DISQUS

L8 · 7 months ago

Tumblarity sounds like a way to say "a user worth less than other just because he/she is less popular".

NOBODY wants to be stressed about how many people read him/her or how many reblogs you have. The "words posted" stuff sounds original, the other things are just stupid and odious.

Tumblr FAIL!

Valerie · 7 months ago

The only thing I really dislike about this feature is that the link replaces the Followers link. I am fine with the activity page... it's pretty silly and useless but it's easy enough to ignore, but I have nothing against it other than the fact that I have to click around to see my full follower list rather than just click once.

Why not keep both links in the dashboard? Have followers separate from activity. I don't follow everyone who follows me but I do like to poke around their blogs from time to time.

In the future, could your new features not be these silly popularity contests that result in half the people on tumblr taking a screencap of their tumblr crushes and now tumblarity? It isn't improving the site in my opinion.

David Karp · 7 months ago

It's been tough getting the Followers page to load as quickly as we'd like (especially with long lists of Followers). So we've included your twenty most recent new followers on the Activity page, which should be snappy.

And although Tumblarity definitely factors in popularity, its purpose is to quickly bubble up and discover interesting blogs (even if they're brand new). It should make more sense when we launch the new Directory, next week :)

Joe Lazarus · 7 months ago

How about adding pagination to the Followers page?

Vincent · 7 months ago

I think she's spot on about the Followers count thing on the dashboard.

I don't understand the performance issue related to displaying the same followers number featured on the Activity page?

I personnaly don't care about the Tumblarity number, but I do "care" about my followers though. It's an additional click that will turn me off.
Like Valérie, I can easily ignore this Tumblarity thing. But having to go through that to reach my followers is annoying.

Tumblr has always been about improving the click ratio compared to other blog platform. That's exactly why I picked this one, because I can post in less than 4 click using the Share on Tumblr link.

Also, I fear this whole ranking thing is going to make the Love button biased.

Close friends will eachother click on every post "Like" to boost them up in the list, which can possibly affect the overall quality of this upcoming directory?

Vincent · 7 months ago

*Valerie

(sorry, i'll blame my french)

aeolian-wings · 7 months ago

Tumblarity nurtures quantity versus quality. Please can you explain how it works, or get rid of it? Like someone said earlier, when your points drop by 20 or 50 even a 100, it just starts to feel like you're getting punished for something you didn't do.

parrottt · 7 months ago

Also don't like this feature.
I feel guilty and getting punished by decreasing 200 points in a day while posting regular stuffs like before.

I don't care my rank but something depress me stay on my dashboard is really annoying.

pinupsundae · 7 months ago

I like being able to see my stats, but this isn't supposed to be a blatant popularity contest. It was already bad enough with people competing for followers, now this...what the fuck? I don't CARE where I rank in my country, or the world for that matter. How is that at all relevant? Sure, use this behind the scenes to calculate stuff for the popular pages, I don't care, but please don't make this an integral part of tumblr. Especially the whole idea that it monitors your tumblarity like we should be watching our weight or something. If it's dropping day to day we probably better start binging on posts?

Plus, as has already been said, what was wrong with being able to see ALL of our followers? 'The page didn't load quickly enough' what a load of twaddle, I'm sure people would be ok with it loading slowly if they still had it and had it in an easy to access spot, or had it at all!

Argh this makes me so annoyed...I love the idea that tumblr is a simple way to blog, it's like my scrapbook, but features like this make it more and more like some big masturbation competition and will only heighten the drama that comes when people reblog without credit etc.

jeff · 7 months ago

awesome, love it

Vincent · 7 months ago

Honestly, this is just dumb. What's next, a hate button?

soulcookie · 7 months ago

Could we get the follower counts back on the Dashboard without having to go to a separate page? Even just a tooltip from hovering atop the Tumblarity would be better than the nothing that's there now.

lkjackson427 · 7 months ago

I really like it!

Rory Marinich · 7 months ago

Jesus, you guys are fucking awful, aren't you? Tumblr's finally started to deserve its bad reputation.

shadowfirebird · 7 months ago

::shrug::

clarke thomas · 7 months ago

I don't really care too much my rank, I'm no aplusk.

but it would be worth knowing the if a higher or lower # is better?
and if you're going to show "top blogs" it would be worthwhile being able to look at the whole list &/or the top 15+ or so; not so much those in close proximity to me.

Jesse · 7 months ago

That's awesome! But showing me where I rank among the top blogs -- 42,102 :-( -- isn't as nice as if you could just show me how I rank amongst the people I follow. Might be fun to see where my followers rank too. Might convince me to follow a few of them.

e l i s s a · 7 months ago

My Tumblarity? 6.
I can't wait til it gets to 8!

