Oh, hey Tumblr. Long time no see.
It’s all over but the crying
I clearly haven’t been on here in a hot minute. I haven’t made a text post in over a year, and I barely remember to reblog shit on here maybe a few times a month.
The thing is: Tumblr activity peaked site wide in 2014, during which I was living alone in a small Dallas exurb far from my friends. I had plenty of time to piss around and endlessly scroll through my dashboard.
Four years later? I’m surrounded by friends with a lot more hobbies that, frankly, take up enough of my time to where I don’t really feel like passively putzing away time on Tumblr.
Today’s announcement that the site will be purging “adult content” kinda sealed it for me. A quick perusal of my blog showed several posts logged as “explicit,” and not even stuff from my spank bank tags. Whatever algorithm Tumblr is using to detect “adult content” is hitting posts and blogs that are nowhere near NSFW. I can’t really in good conscience support that.
As it is, I’m gonna be moving This Extra Life to a read-only blog. Haven’t locked the doors yet, but definitely putting the chairs on the tables and putting Semisonic on the jukebox.
Probably gonna spend the rest of my evening backing up my blog, going through the blogs of valued follows and scrounging for their Twitter/IG links.
You can find me at the following places:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Texas_Supernova
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/texas.supernova/
Twitch (very fucking rarely): twitch.tv/texas_supernova
Hell, if you’ve followed me long enough, feel free to ask for my Facebook or Snapchat.
It’s been real, tumblr. Faith manages. Here endeth the lesson.
https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005118894-Export-your-blog
https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005118894-Export-your-blog
My ancestors are smiling at me @staff. Can you say the same?
How to Backup your Tumblr
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.
Alternatives to Tumblr if Yahoo goes any further
- 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.
- Jux - Artful posts, beautiful blogging experience
Reblogging cause one day it just may be neccessary.
It became necessary
WordPress will also import Tumblr blogs.
Will our grandchildren know the Navy Seal copypasta?
Will they learn it by rote in grammar school, along sidethe Ballad of Kublai Kahn?
Will it lie forgotten, effaced and half erased from human memory like Shelley’s Ozymandias?
Will they know it?
What the fuck did you just encode in the western canon, you little bitch?
