Something I asked David Karp tonight on Tumblr. Hoping for a response…..

*As long as there is no censorship, I could care less about downtime…………

Which is interesting and perhaps good marketing.. though I am not sure how many teenage girls will want to promote their odd cat animated gifs. Nonetheless.. Tumblr is trying it out. 

So while Google and Twitter plan to censor posts, I have only to wonder if David Karp will eventually travel down the same 21st century path of censorship too.. and if he does will he allow the pay-per-posts to remain unscathed? And……… if I pay for a post I expect it to be found in a workable search and… more importantly, I don’t expect Tumblr to crash.

Are we paying to own the post? …or is it owned by Tumblr and we just pay them to not give it back?

Inquiring and somewhat broke minds want to know.

Something happened with the entire platform this blog is hosted on, Tumblr, yet again.. Coal Speaker didn’t go away. At least not for more than four hours. But four hours is a lot of down time for a site.. 

It makes me wonder if Tumblr would be a lot more popular were it not for the breakdowns and meltdowns? I can’t even imagine having a business site making cash through credit card transactions or selling items, but having the prospect of a meltdown just when someone clicks ‘submit.’

For the new year, that will be one thing Tumblr needs to get better at. And once it does, it’s good to go.. everything else including ease and a solid base of users is in place. 

We all just need to know that when we tell someone to go to our site they won’t get a “sorry” message along with a note to donate to Japan..

Come up with a working backup tool for Tumblr users that don’t operate on MACs (….although I’d love a MAC for Christmas)

…a porn-bot ‘reblogs’ your post just to direct visitors to their site. I’d compile a list of ‘don’t go tos’ but there would be just to many judging from how many people I blocked.

All the bots are raising their glasses

It would help. I think most people would enjoy it. Though if you tried it Tumblr would be down for 78 hours…

Sure, it suffers more down hours than Blogger.. But then why, I ask, is Blogger copying Tumblr’s successful points?

MORE: How To Make Your Blogger Look More Like Tumblr

zainyk said:

Stop posing for magazine covers, stop taking pictures of your dinner and your moped, stop telling us inane anecdotes about what your girlfriend found funny about a sock or some such shit, AND FIX YOUR FUCKING WEBSITE.

 I have to say: Agreed. The basic database structure of Tumblr seems quite awry.. Even tonight on here, and I am sure lots of other Tumblr based sites, posts are appearing without reason and vanishing without warning. Sure, Tumblr tweeted that the fix is occurring.. But how many more problems before the massive increase in traffic the site has been enjoying leaves for the next thing—that works?

But Tumblr responded to the worrying security issue:

We’re triple checking everything and bringing in outside auditors to confirm, but we have no reason to believe that anything was compromised. We’re certain that none of your personal information (passwords, etc.) was exposed, and your blog is backed up and safe as always. This was an embarrassing error, but something we were prepared for.

The fact that this occurred at all is still unacceptable, and we’ll be seriously evaluating and adjusting our processes to ensure an error like this can never happen again.

I like how Tumblr responded.. Every time something occurs, they lose in a point in my book. But something like this occurs and they gain them all back. I liked their humility. 

I’m also happy they say the blogs are backed up.

I’d still like to see Mr. Karp come up with a Windows version for us NON MAC users for a backup, of course.. Unless maybe it’s just a sign I should  buy a MAC.

That question, along with many others, answered by David Karp ..

The answer on Tumblr profits, if you’re interested, David Karp said:

There are a couple things we are excited about: promoting content and marketplaces.

The marketplaces are awesome to us because they allow us to cut big checks to our guest developers. People who are creating original themes for our community can sell them to users. The community is thrilled because they are exclusive, unique, customizable and beautiful. They were hustling to try and sell them on their own. Designers are now selling them on Tumblr, and these brilliantly talented designers are quitting their gigs at design firms to design themes for Tumblr.

Users are also paying for promotion in our directories

While I may not truly understand it, the Coal Speaker is on Tumblr. So I have always wondered how Tumblr is making money from this whole thing..

And it also makes me want Tumblr to finally come up with a backup ability for non-Mac users!