Tumblr’s dramatic rise has apparently taken a toll on the company’s queue system (aka scheduled posting), and in an attempt to avoid a “fail whale” scenario they’re not only scaling the feature, but promising to wow the world when it relaunches.
Later this week we’re pushing a complete overhaul of the Queue feature with some killer new functionality.
In the meantime though, the existing queue service is handling a volume of posts it was never designed for. To prevent it from becoming unstable and mis-publishing posts, we’ve decided the best course is to take the queues offline and expedite the relaunch. (Tumblr Staff Blog)
Thus far the company hasn’t given any hints as to what the new system will look like, although if I had to guess it might have something to do with solving the international group blog problem (i.e. queuing posts based on a timed countdown rather than a specific time).
Tumblr has thus far not given an estimate of when queued posts will return to the tumblr-verse, although hopefully soon (as manually posting queued posts is not exactly fun).
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I’ve never used Tumblr to schedule posts. I may have read about the feature but forgot until reading it here. I use Tumblr to post sites as I find them. I haven’t made it like a full blog as some have. Glad to see them doing more, Tumblr is a lot of fun and still pretty light weight for loading time.
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Junk. I was relying on that feature and all they could do was empty their server load and publish everything. And they did it more than once. I advise anyone to stay away from a company that blows it in the face of their own users each time they have a problem. I’d say choose a more reliable provider.
Also, using Tumblr IS a very bad choice. I have discovered that the hard way by having to move away from their distructive software and not having the means to export my data. So, if you do care for your blog use any platform that can offer backups and exports so you won’t have your whole work disrupted by iresponsable admins.