Comments on: 12 Reasons Why StumbleUpon is Dead

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:58:43 +0000

I was trying to use SU for getting traffic to a new site, and noticed that I only have 1 view as well. Now I know why.

I am new to all this, now going to look into Twitter and Tumblr. There does seem to be a catch 22 situation when you have a brand new website, and no existing web presence.

By: GuyManningham.com

GuyManningham.com — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:50:17 +0000

I have noticed a bit of inconsistency with StumbleUpon. I have one article with over 18k stumbles and growing, a few with a several hundred and the rest sitting at the infamous 1 lonely stumble. It’s very hit or miss, which is why I am on this article in the first place haha. Good insight.

By: Mark Sim

Mark Sim — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:53:59 +0000

No surprising. I never thought StubleUpon was a flawlessly democratic system. What with tens of thousands of sites in the SU database, I always got pointed to the same few to the point that I got bored and stopped using the service.

By: Zubair Naeem Paracha

Zubair Naeem Paracha — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:30:48 +0000

There has been a good phase for all of these social bookmarking type sites but hardly anyone has been able to maintain all that with the time and stumble upon is also one of them. Nice post mate :)

By: Sandro

Sandro — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:37:22 +0000

I believe StumbleUpon had its heydays. Besides, it never managed to be more social friendly and less complicated.

By: Avelltech

Avelltech — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:41:40 +0000

nowadays twitter really dominate the net especially in micro blogging.

By: RIP: the Bold Declaration of Death…

RIP: the Bold Declaration of Death… — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:00:44 +0000

[...] and think that less people are stumbling upon his work via Google. (Which reminds me, StumbleUpon died last year, evidently. I guess no one told the site’s 11 million [...]

By: Eric Mertzlufft

Eric Mertzlufft — Sat, 15 May 2010 00:51:36 +0000

I agree with the points you’re making in the post.

I don’t personally use StumbleUpon (never quite understood the appeal), but it has sent me major spurts of traffic recently so I feel like it is still relevant and still has value.

By: onreact

onreact — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:23:06 +0000

“Anti Vigilante”: Either you don’t understand because you don’t or you refuse do understand.

I’m not referring the to content theft when people take images or snippets and post them on their SU blog. That’s wrong as well in many cases but I’m referring to the people who take 20 images by artists without their permission and get ten thousands of visitors to their blogs to earn ad revenue.

Stupid SU users thumb it all up without caring who the artist is or that the work has been stolen. They just don’t care the ignorant idiots.

By: Anti Vigilante

Anti Vigilante — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:02:10 +0000

The content theft complaint is a load of bull. Stumbleupon is a social network online desktop. There is no difference between downloading images to photoblog at home to friends (who might actually be viewing them via (horrors!) Terminal Server, (the fiends!) Network Neighborhood, or (have they no shame!) on a WordPress site. No difference other than the missing bandwidth.

People used stumbleupon to build photostreams like lifestreaming. As for not seeing additional site content due to photoblogging, I wasn’t going to pay attention to the ads anyway and certainly don’t need a bloody soap opera of widgets to show things that I’ve singled out.

The only real issue is the bandwidth abuse.

What I find odd is the refusal of web creators to continue pushing the edge.