News: Tumblr launches Communities
Now it’s clear why Tumblr released a "State of Community" report earlier this year.
The platform founded in 2007 has taken a page from Reddit’s playbook by launching their Communities’ feature to everyone, having previously been testing it in beta since earlier this year.
Tumblr communities are a lot like subReddits or forums.
Anyone can create a ‘community’ around anything they like. Community Topics currently include Anime, Culture, Art, Gaming, LGBTQIA+, Science, Travel, Music and Humour.
Tumblr has long been a platform for fandoms to congregate and a space to write and discover blogs. It makes sense for them to add Communities, and hopefully this will inject energy and renewed interest in the platform.
Communities on Tumblr can public or private, so users can create large groups or smaller private networks. There is also an option to create communities with ‘mature content’.
Tumblr will surface Communities at the top of search results and has a landing page where users can search for Communities they wish to.
Tumblr has launched its Communities feature - here’s the current view of communities categorised as ‘Culture’
It’s good to see another legacy social media platform placing itself at the heart of our natural desire to create and join interest and topic based communities and connections.
I’ll be watching closely how the feature develops.
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