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| I really like this happening. | 1 | |
| I understand why this happened but this really upsets me. | 6 | |
| I understand why tumblr did this but I'd rather not have this happen. | 9 | |
| This is really pissing me off. | 7 | |
| I HATE THIS SO MUCH WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS FUCKFUCKFUCK YAHOO | 9 | |
| YESYESYES FINALLY THIS HAPPENED YAY | 0 | |
| I don't care. | 57 | |
| I kind of support this but just a tiny bit. | 3 |
I am a huge tumblr user, and it's ok, as long as it doesn't change it. It's fine the way it is, porn and all.
I don't use tumblr at all.
I don't think tumblr is both too big to fail yet (although in a few years it will be if it can widen its audience, which is what I expect Yahoo will try and do. At the moment tumblr has a saturation of young users who have a tendency to abandon sites as they grow older - myspace and bebo are prime examples, as are lots of topical forums - but mature adult users tend to have greater longevity to their site loyalty) but it still has enough momentum to keep growing even with its current limited audience. If anything the buy-out will be good in the short-term because it gets tumblr mainstream media attention (to people who aren't up with what is hip and trendy online, tumblr is something they probably only heard of after yesterday). The only way it would fail would be if Yahoo tried excessively hard to aggressively monetise it by suffocating it with ads, forcing users to merge accounts (like Google did with YouTube) or making it a "pay directly" service. I don't think Yahoo would do that because they're not stupid, but big companies have done stupid things before. Consumers shouldn't worry - if Yahoo ruins it someone will set up a copycat site in no time (or there will be a mass exodus to Wordpress) and business will continue as usual.
I like them both, and I'm not really worried.
I think Google buying Youtube was worse.
i'm just worried the entire website is gonna change. but on yahoo's tumblr they said david karp isn't going anywhere and he is gonna continue to be the CEO so that eases my mind a bit but i'm still anxious that one day i'll be getting on and everything will look different
I'm borderline on this. The thing that upsets me the most is that since buying tumblr, flickr changed its perfect layout to something that looks like a tumblr blog. Its confusing and makes me feel claustrophobic.
Yahoo is bullshit. It doesn't offer anything for what there isn't a way better (and also free) alternative. I really don't understand how it has survived this long. Who the fuck uses Yahoo? What the fuck for? Have they not heard of Google? I really don't get it.
Tumblr: I've never met anyone who uses it.
So, in conclusion, it makes sense. A ghost company that gives no actual service to anyone, but still exists god knows why, buying something that serves no actual purpose. A useful website wouldn't be interested in buying Tumblr. And a useless site as Yahoo couldn't afford anything else to buy. It makes sense. The results of your poll so far make sense as well: hardly anyone gives a fuck.
Now, when you hear they are paying a billion for it, you can't say anything but: WOW!