* Tumblr2Wordpress –
Does not get pictures-etc or comments, allows you to archive other people’s blogs, allows you to keep multiple blogs separate easily.
Exports to WordPress’s XML format, should work for WordPress.com blogs.
Very simple, an okay choice for quick/emergency backups even if you don’t use WordPress.
* WordPress.com‘s built-in Tumblr importer–
Does not get pictures-etc or comments, does not allow you to keep
multiple blogs separate: as in, if you import more than one blog, they’ll all get mashed together into one.
To be very, very clear: this importer definitely
and for-real does not save pictures, music, and other media! It’ll look like it grabbed your stuff, yes – but if you check the image urls you’ll see it’s just loading them from Tumblr.
Basically, I recommend this one only if you want to back up or mirror just one mostly-text blog.
Exports directly to the WordPress installation you’re running it from, does not work for WordPress.com blogs.
* tumblr-utils
–
Gets
pictures-etc, does not get comments, allows you to keep blogs separate. A set of Python scripts that export to a simple HTML archive.
Requires you to install Python 2.7 and type a command line comment.
* Jekyll’s tumblr-import – Gets pictures-etc, does not get comments, allows you to keep blogs separate if you configure it that way. Exports to Jekyll’s MarkdownHTML format. Similar to tumblr-utils but 1) much more flexible output, 2) much harder to set up, and 3) requires Ruby, not Python.
* Tumblr API V2 posts function – If you want comments/other notes/downstream reblogs, or if you want to try to archive whole tags site-wide, you’ll need to mess around with this thing.
It retrieves stuff in Tumblr’s alarming-looking JSON format, but at least you’ll have all the information.
If you only want public content, you can just use the API key they provide in the examples. In that case, you may be able to just kinda generate a series of URLs like this:
However, for things like your likes, drafts, or queue – anything that requires logging in – you’ll need to register to use OAuth and do some actual coding. I am very, very sorry.
I do not know how OAuthorize without at least starting out using Sinatra or Rails or something, sorry. Someone more competent than me please provide an example? However, once you’ve done the OAuth handshake process once, you can dispense with Sinatra and just use the access token and secret you got to configure Tumblr::Client objects in the future.
So, who’s muted? Anyone not muted? Is Tumblr just deciding to try to piss off their entire user base now?
To find out if you’re muted, go to your blog’s URL- specifically to the [yourusernamewhatever].tumblr.com- and see if your recent posts or reblogs are there. Like, for my blog, no matter what I reblog, the posts don’t show up there, it just shows one from yesterday as my most recent.
Looks like I’m muted.
As am I. Looks like I need to get some popcorn while this site burns to the ground…
Huh. My posts aren’t showing up either. I don’t have the energy to be editing posts like some people have suggested so I guess only people with me on their dashboard are gunna see anything.
All, we’ve heard from a bunch of you who are concerned about Tumblr censoring NSFW/adult content. While there seems to be a lot of misinformation flying around, most of the confusion seems to stem from our complicated flagging/filtering features. Let me clear up (and fix) a few things:
1. Last year, we added “Safe Mode” which lets you filter out NSFW content from tag and search pages. This is enabled by default for new users and can be toggled in your Dashboard Settings. As some of you have pointed out, disabling Safe Mode still wasn’t allowing search results from all blogs to appear. This has been fixed.
2. Some search terms are blocked (returning no results) in some of our mobile apps. Unfortunately, different app environments have different requirements that we do our best to adhere to. The reason you see innocent tags like #gay being blocked on certain platforms is that they are still frequently returning adult content which our entire app was close to being banned for. The solution is more intelligent filtering which our team is working diligently on. We’ll get there soon. In the meantime, you can browse #lgbtq — which is moderated by our community editors — in all of Tumblr’s mobile apps. You can also see unfiltered search results on tumblr.com using your mobile web browser.
3. Earlier this year, in an effort to discourage some not-so-nice people from using Tumblr as free hosting for spammy commercial porn sites, we started delisting this tiny subset of blogs from search engines like Google. This was never intended to be an opt-in flag, but for some reason could be enabled after checking off NSFW → Adult in your blog settings. This was confusing and unnecessary, so we’ve dropped the extra option. If your blog contains anything too sexy for the average workplace, simply check “Flag this blog as NSFW” so people in Safe Mode can avoid it. Your blog will still be promoted in third-party search engines.
