I joined Tumblr to find "older" photos, which I did, that's great, and to "publicize" my Instagram account.
I couldn't post from the Insta app to Tumblr, so I had to do it directly. Which is good really, since it turned out it counts as a reblogged post, therefore doesn't appear in the searches. Yeah, that's a con. So is the fact that only the first 20 tags can be found, although 30 is permitted.
No way to find a reblogged post through tags. Even if it's my own, if I want it to be found, I have to create a new post.
Creating quality content is time consuming everywhere, but Tumblr is less "rewarding" than any site I've seen before. Very few people - I've encountered with - actually use it. Unless you have a steady fanbase, it is hard to get followers - I don't really care about that anymore - you barely get likes or reblogs. That's the way I hoped to find similar blogs to mine, but it doesn't work, only on accidental level. I've tried various times of the day for posting, didn't work either, whatever the "statistics" say I cannot say that matters. I couldn't figure it out what's behind the magic of getting thousands of notices in 3-4 days.
"Staff Picks" is look like the site was operating by anime fan teenagers: that's it, anime fanfic, kitties-puppies, annoying gifs and stupid "artworks" mostly. Not a single artistic or mentionable travel photography.
"Tumblr Labs is a collection of experiments we're working on that might turn out to be useful, fun, both, or neither. They're not official or anything, so if something overly weird happens, don't contact our support team. Just turn the dang thing off." - Sounds very professional and ethical...
I've seen a number of users using irrelevant, but popular tags for notices and followers. Like a stock photo (claiming it's original content/own - it is, just someone else's) of some antique books was tagged with "hollywood", "pc games", "anime", "make up", "celebrities", etc and the sad thing it appears it works. Pathetic.
I gained a number of political/religious followers, they obviously do not follow my blog for photography, travel and fashion - I keep ignoring them. I haven't really recieved inappropriate messages so far (1-2), although recently sugardaddies found me. Lately multiple p*rn blogs started to follow me, I don't make a fuss about it, just block them, they're pathetic. That's why I always check who reblogged my posts and if I see someone inappropriate did it, by blocking them my post disappeares from their blog.
Many people don't like, just reblog the posts - I understand somewhere, since it stacks in your Likes. On the other hand, many people grab my photos and write some influencer rubbish under them, taking them out of context. I'm glad Tumblr and my watermark make clear those photos are mine.
Hard to find posts, partially because of the poor structure and poor management of the site. Say, a fashion photo gets uploaded/reblogged on an Adult content-flagged blog, you have no access to the archive (doesn't matter if the photo in question is not adult content). It's beyond me. Meaning if it's an older photo you have to scroll through the entire blog, which could be problematic if there are thousands of posts in the blog. Nerve-wracking, wasting the user's time for one post. Even with Cascadr or similar sites. Other sites simply blur out adult-content photos and flag them one by one, why not Tumblr?
There are really shamless blogs I've encountered, unfiltered and there are tasteful, artistic photos flagged as adult-content - which are not, according to the rules. Poor management.
The Dashboard is a catastrophe, especially if you want to edit your Queue and Draft, hours of scrolling up and down and lots of facepalms and startover again and again. The mass post editor is almost useless, barely more than a tag-editor.
By the way, "older photos". Almost every - if not all - artist I follow elsewhere, left Tumblr for Instagram years ago, this shows its significance. Preferences.
One thing is Tumblr has way less tags than Instagram and users don't even bother to use them, so it's easier to find anything over there. It also means Tumblr has older photos to explore without scrolling through thousands on Insta.
Another one: for instance, on Flickr (maybe Fb too? I'm not sure) you have an option to allow or not allow your uploaded photos others to download/save, Tumblr has no such function. If you upload something, anyone can take it - and they do. That would not be a problem if these people would give credit and a fashion photo would not wind up in an inappropriate blog, but they mostly don't. I watermarked all my photos, just in case.
Today I found three of my posted photos, surfing on a page and told the person to delete it or give credit to the photographer. They said, it's okay, done. They didn't do it of course. Instead before I could block, they quickly liked plenty of my posts, so they can save and post them later. I blocked them anyway immediately. I can't do anything about it. I cannot report, as it's not a copyright issue. I got that photo from the original owner, but I always give credit to all participants, places, where and when they were published, etc. They are photographers, MUAs, stylists I respect and follow their work since years. It's not the "stealing" bothers me the most (those photos are not mine technically, therefore they cannot be stolen from me, plus they were already published somewhere), but this kind of behaviour: demeanors that of a bully, they clearly let me know "you don't like it, I'm gonna take more". (How do I know it was taken from me and not from the published one? I took a look on their other posts and they clearly not the type who would read the artist's magazine read by a few it was published in, long ago. Also their weird, quick reaction. Gotcha.)
Secondary inconvenience I've found: I don't know which site generates the problem - or what's going on -, but on Tumblr you can pin photos (with the Pinterest app), however if you try to access them from Pinterest it only throws you to your own dashboard (or I don't know where, if you don't have a Tumblr account). The link actually doesn't lead to the photo you pinned.
I think I'm finished with the uploading and bothering with the posting, after my current queue and draft went out. I already invested a lot of time in them, so I don't want to just delete them, but it doesn't worth the energy.

