Once again, while this post is appearing on 7 of my blogs: @ssgk-rob, @ssglinuslite, @ssglinuslibrary, @tasselhof, @djk-rob, @tasselhoflite, and @taslibrary, as reblogs. It’s all from me.
The best places to see what are going to be nightly updates on my migration from Tumblr, without the clutter of other posts are: @ssglibrary, and @taslibrary.
Last night I told you that I was trying out a number of different things. Let me tell you the new information I have on those:
pillowfort: They are in a closed beta. You have to pay a $5.00 donation to get an activation key to participate in the beta. I sent mine in on Saturday. After receiving no response for 24 hours, I contacted them. It turns out they are being inundated with requests for keys. I should be getting mine of the 14th. (If they have their tumblr import tool up and running by then, it’s going to leave me VERY little time to preserve 6 years worth of blogging.) They are, also, promising a mobile app in the very near future. IF they live up to their advertising, this would be my first choice to migrate to, at the moment. I will let you know what I find out on Saturday.
Which brings us to blogr.xxx: After doing some poking around, it turns out that they have a tumblr import tool. I just started importing my first tumblr blog to them a little while ago. … and it can only do one at a time, it appears. AND, once you initiate the process, it can be up to 48 hours before it starts on their end. While they don’t have a mobile app that I can find, and the interface to run your blog is a bit cumbersome. It appears, at the moment, to be the best option to save my 6 years of work as a blogger SOMEWHERE. (The Tumblr eport tool is PAINFULLY SLOW. It took 3 days for my 2nd smallest blog to be ready for download, and 4 for my smallest one. … I’ve got export on the other 6 running. We will see how long that will take. They are MUCH larger!)
CUMBLR. : Just saw the notification that this one would open up on the 17th. I THINK this is the service I saw a few people wiring about a few days ago.It’s being developed by people from Tumblr that are about to lose all of their work. IT is SPECIFICALLY for those of us that Tumblr is pushing out, IN PARTICULAR, those of us that blog NSFW material! They are promising functionality similar, if not identical, to Tumblr. The problem with that one is that it doesn’t launch until the 17th. If they were launching earlier, this would be my first choice. (I will reblog the notification that about this as soon as I get done writing this post.)
My plan still stands. I am going to post, right up to the daily limit, the stuff I would normally post through the 14th (the 6th anniversary of the founding of my first blog (@ssglinus)). THEN, I am “going dark”, no more posts, unless I have more updates to post after that. … and I am going to stick around for a while after the 17th, to see what happens, both to my blogs, and my dashboard. … Then Tumblr can kiss my hairy, white ass, while I delete all 8 of my blogs, and both accounts. and I am going to GTFO!
Quick question: What are the posts, for those of you that routinely post things that violate the new guidelines, in your QUEUE looking like?
For the first few days after the announcement almost EVERYTHING in all of queues were flagged. Now, nothing is.
While part of me hopes that the idiots that made this decision are thinking about changing their minds. My “gut” says they have pulled the flags, in the hopes that some of us will stick around.
(My “gut” also thinks that the people who made this decision thinks that we, the people they are alienating, are a bunch of morons that can be tricked into staying here
, after they have taken away our reason for being here.)
One final note:
In our discussions of this, we should differentiate between “Tumblr” (the corporate people making the decisions), and the “Tumblr staff” (the people who make a living by executing those bad decisions.). I’m not saying we should give the staff a “pass”, because, let’s face it, they have screwed up NUMEROUS times over the last few years, executing those decisions.
In the case of what is going on now, though, THE STAFF are NOT to blame. They are just doing what they have to do to pay the rent, utilities, food, etc.
Nope, it’s the “Big, Important People” at the top who have decided to take their company into a VERY SPECIAL chapter of the “History of the Internet”. It’s the space, chronologically, right after that social media GIANT: myspace.