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aimmyarrowshigh https://www.aimmyarrowshigh.com/post/657433336191565824:
what’s so irksome about post+ is like… no one wanted that feature, but
there ARE features that people want and WOULD be worth paying a couple
bucks a month for, if tumblr actually understood its own userbase at all
like i very happily paid for livejournal for years because what you got for
a couple bucks a month made using the site a better experience for the way
users were actually doing livejournal
if tumblr was like, “hey, for $2 bucks a month, you can have messaging on
sideblogs, no ads, actual human support staff responses, and the ability to
see and/or edit your tags” i would pay them that money
but instead of doing the work to make the site worth paying for, they
want the users to do that work for them by creating paid user-made content
instead of, you know, improving the user experience of the actual website,
while providing exactly the same level of (zero) service
if they create a site with options worth paying for – as in additional
ease-of-use stuff, not taking things away from the existing free site! –
then people would. it works. it’s a business model that works. but tumblr
itself would have to put in the work, and they just don’t want to do that.
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