The Tumblr blogging platform is underpinned by a social framework enabling you to follow other users and be followed in return. Any post you find on Tumblr -- whether from a blog you're following or a ...

Rumors of a Tumblr comeback have been bubbling for a couple of years—think a pair of Doc Martens here, a splash of pastel hair dye there. Now, Gen Z is embracing the platform as a refuge from an ...

Tumblr was never explicitly a space for porn, but, like most things on the internet, it is chock full of it anyway. Or at least it was. On Monday, to the shock of the millions of users who had used ...

Tumblr's NSFW ban comes at great cost to the community and little gain to the company's long-term prospects. In February of 2005, the microblogging and social networking site, Tumblr, officially ...

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Off the top of my head, I couldn’t remember exactly why my fellow Tumblr users were predicting the platform’s death in November 2018. The adult-content ban, a monumental event in the site’s history ...

Something will happen to potentially hundreds of thousands of Tumblr’s 12 million blogs on December 17. That’s the date the company plans to hide from public view all content flagged as “adult” by its ...

It’s now sort of a TikTok alternative, if you squint hard enough. It’s now sort of a TikTok alternative, if you squint hard enough. is a former weekend editor who covered tech and entertainment. He ...

Tumblr announced a “community labels” feature this week that will make it easier for bloggers to filter out sensitive content that they may not want to see. Now users can tag posts with labels ...

The CEO of Tumblr—a social platform that was once worth more than $1 billion, and in its time was among the internet’s most popular and talked-about cultural spaces—quietly worked his last day on ...

Tumblr has come a long way since its humble beginnings back in 2007. Six years down the road, the short-form blogging and social networking site boasts more than 87 million different blogs and remains ...

After scaling back operations and reassigning staff to other projects, Tumblr owner Automattic’s CEO Matt Mullenweg said that the company would home in on the parts of Tumblr’s service that worked and ...