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https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Sensitive-content

TL;DR: Drawn furry smut is also at risk, not just IRL nudes.

Guide about a few platforms that artists can migrate to:

https://e621.net/wiki/show/howto:sites_and_sources

Also consider posting your work on e621 if you don't already and it isn't human-only.

I'm going to devote some extra time per day to approvals, just in case you want to go on an upload spree.

News articles:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/12/verizon-takes-aim-at-tumblrs-kneecaps-bans-all-adult-content/

https://www.intomore.com/impact/tumblr-to-ban-adult-content-potentially-harming-sex-workers-on-day-to-end-violence-against-sex-workers

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/3/18123752/tumblr-adult-content-porn-ban-date-explicit-changes-why-safe-mode

While it's a shame my archive tumblr is probably going to be less useful, I have mixed feelings overall about this. Mostly I'm concerned about tumblr no longer being a place to contain all of those nasty attitude radical people and they will now flood to other sites to push their agendas.

It only applies to IRL porn like pornhub gifs.
Art, sculptures, stories, and illustration is still allowed on tumblr.

Lunacy said:
It only applies to IRL porn like pornhub gifs.
Art, sculptures, stories, and illustration is still allowed on tumblr.

Wrong:

"Adult content primarily includes photos, videos, or GIFs that show real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples, and any content—including photos, videos, GIFs and illustrations—that depicts sex acts."

Maybe some furry/anthro images will be safe, but many will get shown the door.

Ars Technica has restated it this way:

"Any still or moving images displaying real-life human genitals or female nipples and any content—even drawn or computer-generated artwork—depicting any sexual acts will be prohibited."

Welp, time to take the old and dusty luggage and get the fuck out from tumblr.

This should've been done during the _raw period already.

Mairo said:
This should've been done during the _raw period already.

True. But there are still artists uploading there. At least until the recent purge.

What the hell? When did Tumblr's management become such prudes?

JustAWeasel said:
What the hell? When did Tumblr's management become such prudes?

When they decided that the opinions of advertisers mattered more.

YaoiMeowmaster said:
While it's a shame my archive tumblr is probably going to be less useful, I have mixed feelings overall about this. Mostly I'm concerned about tumblr no longer being a place to contain all of those nasty attitude radical people and they will now flood to other sites to push their agendas.

*grabs popcorn*

JustAWeasel said:
What the hell? When did Tumblr's management become such prudes?

Apple recently banned the Tumblr app from the App Store because they said it had child pornography in it. That was what caused the mass deletion of Tumblr NSFW blogs in the first place. Tumblr's management is controlled by Oath, a company that owns the decaying husks of the Yahoo and AOL brands, Tumblr included. Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion in 2013, and Yahoo shit itself and the parts of it that include Tumblr got bought by Verizon in 2016. Those were combined with AOL to form Oath, Inc., a subsidiary of Verizon.

Now Verizon is left holding a smutty hot potato, and they have decided to nuke it from orbit.

I just went back to my Tumblr blog I havent used in months. Even tho I cleared out the hardcore sex pictures and made it a tasteful nude furry blog long before this purge, [Almost no nipples, no sex and and exposed privates] it seems a few of my pictures are now flagged as explicit.
I guess management decided to cave in to the ever growing trend of angry mom pandering.

That’s really shitty. Now we have to deal with JPGs unless artists move to inkbunny or wherever else. Ugh.

BlackLicorice said:
inkbunny or wherever else. Ugh.

InkBunny will never escape the cub stigma.
I still need to know more reasons people won't use Weasyl.

It appears that furries are migrating over to Newgrounds. Oh boy, when Tom said he wanted a Newgrounds resurgence, I don't think this is what he had in mind :V

TheHuskyK9 said:
It appears that furries are migrating over to Newgrounds. Oh boy, when Tom said he wanted a Newgrounds resurgence, I don't think this is what he had in mind :V

Tom from Toonami?

Siral_Exan said:
Tom from Toonami?

Tom Fulp
More like Tom FuRp now eh?

Jinx_Jackal said:
I guess management decided to cave in to the ever growing trend of angry mom pandering.

well..

This problem started (suposedly) when there was **REAL LIFE** pornography of **REAL LIFE** children. like, SMALL CHILDREN. play-in-the-dirt-and-eat-worms kids, not the "technically under age" children. Porn. of REAL KIDS. As well as even lass tasteful things like attempts to *sell* said children.

