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No big loss, since Tumblr search is TERRIBLE. As are most features - the service feels like a creaky pile of hacks for viewers and publishers alike.

A Tumblr directory/web crawler would be really great.




This isn't just Tumblr's search. They're cutting blogs off from search engine indexing too. And if you reblog anything from a blogged flagged as adult, it's looking like your blog gets flagged too.

A lot of the line between "adult" and "art" is very blurry, but anyone who deals with nudity is at risk here. Tumblr has a huge community of artists, who now have to worry of being censored.

"Sure, you can have a blog, but no one on the Internet will find it, ever." Sounds great.


Have you tried search recently? Curious if this opinion is on the old search features or the recently updated search.




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