The Future of Photography on Tumblr

In this edition of The Wringer, we need YOUR opinion and input to some tough questions we pose.

The theme is The Health and Future of Photography on Tumblr and are we, as members of this community, doing a good enough job of keeping original content photographers engaged and active in the community.

At Lensblr we are concerned that there is an ongoing and fairly large scale exodus of photographers from Tumblr. Recently we ran a script in our database to check how many of the photographers we followed are now either gone (deleted blog) or haven't posted in the last year. We eliminated over 600 blogs from the results that at one time we believed offered work that was good enough to publish. If we run the script again and drill it down to six months of inactivity, we could remove another 400 blogs that were at one time active. This represents 20% of the 5,000 blogs we follow(ed), which is disconcerting to say the least.

The Wringer will be asking you why this may or may not be so. All responses are strictly confidential unless you provide us with your name and blog link.

Once again, we will publish the most interesting, insightful, funny, provocative and creative answers in the following weeks. Make sure to leave your name and blog url if you wish to be known and have your blog promoted when we publish your answers or comments. Even though this is a serious topic let’s still try to have some fun while we're at it. We ask that you please check the three C’s (Criticise, Condemn, Complain) at the door when responding to The Wringer survey this week.
You may answer any number of the questions below or use any blank box to ask a question if you desire.

Thank you very much for your time and support.

Please start with the survey now by clicking on the Continue button below.

What would or will make you leave Tumblr as a platform to showcase your photography?

Do you know anyone who has left Tumblr or curtailed their posting habits, in order to focus on other sites like 500px, Instagram, Flickr?

Have you already done this, or are you considering a change?

What do other sites offer that Tumblr does not?

In your opinion, why is (or isn't), Tumblr holding the interest of photographers?

Do you think there are too many curated sites on Tumblr?

What can Lensblr do to help stem the flow away from Tumblr?

Do you get annoyed with people who follow you, but never like your stuff or clearly never look at the work going through their dash? How do you feel about followers who are just after a follow for follow situation just to bolster their numbers and have no intention of ever looking at or reblogging your work. What do you do about them? do you ignore their work and do you unfollow them?

Do the curators that reblog original photographer’s work on Tumblr help or are they a hindrance?

Do the curators need to step up to the plate and innovate, as opposed to replicating (and/or criticising) each other, all the while gunning to get the best work first?

What do you think of Lensblr starting a strictly Tumblr-based stock photography database for emerging photographers on Tumblr? Would you grant Lensblr a license to sell the images, and in return we would pay royalties to you, whilst retaining a small percentage as a commission?

Why not Zoidberg?

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