Why are there no (good|FOSS) 3rd party (app|frontend)s being developed for Tumblr ?
Options are few far in between , forcing me to use 1st party app . As much as it sucks it's the only way i can access tumblr , The website is awful slow even with adblockers
Given all that, it's a wonder why there's hardly any 3rd party offerings compared to (twitter|reddit)
I think there are two reasons:
Tumblr is also perfectly usable in a browser. In fact, I deleted the tumblr app and created a shortcut from fennec, and it's honestly an improvement. There's really no reason for a standalone app.
Edit: I guess OP tried this and said it's slow. Hmmm this hasn't been my experience
I said in the post that it's slow in browser
Sorry, my brain had a moment. It's not slow for me using Fennec with uBlock Origin. Have you tried a different browser?
Firefox with uBO , same setup as yours (assuming fennec's not much different)
Fennec should be the same, unless I made some about:config changes that I'm forgetting
I'm not doubting you at all, but that's weird. If anything, the official app is slower for me.
honestly at this point i would love a fediverse alternative to tumblr. i'd still want all the blog customization options though
AFAIK, Tumblr is still planning ActivityPub support, which means Tumblr could be thefediverse alternative to Tumblr.
Though that's opening the same can of worms as Meta in many respects.
i'm not the most well-versed on why someone wouldn't want to use tumblr but honestly if they support activitypub i'm probably gonna use it a ton more.
I don't onow about customization, but there are fediverse blog applications: https://joinplu.me/ and https://writefreely.org/ I don't onow how popular they are.
Wordpress also supports activitypub https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
Probably because of this:
https://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/api_agreement
Edited to add: It might be less of a problem in the future if they actually follow through on adding ActivityPub support and you can follow things from the Fediverse.
This is one of those situations where the best course of action is to support those apps which do exist - either by contributing code yourself, submitting bug reports and suggestions, or potentially with monetary donations if that's possible for you.
The open source community can only be as good as those that contribute towards it.
There is one web frontend, Tumbex. If the blog url is example.tumblr.com, change to tumbex.com/example.tumblr
So it's really not mirroring tumblr in its entirety . Which is what a 3rd party frontend should do
Well it's better than nothing, it always works for everything I need. It just needs to be supported by all those privacy redirect apps and extensions like those that redirect to Invidious or Libreddit.