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Why is it cringy? It's an easy way to host a blog. I'd rather any company focus on their main business rather than futz around with blog hosting.

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My impression (perhaps outdated) is that making the blog part of your primary domain (e.g. www.company.com/blog) is a better strategy for improving search engine traffic.

It's cringy because it's unprofessional and amateurish. Not to mention that you only have a certain amount of control over your content and hence your SEO.

For example, how would you like it if "beyoncescock" or "dildoreo" (both real usernames, by the way) were to reblog your serious announcement from your serious company? Now those usernames are associated with your company's name when you search for it on the web.

Medium would be a better place to host a corporate blog. When I think Tumblr, I think porn not corporate blogging. Although to be honest, that image is fairly recent for me. I only heard about the depths of Tumblr porn after it died.

tumblr is (was) dual-use. so are twitter and reddit by the way.

It's like saying corporations don't want to associate with the internet because there's porn on it.

You still really think that? I am not so sure. A self-hosted blog, e.g. Ghost, is much more user-friendly. The amount of popups before you can read an article on Medium is embarrassing. That "You have a moment?" is really getting old. Besides, I can't remember last time I read a quality article on there.

I would argue the exact opposite. Tumblr is pretty agnostic when it comes to the way your content is presented, you can even hide all social features without a problem. I roll my eyes when I see a serious company using Medium as its blog platform, with its absolutely obnoxious "haha lets make it official ;)" popups.

It's an easy way to host a blog, but so was Livejournal. The connotations are similar too.

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