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17 December
We are aware of the devastating impact of Tumblr’s new “Community guidelines” for a large part of the Tumblr community.
We are now rapidly looking at what steps we can take to:
* help the community retain access to current blog content and Likes
* create an alternative home for safe, equal and non-judgmental posting of all legal content, built on free speech principles.
For now, we recommend that users download to their own PC any content which they want to be sure of preserving. Gridllr.com can be used to help download photos and GIFs (but not video or audio, sorry). For photos and GIFs, the download button automatically gives you the largest image size available.
Pro Tip: For fastest downloading on a Windows PC, right-click the download button and select “Save Link As…” (Firefox / Chrome), and save immediately to disk. This download button gives you the largest size available from Tumblr - it is not limited to the current size seen on the grid screen.
This weekend (8-9 December) we will update with more information about what Gridllr plans to do to help the community after 17 December.
Go for it.
alternatives to Tumblr?
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!
Follow this blog, please.
Rescue plan on Twitter
The rescue plan now has a Twitter account: https://twitter.com/rescueplan
It would be a good idea to follow it or make a note of it today
It’s a safety feature.
My intention is that every important announcement will be both here and on Twitter. But if for any reason* my Tumblr account gets suspended or deactivated then further announcements will be on Twitter only
Please be assured that people are currently working hard on making the rescue plan actually effective. I will post with more information tomorrow and at the weekend.
Reblogs and retweets welcome. But please do not send me any messages or questions on Twitter, I will not respond - all my time now needs to be spent helping the plan itself
* I don’t think I’m breaking any terms of service in my Tumblr account, but really, who knows these days?
Good Luck.
December 17th - a rescue plan
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-10th, further details of the new site and how to secure your username there
2. 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 11th 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.
Ok here’s the real response. I’ll probably stay on tumblr because it’s such a habit now. But damn it’ll never be the same
I’m super upset but some of the friends and followers I’ve met are very important to me so I’ve made this to keep in contact with people
I WILL ALSO BUT EVEN WITH VERY RESTRICTED CONTENT.
If you’re leaving Tumblr for good, then cancel your account on your way out.
Sounds drastic. Especially for content creators who may still need Tumblr for commissions while they find an alternative.
If you can swing it, here’s why:
I suspect that the December 17th deadline is so that Verizon/Yahoo can clean house and make Tumblr appealing to investors. This is a Q4/Q1 fire sale kind of thing. It makes a certain amount of business sense to make this change. Human-lead content curation (e.g. separating the CP from the legit) is expensive and time-consuming. I doubt they have the money for it. They already sold off Flickr. As a long-time Flickr pro user, I’m not pleased by the change and increase in pro account price, but I get it.
Investors are looking for a user base. User base is a prime attraction for investment or buy-out for a social media platform or application (I speak from experience as a co-founder of Rhinobird.tv).
Every account that is cancelled will be one less account in Tumblr’s user base for their pitch. I assume that there are millions of accounts with some percentage simply being abandoned accounts that haven’t been used in years. So cancelling one’s account on the way out the door won’t really matter unless the number of cancelled accounts reaches several hundred thousand at least.
If you decide to leave and cancel, then I also recommend sending a polite message to Tumblr staff, or tweet to the account about why you are leaving.
Finally, using Twitter to voice your concerns and thoughts about this issue will increase its visibility. They ain’t gonna like that. Media outlets that cater to tech entrepreneurs, and Silicon Valley types are going to be all over this.
I never ask for reblogs, but I will this one time.
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Reblog to show your support for NSFW Artists, who deserve better than having their art censored/removed because of a badly thoughtout idea
I agree like Yahoo management under Oath, not a good business decision.
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