Love of Nylon

When did freedom of expression suddenly become an online crime? When did an attack on a specific subset of any group ever work to the benefit of any institution?

In this bloggers humble opinion, Tumblr’s December 17th forced genocide of Adult Content blogs is just another example of how our society is slipping backwards in its level of tolerance towards anything that is different, preferring to have this type of content hidden away, and marked with a scarlet letter of intolerance and shame.

Are there issues revolving around certain types of blogs Yes. Child pornography and other unacceptably content is abhorrent to all. Is Tumblr going after those specific types of blogs? No. Are they setting up a system that blocks minors from accessing adult content blogs? No. They are preferring to follow a simplistic “nuke it all” approach rather than address the overall problem. Taking a M.A.D (mutually assured destruction) approach, can only end in one way, for without adult content, Tumblr will die off.

The backup feature that tumblr has implemented in the settings makes a really shitty copy of your blog. If you want to back up your blog I highly recommend using bbolli tumblr utility. You can find it here: https://github.com/bbolli/tumblr-utils.

Download the zip to your computer. It’s probably better if you download it straight to the desktop. Once you have it downloaded, extract the “tumblr-utils-master” from the zip and place it on the desktop.

Open the command prompt. You may need admin rights to open this. If it opens and keeps closing on you; trying opening it by typing “cmd.exe” into the run box.

Once you have the command prompt open you can start switching the folder out of the system32. To do this type in CD C:\users\yourusername\desktop\ tumblr-utils-master\ 

My folder is named differently I don’t know why. I probably renamed it like an idiot at some point.

Now that you’ve changed folders you can start backing up your blog. Simply type tumblr_backup.py tumblrusername and press enter.

Give it time to backup your files.

When it’s done backing up your blog it will return to the folder in the command prompt.

Here is my backed up blog in the folder.

This is how your blog index will look. Everything is sorted by month/year. Unfortunately it does not save themes. But neither does tumblrs export feature and tbh I prefer this one to theirs.

This is how your blog looks when you click on a month. It’s not as glamorous as a main theme, I know, but at least your posts are all there.

(YOU SHOULD RENAME THE BLOG FOLDER TO USERNAME-BLOG IF YOU INTEND ON BACKING UP YOUR LIKES. OTHERWISE YOUR LIKES WILL BE SHOWN IN THE BLOG AS IF YOU HAD REBLOGGED THEM.) 

And once you do the likes backup rename that folder to USERNAME-LIKES.

You can also save your LIKES (if they are being shared ONLY!) If they’re not shared go to tumblr and open your account settings and enable “sharing likes”. Return to the command prompt and type in “tumblr_backup.py tumblrusername -l

Likes are saved exactly the same way your blog is. I personally prefer to keep the blog and likes separate in different folders. That way my likes aren’t showing up as reblogged posts on my blog archive.