Aside from these fixes, there haven’t been any recent changes to Tumblr’s treatment of NSFW content, and our view on the topic hasn’t changed. Empowering your creative expression is the most important thing in the world to us. Making sure people aren’t surprised by content they find offensive is also incredibly important and we are always working to put more control in your hands.
Sorry for all of the confusion. If you have any more concerns or suggestions on how we can make these features clearer or more useful, please email us!
THE YEAR IS 2013
This was Tumblr Staff’s response to a Change.org 20,000 signature petition in 2013 to stop exactly what’s going on right now. Tumblr Staff, with David Karp at the head, clarified these things and put these guidelines into place to ensure that the site would remain safe and they would continue to allow NSFW content.
Tumblr, we made this clear before and now 10 times as many people are making it clear again: You’re handling this in the wrong way.
You should be focusing on improving features like Safe Mode, the tagging system, blacklisting, whitelisting, filtering, blocking, reporting, etc.
Rather than deciding that destroying the foundation you’ve built and garnered for 11 years as a place where NSFW artists can easily get their work out there.
And would you look at that, this post itself has like a million notes.
There are several other petitions of this nature but this one has the most signatures by far.
“lol the only people mad about the tumblr announcement just want porn lol”
Yeah, no.
Tumblr blocked the tag “chronic pain” in this mess for no reason
They’re flagging commonly used tags by queer people, sex educators, and artists who make their fucking LIVING on tumblr
They’re gonna take down genuine sex workers because they didn’t curb
the problem with spamming porn bots YEARS ago when tumblr users REPORTED
OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND *OVER* that it was a problem
Tumblr
IGNORED the bots, IGNORED the problems, and honestly treated it like
NOTHING until their app was taken off a store due to it.
They’re
fucking over a shit-ton of REAL PEOPLE who rely on tumblr for community
and/or income because they ignored users’ complaints about shitty porn
bots for YEARS until it had financial consequences
I can no longer even talk about chronic pain without the post being blocked from searches
I have drawn one or two nude pieces on my art tumblr which is 99% safe
for work but now I’m worried the blog will be taken down entirely
because Tumblr won’t bother differentiating between spam and REAL PEOPLE
just trying to live their goddamn lives
And god forbid I want to
talk about bisexuality or sex or kink in just… MY LIFE. As a
normal-ass human being who just wants to TALK ABOUT HUMAN THINGS
No, their solution to nuke a problem they’ve ignored for years is to take us all down at once
So maybe don’t laugh about “oh no not my pornz” because 1. plenty of
that ~porn~ is made by actual humans making their living and 2. WAY MORE
than “just porn” is being targeted
This along with Facebook
continuously upholding white supremacy by letting nazi shit fly by while
they ban people for speaking out against their oppressors and it’s
basically like we’re running out of truly free places to just… BE
deleted a bunch of chronic pain and chronic illness posts from blogs they’ve left (like mine)
This isn’t just about ‘oh no you can’t look at people fucking anymore’ (even though lots of sex workers are losing their means of supporting themselves). This goes a lot further, with a lot more chilling effects.
The sexualizing of things like ‘top surgery’ or declaring all ‘trans’ tagged things to be … sexual… is really, REALLY fucked up. Never mind the fact that ‘chronic pain’ had NOTHING to do with sexiness, and we’ve been given no explanation as to why disabled people were considered acceptable collateral damage.
ALSO I had a post flagged earlier today for a cartoon picture of Mario in a bathing suit. Mario, from Super Mario Brothers.
Someone else reported a picture of a cartoon scorpion with a hard hat on being flagged as pornography. Tagging things as ‘queer’ or ‘gay’ gets them flagged NSFW. (Hey, guess what I’d been tagging my t-shirts, because they’re pride stuff? Oh right. Queer. Gay. Pride.)
This is a fucking problem, let’s not blow it off.
I know some people are too young (or simply weren’t involved in fandom back then) to remember what went down with livejournal and a couple of other sites “back in the day”, but it all started out as “it’s okay, we’re just removing the nasty porn”, and then “okay well, just make sure you put your porn behind a cut, no, wait jk you need to host it externally, a link is fine, maybe” and pretty much devolved swiftly into “actually sweety, LGBT content is inherently NSFW by default because it might make the kiddies gay if we expose them to it, so y’all need to leave now byyyeeee”.
