In 2013, when Jennifer Forward-Hayter was fourteen, she would log onto the social network Tumblr from the desktop computer in her family’s working farmhouse in Dorset, England. The machine sat on a ...

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 ...

The dark horse social network wants to attract the users Twitter and Reddit might be losing — and to do that, it says it needs to be easier to use. The dark horse social network wants to attract the ...

On certain evenings every month, the Taylor Swift fandom of Tumblr hits the pause button on its usual business of sharing quotes, memes, artistically edited photos and analyses of the songwriter’s ...

In 2020, I wrote that “reports of Tumblr’s death have been greatly exaggerated.” An infamous ban on adult content in 2018 had sent users fleeing the platform, but it continued to be a safe haven for ...

Last week, Tumblr tweeted it’s the “queerest place on the internet.” As you can tell by reading the almost 2,000 replies it quickly received, many users disagree. In 2018, Tumblr made a controversial ...

Tumblr is a blogging platform that seems to have learned a lot from the mistakes of others. If you look at the Tumblr of its quirky founder and creator David Karp, you'll notice that it's squeaky ...

A journey through Tumblr’s plentiful population of self-harm blogs is morbidly transfixing. You can, and I did, get lost in a sea of images posted for and by legions of hurting, sick, and confused ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Senior Correspondent covering technology and culture 404 Media reported that Auttomatic, the company that owns WordPress ...

Verizon is selling Tumblr, just two years after buying the social network as part of its tumultuous $4.48bn Yahoo acquisition. Founded in 2007 as one of the first “microblogging” services, Tumblr has ...