a really short tumblr review
Posted by: Paul on: February 15, 2008
I’ve been trying Tumblr over the last couple of days (http://www.tumblr.com).
Bascially it’s a ‘microblogging’ (my term..) service. You signs up, you creates posts (text, image, link, audio, video, chat) and you have a stream of posts.
The good
- UI is good
- very easy to create posts
- default themes are nice
- fast, fast, fast to set up
- post options allow you to keep it short and cover most things you’ll need to post
The bad
- no comments
- you can tag stuff, but I have no idea how you can view posts by tag
- no ability to auto discover other ‘tumblogs’
- no public groups to join, no ability to discover other groups
How to improve
- comments
- list public groups
- list other users to follow
Summary
If tumblr allowed the above improvements I’d be there in a shot. It would be like Twitter but with a far richer data stream, and the ability to easily communicate and follow others.
5 Responses to "a really short tumblr review"
April 2, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Thanks for letting me know Steve. It is frustrating as a user to spend time tagging things and then not have any way to sort / display by tag though.
The social aspect is still really missing though – it just feels so isolated…
July 17, 2009 at 12:17 am
Maybe i’ll use this service for my plan to post the pictures that I collected during my journeys. I think tumblr suits that well.
Still, I’ll just wait and see if tumblr implements your suggestion.
September 25, 2009 at 8:30 pm
so it doesn’t really have comments feature? hm… that’s a big shortcoming in blogging world.
October 1, 2009 at 10:15 pm
@zzeed well it didn’t when I checked, but it may have now – quite a few changes since then I imagine 
Paul
March 20, 2008 at 6:25 am
I also just signed up for Tumblr… pretty cool. The tags are waiting on Tumblr to index everything. In the meantime, they let us tag things in advance.