Apparently the shit hits the proverbial fan if I pass out on the couch at 7pm on a Monday.

Anyway. Yes - what Tumblr is doing to Jeremy and Missing e is unprofessional, childish, and uncool in every way. However, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: no other service fosters a community like Tumblr’s and you won’t see me running for the hills until another one comes along that does.

inthefade:

“You reblogged my QOTSA song from One Week//One Band. The purpose of that site is to talk about the bands we love and why we love their music. Removing everything I wrote just so could post the song on your tumblr has taken away the entire context of my post…”

Part of what I left in someone’s ask box. 

This happens a lot. Am I stupid to think it’s just bad form to reblog something and rip the words from it? 

tumblr LOL. 

I’ve given up trying to police this from happening because there is absolutely nothing you can do to prevent it. It happens to me dozens of times a week (I post a lot of music). It usually goes like this:

1. I post a song
2. Some leecher with a lot of followers reblogs it and strips away my text/commentary.
3. His/her followers reblog that reblog, and so on and so forth, forever and ever, amen.

I’m glad there are people out there who enjoy the music that I post but I hate that the Tumblr culture makes people think A) that it’s OK to remove original content when reblogging and B) that they’re doing someone a favor by reblogging a post because OMG now your Tumblarity will go through the roof U R SO POPULR NOW!

Anyway. I’m trying to just stop giving a shit. It’s probably somewhat rare that I actually add any commentary that is worth keeping anyway.

staff:

“Tumblr’s service prides itself on ease of use. ‘Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything,’ they claim on their website. So when a user does have a question or is experiencing some trouble with the service, LaFountain wants to make sure their support experience is also quick and effortless.”

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Zendesk: Tumblr providing exceptional support to more than 19 million bloggers

A little peak into how Marc and our fantastic Support team work.

Rebloging for TJ, who I’m sure has a slightly different opinion of Tumblr’s “quick and effortless support.”

staff:

We just had two hardware failures occur in quick succession leading to intermittent errors on the Dashboard and an outage on a subset of blogs.

Hardware failures are the norm when operating at our scale, and we’re confident this cluster should have had enough capacity to tolerate these issues. However, the failover appeared to hang and trigger a cascading failure.

Our operations team was able to quickly identify and begin recovering from the issue. We’re re-examining this specific method of failover and are thoroughly reviewing our procedures related to this incident.

Our deepest apologies to those affected. We owe you better.

A good, honest explanation. More of this, when necessary, Mr. Karp. It’s appreciated.