I get why ppl are leaving tumblr but ive never deleted an account for anything in my life and if tumblr wants me to leave theyre going to have to kill me themselves
im importing my blog to wordpress! im lebelinoria.sport.blog and im in the process of importing right now so most of my content isnt there yet
Okay, folks. So. Tumblr’s jumped the shark in a big way, and I’m not even just talking about indiscriminately blocking all “adult” content on a platform that IS, in fact, primarily 18+.
Many blogs, like the wonderful @blackkatmagic , that are not especially NSFW have vanished.
(And I for one LIKE being able to go to curated porn blogs run by actual people and have a chance of finding stuff to my taste, it was one of the things that kept me on this hellsite, but that’s another issue entirely.)
I know lots of people are talking about migrating, but none of us are sure to where yet. Pillowfort seems to be an option, some people are talking about Twitter. But for now, it’s a mess, and even if we knew where we were going, it’s often a huge process, and a lot of us have stuff on tumblr that ONLY exists there.
One possible quick solution to save your blogs, both NSFW and personal, is to import it to WordPress. I found this solution through from frantic googling on how to save an entire blog, text posts an all. There are several apps for downloading all the pictures from a tumblr, (Plently for Windows, but only a few paid ones for mac, of which Tumbelog Picture Downloader is working for me so far) but this is the only solution I’ve seen so far that allows you to save EVERYTHING. I downloaded my NSFW blog in like 10 min. My regular blog, which is significantly larger, is in the process of importing, but I don’t anticipate any problems. I will, of course, update you if I have any.
This tutorial I found worked really easily. http://quickguide (.) tumblr (.) com/post/39780378703/backing-up-your-tumblr-blog-to-wordpress
I put parenthesis around the .’s like we’re back in FF-Hell, just in case tumblr’s new thing about outgoing links kicks in. You know what to do.
To break it down, just in case:
Sign up for a WordPress.com account at wordpress (.) com/start
You’ll have to create an account, with your email, a username, and a password. They should send you a confirmation email immediately, check it, activate it, and you’re good to go.
On the site, it will ask you for a site name. That page asks you a bunch of other information too, but you only have to fill out the site name.
Then you have to give your site a URL. If you’re lucky, your tumblr URL is still available, if not you’ll have to come up with another one, sorry.
It will tell you if that option is still available for free.
Then it will ask you to pick a plan. Free is really good enough, I swear.
Now you’re set up! You can import your tumblr!
The only differences from the linked tutorial are that the Import button is now on the first level menu, not in tools.
Hit Import, then you have to follow the link for “other importers” at the bottom, to find the option for Tumblr.
Then you’ll have to sign in with tumblr, using your normal tumblr credentials. You’ll be redirected there automatically.
You’ll have to allow WordPress permissions on your blog.
Then your blogs, including all your sideblogs, will show up in wordpress.
Hit import, wait a WHILE depending on the size of your blog, and you’re done!
ALSO!!
I made my NSFW blog private for now, since I don’t know WP’s policy on NSFW.
This means that to access it, someone has to have an account and request access. But hey, part of our problem on this hellsite has been people going places they aren’t wanted, so I don’t personally see this as a bad thing. They can send a request from the landing site on your blog, you get an email, click a link in the email, and PRESTO, they have access.
To make it private, go to Settings > Reading > Site Visibility. Go back and check, it took me changing the setting twice for it to actually stick.
tl;dr, you can import your entire blog to wordpress in just a few steps.
I’m going to tag the hell out of this, in no particular order. PLEASE reblog this and spread the word so people know it’s an option. If you’re having trouble, PM me, and I’m happy to help.
There are a whole bunch more, but that’s a start. Please reblog the hell out of this, so people are aware of this one simple option.
For people asking how to backup thier blog
Since the algorithms are flagging tons of stuff that don’t break the new guidelines anyway (twitter is on fire right now with screenshots of wrongly flagged art), here’s an option to back up your blog.
Anyway the last point I have to make here is that even if tumblr breaks under the algorithm (almost certain if they don’t back out of using it) and/or everybody leaves… I don’t have anywhere else to go or post things
people like to joke about it being bad, but I legitimately really like Tumblr. it actually feels like a blogging platform in a world where facebook and twitter are active political weapons that manipulate us elections. i don’t feel like i’m baring myself to content i don’t want to see here, or having to engage with a popularity-focused culture. the content isn’t sorted to influence you or trick you. it’s a bunch of people being themselves on their own terms. it’s oldnet.
yes, i do use other websites, but i’m not interested in posting personal things to any of them. this was a place i had control over and i’ll stay with it until i can’t. and when that happens there’ll be nothing left.