So, yeah, I mean, angry mom pandering, but if you think photos of real life kids with real life adult penises inside them should be allowed... go away.

This is not about mom going "muh baby saw a penis!"

YaoiMeowmaster said:
While it's a shame my archive tumblr is probably going to be less useful, I have mixed feelings overall about this. Mostly I'm concerned about tumblr no longer being a place to contain all of those nasty attitude radical people and they will now flood to other sites to push their agendas.

Hmm... Those people are already everywhere. but don't worry, they're an incredibly tiny minority. It's the "squeaky wheel" syndrome. you can be in a room with thousands and thousands of spinning wheels, but you'll only notice that one that squeaks. There are squeaky wheels on both sides, but over all, they're a very small group. just you see them most.

I see the most abuse on Twitter these days.

As far as I can tell, they seem to be doing that to make sure Apple can't fault them again for still allowing people to have access to adult content (which is considered User-generated objectionnable content under their terms of use ). They're already off the appstore for what was at the time a legitimate reason (child pornography blogs), so they're already in a defavorable position when it comes to get their app reapproved.

TUMBLR IS DEAD

tumblr dun goofed

SnowWolf said:
well..

This problem started (suposedly) when there was **REAL LIFE** pornography of **REAL LIFE** children. like, SMALL CHILDREN. play-in-the-dirt-and-eat-worms kids, not the "technically under age" children. Porn. of REAL KIDS. As well as even lass tasteful things like attempts to *sell* said children.

So, yeah, I mean, angry mom pandering, but if you think photos of real life kids with real life adult penises inside them should be allowed... go away.

This is not about mom going "muh baby saw a penis!"

After reading around, from the sound of things, they are trying to fix a problem by making a another problem that's hurting them for no reason. Instead offending it's regular NSFW supporters, they could have been actually chasing down real illegal activity manually.

Newgrounds servers is struggling right now with the massive influx of people signing up. The rush is real. Be sure to archive any tumblr art you feel like saving with the appropriate tools. It may be downsized 1280x1920, but it might be all there is.

It's honestly hilarious to step back and watch their algorithm label all these completely SFW posts as explicit. It's like an 80's movie montage where someone teaches a robot to crack eggs and it starts just slamming every object in the home on the floor and no one can stop its rampage.

Anyways, good excuse to start using many other sites. I'll miss many things from Tumblr but not their way of shooting themselves and their user base in the foot.

wolftacos said:
It's honestly hilarious to step back and watch their algorithm label all these completely SFW posts as explicit.

How much is featureless_* and how much is just furry association?

Jinx_Jackal said:
After reading around, from the sound of things, they are trying to fix a problem by making a another problem that's hurting them for no reason. Instead offending it's regular NSFW supporters, they could have been actually chasing down real illegal activity manually.

Yeah, basically. :c It's not a good situation. but this is not the answer.

I jsut also don't think it's fair to try and place blame on 'moms' when the blame is with the company/website.

wolftacos said:
Anyways, good excuse to start using many other sites. I'll miss many things from Tumblr but not their way of shooting themselves and their user base in the foot.

I'll miss tumblr a lot. I've... spent a lot of time cultivating my tumblr feed. I basically enjoy everything I see. And it's a glorious blend of snowy forests, wolves and deer, posts talking about how humans are space orcs, insite into language and culture, and the occasional set of boobs.

I'm pretty proud of it, you know? it was always.. entertaining for me, and usually enough for a few hours at a time.

There's not really anything quite like it. Twitter is good at being twitter, not being tumblr. I like tumblr and it's occasional long stretching text posts.

I was sent this guide about a few platforms that artists can migrate to:

https://i.imgur.com/r2A4kfi.png

Link added to first post.

Here's an older news article that seems prescient:

https://theoutline.com/post/1786/yahoo-didn-t-kill-tumblr-but-verizon-surely-will

wolftacos said:
Anyways, good excuse to start using many other sites. I'll miss many things from Tumblr but not their way of shooting themselves and their user base in the foot.

I won't miss how crappily the site loaded in my web browser. JS hell.

MagnusEffect said:
How much is featureless_* and how much is just furry association?

Some of the things I've seen today flagged as explicit:

Dragons straight from FlightRising's website.
Someone's art of humans, fully clothed, would totally be at home on any G rated forum in the world.
Tumblr's own announcement that the were getting rid of NSFW

Things that are still okay according to Tumblr's staff:

• Shoplifting blogs
• Glorifying eating disorders
• Glorifying self-diagnosed mental illness
• Doxxing people and getting them fired from their jobs
• Harassing artists for not being woke enough

Also, before running to DurAffinity, would check out something like Furiffic or SoFurry first.

