staff:

Yesterday afternoon, during planned maintenance that was not intended to interrupt service, an issue arose that took down a critical database cluster. This brought down our entire network while our engineers worked feverishly to restore these databases and bring your blogs back online.

I would pay fee to help tumblr ensure this didn’t happen again. I’ve noticed recently a bunch of spam tumblrs liking my posts. Surely tumblr could add in some better human authentication at sign up.