December 2011
17 posts
“It’s not interesting to me to just make (users) laugh or entertain them,” said Price. “I want to set up little challenges and have them make things; have them go off, come back and throw it into the zeitgeist. To me, that’s what Tumblr’s about.” The ability to ‘make things’ is how Tumblr differentiates itself. Using the platform, one can be creative. “I’m hoping that what I can do is sort of trickle down and set a tone that this is a place of open, free expression. And creativity.”
—Josh Sternberg sat down to chat with Topherchris about his role as Community Manager at Tumblr
Blogs hosted on custom domains just suffered an outage lasting 1.5 hours. The culprit was a badly configured network device operated by one of our service providers, making the issue difficult for our engineers to resolve quickly.
Our custom domain infrastructure is unfortunately a holdover from the architecture we established more than four years ago. Its state-of-the-art replacement has been prepped and tested over the last few months and we’re expecting to migrate this week.
We’ll have more information shortly. Please accept our deepest apologies.
I Work For The Internet →
iworkfortheinternet.org
We work for the Internet. And we’re guessing many of you do too. Whether it’s researching, selling, coding, supporting, designing — so many of our careers depend on the Internet.
One argument that’s been made to Congress is that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is needed to protect American jobs. In truth, the new liabilities this bill would impose on startups could stop American innovation in its tracks.
To make this clear to Congress, we’ve built IWorkForTheInternet.org to show the world how many of our careers depend on the Internet.
If you work for the Internet, please add yourself and spread the word.
SOPA Update
This weekend, we hosted a meeting at Tumblr HQ with top technology companies, politicians and advocacy groups to coordinate our effort to reform or prevent the well-intentioned but deeply flawed Stop Online Piracy Act from becoming law. You guys have already made a huge impact in Washington, but the legislation still poses a threat.
This week is crucial for action as the bill may be finalized and put to a vote by Friday. We’ll be making a serious push this week to make sure Congress hears our concerns.
We’ll keep you updated on how you can join in the effort. Please stay tuned!
November 2011
9 posts
Holy crap — you guys are averaging 3.6 calls per second, and rising!
You’re making a real difference. Don’t let up. Spread the word.
Tumblr Numbrs: The Rapid Rise of Social Blogging →
mashable.com
Neat! Thanks, Mash. :)
October 2011
8 posts
September 2011
6 posts
A large segment of custom domain blogs experienced an outage earlier this afternoon with roughly 3.5 hours of intermittent availability.
The interruption stemmed from an issue in the way this blog traffic gets load balanced (distributed across our servers). This system has been undergoing a delicate but comprehensive overhaul to handle the tremendous amount of new traffic we’re projecting this year. This is one of many areas where our engineering team (now 22 strong) is constantly striving to make our infrastructure as resilient as possible.
It goes without saying that the performance of your blogs is our highest priority.
We’re deeply sorry for today’s failure.
Tumblr Android 2.0.2 is ready to download on the Android Market!
For those of you on older phones who couldn’t upload photos, that should now be working.
There were also cases where the Reblog screen wouldn’t switch to landscape mode. That’s also now fixed.
We’ve heard a few reports of folks having trouble launching the app, and our last patch seems to have cleared everything up. If you’re hitting this, please uninstall and reinstall the app from the Android Market and the issue should go away!
Sorry for the trouble. Please let us know if you run into any more issues.
We’re currently working on things like: Landscape mode for the Dashboard, moving the app to the SD card, speeding up loading times, and making the app Honeycomb compatible.
August 2011
9 posts
The Tumblr Android release has been getting some pretty good press! I’ve also been seeing the odd issue cropping up here and there.
I wanted to let everyone know that we’re working on it. Expect a patch soonish. :-)
Free this weekend?
There are 88 Tumblr meetups coming up all over the world!
