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Re:Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 200... by zxcvbn4038 on Monday March 18, 2019 @01:36AM (#19418907)
Tumblr rejected all things Yahoo, except the money, so the answer to just about anything Yahoo asked was either “no”, “get stuffed”, or silence and a note to David that he needed to escalate to Marissa.

On the other side the Yahoo services were so heavily integrated that it was hard to carve out any piece of them, and the few times we tried it was a slow and painful process because Yahoo’s piece was glitchey and unreliable outside of it’s home turf and the Tumblr engineers defensive and argumentative about everything and not willing to help.

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Re:Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 200... by zimpenfish on Monday March 18, 2019 @04:47AM (#19419511)
> Tumblr rejected all things Yahoo

Having worked at Yahoo, I understand this stance.

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Re:Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 200... by aasasd on Monday March 18, 2019 @05:10AM (#19419614)
That's exactly how I imagined Tumblr's design and development, based on my multiple unsuccessful attempts, over the years, to find any useful navigation between blogs, or the function of reading comments.
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