So That Tumblr Mess, Huh
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healygSo chances are if you haven't been living under a rock for the past two weeks you've heard about Tumblr's recent decision to ban all NSFW content on their site. (Visual content, mainly, but who's to say if that won't change.) Naturally, this has caused a massive upheaval among Tumblr's userbase, since for many people Tumblr's primary purpose was for, you know, porn.
It'd be an understatement to say that the news that I was stressed out when I first heard the news. "Sent into a blind panic" might be a more accurate way to state it. I anxiously checked the news from my phone during my bathroom breaks. I felt a palpable sense of relief when I came home from work and saw that my NSFW tumblr hadn't been deleted. And of course, I rushed to save all of my favorite NSFW fanworks, even figured out how to run a (complicated at first glance, but easy enough once you get the hang of it) Python program to back up (mostly other people's, I'll admit) tumblrs.
Now, after about two weeks since the news dropped, I've calmed down a bit. I have a bunch of smutty artwork saved in separate folders, categorized by pairing. I've got about 200 gigabytes worth of blogs saved on my hard drive, thanks to the Python method. I've got enough time to backup more if I need it, even though it's just for the weekend. I'm backing up my own blog as we speak. And now, after the dust has cleared a bit, I'm feeling... blah, I guess. It's the end of an era, and I hate seeing it go. It was nice, having all that fanart and fic saved to your blog. I don't think we'll ever see its like again, even though Pillowfort's making a good go at it.
Everybody's scrambling for other social media sites at this point, even the folks who plan on staying on Tumblr. And me? Well, I'm staying there as long as they'll let me. There's a big GF fandom event next month, so I'll probably stick around at least 'til then. It's not like I was posting any porn myself, so if my understanding of what happens on the 17th is correct, I should be okay? But we'll see what happens when it happens.
In the meantime, I'll probably post here a bit more, maybe? We'll see how this all shakes out.
It'd be an understatement to say that the news that I was stressed out when I first heard the news. "Sent into a blind panic" might be a more accurate way to state it. I anxiously checked the news from my phone during my bathroom breaks. I felt a palpable sense of relief when I came home from work and saw that my NSFW tumblr hadn't been deleted. And of course, I rushed to save all of my favorite NSFW fanworks, even figured out how to run a (complicated at first glance, but easy enough once you get the hang of it) Python program to back up (mostly other people's, I'll admit) tumblrs.
Now, after about two weeks since the news dropped, I've calmed down a bit. I have a bunch of smutty artwork saved in separate folders, categorized by pairing. I've got about 200 gigabytes worth of blogs saved on my hard drive, thanks to the Python method. I've got enough time to backup more if I need it, even though it's just for the weekend. I'm backing up my own blog as we speak. And now, after the dust has cleared a bit, I'm feeling... blah, I guess. It's the end of an era, and I hate seeing it go. It was nice, having all that fanart and fic saved to your blog. I don't think we'll ever see its like again, even though Pillowfort's making a good go at it.
Everybody's scrambling for other social media sites at this point, even the folks who plan on staying on Tumblr. And me? Well, I'm staying there as long as they'll let me. There's a big GF fandom event next month, so I'll probably stick around at least 'til then. It's not like I was posting any porn myself, so if my understanding of what happens on the 17th is correct, I should be okay? But we'll see what happens when it happens.
In the meantime, I'll probably post here a bit more, maybe? We'll see how this all shakes out.
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