Yeah, I joked that this was the last platform my mom didn’t follow me on, but it was definitely a place where I felt more open about certain things. I don’t know what else will offer that, which sucks.
This is fascinating. I did a backup using tumblr-utils, it came out to about 3.6GB, it completed ever. This is not compressed, it’s just a bunch of HTML and images.
Tumblr’s exporter produced a zip file which is >5GB, and still running.
Comparing a blog exported by tumblr’s exporter to one exported by tumblr-utils, they are producing very similar results, with some images slightly different between them. Like, of three images on one blog, two were apparently identical, one changed size and I don’t know why.
What’s weird is that it’s not at all obvious why the export of this blog is over 5GB using tumblr’s exporter. Is it including more stuff? We can’t tell, because there’s no way to look at any part of the file unless the whole file makes it down, because zip files don’t have their primary table of contents until the end of the archive. But people are reporting corrupt zips. But intuitively, it shouldn’t be larger than the uncompressed data, right? Well, who knows. This is tumblr.
What is Tumblr-utlis and where can I find it, considering the fresh hell this blue nonsense is putting people through?
Python script to grab things. Grabbed my blog in ~24 minutes, contrast with it taking something like an hour for tumblr to decide it had created a file, and another hour to actually download it. Seems significantly cleaner, although honestly I suspect tumblr used the code from this one because of similarities in the generated output. So I think they used it and then modified it and broke it a bit.
Y’know, the more uproar I’m seeing about Tumblr’s upcoming policy change, the more confident I am that one of two things will happen
A) Tumblr actually follows through with it, and kills their own website. Everyone gets pissed off and migrates to or builds a newer better platform
or B) Tumblr’s staff will go “oh shit” and backpedal on this so damn fast just like they have with so many other updates that people were vocally mad about. Remember that time they tried to merge all the different post-types into one?
I’m not particularly fond of option A, because starting over again and trying to find all you pals would not be fun, but yeah. The immediate anger is gone, now this weird calm just kinda washed over me. Either way it’ll work out, hopefully.
Shout-out to my fellow Fandom Olds who lived through Strikethrough/Boldthrough on LJ and knew this day would eventually come here on Tumblr.com also
Especial shout-out to the heroes at AO3 who designed their whole operation knowing that every other platform fandom used would pull this bullshit sooner or later
Oh, just so folks know, that thing where some Homestuck character tags have randomly been assigned nsfw is also still a thing, with the current crop of Tumblr issues.
Currently you can’t use Tumblr search for Equius Zahhak, Aradia Megido, Signless, or Dualscar.
For Equius, Tumblr suggests “Homestuck Equius”. You can search Sufferer. No version of Aradia’s name is available at all.
Porrim Maryam and Horuss Zahhak are also right out.
Why them? Who knows. It used to be Kanaya Maryam was blocked. But now that you can’t fix it by turning safe mode off under most circumstances, it would seem that this site is of limited use to this fandom.
it’s not the trope itself that militant fandom antis get mad about. it’s the ship.
imagine that you’re in a fandom where characters A, B, and C are all protagonists with friendly canon interactions – not necessarily friends, but definitely not enemies.
For a variety of reasons, you don’t really like it when people ship A & B together romantically. maybe you like B/C better. maybe you just don’t like the dynamics of A/B shipping. maybe it reminds you of a relationship you had that ended badly. Whatever the reason: A/B bothers you, and you wish nobody shipped it.
Imaginary You decides to try to stop people from shipping A/B. You start by telling people that based on canon, shipping A/B is morally and socially objectionable. with the redefining of words like ‘pedophilia’, ‘incest’, and ‘abuse’, it’s easy to turn canon molehills into mountains: A few years age difference is now ‘pedophilia’. knowing each other from childhood is ‘incest’. an argument is ‘abuse’.
But not only do people keep shipping A/B: they keep shipping it even while following your rules about what’s okay to ship! They make AUs where A&B are the same age! They age A&B up! They write slow burns where A&B start out friends and become lovers!
When you said ‘don’t ship A/B’ and gave reasons why not to, you meant for people to stop shipping A/B, not to ship A/B a different way!
So you find yourself having to teach people that A/B is always bad. it doesn’t matter how you ship it: it doesn’t matter what tropes you use. Any use of the imagination to make A/B a safe, ‘healthy’ ship is off-limits. (maybe you suggest that if one has to go to such lengths to make A/B okay to ship, they should just switch to the already healthy ship, B/C? it’s just a coincidence that you like B/C better. or maybe you like B/C because B/C isn’t gross like A/B.)
and that’s how you’ll find people objecting to tropes like friends-to-lovers.
it’s all just a means to an end – which is attacking any and all iterations of shipping the ship they don’t like.
just moving along like everyone else 