PSA: Regarding Cumblr
Friendly advice: don’t put money into Cumblr until they’ve shown design sketches or better: a working proof of concept.
The pitch is very light on details regarding implementation. The people running the campaign are anonymous. Their GoFundMe page has flexible funding, meaning they get all the money people donate, regardless of whether or not they make their goal. To me, that feels like a scam.
Their current site is barebones.(read: off-the-shelf site template) If there were people with project management, design or programming talent on board for this project, you could do a lot better than “it’s going to be like Tumblr for adult content” - either they have no plan at all, or will only start explaining it once they make the goal; which seems kind of sketchy, seeing as they set it to flexible funding.
And yet, 73 people have dumped $1,479 into that project.
Someone is putting the cart before the horse. As far as we can tell, there is no plan. There is an idea. There is a name. There is a domain name. There’s a logo that’s literally the name of the site in one of the default Windows fonts. (Cambria) People should be super fucking skeptic about this.
But I get it. Now that everyone is panicking and scrambling to get away from Tumblr, people are willing to try anything because none of the alternatives fit for them. But that’s no reason to dump money into a crowdfunding project that is, as of right now, nothing more than a name.
Please ask whoever is running this Cumblr project to either share their plans, or give up this scam.
Edit: Looks like their GoFundMe campaign was removed.
Unlike these popular get-rich-quick schemes, we at xstumbl.com are not and never will ask for “donations”. As compared to these pop-up alternatives, we are tirelessly working around the clock to get a site done as quickly as humanly possible before Tumblr bans porn for good (it’s tough building a website from scratch in a week with a small team of programmers 😄).
It seems very fishy that after those guys’ GoFundMe was shut down, they desperately needed more cash and made a Patreon and then began accepting Paypal donations (violation of Paypal policies - be careful) to beg for money
Plus, in their blog posts, as mentioned by @ganonking they never went into specifics about the plan (i.e. what is the site coded in? what is the owner’s name? can anyone vouch for their authenticity?). Everything I’ve read has been a plea for money and they said they won’t allow videos or certain forms of speech on their site. I bet IF, that’s a big if, they ever get something up and running, it’ll be a cheap out of the box software and they’ll beg for more money to keep the site running or they’ll charge for memberships. Not sounding good
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