If you’re someone affected by the platform’s definition of what they’re going to be banning, I strongly suggest you back up your Tumblr blog. RIGHT NOW. Info on how to do that is here.
I can’t think why my own Tumblr would be affected, but I’ll be backing things up too… because in situations like this one might expect the algorithm to get a little out of hand and make mistakes that one might or might not be able to recover from. (See this article.)
For safety’s sake – because I’d very much dislike losing the content I’ve shared with other people here – I’l be embodying my Tumblr content in a new WordPress blog over the coming days. I’ll share the address here when it’s ready, for those who might be interested.
But in the meantime, seriously: friends and cousins, back yourselves up.
I’ll be taking steps myself, both to back up and to export – probably, as @dduane is doing, to WordPress.
At first sight my own blog would seem fairly safe – cats, arms and armour, food and drink, classic cars, dieselpunk, writing advice – but an algorithm bot is perfectly capable of taking exception to, oh, let’s say comments featuring words like “nipple breast-plates”…
Hey, the backup feature tries to put everything in a single ZIP folder, but that won’t work if you have more than 4 GBs of content on your blog. Use this instead:
Don’t follow the instructions about editing your $PATH variable. If you’re on Windows, the OS does that for you. If you’re on a UNIX-like system (or if you use Windows PowerShell), use a dot-slash (./) in front of the command.
Yes, we have seen the news! We are planning to have the
site back up either tomorrow or Wednesday; we just have a couple last
security measures we want to put in place today, but we will be working on
it as quickly as possible and we will have a clearer ETA by tonight.
We will also try to come up with a way to lower the barrier to entry for new users, though we don’t want to drop the entry fee entirely because a) we feel that would be unfair to our users who have paid for their registration keys and b) we don’t think our servers could handle a massive influx of new users right now, so we’re going to try to allow as many new users as we can without capsizing the boat. We appreciate your patience and will have more details soon!
if you are a thorki fandom content creator and are comfortable filling out an spreadsheet’s worth of (entirely optional) info, click here.
why the spreadsheet? well, I saw a mutual complain about losing their fanbase, and tbh I have similar worries – it took me a while to get to the number of followers I have! and I don’t want to lose that!
so if you create content for the thorki fandom*, then you’re welcome to fill this form with as many details as you’re comfortable sharing. remember, only share stuff you’re comfortable having known to people. if you want to specify that something is available upon request, put AOR in that field
the form has space for every social media that I could think of (+ a field for any I might have missed) and it basically exists so the fandom doesn’t lose track of content creators, and so that content creators get a head start on new platforms without having to rebuild their fanbase from mutuals and scratch.
entirely optional, but public access, so please be careful!
note: you can add your friends/mutuals if they’re okay with it. please make sure that they are.
*what counts as content? original posts. headcanons, meta, round robins, fics, art, rec lists, edits, playlists. if you’re a moderator (or have ever been a moderator) please add that too—moderating is valuable!
lastly, please consider reblogging this post for maximum visibility: the link means it’s not going to show up in search results
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