I share the opinion of others below when it comes to this website. I joined it over 5 years ago and was a part of the Sims community. (@katsujii) Everything was fine and then the NSFW ban came into place. A lot of blogs were flagged, some unnecessarily and couldn't get their blogs unflagged. October 14th, a number of my posts started going missing. When I contacted staff about the missing posts, I received an email back from someone named, "Ana" pretty much putting the blame on my browser by saying the browser cache was most likely corrupt. When I emailed her back to let her know that my browser settings are set to clear all data when the browser is closed, so a corrupt cache wasn't the case, she never responded back.
I'm one of the people who logged on in the middle of the day to see that Tumblr had deactivated my account with no warning, no emails. No reply back to my emails questioning what happened and who were the people behind these so called, "multiple DMCA violations." From what I've found out recently, 6 people from the Sims community were gone. 1 person's page got terminated a week before mine and it's still a mystery when it comes to the other 5. No one knows if they got sick of Tumblr and left or were forced out. Now people are getting threatened by outside sources while staff just sits back and let porn blogs run wild. They're letting fake blogs reblog content and insert porn links into the posts. They're letting people advertise their music on other peoples content. They don't reply to emails and their flagging system is ran by Bots. (Staff actually admitted this). Might as well have the whole website run by bots since staff clearly doesn't give a crap about it's user base anymore

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There is no such things as sucessful automated filters. False positives and negatives are bound to happen. Robots only know what they programmed to do, they don't understand context, and are not self-aware.

You probably have herd about the European Union's article 13 that forces major websites to employ an automated copyright filter to prevent people from uploading infringing material to websites. Youtube have done a similar thing before this happened but merely notifies copyright holders instead of proactively taking down what's potentially legal content. And yes automated takedown themselves also exist, ToppleTrack went haywire due to a bug.

While telling if something is copyright infringement is easier for most cases, due to the fact that it compares with a databases that copyright holders are welcomed to prohibit unauthorized distributions there (via matching-based data hashes), it is much harder to try to tell if something is pornographic or not, due to a sheer number of ways to represent inappropriate stuff and this isn't matching base, so it doesn't compare with anything.

The result: Tumblr ends up flagging TONS of posts that have nothing to do with "Adult Content", images of dragons, dogs, and even abstract art with no "characters" in it (here: http://dailyrothko.tumblr.com/post/*******506/not-to-pile-on-here-but-this-doesnt-look-exactly) ends up in the wrong. You really can't trust robo-police here.

Is it enough that most websites require you to be at a certain age to even create an account. Why is it that most places, like apple's (the same company who made proprietary closed-platform in which they can decide what app can run on their devices) app store forbid porn altogether (regardless of the age of the viewer). This is overzealous censorship. We all know that parents are smart enough to prevent their kids from seeing such stuff on the Internet, there are parental controls at almost every services and systems (game consoles, google's safesearch, etc.).

Tumblr you should've done these things:
-Do something similar to how art sites censor for minors. No joke, if you are going to make changes to your policy, at least you would've done is to make existing post compatible with future changes. Something like a checkbox to notify the system to only display works towards older audiences.
-You should've made a no-porn policy when you were creating the website. But you decided to welcome them and then brake your promise.

Congratulations: you've lost a lot of your users. And also, screw apple, companies and other services who pressured tumblr to a censorship blogging place. It's another photobucket incident that images are disappearing (ESPICALLY for inactive users, which can be deleted forever).

