mabesies:

wereralph:

amtrax:

Everyone to staff: fix it

Staff:

THIS POST GOT FLAGGED IM LITERALLY GOING TO SHIT

@archivistsrock 😂😭

livinginthequestion:

thepirateking:

fiction-is-not-reality:

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.

reference. 

deepseacritter:

None of these images is explicit. NONE OF THEM.

Ok ok ok but

Every time tumblr screws us over, we complain and complain and they don’t give us nothing and we end up using their crappy, glitched, absurdly faulty website/app.

What if we organize a protest by not logging in for an established period of time? We just. Log out and leave their activity dead. No one to see their advertising, no one to get their numbers going, just. No one (or very fewer people, I don’t expect everyone to get on board with this) online.

Maybe this will at least be a show of our power. They’re nothing without us.

I don’t understand shit about running a website/social network but this is my pitch. Anyone feel free to add your thoughts.

Anyone know how to build a new, better tumblr-like site? It’s time we ditch this one

tvlovesclonetroopers:

sooo, time to ditch tumblr for someothing else huh. Any suggestions?