What’s most interesting, and most encouraging, to me is the list of priorities they cite in rethinking their approach. That we could finally test some of the new tech we’ve been itching to use was just a little bonus. It was time to step back, survey the world of web technology, and clean house in a big way. In an April 10 post titled “ A Big New Beautiful Future for the Web at Tumblr“, they write about significant plans to renovate their whole approach to developing the website: Do they want out of the blog-hosting business, the way they evidently wanted out of the photo-hosting business? Or did they merely see Flickr as being redundant with Tumblr?Īmidst the uncertainty about Tumblr’s future, the Tumblr Engineering team at least seems to be very optimistic. Most of Oath’s services, including major tech press outlets such as TechCrunch, revolve around providing consumers with content, as opposed to hosting user-contributed content. The sale of Flickr makes me wonder where Tumblr fits into Verizon’s overall vision for Oath’s brands. They established a new company called Oath, which is an umbrella for many sites including Tumblr and, until a few days ago, Flickr. The latest chapter in this saga began last year when Verizon acquired Yahoo’s major products, including Tumblr. Unfortunately, this lack of change also means that the decade-old lack of support for uploading images has not improved. Stability seems to have improved after Yahoo! acquired the company in 2013, and the Tumblr API has, for better and for worse, appeared to remain unchanged for many years now. In recent years, things have leveled out. Over the years, other issues have interfered with MarsEdit’s integration with Tumblr, including reliability problems, unexpected api outages and overhauls, among other surprises. This means that MarsEdit users who write traditional “text” blog entries on Tumblr cannot add images to those posts, even though the same functionality is available in the Tumblr web editor. The most significant shortcoming in Tumblr’s API remains to this day: lack of support for uploading and embedding images independently from “photo” style posts. ![]() I would like to thank Marco Arment for his patience in working with me to improve the Tumblr API, so that it will work better with MarsEdit.Īlthough I was satisfied with the initial changes made to the API, there were areas that still needed work. It feels great to finally have an official release out there that supports Tumblr. In March, 2009, I released MarsEdit 2.3 with support for Tumblr: That post resulted in a response from their lead developer at the time, Marco Arment, and a significant update to their API. There are relatively simple changes that Tumblr can make to their API to facilitate an acceptable user experience not only from MarsEdit, but from other client applications that might choose to embrace the service’s API. Starting with a December, 2008 post in which I encouraged Tumblr to add fundamental support for apps like MarsEdit to their API: MarsEdit’s history with Tumblr has been long and bittersweet.
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