Tumblr Reviews 

The staff in incompetent, Minorities and LGBT are unfairly penalized, and I've had to block over a dozen p0rn bots just this week.

If you want your blogs to be followed and re-blogged by people promoting porn, drugs (opioids, etc.) then this is the site to use. They re-blog your blog, then they add their hash tags to it. There is no way to get your blog off of their site. You can block them but they come back. Ended up deleting my account as I do not care to be associated with porn or drugs. Could not find any way to contact customer service - I don't think there is any!

I've had a Tumblr blog since 2010 and in the past week or so, I've been really disgusted. Ever since they decided to ban all NSFW/adult content, all hell has broken loose. I have a fandom blog dedicated to an old sci-fi TV show. I make a lot of photo posts. Recently (as in the past few days) I've been getting notifications from Tumblr that my posts have been flagged for adult content. ALL of my posts are SFW - there is no nudity or anything explicit in any photos I post. I've appealed them and they've all been reinstated except for one that was flagged a day ago. I appealed it and they never replied. When all the others were reinstated, it took no more than a few hours. I'm thoroughly disgusted with them. Time to back up my blog and go to WordPress, I guess. Sad...

Oh, and to the reviewer who said Support doesn't care about you unless you're an "alt-right fanboy"? Guess what? I have friends who some folks would consider "alt-right" who have been shafted by Support as well, so it's not a good idea to play victim. Just sayin'.

Clearly run by an incompetent old boys club, this site promised a lot then slowly sank into a quagmire of impossible standards, unless however you are a porn bot, literal nazi or peadophile. These being the only communities thriving anymore.
It's long since time that whoever tried running this site took the time to learn how normal human beings worked, then added code to work FOR them rather than against them.
Please make note of all the staff named as working for Tumblr and make a mental note NEVER to let them near a computer in future.

Everything is getting flagged.

No matter explicit or not, stuff gets banned. But the porn bots are still just as active as before. Spamming people before their stuff has time to get flagged.

Used to be cool but completely trashed the old platform. Images that arent even NSFW are still flagged and removed, but yet I'm still getting porn bots and fake profiles following me. About to delete my blog like millions of others already have. Congratulations tumblr, you just killed your own company and lost a lot of money.

Banned posts with no way to submit them for review? Shadowbans and entire blogs going missing without warning? And yet I'm still getting pornbot followers and tags.

The fact that now I have a banner at the top of my dashboard constantly reminding me that I have posts flagged as explicit and yet there is NO WAY for me to submit them for review only makes the whole thing worse.

There's nothing left. They pulled the plug on the heart of tumblr. Its now just full of ghosts. The company's greed killed the app

Use to be a good site. Now is just a piece of garbage site. It's more ignoring to use it than anything. You can now say goodbye to tumblr. Its a cluster fck of I dont know what now.

Simply put, they've thrown the baby out with the Bathwater here.

If they had a clear, clean way to properly police this and implement useful filtering or a way to block nsfw blogs, then fine. However they don't. I'm seeing countless blogs and posts flagged by their algorithm due to someone with an explicit flagged blog having reblogged the content... not due to the content itself. What makes this worse is there is no way to appeal this if it's a reblog.

Unreasonable. The fact that you can search the term "Nazi" or "Nazism" and not "Tits" or "Boobs" is concerning. I understand that it's trying to censor stuff from young children etc. however the way they go about censoring things is absolutely horrible and sexist.

"Female Presenting Nipples" are censored. On top of that, what they decide to remove from public eye isn't even accessible by private eye- meaning, those of us who are adults can't even view the post that is labeled "adult material".

