TumblrReviews 109

I used to love tumblr, I really did. But the site just keeps getting worse and the customer service is terrible. Every time I have ever tried to contact support they either ignore me or brush me aside.

If you ever get locked out of your account getting it back will be a headache. (Unless they have changed their process in the past year, which I doubt) At least my experience of trying to unlock my account after the two factor authentication process locked me out of my account was pretty bad. (I never received the the codes and requested it too many time so the account got locked). When I tried to contact support they told me that I had to post a photo of myself holding a sign that says "Tumblr, this is literally me" on the blog that I was LOCKED OUT OF in order for them to help me further. Thankfully I was still logged into my account on my phone, because if I hadn't I would have had NO way to do what they were asking. Worse still is when I e-mailed them back asking why I had to do that they did not respond. Days went by and nothing. So I gave in and did what they wanted and sent them the link with all the info they wanted from me and they STILL did not respond. WEEKS go by and still nothing. So I try contacting them from a different email and they respond to me THAT DAY. (and I was finally able to get my account unlocked) So that means that they literally BLOCKED my other email for DARING to ask why I had to post a photo of myself on my blog that I was LOCKED OUT OF. Again, if I had not been logged into the account on my phone via the app I would not have even been able to do what they asked and they gave me no other alternative! All I did was ask why I had to post a photo of myself and if there was another method of proving who I was. I don't think I was being unreasonable by asking that.

I reported a fake "beware" written against me that uses very contradicting "evidence" abut my alleged wrongdoing against a known ban-evading hate artist on DeviantArt which is why I left the site in the first place, but they just HAD to escalate it to Tumblr to make me feel as unsafe as possible and started stalking and harassing me there. It's been a very long time since my abuse report has been submitted. No response. Seems the staff couldn't care less about bullying victims... Considering the fact that a lot of suicides were caused by cyberbullying on Tumblr, I feel I shouldn't be surprised it's still dying, and yet I am.
Do not go to this site... At all. Seriously, it's a very harmful, hateful, bullying paradise of a site. Just, stay away for the sake of your sanity and mental health.

I share the opinion of others below when it comes to this website. I joined it over 5 years ago and was a part of the Sims community. Everything was fine and then the NSFW ban came into place. A lot of blogs were flagged, some unnecessarily and couldn't get their blogs unflagged. October 14th, a number of my posts started going missing. When I contacted staff about the missing posts, I received an email back from someone named, "Ana" pretty much putting the blame on my browser by saying the browser cache was most likely corrupt. When I emailed her back to let her know that my browser settings are to clear all data when the browser is closed, so a corrupt cache wasn't the case, she never responded back.
I'm one of the people who logged on in the middle of the day to see that Tumblr had deactivated my account with no warning, no emails. No reply back to my emails questioning what happened and who were the people behind these so called, "multiple DMCA violations." From what I've found out recently, 6 people from the Sims community were gone. 1 person's page got terminated a week before mine and it's still a mystery when it comes to the other 5. No one knows if they got sick of Tumblr and left or were forced out. Now people are getting threatened by outside sources while staff just sits back and let porn blogs run wild. They're letting fake blogs reblog content and insert porn links into the posts. They're letting people advertise their music on other peoples content. They don't reply to emails and their flagging system is ran by Bots. (Staff actually admitted this). Might as well have the whole website run by bots since staff clearly doesn't give a crap about it's user base anymore.

My account was terminated about three days ago and I have yet to hear a response back from the people whose job it is to fix it. I don't post nsfw content according to the guidelines, I don't spam, and I'm an actual person. I also never got any warning as to any wrong doings that would lead to me being terminated. So, short story short, the staff doesn't care about it's user base (unless you're an alt-right fanboy) and you should stay far away from this site if you can.

I first joined this site back in '13 but I didn't quite get into it until a little later in '13 and I found it to be a lot of fun to use, going on to make five more since. Sure, we do have that vocal minority (or majority, I don't really know) but there's a lot of fun and wonderful people on there.

Unfortunately, it's taken a hit with it's new guidelines (which only came about because of the FOSTA-SESTA act) and, to be honest, I do think there could have been something more of a middle ground when the changes went into the effect but the new laws put in place that lead to the changes poses a lot of liability as far as it goes, on top of AIs being a crapshoot. Otherwise, not much about it has changed.

All in all, I recommend the site.

I've had a Tumblr blog since 2010. Things used to be great and then the Russian bot accounts (some with porn, some without) that spammed tags made things crazy for a while. It's settled down, but since December 2018 when they started flagging posts for "adult content" it's gone completely around the bend. I have a blog dedicated to an old sci-fi TV show. I make a lot of photo posts, which are completely SFW. Tumblr would flag more than half of them as "adult content." I'd appeal them and they'd get reinstated, but it was very tiring to go slogging through all these posts and have to appeal them. I contacted Support countless times and they were useless. Going through my blog's archive, I recently discovered that posts I'd made 1-2 years ago had been marked as "possible adult content" and were hidden from the public. Clicking on the actual posts came up with "URL not found", meaning they deleted them (below are photos showing what happened). I was never even notified of this. Angrily contacted Support, got their useless "Zendesk" bot with a totally irrelevant reply. I'm just disgusted they've deleted totally innocent, SFW posts without notifying me. In recent days they've laid off flagging my new posts but I'm nearly done with them. I've backed up my blog to Wordpress and will continue updating there. Thanks for turning what was once an enjoyable experience into a nightmare, Tumblr.

It used to be a site where you can be free with your art and your interests but it's turned into a place now where they have a censoring bot that goes around censoring nipples basically or anything that looks "seductive" and not well either. There was an outbreak of porn bots, which btw ARE STILL VERY MUCH ACTIVE, and that was the reason tumblr wanted to implement this, but they went about it the completely wrong way. They are going against everything they stood for and i honestly am done with the grieving of this site. It has been long overdue that tumblr would die just like myspace and every other trash social media site that started out well and just collapsed due to bad decisions.

There are abundant places where adults can go online to be alone with content. What was rare and is now rarer still are places where adults can go safely online with adult content in a community setting. Tumbl abandoned the vast number of users who helped make it a worthy brand in December of 2018 when they decided to restyle themselves as morality police. I'll never log in again, but I'm not deleting my account, just so they'll know whom they're NOT reaching now.

I've used Tumblr for 5 or 6 months and I already want to delete my account.

The Tumblr staff consists of some of the most lazy, selfish hypocrites on the planet. A few months ago my account was terminated for no given reason whatsoever. I sent Tumblr support multiple messages asking why my account was terminated and they didn't respond to any of them.

The Tumblr staff also allows white supremacists on their platform whereas members of the LGBT community are flagged and/or banned. It's sickening.

TL; DR The Tumblr staff is incompetent and lazy.

Tumblr has driven off all of the users and content creators (both NSFW and SFW) that had kept me tethered to the site. My dash is a ghost town, and the censorship and filters make me feel stifled for choice. This is the worst blogging experience I ever had, and the punchline? Staff's "solution" to purge all the pedophiles and pornbots fixed NOTHING. They blatantly ignore the voices of its userbase, and every day that they don't fix the problem after the 17th is making my blood. I've already made several accounts on other sites. Once I find a good enough platform to export all of my content, I am gone. Tumblr can rot.

"Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that
Feature adult content." (Tumblr CEO)... And even more sites are available to block
Content at "their" discretion. Tumblr will now be one of those communities. You might consider better sites (instagram, pinterest, facebook etc.) that function under restrictions. If you like the Puritan movement, these sites have strong communities already. "Adult content" is meant for "Adults". If you consider yourself an "Adult" you will have to go
Somewhere else.