Tumblr has always been a site for people to do slackivism, get offended at literally everything, and then pay themselves on the back and feel morally superior do it. But at least a few years ago, if someone blocked you, they just couldnt see what you said, but you could still revolve their posts and other people could see what you said on any of their posts before they blocked you. Now, for the past 2-3 ish years, tumblr made it so everything you said on a post of someone who blocked you (before they blocked you) cant be seen by anyone else if they look at the notes, you cant see anything else the person who blocked you says, and you can no longer reblog anything from them, EVEN IF IT WAS YOUR ORIGINAL POST THAT THEY REBLOGGED FROM YOU (which the person who blocks you can do) AND YOU WANT TO RESPOND ON YOUR POST. This is usually just irritating because it means if someone wants to make it look like everybody agrees with them, they can, but its also dangerous, because people will post blatantly false information with the intent of other people acting on it as if its 100% true (includes health advice and people faking claims of being attacked and demanding action, both of which are dangerous things to lie about when the reason for the lie is to get people to behave as if its true) and anybody who points out everything wrong with what that person is saying and proves that what theyre saying is utter BS can just be blocked by the OP so that nobody can see the correction of their lies anymore. This policy is so obviously easy to abuse and I cant believe tumblr staff thought it was in any way a good idea and STILL havent changed it when the dangerous ways its been used (that I outlined earlier) have been going in since they implemented the policy. It also completely halts any ability to have a discussion and makes the whole website EVEN MORE of an echo chamber than it already was. Its such a clear design flaw, but I doubt tumblr staff actually care if people dont like their ridiculous policies.
Also their harassment policy is so goddamn vague. If I reply to someone once and they get pissed and say GET OFF MY POST AND NEVER TALK TO ME AGAIN, regardless of whether or not anything Ive said or planned to say would actually constitute harassment in any other context, I cant reply again at all because their extremely broad definition of harassment means I could get my account deleted by replying to someone twice ever. Again, yet another policy that fosters the development of an echo chamber and completely kills any ability to have a discussion. And yet, with their self harm promotion policy, reporting blogs whose every post violates that rule often results in nothing being done. Tumblr staff is extremely inconsistent in their enforcement of the TOS, except for those that promote people never being called out for lying publicly and people ever having to see an opinion that deviates from their own in the slightest. The only good thing about the site is the user interface, most of the users are terrible, the terms of service are incredibly vague, and the block policy ensures that people who are either blatantly intentionally lying or are just plain wrong about everythings theyve said (whether or not they know theyre spreading misinformation) can ever be called out and/or corrected in a way that isnt easy for other users to see.

Its so broken in every way

Fun and easy to use.

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Pretty simple to use... Like it a lot!

The website gives no way to properly block someone--the ignore function does nothing--and if you ask for a post to be taken down because it contains false information or promotes violence against a person or group, you will be told that the site doesn't moderate blog content. This is unacceptable for a website as big as tumblr has grown to be.

It is also the playground of pedophiles and rapists, so parents beware. One popular post went around saying that if a person identified as a transgender and didn't inform the other person of their pre-op status, and the person said "no" to having sex with them, then the transgender basically had the right to rape the person, because "you can't say no to a transgender or it's oppression". In fact a majority of the popular users on the site have a fixation with oppression and call themselves social justice warriors. If you are white, male, straight, comfortable in your birth-gender, or god forbid all of the above, you will be harassed to no end if you reveal it, there. Because there is no working report or blocking system, your only hope of getting away from harassment once they've found you is to delete your blog, and many users have been badgered into doing this by the relentless userbase. You might think that it's easy to ignore the messages, but the problem is that the users can and will get your IP address and then release all of your personal information for people so they can track down your home, your workplace, and send you death threats in the mail as well as order pizzas to your house and even attempt calling and mailing your boss to get you fired using false information and photoshopped screenshots/pictures of you just because you said something they didn't like.

The site itself is broken as far as reblogging goes, and children could easily access porn even on accident if left unsupervised on the site. The posts will sometimes be unreadable if there are enough comments added onto the original posting, and the messaging system has no outbox type feature where you can see what you've written to someone else--if the message you sent even arrived in their inbox.

All in all, with an exceptionally poor management system, a quick-to-attack userbase, and broken messaging and reblogging systems, this site is not the utopia it claims to be. It needs either some serious revision and some decent moderation, or it should be shut down and replaced by some site that would actually take better care of itself.