For all you cozins having fun on Tumblr, I have an academic question: how do you guys talk to each other?
The other day a friend and I conducted an hour-long experiment, only to figure out that there is NO way to have a discussion on that site. You can't comment unless you're friends w/ someone, and even if a friend comments on your post, *there is no way to reply back to them.* At all. The system literally won't let you say anything in return, and it boggles the mind.
There is the 3rd party app that enables real commenting, but no one bothers to install it. So how do you do it, cozins? Is Tumblr really just a very convenient system of smoke signals?
Inquiring mind wants to know.
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Honestly, having used it extensively, it's not anymore convenient than any of the browser plugins for the other popular blogging services (Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad, Squarespace, etc) beyond the simple fact that you have to download said plugins, which my grandma could probably do.
Its (apparently) nice for people that produce lots of content and/or are somewhat scatterbrained; I follow some artists blogs and they use tumblr to push out sketches and ideas and inspiration and the like. I still don't see why they don't just use a more full-featured service like Wordpress.
Oh, speaking of, if you like tumblr's simplicity but want comments a bit more control, you can try Posterous.
http:/posterous.com/
XD
I agree, there are many more convenient blogging platforms out there. One thing I'll give Tumblr -- it's easy to share what you find. Which makes it like a social bookmarking site that eliminates the cut and paste of a link. o_0
The biggest name in the "simplifying the blogging experience" game is Shareaholic [link]
I use it, it's slick and very full-featured. There's also Add This, which I haven't used in a while.
Y'know, I used to think people on Tumblr were super lazy and inconsiderate and never talked to each other - but now I see that they literally can't! Such a weird system.
LOL! Indeed.