so as this post says, if you’r finding your blog is all jumbled, old posts popping up to the front, new posts not showing up at all, etc it is because of those posts being flagged and then unflagged. all you have to do is open them to edit and save them again and they’ll go back.
i just wanted to make this separate post to add that once you do that all your new posts will go back to being visible at the top of your blog as they should be i just did it and now everything’s fine on my blog.
PLEASE TRY THIS AND REBLOG THIS TOO
This is what I did lads. If your homepage has been tumblr’d, this is how to un tumblr it. You gotta edit every single flagged/unflagged post though. The thing is that it won’t show you its been flagged/unflagged so lol
To make this easier
1) Go to your tumblr
2) Take note of the date of the first post on your 2nd page
3) Go back to the 1st page of your blog and basically edit every post that has a date that comes before the date in #2
4) Refresh your homepage, repeat
5) If u no longer have posts before the date in #2, you’re good
I’m sure everyone is starting to become aware of this glitch, but if you look at blogs on web/desktop, a lot of blogs have old posts that were at some point flagged and marked safe again stuck on the first page of their blogs, so that new content and reblogs are being sent to page 2 or even further back on some blogs.
This is a pretty terrible Tumblr glitch and I hope it becomes well known enough that Tumblr actually does something to fix it, because at this point it looks like blogs aren’t posting any new content if someone were to actually go to the blog and not view on the dashboard. So, I don’t know if anyone regularly checks my blog or the fan site blogs I help run, but just know that there is new content being posted, you just won’t see it on the first page right now.
UPDATE: If you edit the post and just hit ‘save’ (you don’t even have to change anything), it will go back to it’s rightful place your blog and free up your first page again. [x]
In case you’re not aware, Tumblr has recently announced that on the seventeenth of December they’ll start purging all porn and porn-adjacent content on Tumblr. Why does that matter to LWU, you ask? Well, they’re using their bots to identify it, and we’ve all seen how well THAT works. One of my Wander posts even got flagged as sensitive for no apparent reason. What I want to do is reassure you all that I’ve taken steps to back up all of the content on LWU to my hard drive using a tool I was recommended a couple weeks ago. I’m going to continue to do so on a regular basis just in case, so there’s very little chance that my stuff will be lost.
I’m using this one! It condensed my entire blog as of November 20th into one 4.36 gigabyte folder.
Any notes on how to use it? I can’t figure it out.
Okay, so here’s how to do this.
First off, go here and make sure you have Python installed. For Windows it should be the very bottom link, the x86 MSI Installer. You don’t have to do anything but install it.
Second, go here, and click “Clone or Download” (the green button on the right). Select “Download ZIP”.
Make sure you have WinRAR or 7zip or something installed that lets you extract zip files.
Next, make a folder on your desktop. I named mine “Tumblr Backup”, and in the following instructions I’m going to assume that’s what you’ve named yours as well; replace “Tumblr Backup” with whatever you name yours if it isn’t.
Drop the zip file you downloaded into Tumblr Backup. Go in and extract it; this should create a folder called “tumblr-utils-master“.
Open your Command Prompt. If you don’t know how to find that, click your start menu button and type “CMD”, which should give you this:
That should open this:
That frog over there is blotting out my profile name on my computer. Whatever your profile name is when you sign in (e.g. “Max” or “Snugglebuns” or “froglord69”) is going to be in that spot on the address path. If it instead says something about Windows and System 32, that’s okay, what I’m gonna tell you to do will go to the right place either way.
Next, input this command–keeping in mind that the parts in bold should be changed based on your profile name and what you named the folder on your desktop:
CD C:Usersfroglord69DesktopTumblr Backuptumblr-utils-master
There! Now you’re in the right folder! Next, enter this command, replacing the bolded bit with your own blog name:
tumblr_backup.py yourblogname
You should see this:
Then just…let it run! It took less than five minutes for my computer, though it will vary by processor and connection. Once it’s done, you’ll have something like this:
That “index” opens in an internet browser. It’s basically a webpage stored directly on your computer. Some pics of mine:
So…not pretty, but it’ll save the content of your posts. Hope this helps!
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Mac users:
Create a folder somewhere convenient and name it something like ‘Tumblr Backup.’
Download the script as described above. Save it to the folder you just created. Double click it, and it extracts in place.
open a terminal.app window. Terminal.app is located in your /Applications/Utilities folder. Usually, just typing command-space to bring up the spotlight window and then typing in ‘term’ and hitting return does the trick.
