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Here at Tumblr, we’ve been working hard on reorganizing how we work in a bid to gain more users. A larger user base means a more sustainable company, and means we get to stick around and do this thing with you all a bit longer. What follows is the strategy we're using to accomplish the goal of user growth. The @labs group has published a bit already, but this is bigger. We’re publishing it publicly for the first time, in an effort to work more transparently with all of you in the Tumblr community. This strategy provides guidance amid limited resources, allowing our teams to focus on specific key areas to ensure Tumblr’s future.
The Diagnosis
In order for Tumblr to grow, we need to fix the core experience that makes Tumblr a useful place for users. The underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use. Historically, we have expected users to curate their feeds and lean into curating their experience. But this expectation introduces friction to the user experience and only serves a small portion of our audience.
Tumblr’s competitive advantage lies in its unique content and vibrant communities. As the forerunner of internet culture, Tumblr encompasses a wide range of interests, such as entertainment, art, gaming, fandom, fashion, and music. People come to Tumblr to immerse themselves in this culture, making it essential for us to ensure a seamless connection between people and content.
To guarantee Tumblr’s continued success, we’ve got to prioritize fostering that seamless connection between people and content. This involves attracting and retaining new users and creators, nurturing their growth, and encouraging frequent engagement with the platform.
Our Guiding Principles
To enhance Tumblr’s usability, we must address these core guiding principles.
Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.
Provide high-quality content with every app launch.
Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.
Retain and grow our creator base.
Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.
Improve the platform’s performance, stability, and quality.
Below is a deep dive into each of these principles.
Principle 1: Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.
Tumblr has a “top of the funnel” issue in converting non-users into engaged logged-in users. We also have not invested in industry standard SEO practices to ensure a robust top of the funnel. The referral traffic that we do get from external sources is dispersed across different pages with inconsistent user experiences, which results in a missed opportunity to convert these users into regular Tumblr users. For example, users from search engines often land on pages within the blog network and blog view—where there isn’t much of a reason to sign up.
We need to experiment with logged-out tumblr.com to ensure we are capturing the highest potential conversion rate for visitors into sign-ups and log-ins. We might want to explore showing the potential future user the full breadth of content that Tumblr has to offer on our logged-out pages. We want people to be able to easily understand the potential behind Tumblr without having to navigate multiple tabs and pages to figure it out. Our current logged-out explore page does very little to help users understand “what is Tumblr.” which is a missed opportunity to get people excited about joining the site.
Actions & Next Steps
Improving Tumblr’s search engine optimization (SEO) practices to be in line with industry standards.
Experiment with logged out tumblr.com to achieve the highest conversion rate for sign-ups and log-ins, explore ways for visitors to “get” Tumblr and entice them to sign up.
Principle 2: Provide high-quality content with every app launch.
We need to ensure the highest quality user experience by presenting fresh and relevant content tailored to the user’s diverse interests during each session. If the user has a bad content experience, the fault lies with the product.
The default position should always be that the user does not know how to navigate the application. Additionally, we need to ensure that when people search for content related to their interests, it is easily accessible without any confusing limitations or unexpected roadblocks in their journey.
Being a 15-year-old brand is tough because the brand carries the baggage of a person’s preconceived impressions of Tumblr. On average, a user only sees 25 posts per session, so the first 25 posts have to convey the value of Tumblr: it is a vibrant community with lots of untapped potential. We never want to leave the user believing that Tumblr is a place that is stale and not relevant.
Actions & Next Steps
Deliver great content each time the app is opened.
Make it easier for users to understand where the vibrant communities on Tumblr are.
Improve our algorithmic ranking capabilities across all feeds.
Principle 3: Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.
Part of Tumblr’s charm lies in its capacity to showcase the evolution of conversations and the clever remarks found within reblog chains and replies. Engaging in these discussions should be enjoyable and effortless.
Unfortunately, the current way that conversations work on Tumblr across replies and reblogs is confusing for new users. The limitations around engaging with individual reblogs, replies only applying to the original post, and the inability to easily follow threaded conversations make it difficult for users to join the conversation.
Actions & Next Steps
Address the confusion within replies and reblogs.
Improve the conversational posting features around replies and reblogs.
Allow engagements on individual replies and reblogs.
