This is Garrett Murray's Maniacal Rage

Anonymous asked:

Are you going to have Ego support Tumblr stats (followers, posts, etc.)?

I get this question constantly, but I always responded directly to the asker and have never made a public answer available.

The simple answer is no yes (see update below). I would LOVE to include Tumblr in Ego. I use Tumblr for many projects, and I love the platform. But Tumblr has informed me they have no plans to include statistics (followers, tumblarity, etc) in their API.

I spoke with Marco about this again at SXSW and he confirmed once more they will not offer the API hooks I would need to support Tumblr in Ego. So until that changes, I can’t do it.

Update: Just got an email from Marco, and both follower and post counts are now available in the Tumblr API! So my answer above is now invalid. The new answer is: Yes, soon.