Well I just saw the news:

If anyone has seen the news for tumblr, it’s now going to be adult content free. Personally, I wanted to try and keep posting on tumblr and hoped they’d change things for the better and still let us post freely; but you can’t have your cake and eat it too sometimes huh?

I saw @rboz reveal she’s going to move off tumblr to a new website for her NSFW and I think after seeing tumblr announce this, I’m going to research for a new home that gives us all the freedom tumblr used to and will allow me to post my content worry free. I may consider pixiv or maybe newgrounds, maybe become more active on deviantart again.

Anyone wanna join me on this feel free. Any suggestions for a new home, feel free to reply to me.

And to tumblr, you have majorly hurt yourself on this. And you’re just going to hurt yourself even more.

Just read chapter 13 of 100 year quest.

Don’t want to spoil it except to say that I think people are really underestimating the series when in truth some things can be far-fetched; but it’s good when you look past everything. This chapter I think personally is one of the best in this so far and is just adding the vibe Mashima always have when a big battle comes in. Also just one major comment:

Kyria the blade dragon slayer= TOTAL LESBIAN!!!!

I wanted to say something about this situation on tumblr.

As you all know, tumblr has recently been removed from the IOS store on Apple and also has caused some major issues with their tagging situation due to having pornography on their website. A lot of people have recently came forward and pointed out that because of this, it’s affecting creators (like myself) from getting recognition for their work on tumblr and causing people who do a lot of their advertising on tumblr to lose profit.

I personally agree that this is a huge flaw in their system. While I understand it’s to filter out porn bots and all the nasty nasty stuff, it’s basically also removing internet freedom for the content creators. I’m currently reading a web comic series on Webtoons that reminds me a hell of a lot like the situation were in. It’s called Let’s Play by Mongrel Marie (seriously go read it it’s REALLY good!)

The idea behind Let’s Play is it follows a young woman named Sam who dreams of becoming an indie gaming artist, she posts her first video game on an indie gaming engineer website only to have it tested by a famous “Viewtuber” who didn’t play the game correctly and thanks to that, mob mentality occurred and shot her chances of becoming a game designer down before it started.

At one point in the series, Sam decides with her coworkers to try and figure out a solution to the issue with the gaming engineer and prevent mob mentality for good on the website. I feel right now with tumblr, the exact same thing is occurring. I think while they want the website to stay safe and be a healthy environment, the new system has created a big flaw in their website.

I personally think instead of creating more mob mentality and shooting the website down, we should try and think of a permanent solution to prevent things like this from happening again. I’m creating this post for everyone so they can share it and if any web designers who aren’t affiliated with tumblr are reading this, I want you to post your ideas on this post so if tumblr does see this, it can take these ideas to improve their situation.

Personally, I’m beginning to think Tumblr outgrew it’s current serving system and might need a new one to run the website.

deafmic:

fucking-zawa-sensei:

deafmic:

if you have posted anything NSFW on tumblr, back your shit up now. tumblr is deleting blogs that have posted or been reported for nsfw content (even when the reports are false). it’s happened to three different people i know. all your blogs are deleted, not just the one you posted the content on, and it’s done without warning or notification.

 to backup your blog, go into your settings, click the export button, and it’ll send a request for a backup of all the content on your blog that you’ll eventually receive in your email. unfortunately, no one’s been able to fix their blog yet and tumblr support is, as always, unresponsive.

 in addition to this, posts that have links in them no longer show up as searchable in tags, so if you’re trying to bring attention to your art/fics/posts and put them in the tags, don’t put any links on them. they will not show up.

I just did this. Don’t want to risk anything. I’d advise doing the same.

Wow I really love how Tumblr increasingly gets more difficult for content creators to use every single year. 🙄🙄🙄

yeah, it’s really the best way to preserve everything! and i agree, as well. i always think about that post about how tumblr is like 3 developers sitting in an office and they’re not allowed to talk to each other so everything turns into a garbage fire.

also, more information on this!!!

so my current theory is that tumblr is deleting:

1. blogs that post in certain nsfw tags

and

2. blogs that have a certain number of reports on them

however, it’s clearly an algorithm doing this, which is why many nsfw blogs/blogs that post nsfw that abide by the guidelines and properly tag/post/filter things are being deleted. it also seems that tumblr is not checking reports, so blogs with a lot of false reports on them are being deleted. 

the other thing is, this is technically a bug

tumblr is not doing this on purpose. tumblr is a garbage fire of programming, of course, and they have really shitty ways of trying to control the porn bots, but this seems to be a case of them making a program that is supposed to delete porn bot blogs and not putting enough programming into that bot or testing it enough, which results in the bot deleting anything that fits its very loose guidelines. obviously, i dont know this for sure, but from my experience with programming stuff and also being on tumblr for 7 years, that seems like it’s the case

people are able to get their blogs back! it seems support is replying to some requests and telling people that it is, in fact a bug! please follow the guidelines in that post to get your blog back if you have been deleted!

lastly, this is another good way to back up all your tumblr content. it doesn’t use the tumblr system to do it. it takes about ten minutes and the instructions are all in the link and it’s very easy to do. this way, you don’t have to wait for tumblr support to back it up for you.

feel free to add onto this/shoot me a message if anyone reading this has anymore info. 

I think maybe we should all look into another website until this is over because this is seriously messed up. I advertise A LOT of my content on tumblr and stuff like this is not ok! How can I get my fan fictions out there? Or my art or my own work that I sell?