Make it easier for users to follow the various conversation paths within a reblog thread.
Remove clutter in the conversation by collapsing reblog threads.
Explore the feasibility of removing duplicate reblogs within a user’s Following feed.
Principle 4: Retain and grow our creator base.
Creators are essential to the Tumblr community. However, we haven’t always had a consistent and coordinated effort around retaining, nurturing, and growing our creator base.
Being a new creator on Tumblr can be intimidating, with a high likelihood of leaving or disappointment upon sharing creations without receiving engagement or feedback. We need to ensure that we have the expected creator tools and foster the rewarding feedback loops that keep creators around and enable them to thrive.
The lack of feedback stems from the outdated decision to only show content from followed blogs on the main dashboard feed (“Following”), perpetuating a cycle where popular blogs continue to gain more visibility at the expense of helping new creators. To address this, we need to prioritize supporting and nurturing the growth of new creators on the platform.
It is also imperative that creators, like everyone on Tumblr, feel safe and in control of their experience. Whether it be an ask from the community or engagement on a post, being successful on Tumblr should never feel like a punishing experience.
Actions & Next Steps
Get creators’ new content in front of people who are interested in it.
Improve the feedback loop for creators, incentivizing them to continue posting.
Build mechanisms to protect creators from being spammed by notifications when they go viral.
Expand ways to co-create content, such as by adding the capability to embed Tumblr links in posts.
Principle 5: Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.
Push notifications and emails are essential tools to increase user engagement, improve user retention, and facilitate content discovery. Our strategy of reaching out to you, the user, should be well-coordinated across product, commercial, and marketing teams.
Our messaging strategy needs to be personalized and adapt to a user’s shifting interests. Our messages should keep users in the know on the latest activity in their community, as well as keeping Tumblr top of mind as the place to go for witty takes and remixes of the latest shows and real-life events.
Most importantly, our messages should be thoughtful and should never come across as spammy.
Actions & Next Steps
Conduct an audit of our messaging strategy.
Address the issue of notifications getting too noisy; throttle, collapse or mute notifications where necessary.
Identify opportunities for personalization within our email messages.
Test what the right daily push notification limit is.
Send emails when a user has push notifications switched off.
Principle 6: Performance, stability and quality.
The stability and performance of our mobile apps have declined. There is a large backlog of production issues, with more bugs created than resolved over the last 300 days. If this continues, roughly one new unresolved production issue will be created every two days. Apps and backend systems that work well and don't crash are the foundation of a great Tumblr experience. Improving performance, stability, and quality will help us achieve sustainable operations for Tumblr.
Improve performance and stability: deliver crash-free, responsive, and fast-loading apps on Android, iOS, and web.
Improve quality: deliver the highest quality Tumblr experience to our users.
Move faster: provide APIs and services to unblock core product initiatives and launch new features coming out of Labs.
Conclusion
Our mission has always been to empower the world’s creators. We are wholly committed to ensuring Tumblr evolves in a way that supports our current users while improving areas that attract new creators, artists, and users. You deserve a digital home that works for you. You deserve the best tools and features to connect with your communities on a platform that prioritizes the easy discoverability of high-quality content. This is an invigorating time for Tumblr, and we couldn’t be more excited about our current strategy.
Are you the kind of naughty slutty girl that dreams about the exciting sexual experiences that are on offer, but never really has the guts to do anything?
Are you a sub that adores the idea of someone controlling you completely, submitting to them utterly, but can’t take that final step to fulfilling your fantasies?
Are you a confused newbie unsure where to start their journey into BDSM?
Well this is the challenge for you. It’s easy, fun, exciting, and enormously erotic.
Oh and if you’re in charge of a cutie, you should be getting her to do this as early as possible.
Things you’ll need:
One or more colourful thumbdrives/usb sticks.
A camera/smart phone
ID (Driver’s License, Student Card, Passport)
Proof of Address
5-10 minutes of your time
(Optional: Winrar or similar archive program)
So, this is how you create something so dangerous, so powerful, so life changing, that you are a wet sloppy mess just touching it. It’ll sound scary as you read, it’ll sound impossible and reckless.. but you’ll enjoy reading it and by the time you get to the end, it’ll be a nice little mind worm that’ll stay in your fantasies for some time. Until you do it!
