My relationship with Tumblr started in December 2008, and since then I’ve never been completely satisfied with the service.
This is not really a blog platform, but something more quick and agile that allows you sharing and posting content without spending many time, which is good. But every now and then I need a real blog, and then I start looking for an alternative. This is the third time, so I think it’s better to me to live now and never look back :).
Live and learn, now I know there are some reasons to never start a blog in Tumblr:
- You can’t export your blog out of Tumblr. The fact I know I can’t leave urges me to leave ASAP. It’s probably me, but keep it into account.
- Their RSS feature is broken. I filed a bug report (twice), and seems that it’s not important because it’s still broken.
- If you’re not into their social features, it’s very likely that the people following you are part of some link-back form of spam.
- Disqus is not a bad comment platform, but I think it would be better if a blog has its own comments instead of using a third party service because of page loading times.
- Tumblr uptime and performance could be definitely better.
- Tumblr and SEO it’s like oil and water, and because their built-in search doesn’t work very well, I’ve found hard to find old posts when I need to.
Because I can’t export my posts, I’m leaving everything here just in case is useful for someone, but I’m not posting anymore. My new home is at wordpress.com, so please update your bookmarks/feed reader:
