September 2012
21 posts
PITCH: Is Tumblr the Next Time, Inc?
Guys! Tumblr has pitched an Online News Association panel about the future of journalism — and whether companies like Tumblr & Facebook can compete with old media.
PLEASE **VOTE** TO HEAR US! This is all user-decided. We <3 our users!
Panelists are: Jessica Bennett, Tumblr/ Xana O’Neill, WNYC/ Allie Townsend, Facebook. (GIF by Jason Oberholtzer)
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Also, while we have you: Have you seen Tumblr’s interview with Kreayshawn? She loves bacon.
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During planned network maintenance this evening, an error by our team cut off traffic to a large subset of your custom domain blogs. Painfully, the full recovery took 1¾ hours to complete.
This is obviously unacceptable and an enormous disappointment to everyone working to keep your blogs fast and stable.
Ironically — or absurdly — this maintenance was part of ongoing infrastructure overhauls that have already done a tremendous amount to rid Tumblr of the awful tumblebeasts. We’re heartbroken this backfired today.
We’ll be conducting a comprehensive review of our procedures, redundancy, and recovery — taking all measures to prevent an incident like this from happening again.
We’re truly truly sorry.
