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Tumblr underwent a redesign in July 2023 when the platform announced it would improve its content discovery as well as ease the process of creating a page. The company claimed the changes were implemented based on user feedback. Now, taking another step in its feedback-focused process, it will also be removing the Tumblr Post Plus subscriptions. It allowed creators to share content behind a paywall for those subscribers who paid for the subscription. The company has said that it will be removed starting January…

This week, WordPress.com owner Matt Mullenweg confirmed his company would be shifting the majority of Tumblr’s workforce to other areas at parent company Automattic in light of the social blogging site’s continued financial woes. After acknowledging and explaining the meaning behind a leaked internal memo detailing the staff changes, Mullenweg then went on to field a number of questions about Tumblr’s future in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on his own Tumblr blog. Here, the exec responded to questions about…

Tumblr, a flailing social media site from a bygone era, may be run by a skeleton crew from now on. An alleged internal memo from parent company Automattic has made the rounds on social platforms (including Threads), stating it has “not gotten the expected results from our effort.” The decision appears to mark a sharp U-turn from a separate leak this summer, claiming Automattic was building a TikTok-like algorithmic feed into the aging site.Although this doesn’t quite appear to be the end of the road for Tumblr, the note…

Image: rafapress (Shutterstock)Once the go-to spot for teens wearing Doc Martens and suffering from a taste in alternative music, Tumblr is apparently seriously in the red: The platform’s CEO claims that the company is losing $30 million annually.How To Remove Followers From TwitterTechCrunch reported that CEO Matt Mullenweg spilled the beans during the Q&A, which was cohosted by COO Zandy Ring and attended by a meager 800 users, despite being plastered across every Tumblr account’s dashboard. According to Mullenweg,…

Twitter, for a long time and Reddit recently, have been going through tough times and other social media platforms are eyeing their subscribers greedily! Now, Tumblr wants to eat its lunch and for that, it is looking at a makeover. So, for those who are not familiar with Tumblr, a bit of history. First of all, you should know that it used to be one of the big social media platforms alongside Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram in the 2010s. However, the microblogging platform lost its steam due to its customization-heavy…

In a conversation with Tech Brew, Former Google executive and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer talked future plans and past regrets, which included a moment of reflection when she looked back on the unsavory results of acquiring Tumblr over Netflix or Hulu, two of today’s most prominent streaming services. When asked about one thing she would’ve done differently during her time at Yahoo, she gave three examples. First, she noted she would’ve hired a different COO (“I would have hired Lisa Utzschneider, who became my…

Out with the old and out with the new too, I guess. Image: Postmodern Studio (Shutterstock)Imgur has announced a new policy on NSFW content—and you should say goodbye to all of it. The image, GIF, and video hosting platform familiar to Redditors everywhere has announced that beginning May 15 it will be forbidding all future (and purging all pre-existing) NSFW content posted by users.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIImgur released its refreshed Terms of Service yesterday, which breaks down…

Photo: Anton Vierietin (Shutterstock)This week, the Supreme Court is hearing two cases that could upend the way we’ve come to understand freedom of speech on the internet. Both Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh ask the court to reconsider how the law interprets Section 230, a regulation that protects companies from legal liability for user-generated content. Gizmodo will be running a series of pieces about the past, present, and future of online speech.Tumblr had a problem. It’s “called the pro-ana community, ana…

Image: BigTunaOnline (Shutterstock)Tumblr created a shakeup in the digital world this week when it reported an 125% revenue increase from iOS in-app purchases—from what seemingly started out as a simple parody. The company introduced its double blue tick option which was initially meant to show that using subscriptions for verification serves no real purpose.But then something unexpected happened; Tumblr’s revenue surged. What started as a joke, turned real, as users began signing up for the blue tick subscription option…

Image: Wizards of the CoastEarly in today’s Hasbro earnings call, Chris Cocks—the CEO of Hasbro and former president of Wizards of the Coast (2016-2022)—spoke about the Dungeons & Dragons Open Gaming License, though he focused more on talking around the issues rather than directly engaging with them. No specifics were given; instead of delays, there were “challenges.” There’s been progress, excellence, and creativity driving growth, but no explanation of what those things are—typical business word mush for a call like…