I’ve had a lot of people asking me how to acquire a back-up folder of all of their content. Here’s the easiest way I’ve found so far..
1) Go to Settings
2) Click on your blog in the right hand menu
3) Scroll all the way down and you’ll see the backup option
4) Once you’ve initiated the backup, it’ll take a while to build the file (mine took two days)
5) Once it’s ready to download, download the zip file (or export it) and you’ll have every image/gif/comment/video you’ve ever posted (and yes, even re-blogs) right there in a neat little folder.
My folder even contained all of the videos I’ve reblogged, even though I wasn’t the source.
If anybody has any clever and/or efficient tricks for uploading the content to Twitter (aside from doing it the hard way, post by post) please let me know and I’ll spread the word.
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Final say
I think that on the 15th/16th December we should just reblog the fuck out of every NSFW picture or video just to piss them off!
If you’re leaving Tumblr for good, then cancel your account on your way out.
Sounds drastic. Especially for content creators who may still need Tumblr for commissions while they find an alternative.
If you can swing it, here’s why:
I suspect that the December 17th deadline is so that Verizon/Yahoo can clean house and make Tumblr appealing to investors. This is a Q4/Q1 fire sale kind of thing. It makes a certain amount of business sense to make this change. Human-lead content curation (e.g. separating the CP from the legit) is expensive and time-consuming. I doubt they have the money for it. They already sold off Flickr. As a long-time Flickr pro user, I’m not pleased by the change and increase in pro account price, but I get it.
Investors are looking for a user base. User base is a prime attraction for investment or buy-out for a social media platform or application (I speak from experience as a co-founder of Rhinobird.tv).
Every account that is cancelled will be one less account in Tumblr’s user base for their pitch. I assume that there are millions of accounts with some percentage simply being abandoned accounts that haven’t been used in years. So cancelling one’s account on the way out the door won’t really matter unless the number of cancelled accounts reaches several hundred thousand at least.
If you decide to leave and cancel, then I also recommend sending a polite message to Tumblr staff, or tweet to the account about why you are leaving.
Finally, using Twitter to voice your concerns and thoughts about this issue will increase its visibility. They ain’t gonna like that. Media outlets that cater to tech entrepreneurs, and Silicon Valley types are going to be all over this.
I never ask for reblogs, but I will this one time.
If You Actually Want To Do Something About This:
If you’re wanting to show your displeasure, don’t just tag staff or support. Take a page out of other consumer revolts and make sure your displeasure is known.
Don’t be an idiot. Do not threaten, harass or otherwise make this personal. Contact these companies, make your displeasure known, alert them that you are a customer and you will be leaving their brand across all boards unless they reverse their decision.
Be clear, be concise, be polite, but make your displeasure known.
Tumblr
- Email:
- Mail: 35 E. 21st St., 9th FloorNew York, NY10010
- Twitter: @tumblr
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tumblr/
Oath Inc
- Email: -
- Mail: 770 BroadwayNew York, NY 10003United States
- Twitter: @oath
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OathBrands
Verizon
- Email: -
- Mail: 1095 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013
- Twitter: @VerizonNews
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/verizon/
Note the following properties owned by Oath Inc. Bring them up explicitly in your statement of leaving their services.
- Yahoo and all Yahoo Subsidiaries (Yahoo News, Yahoo Mail, etc)
- AOL
- TechCrunch
- HuffPost
- Flurry
- Kanvas
- Endgadget
- AutoBlog
- Makers
- Build
- Ryot
- BuiltByGirls
- MSN
- Outlook
- X-Box
New Info Will Be Added As I’m Made Aware Of It
Edit: This does nothing if it isn’t shared around
Edit 2: Apparently Tumblr stopped taking emails. If you have an alternate let me know.
