Tumblr is the best blogging platform I’ve ever used, but I won’t say that I’ve never been frustrated by it.
This is the second part of a two part series about Tumblr. The other post can be found here.
Over the past few years I’ve been casting about trying to find the best site creation tools. After trying Freeway, Dreamweaver, iWeb, Squarespace, Wordpress, Blogger, Virb, and Posterous. I’ve finally settled down and decided upon Tumblr as my long term home. The thing is, tumblr was one of the first tools I tried. So why did I keep experimenting with so many different services after I’d already found the platform for me?
The inability to import or export from a tumblr blog has been the main reason and, frankly, I’m not sure that, without this feature, I’ll ever be 100% comfortable with the decision.
A blogging platform that doesn’t provide easy ways to import and export a complete blog archive is like a landlord adding provisions to your lease saying that they get to keep all of your belongings when you move out. Regardless how great the place is that you are moving into, that’s got to give you pause.
Now, to be fair, Tumblr isn’t that bad.
They did recently announce a new backup utility to try and address this issue, but I think it falls short in one, seemingly small, but key area.
Source: thedaysarelongandshort
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3ssse1i said:
To be honest,i came to tumblr bcz of the design available and the option to attach to Facebook (is a very personal blog. Of all platforms available, for me, is a Portuguese platform “blogs.sapo.pt” the best one: easy to attach files, easy to archive.
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