Tumblr has Tumbled…

03Nov07

Well it looks like Tumblr has died for the moment. They did a big upgrade on November 1st but for some reason either completely failed to test it or there were some nasty bugs hiding in the long grass. Whichever it is the RSS import feature was broken, then sort of fixed, then sort of broken while all the time different pages were available/unavailable due to maintenance¹. Now it’s down completely and looks like it has been down all day.

It’s a pity because I really like the service, especially the way I could almost treat it as an aggregator for my del.icio.us links and snippets of my blog entries. I didn’t like the way it pulled in all my tweets from Twitter² so I’d created a simple but nifty pipe on Yahoo! Pipes! to filter out replies to other people and remove the leading “fintanp:” and imported that as a regular RSS feed. I hadn’t started pulling in photos from Flickr yet³ but did post the occasional one taken with my phone. I hope they fix it soon or I’ll have to move to a competitor like these guys.

The last couple of days have made me realise just how reliant I am on hosted services like wordpress.com for this blog. I’m going to have to organise my own soon.

– Fintan

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1 – I could get the dashboard but couldn’t see the actual page… then I couldn’t see the dashboard but could see the page…. *sigh*.
2 – Or how they were formatted.
3 – I haven’t really started using flickr yet.

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