what goes up must come down
Dec. 6th, 2018 08:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hafitalOr, nothing lasts forever. And that's usually a good thing, although it might not seem like it.
*waves to new subscribers!*
I'm watching all the shenanigans on tumblr with a somewhat jaundiced eye, as I'm sure all of us who have seen this play out before are. I backed up my tumblr a while back*, though the only thing I really wanted to save were the few meta posts I made, and I think I still have to go through those and save them again because I saw somewhere that the back up doesn't save anything below a "read more" cut. say what.
I never had any real issues with tumblr's format, like others have, so I do kind of hope that some viable version of it continues on. Although with the way that place is run, who knows.
Anyway, I am not inclined to delete anything, seeing as I still have my livejournal. I trust I will stumble along appropriately late to the next fandom party.
I know the goal, the hope, is to one day own the servers, to do the same for fandom social networking that AO3 did for fic archiving. That would be amazing. Otherwise we're just going to be nomadic I guess. It's amusing to me, actually, how fandom carves out these homes in enemy territories for a while, but it doesn't seem to last.
This made me get a fandom twitter. I hate twitter. So, thanks for that, tumblr. My fannish twitter handle is @hafital2.
I am hafital on everything else, including pillowfort. :D follow me! I am sad and don't have any followers on anything lol. *sad pumpkin*
*I used the tumblr back up tool available on the website. It takes a LOOOONNNGGGGGGG time to download. I ended up leaving my computer on all night, and that's how I did it. But then the file is kind of useless imo. I mean, it's all there. ALL OF IT. So, that's cool. Every reblog is saved! So weird. Not sure I needed that, but cool. But, like, it's hard to sort through. Especially if you're like me and *koff* reblog too much. Whatever. I think i'm going to try the upload to wordpress thing and see what that looks like.
*waves to new subscribers!*
I'm watching all the shenanigans on tumblr with a somewhat jaundiced eye, as I'm sure all of us who have seen this play out before are. I backed up my tumblr a while back*, though the only thing I really wanted to save were the few meta posts I made, and I think I still have to go through those and save them again because I saw somewhere that the back up doesn't save anything below a "read more" cut. say what.
I never had any real issues with tumblr's format, like others have, so I do kind of hope that some viable version of it continues on. Although with the way that place is run, who knows.
Anyway, I am not inclined to delete anything, seeing as I still have my livejournal. I trust I will stumble along appropriately late to the next fandom party.
I know the goal, the hope, is to one day own the servers, to do the same for fandom social networking that AO3 did for fic archiving. That would be amazing. Otherwise we're just going to be nomadic I guess. It's amusing to me, actually, how fandom carves out these homes in enemy territories for a while, but it doesn't seem to last.
This made me get a fandom twitter. I hate twitter. So, thanks for that, tumblr. My fannish twitter handle is @hafital2.
I am hafital on everything else, including pillowfort. :D follow me! I am sad and don't have any followers on anything lol. *sad pumpkin*
*I used the tumblr back up tool available on the website. It takes a LOOOONNNGGGGGGG time to download. I ended up leaving my computer on all night, and that's how I did it. But then the file is kind of useless imo. I mean, it's all there. ALL OF IT. So, that's cool. Every reblog is saved! So weird. Not sure I needed that, but cool. But, like, it's hard to sort through. Especially if you're like me and *koff* reblog too much. Whatever. I think i'm going to try the upload to wordpress thing and see what that looks like.
no subject
Date: 2018-12-06 05:03 pm (UTC)I'm realizing I haven't actually backed up my Tumblr, I just sort of started crossposting bits of it but it wasn't that long ago.
I don't know if I've got the energy to contemplate it. Sigh.
no subject
Date: 2018-12-07 04:44 am (UTC)I don't blame you. It's kind of super annoying!