(Stealing a couple of paragraphs from The Daily Dot)
Yahoo might could make this work for itself and others, if it doesn’t make the cardinal mistake of
4) Underestimating fandom
When Yahoo bought, then tried to sunset Delicious, it did more than just piss off a good chunk of the Internet…
And this is why I’ve been so pissed off for so long with Tumblr’s fucked-up tag-tracking, inability to mass-edit our own posts, etc.
I HAVE been through this before. I want my data to be fucking portable. It’s not yours. It’s mine. I have things on here I want to keep, to be able to find and copy if I need to, when the site inevitably fucks up, goes south, sells out or shuts down.
One Hell of a Steep Learning Curve: How Yahoo could fuck up its life with Tumblr