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Some good news, I’ve been talking to two developers now and got them working together, we just had a meeting with the guys behind an existing large (millions of users) site similar to Tumblr, with a vibrant and open-minded community, and more importantly, it has open-minded owners who believe in free speech. They think we can get something done here to rescue the whole community.
I’m not allowed to reveal the site name yet. I can tell you it’s mainstream, open to everyone, open-minded and welcoming. (It’s not WordPress or any site owned by Facebook or Twitter. It’s not Pillowfort, that’s in closed beta. It’s not Ello, that’s mainly for artists. It’s not kinkspace or fetlife, those are too specialist. It’s not jux, that seems to be closed. It’s not Soup, that seems still in development and too small.)
One of the reasons for delaying the announcement for next few days is they don’t want a “land grab” where people take the names of current popular Tumblr users over there (cyber squatting). So they are looking at ways for existing Tumblr users to keep the same names on the new site.
More info over the days to come.
The plan is, broadly:
1. By December 9th, announcement of the new site and how to secure your username there
2. By December 10th, an online tool for bloggers to copy their existing content to the new site automatically, with the same tags and captions.
3. Bloggers will need to copy their content across between December 10th and December 17th if they want to use the automatic tool.
4. My understanding is that after December 17th there will be no public access to any “flagged” posts on Tumblr, but the original poster will still be able to see the flagged post (for a short time at least). Therefore, the original poster may still be able to manually download a post to their own PC or phone, after December 17th, and manually upload it to the other site. But if you have lots of posts that will take a long time, it will be better to use the automatic tool before December 17th.
Please understand that these dates are approximate and may change for technical or other reasons.
There may be a few rough edges or not so perfect looking site design on the transfer tool. Everyone is doing their best. The main goal here is to help as many people as possible preserve access to their content, in the short space of time Tumblr has allowed us, and preserve as much as possible of the Tumblr community spirit somewhere new.
The new site will cater for photo, GIF, text and html posts. It will not offer video and audio posts, due to cost reasons - maybe in future, but for now you will need to preserve video and audio content yourself in some other place.
If your Tumblr blog has a mixture of original content and reblogs, or all reblogs, all of that can be copied over to the new site. Reblogs will become “your” original content if nobody else posted them yet, otherwise they will be shown as reblogs. The devs are looking at ways to preserve attribution of reblogs back to the original Tumblr poster, if that person also moves to the new site.
Important: your Likes cannot be copied from Tumblr to the new site. You will have to go find the same posts again on the new site, and like them afresh.
(Similarly, existing reblog comments, asks, messages and other user interaction on Tumblr cannot be copied to the new site - that’s just too much to do, in the short time available.)
If you want to preserve any of your existing Liked posts on Tumblr, you will need to either: (1) download the post to your own PC, or: (2A) reblog it now to your own Tumblr blog, and then (2B) use the automatic tool, before December 17th, to move your whole Tumblr blog across to the new site.
If you have Liked a lot of posts here on Tumblr, the gridllr.com webapp should be able to help you do steps 1 and 2A quickly, I mean download or reblog.
(Someone complained to me today about the appearance of Gridllr on a phone. It’s best to use Gridllr on a PC, Mac or Tablet with a large screen.)
If you have liked a post here on Tumblr and the original poster decides to delete it, or even to delete their entire blog, some time before December 17th, then that post will be permanently lost. So if you want to be sure to preserve any of your Liked posts, you should best download or reblog as soon as possible. If it’s reblogged to your own blog it is safe from deletion, at least for next few days.
Obviously, you will lose access, after December 17th, to all past posts you have liked, if Tumblr has flagged them as NSFW. Again, the steps (1), or (2A) and (2B) covered above will be the only way to hold on to these posts.
I am interested in where the community for sharing nude or adult photos, GIFs and writings is going to end up - now that nude content is not welcome on Tumblr after December 17th, 2018.
My friend is a software developer who made the excellent Gridllr.com tool which I’ve been using myself recently to view and reblog from my huge selection of about 7000 personal likes.
Gridllr.com also lets you download the images from your likes - hopefully that feature will be extended in the next days, as I can see a lot of people wanting to use it!
I am discussing with my friend how hard it would be quickly to create a complete Tumblr Alternative site where nudity and adult content will always be allowed.
If you are a community member interested in this possibility, please Follow me and also comment / Like / Reblog this post. I’ll blog an update in the next few days saying where we have got to. If you don’t Follow me, you probably won’t see the update!
The time has finally come.
We’re all getting booted from this platform, but we’re a community, and
we’ll rebuild elsewhere. The current alternative
sites are less than ideal, but maybe one will be suitable, or a new platform
will arise in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, let’s make sure we export everything so that
all our work was not in vain. We suggest a few different ways to do this, to
ensure that nothing is lost.
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1. Send your email to
your favorite blogs to stay in touch.
Our email is: alongthehike@gmail.com
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2. Export a list of
people that you follow, so you don’t forget any names/blogs accounts
At the bottom click export.
It will take a while to process.
Once ready, click download backup. Ideally we’ll be able to import these files into another platform, but you should probably do the following steps just in case.
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4. Download your full site.
This is easy, but will take a while, and probably a few GB’s.
Enter your site’s URL and run the program. It will probably take a few hours.
“It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the
Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting
HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack
arranges the original site’s relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the
“mirrored” website in your browser, and you can browse the site from
link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an
existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully
configurable, and has an integrated help system.”
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5. Download all media from all of your favorite blogs.
Open the program and on the bottom left enter your blog’s
URL. In settings make a new folder to
which the files should be downloaded. Right click your blog and “add to Queue” then
click “Crawl”.
You can do this with any blog you follow, but it will only
take images, and no comments, tags, etc., hence the need to download your
entire site (and/or other sites) using HTTrack in step 4 above.
Downloading your “likes” is a bit more tricky.
Click settings, then connection, and log in with your Tumblr
credentials.
With these
files/exports we should be able to migrate elsewhere and rebuild our community. It will be hard to credit everyone for their
work, but we’ll do our best.
If you have any questions on the above just respond here, or
via email.
We’re to be kicked out on the 17th, but it will probably happen
earlier, so the sooner you get started on the above the better.
It’s been a pleasure sharing with you all over the past few
years.
