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Tumblr features fresh original youthful innovative content
I’m not a tech nerd so my comments in this review are limited to content. Also I’m not on Tumblr that much but sometimes I wish to escape from the repetitive content found on other platforms such as Twitter and Instagram. Facebook I rarely use. I think the market niche of a social media application is important but that trying to be all things to all people can be a mistake (and not just online but in real life (#IRL) too!) and so I applaud Tumblr for outlining its community standards policy in a way that is full disclosure and not being sly about things like the other better-known entities. I’m still learning the app but the content is largely dependent on who you follow. If you want quality content choose your “friends” wisely! There’s a great deal of quality but one of the greatest concerns it seems to me is quality control and artistic rights ownership of content and protection. I’m not sure that’s an issue that is easily addressed here but it’s the ultimate Roman Colosseum in many ways. Throw out the content and watch it get “chewed up.”Show lessSuddenSparkles
Absolute rock bottom
In the recent wake of bad press following companies such as bethesda and blizzard, the folks over at Tumblr decided to try and out do them.
The whole banning of NSFW content doesn’t even work. Sure you can’t search for it through the tumblr app, but you can still use google. Once you find a page, not all of the NSFW stuff is hidden. The bot in charge of flagging doesn’t know what the hell it’s doing.
I tested a bunch of seemingly innocent pictures and about 80% of them went up for review. While some adult content slipped through unscathed.
Eventually I kept getting errors within the app. I’m unaware if it’s just a shadow ban, or the faulty code. Making a brand new account seems to fix the problem though.
Shady stuff. 0/5.Show lessZombilicio
Never should have been put back
No app that contained any amount childporn should never be put back up for download. Blocking all “adult” content does not actually solve anything. Tumblr 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 tumblr 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 tumblr’s age of use be moved up to 18+ because of the literally mentally damaging images you can accidentally see. not even mentioning that tumblr 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 tumblr has never cared enough to properly filter things and remove abusive and illegal content. Tumblr is not and has never been a safe or family friendly site. I was really hoping apple wouldn’t put tumblr 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.Show lessBo 👌🏻
Dying website
The latest update ruins the functionality of what was already an infamously flawed website. There are more features that don’t work than ones that do. Sometimes it feels like tumblr is run by a single coder alone in a basement.
Tumblr has discarded a community they’ve spent 10 years fostering with an automatic filter that makes it impossible to know whether or not your innocuous content can currently be seen by other users, and fails to target the genuine adult content as intended. Communication between tumblr and its users continues to be abysmal. Staff continue to lie about non-existent notifications and site features that have not worked for years (including the backup feature that we were told to rely on to save our blogs before the removal of all flagged posts). The appeal function for the new automatic flagging was temperamental before the update went live, and now it is completely non-functional. Meanwhile the site is still full of spambots and no effort has been made to curb the growing community of white nationalists.
Tumblr once had value that other sites do not. Before this update I could not recommend you use tumblr on mobile as the x-kit browser extension is necessary to make the site functional. After this update I don’t think I can recommend tumblr at all. It won’t survive much longer.Show lessIeuanno
The staff who runs tumblr are idiots
The worst, most non-communicative staff I've seen for any site. They will ignore any and all problems with the site, unless it threatens their revenue, then they'll "fix" it with the laziest and most destructive possible solution. For example: instead of hiring actual moderators or making even slightly competent bots, to combat the issues with users who used tumblr to share cp, they decided instead to ban any and all NSFW content, causing adult content creators and artists to lose revenue, as many used the site for their work. Their bots targeted any posts that it thought had NSFW content, that actually ended up not being NSFW at all, and shadowbanning people who they didn't like. While this all was happening, nearly their entire user base revolted against their "Safer" Tumblr (even though after their banning spree, porn bots and nazi blogs are still rampant on the site), what did the staff do? Nothing. No change to the policy, no "lol jk", not even a single word addressing the problems people had with the policy or the thousands of creators it's screwing out of a job because they didn't feel like coming up with an actual solution. Just another cog in the internet censorship machine. (Also the app and website are filled to the brim with bugs that the staff will never fix it so just deal with it I guess)Show lessAmberh27
Rampant bots and explicit advertising
As a support staff, those at Tumblr seem intent on brushing their reports under a rug with the hopes that no one will be the wiser. This app is run rampant by bots - bots that target every blog and follow accounts using automated porn or dating app-oriented blogs. Tumblr's response? To do nothing about the actual problem even after dozens of reports to them, downright refusing to acknowledge they have an account verification problem and that possibly half of their platform is held firmly by automated accounts that could easily be weeded out by having a CAPTCHA check when creating an account, and choosing to punish their user base instead.
