I used tumblr as my personal blog in 2022. I have never used Tumblr before, but I felt like the platform was designed for me.
I can't put my ideas into a tweet without creating a thread and I despise threads. Twitter promotes a weird impulsive behavior to write everything without thinking.
On the other hand, I think blogging platforms like Medium has a "commitment to read feel". You know you see the header then you convince that is something you must read, that would be that "commitment read thing". The content is hidden so you have to micro-commit to click and wait for the page to load, based on a single sentence called title. Not my thing I guess. My personal blog is personal and thus is poorly written. So Tumblr has the perfect design as to me it feels like an uninterrupted twitter thread (twitter if you steal this idea, pay me).
Obviously, the better option is to create your own static blog site based on Github pages and Hugo. I am not sure where Tumblr could pivot, as people who could have used Tumblr to give it's second life now has their personal blogs and they post those blogs into other platforms. Blogging as a writing method has shifted to become platform agnostic.
I can't put my ideas into a tweet without creating a thread and I despise threads. Twitter promotes a weird impulsive behavior to write everything without thinking.
On the other hand, I think blogging platforms like Medium has a "commitment to read feel". You know you see the header then you convince that is something you must read, that would be that "commitment read thing". The content is hidden so you have to micro-commit to click and wait for the page to load, based on a single sentence called title. Not my thing I guess. My personal blog is personal and thus is poorly written. So Tumblr has the perfect design as to me it feels like an uninterrupted twitter thread (twitter if you steal this idea, pay me).
Obviously, the better option is to create your own static blog site based on Github pages and Hugo. I am not sure where Tumblr could pivot, as people who could have used Tumblr to give it's second life now has their personal blogs and they post those blogs into other platforms. Blogging as a writing method has shifted to become platform agnostic.