Tag: Tumblr

Cleaning up

So, with Facebook continuing to be a pain, Google+ shutting down, Twitter continuing to be a dumpster fire, and Tumblr clumsily kicking off a huge section of their userbase so that Verizon can better monetize them (making me wonder how long they’ll try before they decide it’s not worth it), I figured it was time to reconsider my social network presence.

Mainly I’m on my main blog at K-Squared Ramblings and on Mastodon at @KelsonV@Wandering.shop these days (Plus Flickr and Instagram.)

As far as Tumblr goes, I’m in wait-and-see mode. I’ve never been super-active here, and I’ll often go a few weeks without reading or posting, but I also have automatic cross-posting set up with Flickr, Instagram, and my blog. A lot of my posts here are duplicates.

I’ve saved a full archive of my Tumblrs, and I’m going to be going through over the next week or few cleaning out the duplicates, except for posts that got traction over here (like M’Hael’s, for instance). Hopefully it’ll result in a more focused blog going forward, with mostly Tumblr-original material (both my own stuff and reblogs), and it’ll be easier to pick out what needs to be saved in the event that Tumblr does go the way of GeoCities and Google+ (or even just the way of LiveJournal, which it’s halfway to already).

Backup processing? Really?

I started exports of my #Tumblr blogs on either Monday night or Tuesday night. They still say “Backup processing” on Friday.

Meanwhile, I imported an entire 1500-post Tumblr to a self-hosted WordPress blog so that I can look for anything unique that I want to preserve in the event that Verizon gives up trying to monetize what’s left of the site…in less than an hour.

On Wandering.shop

The ten weirdest content moderation decisions Tumblr has made this week via @comicsbeat

The Beat has a comics-themed round up of “The ten weirdest content moderation decisions #Tumblr has made this week”

https://www.comicsbeat.com/nsfw-according-to-tumblr-top-10-art-posts-you-wont-see-on-your-dashboard-this-week/

On Wandering.shop

The ten weirdest content moderation decisions Tumblr has made this week https://www.comicsbeat.com/nsfw-according-to-tumblr-top-10-art-posts-you-wont-see-on-your-dashboard-this-week/ via @comicsbeat

On Twitter

Adding Tumblr to the Archive

Tumblr’s jettisoning a major part of their user base, which doesn’t give me much confidence in its future. So I’m importing everything up to now, even though very little of my Tumblr activity is unique to Tumblr. Just about all of it is cross-posted or notified from my blog, or Flickr, or somewhere else, or is a reblog of someone else’s Tumblr where I didn’t add anything except maybe new tags.

I guess cleaning up the duplicates will give me another ongoing project for when I’m bored.

Which reminds me, I should decide what I’m going to do with the rest of the Google Plus archive. I’d been manually importing the original stuff, and then ran into a wall when it came to deciding how to handle posts with interesting comments: Do I import the post without comments? Do I copy the comments into the post body? Do I finally take the time to write that import/converter script I thought about doing a year ago?

Added Tumblr: First Pass

I imported one of my Tumblr blogs using WordPress’ Tumblr importer. Re-Reading Les Mis started out as just a mirror of the corresponding blog, but I did the occasional image post or repost-with-commentary, and after finishing the original series covering the entire book, I started posting excerpts & follow-up commentary, some of which made it back to the source.

I’ve updated my What’s in your archive? post. The importer does a good job of transferring your blog directly from Tumblr to a WordPress blog. It even imports images (though sometimes it imports a single-image post as a gallery for some reason). The original URL is stored in a custom field, and you can leave it connected and import new items when you want to bring them in.

Some gotchas: It can only map to one author, but you get to choose which one. It puts everything in the default category. Videos don’t get imported, even if you’ve just embedded a YouTube video.

There are only ~150 posts in the Les Mis Tumblr, and not much overlap with other material (though again, a lot of the early stuff is just mirroring). There are closer to 1500 1700 on my main Tumblr, and the vast majority of it is automatic shares from K2R, Instagram, or Flickr.