That's not even mentioning the inappropriate ads that run on your very own dashboard, which you cannot hide from your personal view or have any choice in dictating, as they do not attach to your cookies.
Do not allow yourself or children on the app as you will be immediately targeted by bots and explicit advertising, and will receive not even a word of acknowledgement of this problem by those who take reports, as they choose to remain blissfully aware of their platforms shortcomings, and prefer to give the finger to their users instead.Show lessgalaxyostars
I used to adore tumblr
I was a big advocate for tumblr until this recent ban they put in place! I can’t believe it! This was such a wonderful and SAFE place to explore yourself and learn more about yourself. And come on! No female nipples anymore?! Are you serious?! I had a post flagged because it was a classical art painting of Venus and A little cherub Cupid and it was flagged as against guidelines because you could see her nipples! I also had a gif of Slash (the guitarist) playing guitar on stage... get flagged?!?!?! I mean yeah he looks like he’s climaxing but he’s not he’s playing guitar on stage to thousands of people!!!! It’s all so absurd. So much great content is gone.Show lessTheBlackMagicWoman
It's the Hotel California of social media
There's many reasons you could find Not to get this app/make an account. From the porn bots who put random links on your posts about Spider-Man to the way you never know if it's actually gonna load anything or delete your account for any given reason staff can find. But biggest thing to note or advice on is I give on this would have to be to run. Hit that back button. Swing left. Hit the arrow. Leave this page because when you join Tumblr you never leave. Forget anything good about Tumblr and just save yourself. I've been on it for almost a decade and I yet can't get myself to delete my account or even log out on my phone. Please at least know that you are selling your soul to staff and I've never seen anyone truly leave. It's fun to see people grow and change with you though. Go through movie franchise and T.V shows progression together. See funny videos and news from around the world. No matter who you are, you will find your people. You will find your place on here. Maybe that's why its so hard to leave.Show lessAshton Claire
Get rid of the pedos and the nazis instead of ruining the site
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 tumblr.
You screwed up the site majorly by blindsiding and censoring the majority of tumblr. 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 tumblr was taken off of the App Store was because you being the staff of tumblr 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 tumblr decided to ban all nsfw art on tumblr 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 this app.
Until you, meaning staff and higher ups, get your self straightened out- good riddance.Show lessTumblrIsDead
Why tumblr’s not worth 5 stars now (tl;dr included)
It honestly for me is a five star experience. I love the idea of it and it’s just an amazing community to be in (mostly). But the two issues I have are the two biggest problems I think an app can face...
First is the algorithm. Which is self explanatory if you live on the internet.
The second is also kind of self explanatory, but I feel the need to input my own experience also. The support side of tumblr. The staff. There’s nothing good going on. When I first downloaded tumblr again, I couldn’t do anything with my account. Errors kept coming up and preventing me from having any kind of experience whatsoever. I emailed them to ask for help, and even today I have yet to receive a reply on what to do to remedy it. Since then I have been able to fix what happened, but no thanks to them. I got one reply a week after I reached out to them which was obviously a standard issue mail-merge message to say “have you tried doing xyz”. Nothing since replying to that email, which I was instructed to do once I checked everything on their list.
TL;DR: Algorithm needs fixing and staff aren’t any helpShow lesssquibbl
