‘tumblr ancients know this site won’t die’
look. ive been here since 2011, and before that i was on lj.
it depends what you mean by ‘die’. will the site exist? yes.
but it will be dead. it is turning into a husk of itself. it has betrayed its userbase.
i’ve felt similar betrayal with both livejournal and delicious, and to summarize (this is from 2013!)
“Breakups are really hard both on communities and on sites, like when a tight‐knit community chooses to leave they really all go in one piece. Delicious, the whole thing was like a stampede away from it. Not everybody came to Pinboard, but pretty much everybody left Delicious. And this is kind of an irrevocable thing. When your site loses a community, they’re not going to come back easily because there’s such a high activation energy barrier to them leaving in the first place, you really have to exasperate them. In that way it’s a lot like human relationships. Once you move out from your spouse’s house, it’s probably because you really can’t take it anymore.“
also if anyone wants to give the article a read it’s here. it’s a good article, it’s very relevant, and the dude who wrote the article is considering writing a new website for fans (currently) because people have asked them to.
yes, tumblr is like a cockroach. it will exist. corporate leeches will try to market off of it. but it will be functionally dead. its an era thats passed, and that’s tragic in itself.
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