For the most part, artists I follow seem to get the memo and will likely announce their moves to other domains soon.

Regardless, this shit bums me out. Fapping needs aside, a lot of the artwork I've seen from tumblr is beautiful.

TheHuskyK9 said:
It appears that furries are migrating over to Newgrounds. Oh boy, when Tom said he wanted a Newgrounds resurgence, I don't think this is what he had in mind :V

Ha. I never expected Newgrounds to become relevant again.

I've also seen a lot of recommendations for pillowfort.io, but I've never even heard of that site before. And it's currently down for maintenance. Not sure if it's even furry-friendly, but it does seem to allow NSFW.

Genjar said:I've also seen a lot of recommendations for pillowfort.io, but I've never even heard of that site before. And it's currently down for maintenance. Not sure if it's even furry-friendly, but it does seem to allow NSFW.

I made my account shortly after it launched, so I wasn't around for a ton of content (and at the time the site kept going down and was glitching due to being new), but it seemed furry friendly! There were many furry art groups there :D

I have visited a few times since then and it loaded and responded MUCH better. I need to use it more. Now that they're further in development of the site you shouldn't see those issues coming back again. I'm very excited for the maintenance to be over so I can mess with it more.

Lance_Armstrong said:
real-life human genitals

So they can get around the rules by drawing horsecocks instead?

Lance_Armstrong said:
or female-presenting nipples

What is their definition of "female-presenting"? Would men with breast augmentation surgery be allowed to show their nipples or not? What about feminine men (ie. traps)? Or masculine women (do people still call them "butch"?)?

Lance_Armstrong said:
that depicts sex acts.

Would that include simulations of such acts (jerking off a sauce bottle, hand gestures, etc.)?

BlueDingo said:
So they can get around the rules by drawing horsecocks instead?

What is their definition of "female-presenting"? Would men with breast augmentation surgery be allowed to show their nipples or not? What about feminine men (ie. traps)? Or masculine women (do people still call them "butch"?)?

Would that include simulations of such acts (jerking off a sauce bottle, hand gestures, etc.)?

Here's the thing. You can test the letter of the "law", but according to others, they have already started marking "safe" pictures as banned adult content. And they had already purged all kinds of related content a couple of weeks ago.

Plan for the worst. And ditch Tumblr regardless.

a shitton of worksafe content will go unavailable soon on tumblr. to keep it available, the original uploader is required to manually request review of the post.

so meaning that all incorrectly flagged content from dead and deleted blogs will be hidden.

the absolute state of tumblr

wolftacos said:
Some of the things I've seen today flagged as explicit:

Dragons straight from FlightRising's website.
Someone's art of humans, fully clothed, would totally be at home on any G rated forum in the world.
Tumblr's own announcement that the were getting rid of NSFW

I've seen things that weren't even depictions of humans/furries/beings being flagged. They're just trying to look for 'vague flesh skin hue' and letting the bot do it's work. And what if all that flagged SFW content they're supposedly trying to save ends up getting auto-deleted on the 17th?

MagnusEffect said:
InkBunny will never escape the cub stigma.
I still need to know more reasons people won't use Weasyl.

I also would like to know this. It had a blip back in 2013/4 and then died out. I'm personally a fan of IB though, especially because of their search function, ability to tag artsits' work, and an option of using a blacklist there.

TheTundraTerror said:
Also, before running to DurAffinity, would check out something like Furiffic or SoFurry first.

How is Furrific? I've only heard of it. And whatever happened to Beta FurryNetwork?

Lance_Armstrong said:
Plan for the worst. And ditch Tumblr regardless.

But loophole abuse is more fun. Imagine what their galleries would look like if you somehow got away with it.

For my sins I use Tumblr a lot, and rest assured everything is fucked. Tags like "furry" are already under a site-wide blacklist, and their bot is three lines of code on a potato battery. It flags without mercy, and apparently at random.

A load of furry artists are jumping ship and most hi-res images are being actively purged; the best thing we can do is archive as much as possible and get used to linking Twitter's famously HD images.

Will there be a news update about this? I think it’s best we get people moving to salvage whatever is left, even SFW media. As if the purge wasn’t enough, this ban sounds like it is going to be just some shoddy script firing on all cylinders, mowing down absolutely everything in its path.

