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The Official “Log Off” Protest F.A.Q! 

The “Log Off” protest is in response to the recent NSFW ban announced by Tumblr. The ban flags all content the filtering system detects as NSFW, reducing visibility to the community. The system has proven time and time again that is inefficient, oftentimes flagging SFW material as NSFW. 

This SFW material includes art, memes and so on. This ban directly hurts the community and will not solve the actual problems at hand due to the poor flagging system. Because of this, the entire community will suffer.  

So to respond, I propose that every user on Tumblr logs off of Tumblr for 24 hours on December 17th at 12 am EST. 

Times are listed above depending on timezone! 

This post responds to some very common questions about the protest. So make sure to read it over! 

How to Export Your Blog: 

https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005118894-Export-your-blog

Alternative Sites: 

Pillowfort

Mastodan 

Wordpress 

Twitter 

There is also an official Tumblr blog (ironic, huh?) and Twitter for the protest! It’s at: 

Twitter - https://twitter.com/logoffprotest

Tumblr - https://logoffprotest.tumblr.com/

There will be official updates on each account. Make sure to tag us in any posts, or use the hashtag #logoff2018 ! 

You can force Twitter to post the “raw” quality of your pics by adding one (1) pixel of transparency in the image.

Twitter uses some algorithm to compress images into .jpg, but it cannot do that if there’s transparency involved in the image, forcing it to be .png in its full quality. Literally one singular pixel ANYWHERE counts for this, it can be on a corner if you don’t want it to be bothersome.

Here’s the original image without a background, in its original form. Notice the .png on the filename title.

Here’s the image with a white background. You can see Twitter turned it into a .jpg and youcan see compression artifacts surrounding it.

Here’s the image with a white background, but one pixel edged off. Notice the .png back on the filename and the retaining of quality from the first picture compared to the compression from the second.

All it took was a simple thing:

Nothing else, nothing more. It retains the original quality as you posted it, isn’t very bothersome and can be easily filled up if someone finds it.

Since Tumblr removed the _raw image trick from availability, this is a good way to share high quality, high resolution pictures again with the world.

OMG THEY KILLED CURSTALE! Those bastards!

That happened today. And I know that already some people are wondering “what the heck.” So here is an important update and I’d really be grateful if you can spread this!

@cursetale tumblr has been terminated and Cursetale & I still don’t know why it happened. We also completly don’t know if it gonna be reactived or not. So, just in case, Cursetale is moving to deviantart (@cutthroat-jutsu).  They likely gonna get more involved there now, in case tumblr decides to do this again in the future. I think you can understand why they can’t pull full trust in tumblr after this.  > [ HERE THEIR ACCOUNT TO WATCH ] <

Also some people are asking me “how they could help”. And to be honest, the best way to help is to spread this post and check them on Deviantart!

Josh Fox is finally finished! He features follow-me eyes, squeakers in his paws, lycra lined head, and a removable tongue!

more heart wrecking shit and my new favorite party member…. i’m crying all day you guys, can’t handle it ´__`

have you guys played LISA? because it’s an amazing game T_T VERY grim and VERY sad, with a bit of fun here and there, cool wasteland characters and the best soundtrack T___T