First
Take a selfie of you holding your ID, passport or driver’s license. Make sure its a close up of your face, the ID in clear view. Then take a photo of just the ID, all details able to be made out.
Then do the same with your proof of address.
Second
Create a simple text document and put down these details; Full Name, Date of Birth, Address, Contact details of yourself and place of work, and the link to your Facebook profile. This part is important. Any social media presence… add it.
By this point, you’re probably trembling knowing this thing even exists. Why not add passwords to your emails? Fuck it. Throw anything else in that document. Fucking Netflix if you want. You can add a little paragraph about how you’re a foolish, silly, naughty slut who gets off to the idea of being owned.
Because that’s what this exercise is about.
Third
The really heart pounding bit. You’re going to do a very short video, and in it you’re going to do something you’d never, EVER, want anyone to see. Something shameful, humiliating, degrading, embarrassing, perverted.
It could be admitting you have rape fantasies. It could be admitting that even though you’re a lesbian, you fantasise about being reconditioned to fuck men. It could be that you want to become a complete slave, be pissed on, and bred. Incest fantasies, be they about real family members or not. If you’re trans or on your way to being – you could have yourself dressed up. Or it could be as vanilla as deep-throating your fingers till you gag and drool all over yourself while admitting you’re a stupid worthless cum-dumpster.
You could add whatever things you wanted, true or not. So long as it’s convincing, and something you’d never want anyone to know.
And of course, you make sure your face and therefore your identity is in full view, and you are vocal, enthusiastic and very, very horny.
Personally, I’m a fan of bodywriting.
Now make sure that video is clear, but a nice small size. Concise, short but sweet.
Fourth
Get all those photos, the text file, and the video together and stick them either in a folder, or an archive.
Then of course, stick them on one or more thumb drives. Make sure nothing is passworded. You can create as many of these as you feel comfortable with. Perhaps start with two or three?
Keep one on hand, and put the others in a few hiding places. Somewhere secret people won’t find easily. Obviously these things are dynamite in the wrong hands!
Finally
When you’re still a bit shaky over doing this.. knowing these #TimeBombs exist out in the world.. plug that drive into your computer and finger yourself to an explosive orgasm just knowing such a thing exists. Something that can change your life forever, expose you permanently as a slut, a slave, a wanton desperate needy whore. Something that could be use to force you into sex work, to blackmail you into further acts of filthy depravity, to be use in every seedy act of sextortion imaginable.
This thing you’ve created is a secret invisible collar that anyone could find and use on you, at almost any time. It’s VERY unlikely, but it’s possible. You’ve created a backdoor into your sexuality. A hidden way to expose you and control you utterly. You ever dreamed about losing control.. there now exists something in the real world that can make you do almost anything…
…Enjoy
What you do with these #TimeBombs is mostly up to you. But to fully complete the challenge, take the drive you just used to cum explosively hard, and put it on your keys. A nice bright signal to anyone and everyone who looks.
It’s safe there, how often have you lost your keys really?
And nobody is going to just use a drive on your keys without asking, right?
And you can take it off anytime you like.. nobody KNOWS this thing exists, what it is.
But you’ll get wet thinking of taking one, just ONE, trip outside with it attached to the zip of your handbag. If you’re a student, take it to school. Take it to work. Put it in your jeans pocket and remember how you have an object that can wreck your life right there, pressing into your cheeks whenever you sit down. If you’re truly daring you’ll let someone borrow it.
You want the danger and the excitement this brings to you everyday. You’ll wonder what more you can add to the dirty, scary, maliciously sexy archive you’ve created. You’ll wonder if that girl with the bright pink usb drive on her rucksack is carrying a #TimeBomb too.
And the best part is, anyone can do this! Doesn’t really matter your gender, looks, race, age.. it’s an exciting sexy thing to create regardless!
Now you can masturbate to the thought all you like, but keep in mind that it’s SUPER easy to make one of these. Maybe commit to making one and only taking it on one trip? Or deleting it after a few days? Perhaps you’ll just take it on holiday?
And keep in mind, friendly tumblr users and strange men are more than happy to receive your #TimeBombs and use them as they see fit. So if you’re feeling down and you’ve got one sitting around…
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