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.
If you’re wanting to show your displeasure, don’t just tag staff or support. Take a page out of other consumer revolts and make sure your displeasure is known.
Don’t be an idiot. Do not threaten, harass or otherwise make this personal. Contact these companies, make your displeasure known, alert them that you are a customer and you will be leaving their brand across all boards unless they reverse their decision.
Be clear, be concise, be polite, but make your displeasure known.
Note the following properties owned by Oath Inc. Bring them up explicitly in your statement of leaving their services.
Yahoo and all Yahoo Subsidiaries (Yahoo News, Yahoo Mail, etc)
AOL
TechCrunch
HuffPost
Flurry
Kanvas
Endgadget
AutoBlog
Makers
Build
Ryot
BuiltByGirls
MSN
Outlook
X-Box
New Info Will Be Added As I’m Made Aware Of It
Edit: This does nothing if it isn’t shared around
hardly surprises me when you see the list of affiliated companies. this is Entirely political, and looking at the Sharesome response, it is contrived to create both alienation and more extremists alienating by way of racism and blaming one race vs another while Claiming that an entire race is to blame for the above companies’ expressed intent to profit by censorship
there’s a website in beta that might be worth a look: www.sharesome.com
Yes, i’m definitely in to an alternative to tumblr!
Yes, i am sorry to see this become so clearly political (a la simpson’s kang vs kodos: “yes, yes you MUST Choose one of US!”) – either we choose freedom of speech or we imply that those censoring are “white supremacists” because they don’t accept free speech? THAT is shit we should be banning – there is no good reason to assume that anyone banning free speech is automatically a ‘white supremacist’ –
and
i won’t use Sharesome just for that reason. That is a fallacious, incendiary false-dichotomy; There is enough racism in the world, and enough censorship, without creating more of one in response to the other.
Grown men and women claiming to have good reason and good conscience should know better.
I have had 3 mineral posts flagged as adult content today. They contained a tourmaline, a muscovite, and a galena. On Friday I had 3 fossil posts flagged as adult content, including a fossil fish, a fossil tooth from a mastodon, and a Tyrannosaur vertebrae. I’ve submitted appeals for each. This has been getting worse over the past month, apparently most of geology content is now only for adults.
Apparently you can’t get your rocks off on Tumblr anymore.
i am contractually obligated to congratulate you on this reply
wow
wow. the censoring by the Statists in Fascism have won. they’re officially at war with free speech. 2a isn’t far behind guys.
Adult Content Ban Tumblr is banning adult content on December 17th. While this is terrible for sex workers, it’s not the death knell for the hypno community. From the Verge: Banned content includes photos, videos, and GIFs of human genitalia, female-presenting nipples, and any media involving sex acts, including illustrations. The exceptions include nude classical statues and political protests that feature nudity. The new guidelines exclude text, so erotica remains permitted. Illustrations and art that feature nudity are still okay — so long as sex acts aren’t depicted — and so are breastfeeding and after-birth photos.Repeat: the new guidelines exclude text, so erotica Allegedly remains permitted with glamour-style pictures and gifs, as long as they dont contain nudity; for the rest of us:
* Soup.io – well-known alternative to Tumblr. Reblogging, post types, themes, collab blogs, dashboard, artsy, great community already there. Soup can auto-import everything you’ve posted on Tumblr.
* TypePad – Includes reblogging. Dashboard and post types similar to Tumblr.
* still on the fence for a name; might be something with ’ tist ’ or ’ irish ’ in it – Message me: are you going to wordpress discord or somewhere else for doomsday?
Soup.io – well-known alternative to Tumblr. Reblogging, post types, themes, collab blogs, dashboard, artsy, great community already there. Soup can auto-import everything you’ve posted on Tumblr.
TypePad – Includes reblogging. Dashboard and post types similar to Tumblr.
Reblogging cause one day it just may be neccessary.
It became necessary
Reblogging because it just became necessary… if you can read this, please let us know if are you going to wordpress discord or somewhere else for doomsday!?
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