Still Nude at Heart

I think I've picked up a couple new followers by reblogging #TumblrIsDead memes, so for anyone who doesn't know: I have another blog, nudeworldorder.net which is about a fantasy world where some people aren't allowed to wear clothes, either as a punishment, or because they signed up for it willingly. It's good clean(-ish) fun. But NSFW, obviously. :D

I started on tumblr, but moved all the content to my own site after I lost my main account way back around the time tumblr started hiding adult blogs from non-members and search engines.

Which brings me to my main point. I can't be the only one who made plans to continue elsewhere. Maybe some of those plans aren't finalized yet, which is understandable. Took me a while too. But in any case, I'd love to know where you all go. And since I got a bit of a head start, maybe I can help people find you too.

I thought I'd share my experience with two tumblr back-up options: TumblThree, and tumblr's internal export command. (Once again, the latter can be reached by going to settings, clicking your blogs name on the right, then scrolling to the bottom of the page.) First, TumblThree. It gets the job done. It's actually a tad buggy, it's has frozen up or otherwise misbehaved a couple times, but with a little persistence I'll do what you need. A few tips:

When adding a blog, you need to write the whole URL, like http://nudeworldordernet.tumblr.com/ (not https, BTW).

If you're into captioned pics, you probably want to turn on "download image meta", so it saves the text that goes with each image. You can do that either in the settings before you add blogs, or turn it on for each blog in the details pane on the right, after adding them.

The format text gets downloaded in kinda sucks. But at least everything's there.

For the build-in export option, the number one thing you need to know is that it's slow. Slower than you're thinking. No, slower than that. It takes days to process. And I tested it on my little emergency blog that has hardly any content. (Probably that means it's first-come-first serve and a ton of people are using it, for obvious reasons, but it's still kind of ridiculous.) Anyway, you click the export button and it'll say "Backup Processing...", then a few days later you get an email that your backup is ready and you can do download it. So that's the big downside. Well that and the fact you can only use it on your own blog of course. But on the positive side, text is saved in a more readable format, and it can download things TumblThree can't, such as draft posts and conversations from the Messaging feature. The last weird little thing is the archive comes as a zip file, but at first glance it appeared to be empty despite it's 5MB (in my case) size. I don't know what the heck is up with that, but if that happens to you, try opening it with 7Zip, that worked for me.

So bottomline, both have pluses and minuses, so I'd suggest backing up your own blog using both, and turning TumblThree loose on any other adult blogs you'd you'd like to save the content of. I've saved over 100GB of nudity over the last few days, which is insane, but are you gonna do, eh? Anyway, if you're thinking of doing this, don't wait. TumblThree will be useless after the 17th. I think tumblr intends to initially only hide (not delete) adult content so tumblr's internal export function should still work, but why risk it? If you've got a blog you care about, start the export process now.

For the people who are/were still active here but also submitted pictures to my new blog, I hope you continue to do so. No doubt you're feeling pretty dejected right now, and are probably losing your biggest source for photos too. But it would be a shame to let suits and busibodies (or whoever the heck is behind this) ruin our fun little community.

When tumblr deleted my blog, and other similar ones, at the time it looked like the start of a full on purge of adult content. But I didn't want to give up, and found another hosting solution. I hope others do the same now that the purge is actually coming to pass.

RIP Tumblr.

I'm sure you all saw the announcement already, but damn. It sure makes me glad I went and set up my own site when I did. I'm hardly an expert or anything, but if anyone wants advice on setting up their own site, feel free to contact me at nudeworldorder.net. I'm using (relatively cheap) paid hosting and it's working pretty well for me so far.

In case anyone noticed nudeworldorder.net is down, it's nothing serious just some sort of technical problem with the host. They're aware of it and I'm sure it'll be dealt with before too long.

I just got this email from tumblr (or alegedly so).

Dear nudeworldordernet,

As part of our commitment to transparency, we want you to know that we uncovered and terminated 84 accounts linked to Internet Research Agency or IRA (a group closely tied to the the Russian government) posing as members of the Tumblr community.

The IRA engages in electronic disinformation and propaganda campaigns around the world using phony social media accounts. When we uncovered these accounts, we notified law enforcement, terminated the accounts, and deleted their original posts.

While investigating their activity on Tumblr, we discovered that you either followed one of these accounts linked to the IRA, or liked or reblogged one of their posts:

lagonegirl

nevaehtyler previously known as: laserenita

You aren’t in trouble, and don’t need to take any action if you don’t want to. We deleted the accounts but decided to leave up any reblog chains so that you can curate your own Tumblr to reflect your own personal views and perspectives.

Democracy requires transparency and an informed electorate and we take our disclosure responsibility very seriously. We’ll be aggressively watching for disinformation campaigns in the future, take the appropriate action, and make sure you know about it.

— Tumblr

If this is real, I have no idea what they're talking about or who those accounts are. WTF. I'm so sick of hearing Russian conspiracy stories, and now tumblr is doing it too?

If you noticed my new blog isn't working this morning, you're not alone. I've contacted support to get it resolved. I expect the server is overloaded or something.

Actually, that’s already a thing. Except it’s the other way around (tax break for the Permanently Naked), it’s rather small ($30), and it’s only been mentioned once.

But as far as anything more significant goes, why do you think the government would do that? That would imply they have an explicitly pro-permanent nudity agenda, but my take has always been that the government is pretty neutral on the subject. Don’t see why they would care one way or the other.

Quite a while ago, on the old blog, I posted a little totoral on how to make decent looking captions using Paint.net or other free programs. (Mainly to get around the fact that most free programs don't seem to have an option to outline letters.)

I'm having some connection problems with my new site. Not sure what's going on yet. Best I can tell it's stil up but I can't access it myself at the moment. So if you can't access it either, or if you wonder why it's not updating, that's why. I'm trying to sort it out now.

I finally got the new blog set up. Man that was more work that I thought. But it's ready. Come on by. nudeworldorder.net/blog/