Boy am I (still) glad I moved to DW

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So, Verizon wants to sell tumblr after not only failing to monetize it but driving away roughly 30% of its users, and the most interested potential buyer at the moment is none other than PornHub. Yannow, that site that's owned by MindGeek, a company that's pure scum.

tumblr is in an even more precarious situation now, and there's two ways I see it ending:

1) MindGeek via PornHub acquires tumblr, which at minimum could drive away almost everyone who tried to stick around after the NSFW ban, 'cuz then PornHub will legally own their art. (At worst, well--let's say "toxic cultural shift") Or,

2) No one buys tumblr; Verizon decides to scrub its hands of the platform and delete everything.

Neither is acceptable, and while there's apparently been some talk of crowdfunding a buyout and giving tumblr to the users, that hinges on PornHub not being able to offer more money. And if PornHub wants tumblr badly enough, they will.

So, did y'all back up your tumblogs before the site started blocking archival efforts?..

Comments

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Cross-posting everything to AO3 would be a good idea, I think (especially since your blog's still marked as "sensitive").

For what it's worth, I think dA become more usable for me after I got UBlock Origin. XD If your old computer can run that, site performance might improve a little?