This is more or less a test post...

[chenria]

It has been ages since I left LJ back in the days ... and I get flashback memories here just now...

I am not 100% sure I will stay here. If tumblr gets this feature up that is supposedly there to replace the replies "soon" (when is soon??) I might forgive them and give them some more time. Until then I will try to crosspost my new art and stuff over there and here and deviantART as well.

But yeah... it's good to know this place exists.
And maybe things on tumblr will turn to the better again next week, when I have no time for internet stuff because I am across the country to a conference for 4 days...? Hope dies last, right?

Comments

[tatterberry]

Ignoring users is always a dangerous path to go down - one post that was going around about the user base of tumblr being the commodity being sold rather than the customers to be served made a good point in that area, I think.

Totally agreed on 'who does that??', it's incredibly bad business practice. It would even be an improvement if we had a date for when it's coming but we don't even have that. Honestly I think tumblr is relying on the fact that there isn't really a comparable social media website for people to move to - it's a sort of middle ground between micro-blogging like twitter and long-form sites like this one and LJ. It is a lot more convenient for sharing and things like art, but yes.

I left devART a while ago because imo it was also feeling like the users were the commodity rather than the customers - they've always been really bad when it comes to stuff like art theft and whatnot. It does also have a lot of bad eggs purely due to being the biggest and most well known site, I think. That being said I do sort of miss the exposure I got there, the community things they introduced were really nice for that. I do occasionally consider starting one up again but haven't yet - if tumblr continues as it is I might well end up doing that. Even if it is quieter, though I admit that sounds strange - before I left it definitely couldn't be called quiet. Maybe it's just something to do with the shelf life of a website?