Clearly the majority of blogs I have links for are on Tumblr. There are also some on Wordpress and some here on Blogger and a small number privately hosted. I tried Wordpress and found it hard to manage. Tumblr, 'though, really annoys me.
First most "spanking" blogs have a huge proportion of non-spanking related material. I notice that Secret Spanko has just returned to blogger for just that reason. (Note that although I do post mainly on spanking and and many links are for spankings sites, I don't actually title my site as a spanking blog and I do feature some links to BDSM, candid nudity etc).
Second, it seems technically flawed. Roughly speaking when I click on the blog name in my Blogroll, about a quarter of the time it tells me the blog isn't available right now (not just that it might contain sensitive material - I've got the hang of that one) but if I click on the name of the most recent post it opens perfectly fine and if they've set up an archive option that works fine as well. So it is available - just unfriendly.
Most of all 'though I dislike to culture that promotes reblogging things all the time. If you've ever checked out the links in my Blogroll you'll know that there's quite a lot and I do spend some time (too much) browsing them. If I scan through two or three posts and then spot something that looks familiar I tend to assume I've already seen blogposts on that site prior to that date. But in fact, the frantic reblogging of anything good often means I then see that same image on several more sites and therefore I don't know if I might have missed something. One day last week I saw three posts on one site and the next blog I looked at had the same three posts in the same order. Of course a lot of the material I post has been on other blogs, but usually it's from some time ago and I think people might not have seen it if they haven't been around for long or they might just like reminding. Or I repackage it around a particular theme. I think just filling a blog with the images you've just seen someone else post is causing the blogging community (and in this case specifically, the spanko blogging community) to become very bloated.
Am I just becoming grumpy in my old age?
First most "spanking" blogs have a huge proportion of non-spanking related material. I notice that Secret Spanko has just returned to blogger for just that reason. (Note that although I do post mainly on spanking and and many links are for spankings sites, I don't actually title my site as a spanking blog and I do feature some links to BDSM, candid nudity etc).
Second, it seems technically flawed. Roughly speaking when I click on the blog name in my Blogroll, about a quarter of the time it tells me the blog isn't available right now (not just that it might contain sensitive material - I've got the hang of that one) but if I click on the name of the most recent post it opens perfectly fine and if they've set up an archive option that works fine as well. So it is available - just unfriendly.
Most of all 'though I dislike to culture that promotes reblogging things all the time. If you've ever checked out the links in my Blogroll you'll know that there's quite a lot and I do spend some time (too much) browsing them. If I scan through two or three posts and then spot something that looks familiar I tend to assume I've already seen blogposts on that site prior to that date. But in fact, the frantic reblogging of anything good often means I then see that same image on several more sites and therefore I don't know if I might have missed something. One day last week I saw three posts on one site and the next blog I looked at had the same three posts in the same order. Of course a lot of the material I post has been on other blogs, but usually it's from some time ago and I think people might not have seen it if they haven't been around for long or they might just like reminding. Or I repackage it around a particular theme. I think just filling a blog with the images you've just seen someone else post is causing the blogging community (and in this case specifically, the spanko blogging community) to become very bloated.
Am I just becoming grumpy in my old age?