You can still find me at the above Discord – feel free to join in!! I’ve also backed up Butterfly Effect onto a makeshift WordPress HERE, so if anything does happen here on Tumblr… you’ll know where to find me!!
For the time being, I’m not quitting Tumblr. This place is by far the best medium to share sim stories so I sincerely hope we can all stick around.
My last post of the night lol I tried linking my WordPress to also post on Tumblr? Well, Tumblr immediately marked the imported post as explicit lol
I’m optimistic that this is gonna die down so I’m gonna lurk here until the 17th and see how it goes. BUT… I’m excited to try a new platform, though, not gonna lie. We shall see!
Ok, goodnight and remember- no matter what happens, creativity and imagination resides within YOU, not a platform.
like okay, cool ban all the porn. whatever. it’s your site, i guess.
BUT the way you chose to implement it is BEYOND RIDICULOUS.
1) you gave us NO WARNING WHATSOVER. you literally just dropped this on us out of nowhere, and expect us to be okay with it?
2) you stated that you’re going to start enforcing this on december 17th, yet posts are already being flagged in mass quantities.
3) you have given us NO WAY to easily review the posts that have been flagged. rather than consolidating them onto a single review page, we are forced to scroll through our thousands upon thousands of posts just to hunt them down.
4) your flagging algorithm is an absolute MESS. it’s flagging completely innocent content and bypassing everything that’s actually reasonably questionable.
MEANWHILE there are amazing non-NSFW content creators panicking because they’re worried all their hard work is going to up and vanish due to their posts being flagged for ABSOLUTELY NO LOGICAL REASON.
or you’re going to lose more than just the porn blogs.
and we are losing @sssvitlans – our most valuable resources will be gone and the millions of followers for sims 2, 3 and 4 will follow. How can this community survive this?
Sorry for all the spam about this, guys– I just think it’s important to keep the information spreading. I think many of us are just now learning about all of this together, trying to figure out exactly what it means for our Simblrs and our community…
Personally, I’m hoping that Tumblr will hear the outcry from the community and decide on a better system of change than this…? But I admit that’s a very optimistic scenario.
I just found the Simblr community last month and fell in love. If everyone moves to a different and/or better platform, I will be happy to follow. What matters to me are the people and the awesome stories they tell.
Heya! I don’t know if people have modded around with the video station from GF much, but I’m trying to make a separate, portable camera, which should work like the camera that comes with the station minus all the video editing interactions.
Currently, I’m at a dead end, as I don’t know why the video filming interactions do not appear. At the moment, the video inventory works and I can even use the debug command to create videos (picture 2). Sadly, recording vlogs isn’t possible and same goes for the video transfer (i had an editing station on the lot).
At anyone who might have a decent understanding of this, I would really appreciate some help. Thanks in advance.
In case anyone can help!! Please help this come true!!
Okay, folks. So. Tumblr’s jumped the shark in a big way, and I’m not even just talking about indiscriminately blocking all “adult” content on a platform that IS, in fact, primarily 18+.
Many blogs, like the wonderful @blackkatmagic , that are not especially NSFW have vanished.
(And I for one LIKE being able to go to curated porn blogs run by actual people and have a chance of finding stuff to my taste, it was one of the things that kept me on this hellsite, but that’s another issue entirely.)
I know lots of people are talking about migrating, but none of us are sure to where yet. Pillowfort seems to be an option, some people are talking about Twitter. But for now, it’s a mess, and even if we knew where we were going, it’s often a huge process, and a lot of us have stuff on tumblr that ONLY exists there.
One possible quick solution to save your blogs, both NSFW and personal, is to import it to WordPress. I found this solution through from frantic googling on how to save an entire blog, text posts an all. There are several apps for downloading all the pictures from a tumblr, (Plently for Windows, but only a few paid ones for mac, of which Tumbelog Picture Downloader is working for me so far) but this is the only solution I’ve seen so far that allows you to save EVERYTHING. I downloaded my NSFW blog in like 10 min. My regular blog, which is significantly larger, is in the process of importing, but I don’t anticipate any problems. I will, of course, update you if I have any.
This tutorial I found worked really easily. http://quickguide (.) tumblr (.) com/post/39780378703/backing-up-your-tumblr-blog-to-wordpress
I put parenthesis around the .’s like we’re back in FF-Hell, just in case tumblr’s new thing about outgoing links kicks in. You know what to do.
To break it down, just in case:
Sign up for a WordPress.com account at wordpress (.) com/start
You’ll have to create an account, with your email, a username, and a password. They should send you a confirmation email immediately, check it, activate it, and you’re good to go.
On the site, it will ask you for a site name. That page asks you a bunch of other information too, but you only have to fill out the site name.
Then you have to give your site a URL. If you’re lucky, your tumblr URL is still available, if not you’ll have to come up with another one, sorry.
It will tell you if that option is still available for free.
Then it will ask you to pick a plan. Free is really good enough, I swear.
Now you’re set up! You can import your tumblr!
The only differences from the linked tutorial are that the Import button is now on the first level menu, not in tools.
Hit Import, then you have to follow the link for “other importers” at the bottom, to find the option for Tumblr.
Then you’ll have to sign in with tumblr, using your normal tumblr credentials. You’ll be redirected there automatically.
You’ll have to allow WordPress permissions on your blog.
Then your blogs, including all your sideblogs, will show up in wordpress.
Hit import, wait a WHILE depending on the size of your blog, and you’re done!
ALSO!!
I made my NSFW blog private for now, since I don’t know WP’s policy on NSFW.
This means that to access it, someone has to have an account and request access. But hey, part of our problem on this hellsite has been people going places they aren’t wanted, so I don’t personally see this as a bad thing. They can send a request from the landing site on your blog, you get an email, click a link in the email, and PRESTO, they have access.
To make it private, go to Settings > Reading > Site Visibility. Go back and check, it took me changing the setting twice for it to actually stick.
tl;dr, you can import your entire blog to wordpress in just a few steps.
I’m going to tag the hell out of this, in no particular order. PLEASE reblog this and spread the word so people know it’s an option. If you’re having trouble, PM me, and I’m happy to help.
TinyMi 