Shoot me now. I feel like I'm in high school again.

hannahclark · 7 months ago

Well I like it.

chrisvanbuskirk · 7 months ago

Clearly, this is stupid. Just want my vote in there.

harrislevy · 7 months ago

like the data that this shows, but the ranking is not really what is needed.

Mackenzie · 7 months ago

Sorry, but I'd love a way to get this new feature off of my dashboard. I want nothing to do with it.

andreasjp · 7 months ago

I would really like to still be able to see my amount of followers on the main page/

leigh · 7 months ago

Trying not to be cynical but it feels a bit like a marketing ploy than anything else (how to get people to use your service more? Make 'em compete!) However, that being said, i like the fact that it creates visibility to tumblr logs that i haven't seen.

Maybe less focus on competition and more focus on making great tumblr logs and content visible?

esquareda · 7 months ago

Wow. Look at the bright side Tumblr Staff... you have created an amazing community of users that will certainly let you know what they're thinking. ;)

I think Tumblarity is cool and most certainly designed beautifully... however, in my mind I was much more popular. Looking forward to the new Directory next week too...

esquareda · 7 months ago

I just realized... new Directory?! Oh noes! I hope I'm still featured in "Sweet Themes". Would hate to lose my single most important level of distinction here in the Tumblrverse.

bobbyfever · 7 months ago

Um... what about group tumblelogs?












Seriously though, why do you guys hate me?

lifeisgood* · 7 months ago

the stats are useful but the tumbularity number is cheesy. it's going to lead to a change in usage if people start competing for better status. it could easily destroy the sense of communal goodwill if people start doing lame things to prop their stats.

shadowfirebird · 7 months ago

Last night I was 28. This morning I'm 44 and "unchanged from yesterday". I suspect that this particular definition of yesterday involves the sun coming up thousands of miles away from me.

Now, I care about my ranking about as much as I care about the price of cheese in Penge, but I'm going to quote you guys something:

"70% of PC users are outside the US. 85% of internet use is outside the US."

I think you can trust those figures. I got them from Marco's blog.

john ratcliffe-lee · 7 months ago

i think i might call bull on this at first pass. not that i really care what a pretty arbitrary # means to an insular community but because it's self-serving. i doubt i'll ever care what my tumblrwhatever is because i use tumblr to run my blog.

the number crunching is taking into account supposed "influence" within a community as a way to leverage content. rightfully so, tumblr has the right to do this but i doubt this will help GROW community the right way. is it calculating WHOM the people are that make up these numbers? especially outside the world of tumblr? i don't think so and that's the biggest thing about the web. we can cry from the rooftops about metrics, pageviews, uniques, visitors, share of voice, whatever. think about it though - as a number, that is the extent of our definition and, unfortunately, the extent of our perception.

notdickless · 7 months ago

The fact that you can't see any posts with Tumblarity in any of the 3 Popular Stuff categories says a lot. The point of social media is that you have to take your bad lumps along with the good ones. Filtering out posts you don't like is taking the easy way out - grow up.

notdickless · 7 months ago

The fact that you can't see any posts with Tumblarity in any of the 3 Popular Stuff categories says a lot. The point of social media is that you have to take your bad lumps along with the good ones. Filtering out posts you don't like is taking the easy way out - grow up.

StEC · 7 months ago

I really enjoy this new feature, thank you!

To those complaining that this will become a popularity contest... it will only become one if you care enough to get caught up in it yourself otherwise just carry on and keep posting how you always posted and don't worry that a small handful of people's only goal will be to be the most popular!

An entry on unfollowfriday: said it best if I can quote a small part of it...

"If you don’t like it, don’t look — simple as that. Anyone bitching about this “Tumblarity” nonsense is going to be the kind of person who is overly concerned about his or her ‘popularity’ in the first place"

Michael · 7 months ago

We get a statistics-board, although the "Share on Tumblr!"-bookmarklet has still not yet included an add-to-queue - feature. We get this tumblrwhatever, although still there is no way to display a gallery inside a photo-post.

One more vote for: How to get this thing off my dashboard?

bobbyfever · 7 months ago

cooooool... so... ehrm... what about group tumblelogs?

Tristan · 7 months ago

I have to say, I miss the list of recommended Tumblrs we used to see when we looked at who we're following!!

Tristan · 7 months ago

Just realized that it's still there! Woops! :)

Jesse · 7 months ago

Is it just me or do people here seem to "not care" loudly

MyMemories · 7 months ago

Yeah (: I love this new activity page too !

Tumblr rawks !

