Tumblr has lost 30 percent of web traffic since December
This doesn&#x27;t surprise me at all. I run a reasonably popular non-porn, submissions-based blog and immediately after the ban was implemented, our numbers tanked. Submissions dropped from 25-35 per day to around 10-20, while the number of notes (likes+reblogs+replies) per post has dropped from 600-800 to 200-400.<p>Unfortunately, we still see about the same total number of spambots and fake blogs in our notes. So at least from my own anecdotal experience, the ban did nothing except drive away human users.<p>A lot of our followers asked if&#x2F;when we would move to another platform, but unfortunately for them (and us), Tumblr is the only major blog platform we know of which supports a curated, moderated submissions-based blog. Reddit is the closest runner-up in that it allows submissions and can be moderated, but isn&#x27;t curatable for all intents and purposes. I suspect if (when) Tumblr goes under, it&#x27;s going to take my blog with it, which is disappointing.