This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
I was actually there because i was considering creating an account and wanted to check it out.
Then they pop one of those and lost me for ever!
Hehe, denial of service for no reason beyond forced data collection is so quirky! Yeah, capitalism is squeezing the life out of modern culture, but in a fun way!
We can't even browse products in some online shops anymore without a login. That's so infuriating.
for no reason beyond forced data collection
Meh. It's to prevent bots and spam also.
Not sure how forced account creation would help with either of those. Both are only problems when they already have accounts.
Tumblr is the poster child for terrible ideas on how to run an internet business.
I think there are many others one could point to more accurately, including Yahoo who purchased and then resold tumblr.
While Tumblr has made a lot of changes, some of which were walked back, they are still a well used and beloved site today. There are many now-dead or barely alive behemoth Internet companies that are better examples of "poster child for running a terrible Internet business" imo.
Whoa whoa, you didn't do it?! But, it might be the best decision you make in your life!