--http://my-memories.tumblr.com

suddenly · 7 months ago

Is this a hoax?

michaelr · 7 months ago

Please add my worthless Tumbularity "9" vote of not liking this to the general hubub of discontent.

chrisvanbuskirk · 7 months ago

You guys really don't have a clue as to what you are doing. The site tech is sound, but the direction is fruitless. The people deemed popular on this site are children with no money.

Perhaps you should concentrate on finding like users to follow, and not some lame popularity contest. Searching Tumblr is woefully inadequate. Instead of liking posts, you could provide a rating, and use this for collective intelligence to find groups of users. Devise a suggestion algorithm for like users based on tags. There is plenty to do, and you go this direction?

As for your tumblarity meter, it's annoying to users, including me. At the very least, let me turn it off. Should probably take an hour to build a switch. Hell, I will do it free. I can't think of any application the number is useful for, other than trying trying to get an angel to shower you with more cash. Stick a for sale sign up and get it over with, or try and find someone over the age of 12 to help you run things.

Chill Out · 7 months ago

Learn some manners man.
Even though I agree on your rants, you have a lot to learn from life.
Lesson 1, don't be a complete douchebag. They are providing you with a great FREE service. Even if you don't like this new (bad) feature does not mean you have to throw that much shit at them.

chrisvanbuskirk · 7 months ago

Oh, they need to hear it, or they will all be wearing Microsoft, AOL or Yahoo shirts in a year.

shadowfirebird · 7 months ago

Nob, I thought your comment was rude. And good criticism.

Take that any way you want! :)

resoulution.com · 7 months ago

as john gruber puts in his blog daring fireball, he like to play games if he knows the rules. thing is, I didn't have seen tumblr and espescially my little efforts under this angle. but with this always-in-my-face-voodoo-number called tumblarity it looks like a game from LOST: nobody knows the rules, nobody knows the purpose and it is distracting. I like LOST, I like my tumblr - do not mix it up folks!

Fantastica · 7 months ago

I liked tumblr for its minimalism. I find this tumblarity thing has no place here.
You already have two major egocentricity measurements: facebook and twitter. This seems to me like you're just jumping in the bandwagon.

ohheymary · 7 months ago

as a worthless peon with a tumblarity of 14, i kind of think that this blows. tumblarity is pretty much just mocking me every time i go to the dashboard, and makes me want to write less, since i know just how few people care about the stuff that i say.

ariahfine · 7 months ago

Are you guys going to respond at all to the backlash on Tumblarity?

Or, are you going to maybe help us understand how it works so we aren't so bothered by it?

Dhaval M. · 7 months ago

I really dislike this new feature. It encourages us to compete with our fellow tumblrs.

If I wanted competition and be a part of some sort of mass blogging network whose sole purpose was to generate cash, I would have stuck to my Google blog.

Sigh. Alas, good things can't last for long.

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laura c · 7 months ago

For the love of god, PLEASE GET RID OF TUMBLARITY. Or at least take it off the Dashboard page, so I can opt out of ever having to see it. It feels pointless on every level, and as other people have pointed out it encourages people to work towards increasing their "score", which harms to whole communal feeling of Tumblr in the first place.

Also, you could have stats like words-posted and repost-counts without having to combine them all into a rating.

Alexey · 6 months ago

Just for 10 days my Tumblarity droped from 150 to 6 - the more you post, the less Tumblarity you get. You count only avereage number of "likes" and "reblogs" per number of posts.
Now my tumblog (2150 posts, 43 posts this week, 31 followers, 272 likes, 145 reblogs, ~400 daily visitors) has much lower Tumblarity than tumblog with just 4 posts and not updated for a year.
Tumblarity is a complete crap.

rechercher · 6 months ago

It's *really* stupid that Tumblarity seems to only "reward" reblogs. You're treating your users like a bunch of stupid sheep. All you're doing is encouraging an echo chamber effect if those who actually want to add new information to the conversation are "penalized." What could possibly be the true motivation behind this? Some insane desire to limit the number of fresh new posts that are made?

Not Satisfied · 6 months ago

Is no one going to answer our questions about how this works? Tumblr has a great following of dedicated users, why would you ignore them?

thecreativefool · 6 months ago

I personally don't care anymore. I blog and reblog simply because I like to. If my tumblarity goes up, woop-de-dee. If it goes down, woop-de-doo.

I care if someone a) likes my post; b) reblogs it; c) comments on it. These three things are a much better reflection of my blog to me.

BTW, I reblogged a bunch of stuff and posted a few things today... my tumblarity SKYROCKETED. To 21. From 6. So...

ayjay · 5 months ago

To get this many frustrated users commenting and never to offer a word of reply — well, that suggests contempt for your users. In fact, it more than suggests it, it shouts it.

Georgui · 3 weeks ago

Beautiful! :-)