(also, thanks wolftacos for giving me some chuckles in this trying time.)

hsauq said:
Weasyl feels like a watered down Inkbunny that only allows the same content Fur Affinity does.

Depends on whether you consider filetype and max resolution to be aspects of content.

FA keeps running purely on the general population not caring about 1200px jpgscaling. I'm sure there are still people who boycott IB on the grounds of cub art who would still like higher resolutions and .png, though most of them are probably here and heavily blacklisting.
I will never understand Tumblr and Twitter as arthosts, I'd genuinely rather the restrictions of FA over wading through an artist's social life.

JCV said:

How is Furrific?

At a quick glance seems like they convert to jpeg but have higher dimension limits than FA. I'd go to Weasyl first.

General question:
If a lot of art being now collected in places like e621 to the point of people coming here for their general-browsing, how responsible is e621 for the stillbirth of sites like FurryNetwork?

Well, that sucks, Tumblr has two of my favorite browse blogs on it.
For the former, it's not too bad since finding Videogame Bara isn't
that hard given Rule34, Twitter and e621 are things but finding whole
new blogs dedicated entirely to men in underwear might be pretty tough. = =)
Given how insanely specific that is, Now that I think about it haha. T‿T)

It's a shame really but, I can't say I'm all that surprised
given the stuff coming Tumblrs way. I just thought Tumblr
would go in another direction with this. ╹ ╹)

Newgrounds seems fun though, I should probably set up shop there
when I get a chance. ◠‿╹)

If there's one thing artists need to take away from this, it's the following:

Do not put all your eggs in one basket. Do not move from one single site to another single site. Upload to as many places as you can.

JCV said:
How is Furrific? I've only heard of it.

It is very smooth and has a clean interface, for starters. Uploading is a one-step process. There's an integrated sales system. You can set your watchlist to only alert you to uploads of arts while filtering out journal entries. Just try it.

So, on tumblr...
horny on main: banned
female presenting nipples (????): banned
chronic pain: banned
furry: banned
LGBTQIA+ spectrum tags: nuked
artists: shafted
actual literal nazis: a-okay apparently.

gg tumblr.

Does archive.org work for tumblr?

Facking hell. Talk about sawing your leg off to get rid of that ingrown toenail. Going to be a blast finding alternative sources for the 150+ artists I've followed throughout the years. Not to mention browsing their art won't be convenient anymore, instead spread out over ten or so different websites.

I feel really bad for the artists who got their art nuked but...
Welp, to Newgrounds it is then.

How can one hate on the holiness that is NSFW? SFW falls short of such glory and I'd rather see another site ban that instead! (Not this one...)

I'm just fortunate this doesn't affect me too much, as I never even had an account, but still it's hella lame.

FurLurker said:
I feel really bad for the artists who got their art nuked but...
Welp, to Newgrounds it is then.

That had me thinking of "Fat Of The Land".

To be dead honest, I'm glad that tumblr decided to end themselves now. The site was a messy shithole in a lot of aspects. It's sad for the artists though that have built themselves a community there over time.
If there just was an analog solution to tumblr, directed mainly to NSFW artists. Think of a site called 'fumblr'.

Crystali_Cast said:
That had me thinking of "Fat Of The Land".

NOW I know what that crab rave meme was reminding me of all the time!

NEWGROUNDS IS COMING BACK BABY!

pewdiecrustlesspie said:
Does archive.org work for tumblr?

See Tumblr's robots.txt to find out what can and cannot be saved by the Wayback Machine.

That said, it can save certain things from Tumblr, including blogs and images.

This is funny and appalling at the same time.

anyone got a list of some great tumblrs to start bulk saving images from?

Especially any that are related to femboys. Some of you might know me from my posts about collecting femboy pictures en-mass to a large google drive. It'd be helpful if I could collect some of this stuff before it goes away.

Also, tangentially related, but it appears that Tumblr is further messing up with the chronology of posts. IDK if anyone else has this occurring for them, but Zarla noticed this, and this is occurring for me on their page.

The symptoms are simple enough: posts no longer follow a present -> past order, chronologically. They instead are mostly random, I had a 2-month post show up right after a 2 hour and 4 hour post. As Zarla states, they don't vanish from Tumblr, they merely are scrambled...

tumblr: FREE THE NIPPLE

also tumblr: "no female presenting nips lolz"

In my opinion, going back to FA months before this issue happened was a good thing. The only thing I have to do now is transfer all of my stuff from 2016-2017 when I migrated to Tumblr after FA's data breach last 2016.

