Tumblr is Down – Fans Angry

Re:Tumblr is Down – Fans Angry by cletus on Sunday December 05, 2010 @11:36PM (#1973934)

Tumblr has grown to be one of the 50 biggest sites in the world with over a billion page views a month. They've done this with (iirc) a fairly small team.

Sure they've got growing pains. It saddens me that some here are labeling them "morons". The problems they're now facing aren't trivial. How they handle them will really be the test,

Twitter had huge stability problems. They got over them. Even Google has had serious downtime (not since 2001 however).

It's not whether or not you make mistakes that matters. It's how you deal with them when you do.

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Re:Tumblr is Down – Fans Angry by jericsinger on Monday December 06, 2010 @12:08AM (#1974016)

Well put. It's embarrassing, but it's the sort of thing that is bound to happen when you scale so fast so leanly. I'm sure they'll come out of this with a number of improvements and be much the stronger for it. And if they don't, then that tells a different story (but it's one I don't expect to hear).

Different type of growing pain, but this reminded me of when Foursquare forgot to renew their domain back in March (http://tcrn.ch/gk73zQ).

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Re:Tumblr is Down – Fans Angry by jacobbijani on Monday December 06, 2010 @10:36AM (#1975472)

3 billion a month now, actually.

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