everyone jokes about how the community on tumblr is fucking cancer, but i'm wondering if it itself is any good as a blogging service when i just want to make a page for myself or write an article or something?
if not, are there any good ones? maybe [URL="https://medium.com/"]medium[/URL]?
Yeah it works just fine for that.
Also the community isn't really bad, just follow people you like.
It's easy to filter out the stuff you don't want to see.
[QUOTE=Garrot;51319936]It's easy to filter out the stuff you don't want to see.[/QUOTE]
yeah, i understand that. it's just that when people hate on tumblr for the weird pages, they word it like it's the site's fault.
[QUOTE=Octopod;51319948]yeah, i understand that. it's just that when people hate on tumblr for the weird pages, they word it like it's the site's fault.[/QUOTE]
Happens for most websites to be fair, even 4chan has good sections
if you're a huge nerd you could also self-host something like ghost.
Tumblr is more community oriented than most blogging platforms, but you can basically disable/remove/ignore all that stuff and run your own blog just fine.
Medium is also quite good, but less has customization.
Tumblr works better than just fine really. There are a bunch of themes to choose from to make your blog look pretty damn good, you can reblog to share anything you find interesting, you can have people interact with your tumblr via PMs and sending you asks (which you can answer privately if they are non-anonymous or answer on your blog proper if they send it anonymously or non-anonymously). It'll probably be in the 'social media share' things on other websites, and since it's the most popular blogging service I know about it's probably the go to if you want people to actually read what you say.
Also, if having a url like bigoldonkeydickinmybuttforexample.tumblr.com annoys you you can pay and have it changed to just bigoldonkeydickinmybuttforexample.com. Owlturd is a tumblr that does that
The site does have a lot of bad eggs and unsavory shit on it, but the staff don't like, promote it or anything. They're just hilariously incompetent at actually dealing with it. They're like Youtube.
That said personal blogs usually don't get too many followers UNLESS you're like super cute omg but it's not like there's rewards for being a famous tumblr beyond having more people read your shit.
tumblr is probably the best blogging platform there is for personal blogs, and for that reason it works well for corporate blogs. what it's not so good for is like a place for continually updated things. cooking blogs do well just because of the userbase but stuff like someone posting update notes for a patch to a game there's no advantage to using tumblr. you're better off using blogspot or something like that for that type of thing.
there's a lot of shitty users but its super easy to filter out stuff you dont want to see so that's not really a worry like people say
Yep, it's great. In fact far better for actual blogging than social networking.
Since there's no 'central hub' of any sort, basically everything passes as word of mouth via reblogs. Nobody will know that you exist unless you make advertise your blog elsewhere or make contact with other blogs. Also you won't see any other blogs unless you search for them or follow them.
i've been using Nouw for my photography and write ups, its pretty decent!
[url]http://nouw.com/charlierichards[/url]
I would say my favorite part of tumblr is how customizable it is. you can have everything from the cleanest blogs like [url="http://life.tumblr.com/"]this one[/url] all the way to [url="http://butre.bot.nu/"]the worst piles of trash imaginable[/url]. it's pretty easy to build an image with this level of customization. you don't get that out of blogspot and the like
"just use wordpress like 80% of websites do these days" :v:
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[QUOTE=cr2142;51320402]i've been using Nouw for my photography and write ups, its pretty decent!
[url]http://nouw.com/charlierichards[/url][/QUOTE]
This is lit
I've had a tumblr blog for 4 years and it's pretty alright. The community as a whole can be as terrible as people usually joke about it being, but it's easy to avoid or block anything undesirable.
Also the blogs are very customizable between what the site offers and 3rd party addons, which is pretty nice.
I have found a lot of good recipes with great tasting results on tumblr from the food blogs I follow. Oh I also post my art whenever I actually do make something, around twice a year now.
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