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.
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