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    11 hours ago

    Simplenote, DayOne, Pocket Casts are already ready to challenge this failure - maybe not in terms of money, Matt. So never say never.

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    2 days ago

    Really, Matt? Nothing else, like how you went scorched-earth on WPEngine and caught a lot of people in the crossfire and destroyed a lot of goodwill in the process? Nothing comes to mind?

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      2 days ago

      Thank you. I knew I had heard his name before and had some “eff that guy” alarms going off but couldn’t remember why/where .

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    Who’d’ve thunk that not only doing everything your userbase does not want but also actively bullying a large portion of that userbase into leaving wouldn’t create revenue? No, being quirky on main and self-deprecating every once in a while won’t change that.

    Edit: this sounds like “bullying people into leaving” and “what the userbase does not want” are two different things. That’s not what I meant. I’m overthinking this. I strongly deny any accusation of ever having pissed on a poor.

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      2 days ago

      Nahhh your comment didn’t come across like you think, it totally makes sense. They really fucked the web site completely.

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    Depending on how you measure “success. It may have not made a whole lot of money but people seem to have fun on there.

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    2 days ago

    Since I am out of loop - my bias is still: why wouldn’t (furry) porn be profitable? :D

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      2 days ago

      Porn on tumblr was an early victim of credit card companies not wanting to be associated with that filthy filth, like what happened recently with videogames. Iirc, they pressured app stores to take the tumblr app down.

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        2 days ago

        as a long time tumblr user it’s so very ironic to me that short after the 2018 porn ban you see the rise of fan sites, and still after that tumblr tried to monetise by adding tips, and various ways to pay your favourite bloggers and just… you already had users willing to post hot original porn, and later you had ways to monetise it, but no, they did it in the wrong order wtf

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        2 days ago

        Ahh that makes kinda sense!
        Tho I’m not interested much in porn - I am very pissed about credit card companies deciding for the users of what they can purchase or not. I believe crypto will help a lot with these overreaches in the future.