Tumblr Beats WordPress in Blog Count

I use Tumblr because of it’s great community. Nothing sucks worst then having a blog and never getting any views because you’re blog is so isolated in the world of the internet.

I use wordpress because Tumblr is stupid to me.

I will start by saying I have been blogging almost as long as blogs have been in existence. I am was actually one of the first 250 people to register for the original “Blogger” site created by Pyra Labs and Evan Williams. I used to love “Blogger” and even after it was sold to Google. Even though Google effectively destroyed “Blogger” I was still adamantly stubborn about learning a new blogging platform. Google unfortunately ruined “Blogger” by dumbing it down and putting restrictions that made no sense as well as by changing the simple blogging code for something that became too unnecessarily complicated and unintuitive to be effective. So when I switched to Word Press, and I mean self-hosted open-source wordpress.org (not wordpress.com)  it was like a breath of fresh air. Sure there was a learning curve but after teaching myself some basic PHP I was able to deploy my already robust HTML and CSS skills to unleash a fury of well-thought out, extensible web sites. As a content management system it is just sophisticated enough to have all the functionality one could need and still easy enough to learn that any one with a little extra time and sufficient motivation can master it. I would not consider leaving anything as “open” and “cost-effective as Word Press for something more restrictive. Word Press also has the benefit of a huge amount of users and a community one can look to for support when things are working out like they should. As far as Tumblr goes – I’ll admit I know nothing about it, accept from the few reviews I have read, which leads me to believe it is “dumbed-down” and “restrictive” which was the eventual fate of the original “Blogger”.