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.
// This was asked so sweetly and with such a polite tone that there was no way that I wasn’t going to make a board for it. I admit I didn’t know an awful lot about Hanukkah to being with but after a bit of reading I hope I did it justice. Happy Holidays! .
It has been drilled into me that asking personal questions about potentially sensitive topics is rude, so I almost never inquire about them unless they are explicitly volunteered and just live in suppressed curiosity until someone opens up to me or I piece it together from clues. Or I die, I guess.
Which means I have… a lot of friends whose important details I just don’t fucking know. You could show up at my house one day with an alligator head and I just wouldn’t bring it up in case you were uncomfortable talking about it.
This might make me sound a bit weird, but I think whatever’s going on with this tumblr purge thing has hit the mackenzie crook tag?? I just got on it, and like half the posts that were there yesterday are not there today
Idk, maybe it’s just being weird for no real reason, as is tumblr’s wont, but has anyone else noticed this?
This is just a shout out to all those Jews in public music programs that have to perform Christmas music in December. Orchestra, band, choir, guitar, whatever.
A shout out to the Jews who are called inhumane and rude for not liking Christmas music, to the Jews who are scolded for not participating in Christmas Spirit.
A shout out to the Jews who can’t even complain that it’s all Christmas music because someone inevitably says something like “We know you’re a Jew, can you just shut up already?”
A shout out to the Jews who are forced by their class or group to participate in Christmas Spirit and get dressed up as though they’re funny little dolls in Santa hats and reindeer horns and candy canes and all the other commercial Christmas vomit.
A shout out to the Jews that feel like they have to hide their discomfort and their Jewishness during the December/winter concert for the sake of easing the nerves of people who don’t want to hear anything other than sleigh bells.
A shout out to the Jews that have to hear “Just because you’re Jewish doesn’t mean you shouldn’t like Christmas!”
A shout out to the Jews who feel too stereotypical for disliking Christmas music.
Leaving tungle.hell like rats on the Titanic 