”I am moving more of my long-form writing to Medium, and placing it behind the paywall there. I have a considerable following there, and I find Medium’s social affordances the best anywhere. I still like certain aspects of Tumblr, but my time there is coming to an end, I think, at least for long form.”
Stowe Boyd
.. who IMHO is moving from one problem to another.
💬 John Philpin @AlanRalph 😊 … this is part of a longer term thing with Stowe who I have been trying to push for a while.
Adam Tinworth @simonwoods Oh, Stowe always writes (and talks) like that. This does not invalidate your point, though.
Watts Martin @AlanRalph To be fair, there were themes you could use on Tumblr that made it pretty good for longform writing/reading. Most people didn't, but it was certainly possible. :)
💬 John Philpin @adders 😂 - but I am still going to add @simonwoods line to MB quotes for posterity
💬 John Philpin filed in the ‘just because you should - doesn’t mean you should' bucket.
Watts Martin well, I'm pretty sure hosting a blog on Tumblr indirectly led to a positive career change for me in 2014, so I can't be too hard on the platform, even if I migrated away a couple years ago...
Watts Martin @AlanRalph Ah, true. I always wrote longer posts in text editors and pasted them in when I was ready.
