Yeah, it’s not looking too good, we’ve already had one person get their account purged TWICE.
@wicked-felina and I are on this, and possibly building a new home for the exchange. Everybody keep working on your gifts for now, stay tuned for further announcements.
Censoring erotic content makes you no different from any other Puritanical asswipe from the dawn of time. I notice you have no problem with violent content, but nope, nope, gotta police the shexy, don’t you know.
What is the demographic of your users, I wonder? Because the corner I occupy is predominately young women, young women who have been able to express their sexuality freely in the safe space….and now you are taking that away. Once again women are punished for being sexual.
Damn you, Tumblr. “A more positive” place? Try homogenized, Bowlderized, neutered, and pointless.
What’s next, Tumblr? Banning “degenerate art?” You and the Nazis, Tumblr, you and the goddamned Nazis.
I was just semi-complaining that I was still looking for a decent way to backup my +6k posts without having to use paid services or even just wordpress (which has an import from tumblr tool that asks for permission to access your blog and also make posts), when I decided to actually put some effort into my google search.
Results were positive: I have successfully backed up my blog*
*By which I mean: everything that I have ever posted. Not included: drafts, queue, likes, followers, following, comments, notes, chat.
I followed this method (word by word), and now have a 450 MB folder on my computer with the name of my blog on it containing:
1. Folder “Archive” (contains .html files listed by month) 2. Folder “Media” (contains gifs and images, mine has +1k files in it; might contain also audios but I have no way of confirming that because I’ve never reblogged an audio post from this blog) 3. Folder “Posts” (contains single .html files, each one a post; I have +4k files in it) 4. Folder “Theme” (contains only my avatar, but it might be a matter of if you have personalized themes or not) 5. .html file “Index” (by opening it it will give you the archive of your blog organized by month; clicking on a month will open up the archive for that month, and you’ll be able to read all the posts for that month as if you were on your blog**, except sans your theme graphic, with each page containing 50 posts)
**I can see gifs, links, embedded videos, tags, number of notes (but I can’t open up the notes, clearly), text is also correctly formatted.
So yeah, in case anyone wants a very quick way to back up their blog, it took me less than 10 minutes.
P.S. I didn’t have any issue, but to be on the safe side always check for spyware and virus threats before and after downloading anything.
this is actually really useful if you have an art blog full of years of work that you otherwise no longer have access to the original files. A lot of the art I have in the early days of my art blog are in that boat. I did this process JUST for that reason and I was pretty astonished at just how many pieces of media it backs up! (literally all of it) Drawings I didn’t even realize were sitting in my archive due to having been posted to text posts or undercuts, or untagged for years! It’s worth it if just for that, even if tumblr isn’t shutting down or deleting your blog.
Back up your stuff, ppl. Reach out to those you want to stay connected to so you know other platforms to find them on. *sigh*
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