Tumblr & Posterous

[sei_kun]

Had a surprise when I had an e-mail telling me that Vox.com was shutting down. While it's not something I use on a daily basis, I do use it as a photo blog; somewhere just to post random photos I took with my phone. One of the reason I chose Vox was because (for some reason) the services was already integrated into my Nokia phone.

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[jedi_x]

The tags thing is a lie, it just depends on what theme you apply. The basic theme may not have it, buts lots of other Tumblr themes do. Just search the themes directory and pick one you like that has tags. You only have to add custom markup to display tags if the theme you picked doesn't have them - and I've done this several times before and it's never NOT worked for me, so I can throw you the markup if you like.

RE: the comments thing, it's not quite installing an add-on... You can just sign up for a site (disqus.com), and then add the custom CSS/HTML to your theme. The site tells you exactly how to add it to your theme, and in fact many of the themes you apply, when you click customise CSS, have commented out space for you to add that comment box. That's how I've done it on my Tumblr anyway - the advantage of disqus being you can use it on multiple sites, and just log onto the disqus site to read all comments.

As a graduate from a CS degree, that should be like 5 minutes of work for you, tops. =P

[sei_kun]

You forgot I'm an IT degree, not CS, which is, like, the most despicable (and I'm guessing cheaply gained; after all I managed to graduate) among all the computing-related degrees.

I did use the markup, and it's exasperating when I open my Tumblr site and I can see the spot where the markup is, just saying "Now loading"... and never loaded until the end when I finished reading and closed the browser.

I'm wary of having to sign up to another site just to have commenting enabled... and I guess I haven't explored the web that much, but Tumblr is the only site I regularly visit that uses disqus... not much of an incentive for me to join just to enable the commenting.

As for the theme, I'll have another look and see which one has the tags enabled by default; I picked my theme when I first signed up and that's it, haven't changed it since...