Staff, let’s talk

docholligay:

Tumblr, I have an idea. You’re desperate to monetize this
site. I get that. Running websites costs money, I know how the world works.

I am desperate for you to create a website I can use
effectively.

I was on livejournal back in the day, and they had a thing
called “paid accounts.” The free account was always free, but the paid accounts
had special benefits.

If you offered paid accounts, I would buy one. I would give
them away for giveaways. I would give them to my friends as gifts. I had a paid
account back in my LJ days!

I think 25-30 dollars
a year is fair for the amount of entertainment I get off this site, considering
that tumblr, inc, does not make the content but serves as a vessel. That works
out to 2.50 a month at the high end, which is more money than you are making
off me currently because I use an ad blocker because we are at war. (Previous
to you taking replies away, I actually didn’t! Because again, I understand how
costs and money work) But also low enough that I think you’d be surprised how
many takers you’d get.

Let’s stop fucking with each other and just turn this into a
monetary exchange. I’m tired of the horseshit. You need money, I need a fucking
useable fandom website. Leave free tumblr accounts as they are, I don’t care.
But here’s what I want in a paid account.

NECESSARY:

• I want replies back. No ‘we’ll get around to it’ no ‘replies
  are coming.’ I want them back the day you run my Paypal. You have the code, don’t
  even tell me you can’t turn it on for a particular blog, because you did the
  exact thing with messaging. 
• I want to be able to upload videos direct to tumblr that are
  longer than 6 damn seconds. Give me some storage space. 
• Custom themes or some bullshit, I don’t actually care about
  this but other people might
• No ads for paid users

I would LIKE:

• To create a button where I can decide to make a post
  rebloggable or not when I create it.
• To have a quick dropdown when I ask a question so I can ask
  it from a sideblog.
• Fanmail back

Now, I am not a great fool, and realize there will be GREAT
HUE AND CRY if you try to establish this. I don’t care. And you shouldn’t
either. First of all, there’s great hue and cry every time you do literally
anything. Secondly, the people who will complain the loudest are very likely
already using an adblocker, because we are on the internet and savvy to it, and
you are not making money on them anyhow.

And please don’t insult me, tumblr, by telling me it’s about
‘the love of the site’ or some crap. The changes you’ve implemented are
designed to make this more of a look-reblog-move on site where things go viral
and advertising can easily be slipped in, versus a conversational place. But I am
telling you, ‘I will give you money to stop fucking with me’

Let me give you money. And stop fucking with me. 

I AGREE WITH THIS SO HARD. It’s something *I* would pay money for, and I’m in a pretty tight financial place. But!! This site is one of my main modes of entertainment, I splurge on Netflix, I would splurge on this.

I think ALSO a cool feature for paid members is a size limit increase on pics/gifs. Nothing huge, but something just significant enough to make it worth it for the people who make that sort of content too.