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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.

Thanks men, I’ve appreciated the comments, the follows and the posts. I hate that we will be losing access to all of these great pictures…

Thanks men, I’ve appreciated the comments, the follows and the posts. I hate that we will be losing access to all of these great pictures…

Thanks men, I’ve appreciated the comments, the follows and the posts. I hate that we will be losing access to all of these great pictures…

How to backup your blog, since the Tumblr backup feature doesn’t appear to work right now.

Install: FireFox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/ Install Export Cookies: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies-txt/?src=search HTTrack: https://www.httrack.com/

Login to Tumblr with FireFox.

ALL THE FOLLOWING STEPS ARE NUMBERED AND MATCH THEIR RESPECTIVELY NUMBERED IMAGE

STEP 1 Click the cookie icon in your toolbar. Save the file somewhere you will remember, and name it cookies.txt

STEP 2 Open “windows explorer” or “my computer”.

Up to Windows 7: you can do this by clicking start, type explorer, press enter.

On Windows 8, instead hover your mouse in the upper-right corner of the screen, then click the magnifying glass icon. Type file explorer.

In Windows 10, open the Start Menu and scroll the list with all the apps until you reach the folder called “Windows System.” Open it, and you should find a shortcut for File Explorer inside.

STEP 3 Find where you saved cookies.txt. Right-click it, click COPY. Navigate your way to: C:\Program Files\WinHTTrack Right-click the mouse inside of that folder and PASTE the cookies.txt.

STEP 4 Open HTTrack. Click next.

STEP 5 Type a name for the project, click next.

STEP 6 Paste the URL (address) for your blog under “Web Addresses”. Optional: click “set options”, click the LIMITS tab, under “max transfer rate” put it to a higher setting. This will use more of your internet bandwidth but will be faster (depending on your connection). Click next.

STEP 7 Click finish.

STEP 8 Wait as it works. This can take a long time depending how much stuff you have. Don’t be alarmed if it takes hours or more.

STEP 9 Eventually it will finish and give you a message something like “do you want to delete the temporary file”, this doesn’t matter either way. After it’s done, open explorer in the same manner as earlier and navigate to: C:\My Web Sites You’ll see a folder named whatever you called it earlier. Open that. Now click index.html.

There you go, now you have the entire site saved locally.