The censure-ship of the site is atrocious and is just another example of the staff being incompetent. The coding for the site is terrible, every update ever implemented is rushed and terrible made causing the site to be unusable every time it updates. The staff doesn't care about it's users, and will screw you over for a penny is they could, they only care about money. The users had been reporting the porn-bots,pedophilia and Nazi blogs, but the staff only did anything once apple took their app down and cutting into their profit. Instead of actually fixing the problem, they implemented a site wide NSFW ban, which hasn't helped the pedophile problem at all, and has only harmed artist and LGBT bloggers

Too much Censorship.
And not even well executed censorship at that.
Nazis and pornbots are everywhere.
Artists' artwork and sometimes entire blog are being flagged and removed from view.
Even entirely SFW blogs are being shadowbanned.
A good alternative to Tumblr can't happen soon enough.

Wish I could give Zero Stars.

Tumblr used to be a site that I loved to go on - ever since Verizon took over ? Plagued.

While a good website, the treatment of its userbase is abysmal. For those not aware of the NSFW purge, this is what happened:

1. On the 3rd of December, 2018, staff announce that in two weeks all NSFW images, previously welcomed and even encouraged, would be removed from blogs. This would be done via an automated tool.
2. Users scramble to back up their blogs and download the contents of their favourite blogs. Multiple blogs are deleted, including many hosting entirely SFW content; others are made invisible. Thousands of posts are flagged as containing adult content, most of which are completely innocent (for instance, a picture of a wall). The only way to unflag them is to scroll down your blog and manually appeal every single one. Staff tumblr and twitter accounts are silent.
3. On December 17th, the ban rolls out. All content flagged as "adult" is hidden from view, even from the user who posted it. No notification system exists. The "appeal" button is removed, and the only way to have your ban removed is to contact Support with the links of the affected posts. Blogs with too many flagged posts run the risk of being banned.

Even if you agree with the ban, the sheer incompetence with which it was carried out is hard to fathom. Do not trust this site.

Verizon, who owns both Yahoo and Tumblr decided to take an action without surveying their users, with a blanket statement that functionally a lie about why they were doing so in an attempt to increase ads because of their corporate greed. I'd give them 0 stars if i could

RIP. Bunch of racist homophobes who didn't understand it's audience. Catastrophic mistake

I wish I could give ZERO stars. Tumblr's latest NSWF Ban is a con, targeting minorities and doing absolutely nothing about the porn-bots, still presents, or truly harmful neo-nazism blogs, which are OK apparently. While the purge targets women in a body-shaming way, with the Tumblr staff insisting on their phrasing of "female-presenting nipples" even though they admit they know how much this term offends their userbase.
As an artist I had non-pornographic, domestic and sweet LGBT representation targeted by the purge and still haven't heard anything from the Tumblr staff. I refuse to keep supporting such a distorted version of the community I used to love and the staff just completely destroyed without any regards for the massive protests those decisions received.

Tumblr was supposed to be the edgy, artsy, bad kid of all the social media platforms where everyone and everything was excepted. Now they have gotten rid of that. It was nice while it lasted. Peace out 👋✌️

Tumblr used to be a platform that provided a space for people to connect with other likeminded people. From recipes to writing, to activism to erotica, the site was interesting and despite having the occasional issues with people who do not know how to behave when they're behind a keyboard (as opposed to face to face), the site was a good place to pursue interests, engage in open discussion in a non-judgemental way and meet people, even if virtually. Due to Tumblr's poor management skills, porn bots inflitrated the site and this led to more complex issues linked to child pornography content. However, instead of addressing the issue with the support of the user community, which had actually raised this to the point of exhaustion, Tumblr decided to implement an adult content ban where they have censored people and implemented sexist, racist giudelines. For example, the guidelines refers explicitly to "female presenting nipples" and also several searches for "black" appear not to give any finds. Conversely, white supremacy blogs still appear on the site. An important point is that this ban has also had a negative impact on artists and sex workers, who used the platform to promote their work and built and maintain a client and fan-base. Ultimately, Tumblr appears a company that claims to allow people to "Be Yourself" and "Express Yourself". It is clear from this decision and the lack of both consultation and user involvement, that those statements are simply paying lip service to a lie.