Is Tumblr Dead?

Jeff you might be right. I sent them an email with a few questions a week ago and nothing back, at all. The other thing is that they were regularly posting in the month of March then bugger all.

However in saying that, you don’t roll out new features to the point that they did and then close up shop. The other thing is that they might be discussing selling the service - things tend to go quiet during these periods. Or they might be truly that busy they don’t have time.

The thing with a lot of these start-ups is that they need to work as well as maintain the service due to the fact that they run on a show-string budget. Maybe they are revenue generating?

However, if you have comments along the lines of “hello” and “anyone out there” and “is Tumblr dying” - I would be onto that quick smart.

So big questions Jeff you raise some points worth considering. Wait and see I guess. Oh did you track back to the blog entry - that might get their attention as well Cause I’d like to know as well!!

I’ve emailed a few times and never got a response. Even tried to start a re-blogging complaint chain but it never took off. http://kittykittybangbang.madthoughts.net/post/7073458

They have been quite for a long time now that last update. unnerving.

What bothers me is that new features were promised within weeks and now its been months. Not even an apology or oops message.

Haha I posted about this on Monday -
http://customizetumblr.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/davidville-whered-you-go/
and have gotten a response from one of their developers that they are still going strong.

I have to agree with the author of this post. Tumblr is dying and I don’t want to be trapped inside it when it finally grinds to a halt.

Apart from the increasingly frequent outage (I monitor it using Pingdom), feeds regularly die as well, the only explanation being “there is a problem with this feed”. The latter now increasingly applies to the basic lifestream feeds set up by Tumblr.

I am inclined to take Marco’s announcement that he (”we”, who’s we?) is (are) “working hard on the next major update” with a pinch of salt: experience shows that if you’re working seriously on update a web product, you will quite naturally communicate regularly with your user base. This is both to keep them loyal AND because if you’re working and the result is not yet ready to share, you’ll want to show that you haven’t been idle.

With a combination of a WordPress-based tumblelog and lifestream feed derived from one of the increasingly numerous lifestream feed sites becoming available, migrating away from Tumblr would be a relatively trivial issue if it weren’t for the fact that the export API (surprise, surprise) doesn’t work (for me at any rate).

Anyone been able to get it working?

I never did get into Tumblr. I signed up, but never used the service, mainly because I liked Jaiku and Vox much better. I still do use Vox.

Just isn’t innovative anymore. I know a couple of developers who are developing blogs for people to post on, and they don’t even rival the likes of Vox or even a WordPress.com blog, and it makes me question what they were thinking.

Oh well, at least Tumblr still has Kevin Rose

Although I rarely post directly in my tumblog most of my stuff ends up there, because I use it as a scrapbook of my online presence: blogs, photos, shared links, etc. Every time I tried to contact Tumblr I got no response, including a few ones after the 2.0 upgrade. I’m starting to feel like the “safety net” is missing, and the lack of a community (official forum/ wiki) behind all this doesn’t help at all…

That is exactly why I don’t mess with it. There is no real sense of community. I just recently started a WordPress.com blog, and at least there I know I can attract people from the WordPress.com to view my stuff.

If Tumblr integrated some amazing social functions and features—it would be amazing.

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