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Tumblr’s Core Product Strategy

Here at Tumblr, we’ve been working hard on reorganizing how we work in a bid to gain more users. A larger user base means a more sustainable company, and means we get to stick around and do this thing with you all a bit longer. What follows is the strategy we're using to accomplish the goal of user growth. The @labs group has published a bit already, but this is bigger. We’re publishing it publicly for the first time, in an effort to work more transparently with all of you in the Tumblr community. This strategy provides guidance amid limited resources, allowing our teams to focus on specific key areas to ensure Tumblr’s future.

The Diagnosis

In order for Tumblr to grow, we need to fix the core experience that makes Tumblr a useful place for users. The underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use. Historically, we have expected users to curate their feeds and lean into curating their experience. But this expectation introduces friction to the user experience and only serves a small portion of our audience. 

Tumblr’s competitive advantage lies in its unique content and vibrant communities. As the forerunner of internet culture, Tumblr encompasses a wide range of interests, such as entertainment, art, gaming, fandom, fashion, and music. People come to Tumblr to immerse themselves in this culture, making it essential for us to ensure a seamless connection between people and content. 

To guarantee Tumblr’s continued success, we’ve got to prioritize fostering that seamless connection between people and content. This involves attracting and retaining new users and creators, nurturing their growth, and encouraging frequent engagement with the platform.

Our Guiding Principles

To enhance Tumblr’s usability, we must address these core guiding principles.

1. Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.
2. Provide high-quality content with every app launch.
3. Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.
4. Retain and grow our creator base.
5. Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.
6. Improve the platform’s performance, stability, and quality.

Below is a deep dive into each of these principles.

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[tramampoline]

ive been using your website despite everything for nearly 15 years and if you force me onto an algorithmic timeline i will become the unabomber

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It’s me. I have some sort of social media curse.

I joined Twitter, within a year Musk bought it and immediately ruined it.

I fled to Reddit and within months the API changes were rolled out so I bailed on that too

I then reinstalled Tumblr on my phone and WITHIN DAYS this happens

It’s me guys. I’m the problem! I’m cursed and each time I change social media the obliteration happens faster 😅

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Shout out to this absolute legend trying to do the Belfast marathon on a space hopper.

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smol friend

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So this Psalmopoeus irminia may have earned herself a reputation of being a “bad mum” for abandoning her last sac but she has truly redeemed herself. Not only did she resist the urge to abandon or devour her own offspring but she also bravely protected her babies from me, the spider merchant trying to harvest them.

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When I bought the Dendrobium in this picture (the gecko is sitting in/on it), I was still a student. I recall saying to @residentmedieval that I’d lie to my parents, tell them that this orchid was bought for me as a gift because I didn’t want to admit I’d bought myself another one.

Some years later I moved out of my parent’s house.

A number of years after that I decided to mount this orchid on a cork branch and it lived propped up on my windowsill until I moved in with my current partner.

I had no space to put any of my orchids, let alone one that had become inseparably attached to a large, awkwardly shaped log. So, I decided to take the risk and put all of my orchids in to our gecko vivariums because who doesn’t want a gorgeous live-planted vivarium that occasionally flowers?

Most of the orchids thrived, some died, the Dendrobium in question arguably did best of all, putting out a new cane once a year and flowering when we least expected it.

This old DIY store/garden center impulse bought NOID is nearly a decade old and in that time has gone from pot, to mount to vivarium, marking the various milestones in my life in root and leaf and cane.

And you thought this post would be about the gecko ;) 

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Talented boy 10/10

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Long, long ago (in 2013) I lived in an old house with terrible single-glazed windows and the only upside of said windows was that on sunny days they refracted light beautifully. 

This seems an appropriate post given how many of you tagged my last post “gay spiders” ;) 

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[a-fucking-nuisance]

Have you ever seen homosexual behaviour in spiders? You have now.

These are two male Monocentropus balfouri. When there are a large number of males in the communal this is a very common sight. They even ignore receptive females in favour of other males. I’ve seen this behaviour in Holothele incei (another communal species) as well.

[spiders-spiders-spiders]

I love and suppose these gay spiders

[gemdersuperfluid]

Um, @a-fucking-nuisance, can you explain exactly how they mate? My understanding of heterosexual spider behavior was that the male drops a sperm sac which the female then picks up and puts in her cloaca. I didn’t think there was any genital rubbing involved, so I’m not sure how two males (or females) could mate.
Thank you!

[immeasurably-frustrated]

I’m actually really glad you asked! Seeing the sheer number of people tag kissing or derivatives thereof tells me that it’s time for me to give everybody that biology lesson they’re probably going to regret. :p 

Needless to say there are going to be graphic descriptions and pictures of spider reproductive organs and sex. You have been warned.

So, without further ado. Spider sex.

Up until sexual maturity, males look more-or-less the same as females with little to no sexual dimorphism. The male undergoes a dramatic change with his final moult. How dramatic the change is very much depends on the species, some change colour, some become “hairier”, most develop spurs on the front-most walking legs that are known as “tibial hooks” and all develop the structures on the ends of the pedipalps known as palpal bulbs or emboli (though palpal bulb and embolus actually refer to specific parts of these structures). These are not only his sperm delivery mechanism but also (depending on the species) the “percussion instruments” that he will use to serenade a female. 

[Immeasurably Frustrated]

Have you ever seen homosexual behaviour in spiders? You have now.

These are two male Monocentropus balfouri. When there are a large number of males in the communal this is a very common sight. They even ignore receptive females in favour of other males. I’ve seen this behaviour in Holothele incei (another communal species) as well.

[Immeasurably Frustrated]

One of my blue-fronted amazon’s favourite games is make the wooden orange GO FAST