But speaking of Tumblr:
Tumblr’s version of history has no explanatory power.
I agree with Basti—that’s a chewy little sequence of words. It’s contained within Alexis Madrigal’s comment on stock and flow, which is worth reading in its entirety.
The Snarkmatrix awaits your reply
i’ve been using tumblr for a while and never really thought about this. i even imported my old blog from wordpress so my archive goes back, technically, before tumblr even existed — which i think is funny. not often you can find 8 years of archival content on a platform that hasn’t existed for half that. especially on today’s web.
although, what i do appreciate about tumblr’s historical navigation is the narrative it tries to tell. the whole reason i switched from wordpress was the UI and the fragmentation. i felt, with the tumblr platform, i can tell a better narrative. the tags and search are more straightforward and don’t have double-meaning. what’s nice about tumblr is that it gets out of the way when you’re trying to tell a story.