over the internet, other adults would empathize and prioritize making this app safe for kids over having an unmonitored blogging app. Yeah it can be irritating that certain things are no longer ‘okayed’ by the site, but to keep CHILDREN safer, it’s totally worth it. The content posted on my blogs hasn’t slipped in quality, ever. I have always been able to keep up the aesthetic I want on my blogs & if that’s the case, idk why people are mad over being monitored more. Tumblr works just as it was designed to do, and it appears this app has made an effort to correct the design flaws that allowed for so much child pornography to be distributed while tactfully keeping the same atmosphere that made this app the best social media app in the first place. Tumblr is a happy place for me to recollect myself mentally and put myself into the mindset I want, and for that I am extremely thankful.

by Elllelllleelleee1

I had been using this app since I was 14, so almost 11 years. this app was a place where I found an activist and body positive community. I made friends and felt I belonged. I was able to assert my sexuality without judgement and find people who wanted to lift me up, not degrade me. this app was a loving happy community until yahoo bought them and ever so slowly started changing a perfectly wonderful community. When the announcement ca in December that adult content was being banned from this app, and on top of that FEMALE PRESENTING NIPPLES. I was infuriated. The one place that I had run to in order to express myself was being run by a misogynistic wad of trash and every woman, person of color, deviant, transgender, gay, lesbian and queer had to suffer. You know what community is still thriving on this app?? The neo nazi community. Last time I checked, female presenting nipples didn’t threaten or demeaning others based on race or ethnicity. But I guess unless you’re a white male, you don’t matter. What you enjoy doesn’t matter, the friends you make don’t matter, and if you made a living off of this app, that doesn’t matter either. If you have read this review to this point my advice is this: do not support a website/ app that isn’t inclusive. That doesn’t care about those in marginalized communities. Don’t download Tumblr , don’t sign up for this website either. I hope we can bankrupt this corrupt company together

by BeeLizard

I’m going to say that this app is definitely unique in the creativity of it’s community, and serving that unique and diverse community with bans on explicit content, or NSFW content, is simply offensive to artists and people who celebrate and want to create a safe and helpful space to celebrate those topics. I am deeply disappointed in this app with what it’s been doing. I admit that targeting porn bots who want to spread viruses is an admirable goal, but in order to achieve that there needs to be different algorithms to target that, rather than banning everything that falls under an “explicit” rating. What I find incredibly degrading is the labelling of “female presenting nipples” as offensive and explicit. If “female” nipples will be banned, but male nipples will not, then it’s simply inequality. those who wanted to be open about their bodies and share that with people, no longer can because their bodies are labelled and tagged as explicit and outrightly sexual, which is backwards and wrong. i wish i could say that this app was a good place, and it’s users (while not all of them) definitely are people who wanted an outlet that let them express themselves creatively and freely, which can no longer happen. i only hope that people like me, who see that this change is harmful and discriminatory to the users of this app, share their opinions and leave a review also. Thank you for reading.

by Ethereal92

I like this app a lot. It has a few bugs, but not too many more than other apps. However, it really, REALLY bothers me that you can’t switch between which blogs you want to be your primary. My primary blog was one I made when I was 13, ignored for years, then logged back into and wanted to start fresh. When you tap the search bar on your profile, it has suggested tags that someone can select to see all posts on your page with that tag. Even when you delete all posts with that tag, it remains, and you can’t delete that.

So, I decided to make a side-blog since I didn’t have another email to use, and the email I was using prior was specifically my art email, and it would be unprofessional to have several emails on my different art accounts for different apps. This was fine, but whenever I comment on other peoples posts, it automatically uses the primary blog, and there’s no way to change that.

I’m not the only person with this issue, and it could be easily solved by adding the option to switch which blog you want to be your primary. It’s extremely frustrating, and I can’t deactivate my primary to reuse the email and make a new account, so I’m stuck. It makes me want to uninstall Tumblr if I can’t use it how I planned to, when the solution to the problem isn’t that difficult.

by Jason9800

this app I just want to say ... You aren’t going anywhere yes there is a community of “NSFW” blah blah blah people but let’s be honest you guys are a great asset to the internet and just because we can’t see nudes anymore doesn’t mean your site & or app will “fail, be doomed, etc.” Kudos to the business decision your team made and I am glad you are (or at least I think) back on Tumblr store. this app you are more than just nudes, you are more than just explicit content, & you are more than the terrible content that unfortunately slipped through the cracks under your watch (but you are fixing/fixed it). Good luck and I’m sure I speak on behalf of the content creators, innovators, & fellow humans that work as music artist, graphic designers, sports enthusiasts, meme creators, fitness lovers, comedians, architects, political activists, political commentators, gif makers, life style bloggers & a myriad of other things that YOU not your “explicitly sexual content” helped give a platform to, & in some cases helped bolster a persons celebrity, hell for proof of my reference to what I just said look no further than one of my favorite artists A$AP Rocky and how this app helped skyrocket one of his singles (Purple Swag). Anyway this app/TumblrStaff keep on striving keep on keeping on and good luck 💙!

by Annoyed But Not Unreasonable

I have been a member of this platform for years now and i can say that if you value a responsive staff that can regulate itself properly this place is not for you. As per the new censorship measure many people who have been with the site for years are being cast aside for the sake of ad revenue. The problem source (being child pornography) despite being the catalyst of the censorship measure has ultimately failed to deliver results; with pedophiles, neo-nazis, and “porn bots” (bots who's sole purpose is to advertise risky porn sites) still running amok while sex workers, artists, women, POC, and the LGBTQ community were the biggest demographics effected by this measure. While the user base has continually addressed these issues with the staff they have continued to remain silent on the issue and push through their horrible measure and ensure any opposition is silenced. While many of the Adult blogs remaining are hidden and still somewhat easily accessible it still raises many questions regarding how user friendly the site will remain and wether or not these blogs will remain indefinitely or will soon be exiled from the site. TLDR; Staff is usually unresponsive to user feedback and the half assed measures they put in place just make the experience less than stellar

by Q.p. Doll

I’ve used this app for many years now- It’s been my own personal diary. I can’t even tell you how many followers I have, because I’ve never cared to look. I’m giving Tumblr a complete, solid 5 stars for two reasons: One, it’s been my escape, the only place I can post, as me, feeling completely anonymous- which is why I feel this is my diary. Two: when I typed the word, “depression” in the search engine.. the message I received read: “Are you okay?” And gave many links to deal with how I feel. That made me think twice about a lot that I’ve been thinking about lately.... So, with that being said, my five stars come from the feeling of the one place I can express myself, outside of social media (likes and follows), but also because of the individuals behind Tumblr, TRULY care. I have never witnessed that, in this age of social media. I have more respect that ever for this app. Thank you... When I typed that one word.. I felt less alone, just from that simple, automated response. this app has been here for many of our new aged diary emotions. The fact that the developers are aware, speaks volumes. So, genuinely, thank you. For all of us that stepped back to take another look at our lives. For feeling heard in a place you usually wouldn’t expect.