Is Tumblr a Dead Website? - If not, when will it die?

[Princess Peaches]

Now towards the end of 2019, with the porn ban still in place and many escaping to twitter what has become of Tumblr? Has the site started to die as people predicted it would? Why or why not?

 

[Arm Pit Cream]

Tumblr had 11.5b posts made on it last year, currently it's at 1,630 posts per second.
Tumblr is a lot more alive then Kiwifarms is.

 

[war has changed]

Tumblr had 11.5b posts made on it last year, currently it's at 1,630 posts per second.
Tumblr is a lot more alive then Kiwifarms is.

To be fair, is number of posts an adequate measure to decide active users? That place is infested with crytalking and minute-by-minute life updates from attention whores...

 

[inexplicable ethos]

I still see like 50+ posts a day from the five or so nature photography blogs I follow. Tumblr is still pretty widely used for art and photography sharing by anyone who doesn't make lewd content.

Also there's still a shit load of very active wacko communities on there but I usually ignore them. It may be less popular than it used to be, but it's not going to die naturally. The community is too invested and there's no real competition in the microblogging sphere that offers the features tumblr does (when they work, at least).

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

To be fair, is number of posts an adequate measure to decide active users? That place is infested with crytalking and minute-by-minute life updates from attention whores...

Plus does that number reflect only original posts/replies or does it include simple reposts?

 

[Princess Peaches]

I still see like 50+ posts a day from the five or so nature photography blogs I follow. Tumblr is still pretty widely used for art and photography sharing by anyone who doesn't make lewd content.

Also there's still a shit load of very active wacko communities on there but I usually ignore them. It may be less popular than it used to be, but it's not going to die naturally. The community is too invested and there's no real competition in the microblogging sphere that offers the features tumblr does (when they work, at least).

That’s a good point. Is it possible that tumblr could become “normal” when all the crazy people flock to twitter?

 

[LazyLizard]

haven't been there since the porn purge

 

[the_masked_man]

I wouldn't call it a "dead" website but right now it's certainly less active than it used to be.

 

[inexplicable ethos]

That’s a good point. Is it possible that tumblr could become “normal” when all the crazy people flock to twitter?

Nah, it's the opposite, really. Most people who are "normal" on Tumblr don't use the platform at all for its actual intended purpose of blogging (i.e., they make minimal to no original posts or text posts and simply reblog or post images) and aren't actually engaged in the website's "culture" per se. The tumblr "community", the people who actually contribute things other than art and images, is even more buttfuck insane now that all the semi-normal people have moved to Twitter. Tumblr's site culture is driven almost entirely by the people who are so deeply invested into the community that they'll never leave, like autists with an interminable hyperfixation. For a lot of them, tumblr is all they know for online socialization. They're typically in their early twenties and joined tumblr in 2010-2011, in middle or high school, and have been using it continuously for nearly a decade. These people are why I said the site will never die naturally, and they're also what will prevent its userbase from growing significantly; when your site is a haven for radical nut jobs, average people are less likely to join and more likely to leave. Tumblr has pretty much condemned itself to asylum status at this point.

But, of course, asylums always have no shortage of inmates.

 

[Where Do You Find Them?]

Nowhere big ever dies. SA is still going. It'll be here for decades unless something crazy happens.

 

[Lemmingwise]

I used to hear about tumblr all the time. Now I never hear about it. I presume it's lost its relevance.

 

[soft breathing]

I used to hear about tumblr all the time. Now I never hear about it. I presume it's lost its relevance.

A ton of the crazies migrated to Twitter after the big porn purge.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

i thought the site would die down after banning porn but it just became like deviantart. its kind of there.

 

[AnOminous]

Nowhere big ever dies. SA is still going. It'll be here for decades unless something crazy happens.

Digg died. MySpace died. Both of them still exist, to some extent, but they're ghost towns.

 

[Oskar Dirlewanger]

I just hope methed up samurai will be okay

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

Tumblr is still semi-active but almost every artist I ever cared about fucked off Tumblr after the pornpocalypse, the only thing I see when I log in are follows from shitty porn bots trying to tell me about Smapchat or Instagrann or some other phishing site.

It's entirely irrelevant.

 

[Hitagi Senjougahara]

While it's biggest draw was the porn even after losing that "mass appeal", it's still fairly active but I would assume that most of it's traffic nowadays are attention whores and those who follow them.

 

[Kenya Jones]

It ain't dead until nobody uses it

 

[Princess Peaches]

I thought it might die like LiveJournal did in the states.

 

[Busty Lady]

Didn't yahoo recently sell the site for a fraction of what they bought it for?