If you are not accustomed to UNIX command prompts, do not be scared. You got this.
At the ‘$’prompt, type in ‘cd’ and then space, and then drag and drop the decompressed tumblr-utils-master folder onto the terminal window. The path to that window should appear. Hit return.
Boom. You’ve switched to that folder. Type ‘ls’ to make sure. Should look like a list of the folder’s contents.
Type ‘./tumblr_backup.py [yourblogname]’ and hit return.
Boom. Your blog starts downloading. Go drink coffee, enjoy some porn, hang out with your dog, cat, other pet, or lover/s who may also be your pet/s, and let the script run. Depending on your connection speed and just how much of a pervert you are, this could take a while.
Mac instructions for you weirdo Mac users!
Oh thank gods, I needed those mac instructions. THANK YOU.
THIS WORKS!!! (Windows, at least. I haven’t tried Mac)
Honestly, if you just go through the Steve/Tony spreadsheet and add the people you want to follow that’s… basically what I would recommend at this point. A lot of people are still sorting out what they’re doing with their Dreamwidth so they may not be very active yet. Most discussion these days is basically still on Tumblr or on Discord and I am not seeing people post things like longform meta where Steve/Tony fandom is concerned – although it’s possible that people will decide to do this at some point in the future.
(I am probably going to copy over at least some of my old comics meta; I’m not sure what yet. If there’s interest, I might set up a sticky post with comments screened and anon commenting on to basically be the equivalent of an askbox, since I am aware that the majority of my comics posting here is in response to anon asks.)
But the thing about the site culture on DW is that DW gets you more of a sort of personal, journal-type view of people, so if you add people you will find that they will probably want to post about how their day was and so on and so forth in addition to their Thoughts on Fandom – and so it’s hard for me to recommend people to follow in the same way as I would on Tumblr, because, like, I don’t know if you are interested in everything these people post about just because I am? It’s a very individual thing.
The way people traditionally find each other on sites like DW is via friending memes, and it happens that there’s one running right now. Basically, you leave a comment with information about who you are and what you like and what you post about, and then you comment on other people’s comments and add people who look interesting and make new friends. (This is what I meant when I said that DW involves more interaction than Tumblr.)
In terms of Steve/Tony comms, you are going to want to join Cap-Ironman – even though there’s not a lot of discussion right now in it, it is the fandom hub and where events and so on will be announced. I don’t know if they’re planning to alter anything in response to the Tumblr changes.
Also if you like comics you may or may not enjoy scans_daily which is, yes, still going on. And as multifandom comms go, I like Fancake for fic recs. There are probably more things I am not thinking of.
The other thing you might want to consider on Dreamwidth, for about the next week or so, is signing up for Fandom Stocking, especially if you are a fanwork creator. It’s a low-pressure fandom gifting event where you sign up with your favorite ships and pairings and then people just… make you stuff. That you like. People will also leave you non-fanwork gifts that you might like; people ask for recipes or pictures of kittens or holiday greetings. A lot of us in Steve/Tony fandom typically sign up for this, and we just… try to make a lot of Steve/Tony content. It’s fun. Their signups close on the 15th.
What I could really use is a place that documents all the crazy that is happening on Tumblr from hour to hour. Like a what the fuck is going on blog.
Yep. I’ve put in a complaint to tumblr, they say it’ll be “a while” before it’s fixed There’s nothing I can do about it, unfortunately; IFTTT crossposting is also busted. I’m going to try to remember to crosspost to Pillowfort, but that will only be new posts, not reblogs or responses to comments. And let me tell you right now I’m not good at remembering.
The posts still appear to be showing up on peoples’ dashes, at least? I’m still getting likes and comments….
Interesting addition to this – if I select “hide copperbadge.tumblr.com” in my settings (settings > click on copperbadge > scroll down), then it forces copperbadge.tumblr.com to open in a sidebar on your dash. Which I hate, but when I do that, ALL my posts appear. So it’s not a universal muting, it’s just an issue with loading the front page in a new window instead of inside your dash.
So for people who are looking for a fast unmute, give that a try, I guess.
There’s nothing I can do about it, unfortunately; IFTTT crossposting is also busted. I’m going to try to remember to crosspost to Pillowfort, but that will only be new posts, not reblogs or responses to comments. And let me tell you right now I’m not good at remembering.
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