Like…that happened. And it took nearly a decade for the fandom spaces to recover and stabilize and to get to the point where LGBT content creators could host their content without being told “you’re not welcome here” and I’m just sitting here, watching as youtube demonetizes LGBT content creators, and Facebook flags up LGBT ads as “inappropriate” and now tumblr is going through the queer and gay tags and just mass blanketing it as inappropriate, while actual pornbots and nazis wind up in my recommended feed.
(As an interesting aside: isn’t it funny how all these sites attribute these things to an algorithm error? Itsn’t that funny.)
Like I am uncomfortable y’all. I am looking around at everything I’ve built and all the friends I’ve made and I know we’re all looking for the next safe space to jump to while hoping we don’t lose each other overnight like “the olden days” where you’d wake up and your fave blogger was just gone.
And usually it was because they’d drawn or written something as simple yet explicit as a kiss. It was just the wrong kind of kiss.
So yea, the sky is not falling, but the ice under our feet sure is making worrying sounds.
Not to get controversial or anything but can we stop with making fun of women being abused by their husbands and playing it off as ‘straight culture’
I lost 10 followers for saying we shouldnt make fun of domestic abuse victims.
can we also please stop making fun of men being abused by their wives thanks
Good addition
Can we also stop acting that domestic abuse is just a “straight” thing?
It’s literally teaching our baby gays that any same sex relationship their going into is safe and they don’t need to be worried about being abused and controlled.
Another good addition
My own sister is in an abusive same sex relationship and refuses to acknowledge it for this very reason
Like if it wasn’t obvious that dumbasses like jacksepticeye, jontron, markiplier and pewdiepie all exist within the same circle of people and have a distinct interest in keeping each other at the top before, it should be now. And they’re all shit, each one of them. I don’t know if jack or mark said nasty shit like jon or felix did but the fact that they STILL support them, that they STILL actively shill for them shows that they are at least ok with supporting white nationalists if it means staying popular. I havent watched mark or jack in a while, but my young [below 15 yr old] brother does and it makes me so fucking mad that these dumb, uncaring fucks are willingly funneling kids towards racists like jon and felix for big bucks.
And of course of COURSE the people constantly defending these people are either literal children who have been TRAINED via this “bro army” nonsense to consider “liking pewdiepie” a personality trait and are woefully ignorant to the bigger picture because THEY ARE CHILDREN, or dumb whites or affluent types who consider consistently bigoted behavior a passable, easily forgivable thing that those darn minorities just won’t let up on.
So my advice is, if you’re a kid, know that this man is a
He does not deserve praise or fame, only scorn and removal. And if you’re an adult fan of his defending his shit, go fuck yourself. Now.
I get it, I used to be super into mark and jack and all of these folks but you HAVE to not let your rose-tinted glasses get in the way of the truth. Felix and Jon are racists and nasty, Mark and Jack actively profit from supporting them and their actions. I don’t care if they don’t actively say this shit, this is what they mean. Take it or leave it.
In response to the NSFW ban being enacted by Tumblr Staff, on December 17th 2018 I propose that we all log off of our Tumblr accounts for 24 hours.
The lack of respect and communication between staff and users is stark. Users have been begging staff to delete the porn bot outbreak, which has plagued the website for well over a year. The porn bots oftentimes send people asks and messages, trying to get them to go to a website full of viruses. They also spam advertisements on others posts.
Users have also begged that Tumblr ban neo-nazis, child porn, and pedophiles, all which run rampant on the site. The site/app got so bad that it was taken off the app store.
However, instead of answering the users, Tumblr has instead taken the liberty to ban all NSFW content, regardless of age. But users have already run into issues of their SFW content being marked as sensitive and being flagged as NSFW, not allowing them to share their work.
Not only does this discriminate again content creators, but it also discriminates against sex workers. Disgustingly, the ban will be enacted on December 17 which is also International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
This ban is disgusting, and while I (and plenty of others) welcome porn bots and child porn being banned, the Tumblr filtration system is broken. It tags artistic work’s nipples as NSFW (when it is art), it tags SFW art as NSFW (when it is not), and does not stop the porn bots, neo-nazis and dozens of other issues.
This ban is discriminatory. This ban is ineffective. This ban is unacceptable.
To protest, log off of your Tumblr account for the entirety of December 17th. Log off at 12 am EST or 9PM PST and stay off for 24 hours. Don’t post. Don’t log on. Don’t even visit the website. Don’t give them that sweet ad revenue.
Tumblr’s stock has already taken a hard hit. Let’s make it tank. Maybe then they will listen to the users.
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