Tumblr vs fandom - random thoughts
My real problems with tumblr as a fandom platform:
1. No centralization, just a massive firehose of complete random stuff organized loosely via an ever evolving anarchy of tags.
2. Whenever a fandom appreciation week or meme month is announced, I only find out about it via happenstance because there is no single tag/blog to go to.
3. Stuff happens so fast that I cannot keep up even if I log in for 30-60 minutes most evenings of the week.
4. No way to easily find old posts that would interest me.
5. Ppl change their blog name at the drop of a hat, can no longer find old content from them. :C
6. What tag should I look under for something? No one can agree, especially for many ships.
7. Email notifications aren’t very good. Communication facilities are bad. Discussion facilities might as well not exist.
8. No way to filter my dash to only see content X vs content Y. (For instance, my short listed friends or only the announcement blogs).
9. Discussions are a nightmare- It’s like a giant game of telephone and absolute randomness occurs by the third reblog.
10. Everything about tumblr is designed for fast immediate consumption. Consume, enjoy, forget, move on. Revisiting or archiving or creating a sense of place for a subfandom community is really, really difficult unless that place becomes a blog that gets lots and lots and lots of submissions. Any blog that only posts once or twice a day (ha, or less) gets lost firehose of the endless streaming dash.
I love tumblr’s ease of including video and images. I’ve gotten the hang of reblogging. But yeah, I agree with most of this.
