Comments on: 12 Reasons Why StumbleUpon is Dead

By: Diksha Sethi

Diksha Sethi — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:56:39 +0000

your blog has actually made me realise why i couldn’t really get results for my webcast through stumble and it showed only 1 view! Also i find it slighlty complicated.

By: Mr Woc

Mr Woc — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:41:23 +0000

This was always a battle to keep stumple upon being used for what it was actually set out for, social bookmarking, most of these sites disapear into a mountain of spam sites and viagra rubbish, I used to love stumble upon and it was very good when it frist started, i remember getting 400 hits the first time i tryed it, but now I dont get any hits, so therefore most people just submit their sites and then just leave the site, a shame but probably the destiny of most social bookmarking sites !

Woc

By: sam milner

sam milner — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:54:06 +0000

i use su.pr at the moment it does send traffic my way consistantly now not much between 20-50 a day on my blog i found since i changed my blog there doesnt seem to be as many stumbles as i got before i changed it i am registered on alot of social sights and i can see why people are starting to favour twitter over than say SU but i dont like to put all my eggs in 1 basket so im spread out over alot of them good post.

By: jesse

jesse — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:27:31 +0000

StumbleUpon is a mystery, I thought I knew how it work since I’m a longtime user, only to find out that I really have not a clue. I agree with your post, never understanding about the 1 part, for a while I thought the content I submitted suck, well it probably did suck, any how I appreciate the time you took to write this great article to enlighten some of us on the mystery of SU.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:47:05 +0000

I won’t say it’s dead, but SU has definitely become less valuable. How much time does it take to Stumble a site though? Like 20 seconds. Not a huge investment in time – and I DO still get traffic via SU. So it’s got some real value. The tip about image bookmarking sites is great…for an image-intensive site or post.

By: ronaldmalvoy

ronaldmalvoy — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:36:11 +0000

If I not read this reason I’m not believe that rumor is true…

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:26:45 +0000

Hi, yours is not the first post I have read about SU unfriendliness and little worth. I guess I’ll check it out of my social bookmarking list.

By: Nicholas Santillo

Nicholas Santillo — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:27:47 +0000

I am the owner of Voltier Creative, a search marketing agency located in South Florida. In my opinion, I agree that stumbleupons popularity is overshadowed by the traffic, links and exposure gained by digg.com, reddit etc… I wouldn’t write it off completely- I would just keep it way out to the side as an ancillary promotional method! = ) BTW- this article had 8 stumbles when I started this comment…

By: Kin

Kin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:01:18 +0000

I absolutely agree with your list of reasons, especially number 9 – can’t agree with you more! I don’t think SU ever managed to be a successful, friendly online community. While I did find new sites and blogs (like this one) while our account lasted (unreasonably suspended us) it was always about reading news, and passing on interesting links but never did it manage to become a “warm” online community where people can just chat.

By: Steve G

Steve G — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:14:21 +0000

I tried several times over the last couple years to get in to SU.. It never struck me as having all that much community to it.. I understand that a lot of people only look at things from a marketing or hat can it do for me perspective, but I’ve always thought that is you don’t have community you don’t have a site.. And SU never seemed to get that community to me..

Its even more interesting to see that they may actually be punishing communities and groups..