Tumblr integration is high on the list. Since we're working with very limited resources right now, it might take a little while till it's released, though.
I hope they improve the platform. Tumblr is such a nice place with a cool atmosphere, but I hardly can justify using it (working in a tech news outlet) when there are so many rival platforms with way more people to talk to.
I love Tumblr and I love Wordpress. Tumblr has a lot of great features, but WP is a very powerful engine. Far from perfect, but it is improving steadily.
We'll try to get better about support, bugginess, and account switching should be a lot nicer so you can actually use Tumblr as different personas when you want to.
Does it? There are an awful lot of platforms that support the kind of content Tumblr supports now. How is this meaningfully different from a WordPress account, or a user subreddit, or a Medium blog, or even Facebook? How is Tumblr going to provide a platform that is substantially different from those?
There are more open platforms. There are more popular platforms. There are more independent platforms. How is the new Tumblr going to improve on the existing options?
Have you looked at Tumblr lately? It always sounds just like what people say they miss nowadays from social media. Its feed is chronological by default (for now), and it does allow you to customize your own page in a lot of ways. I feel it's inevitable that it'll become a soulless ad space like all others eventually, but it's not there yet.
They're trying to monetize it with different approaches at the time like being able to boost a post's visibility without giving you any targeting tools, tipping, or giving another user a button to spawn crabs on the UI for a day.
Will it last? Probably not! But it's not a terribly awful dystopic place yet.
I'm guessing some might have downvoted because I mentioned paid providers. As in letting you pay them to run a Mastodon instance. While the above poster seems to have read my "and more are sure to come" as more options in general rather than more paid options. But I didn't downvote as I agree, the promise of Tumblr support is a big deal and will be a good option for a lot of people.
What are you on? Tumblr isn't great, but it doesn't force you into its hard to use, storage space gobbling, facebook influenced app. They add insult to insult to insult by having a website that allows uploading, but only presenting it when you pretend to be using a smartphone.
You can't download photos. No collections. No public liking / reblogging. Tumblr has that and allows you to use it on your computer.
Ads on Tumblr are less cancerous. You can ZOOM IN ON PICTURES.
> it’ll only get better, with future integrations with Tumblr and WordPress.com
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