Strange that two years ago, I left FA to Tumblr, and now I'm leaving Tumblr to FA. It has gone full circle!

Also, here are some utilities that I know of in just in case: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8967192/

Ecstatis said:
To be dead honest, I'm glad that tumblr decided to end themselves now. The site was a messy shithole in a lot of aspects. It's sad for the artists though that have built themselves a community there over time.

It's a pain because there's no real Tumblr alternative that functions like Tumblr. Yeah, the management suck, but the ability to have sideblogs, easily reblog, upload decent res images, and the artist community in general aren't replicated elsewhere.

I like what dumblr's CEO wrote:
"... without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves."

With more people he means children. This is because children are very easily impressible - one child ad impression has about 100x higher cost (and value) for a company than an adult one, so it's a luxurious marketing segment.
It's pretty easy to see what they want and why.

Tumblr:

- Bans porn and other explicit material
- But at the same time, does jack squat to negate homophobia, racism, or any other objectionable content because "reasons".

Bunch of bloody pantywaists. I blame Apple for being a brownoser.

This reminds me of what one tech dude wrote not to long ago.

Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook etc. are not be-all-end-all platforms that will last forever or even decades.

Today's tech culture is extremely accelerated and with these popular platforms, that are liable to be tampered with because of multiple reasons, you can never know when they will go under, only that they probably will.

One positive thing however is that for every good site that falls, another will replace it in time.

On a side note, i'm glad to see that Newgrounds is getting relevant again :)

Delian said:
I like what dumblr's CEO wrote:
"... without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves."

With more people he means children. This is because children are very easily impressible - one child ad impression has about 100x higher cost (and value) for a company than an adult one, so it's a luxurious marketing segment.
It's pretty easy to see what they want and why.

I don't think a platform that hosted such a vast amount of porn will EVER be seen as kid-friendly...they need to give up on that pipe dream yesterday. If I had kids there's no way in hell I'd ever let them roam around on Tumblr...even if it's been completely scrubbed of every last bit of porn, what's the point? So they can join a toxic fandom and discover they're a actually a transsexual dragonkin? No thanks.

Stupid move by Tumblr altogether...this is the end for them. I fully expect them to go the way of MySpace and Geocities at this point...just some dead website with only a Wikipedia article to show us that it even existed.

Dyrone said:
I don't think a platform that hosted such a vast amount of porn will EVER be seen as kid-friendly...they need to give up on that pipe dream yesterday. If I had kids there's no way in hell I'd ever let them roam around on Tumblr...even if it's been completely scrubbed of every last bit of porn, what's the point? So they can join a toxic fandom and discover they're a actually a transsexual dragonkin? No thanks.

Stupid move by Tumblr altogether...this is the end for them. I fully expect them to go the way of MySpace and Geocities at this point...just some dead website with only a Wikipedia article to show us that it even existed.

What the hell kind of parent would let their children on Tumblr? Are they that blind to not[/b] see the kind of hatred and disregard for others that goes on there? Sheesh.

Delian said:
I like what dumblr's CEO wrote:
"... without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves."

With more people he means children. This is because children are very easily impressible - one child ad impression has about 100x higher cost (and value) for a company than an adult one, so it's a luxurious marketing segment.
It's pretty easy to see what they want and why.

100x doesn't ring true to me. 10x, maybe. I heard about how YouTube kids channels get way more advertising revenue per 1000 views.

fox_whisper85 said:
What the hell kind of parent would let their children on Tumblr? Are they that blind to not[/b] see the kind of hatred and disregard for others that goes on there? Sheesh.

What the hell kind of parent would let their children use the internet unsupervised? Probably the kind that knows very little about computers and the internet. In other words, hundreds of millions of parents. The result is that you have plenty of children accessing YouTube, Tumblr, Reddit, hardcore porn sites, and even e621, with no parental supervision. They are slightly more tech savvy than their parents, and if they want to learn how to cover their tracks, all the information they need is out there.

Ecstatis said:
To be dead honest, I'm glad that tumblr decided to end themselves now. The site was a messy shithole in a lot of aspects. It's sad for the artists though that have built themselves a community there over time.
If there just was an analog solution to tumblr, directed mainly to NSFW artists. Think of a site called 'fumblr'.

NOW I know what that crab rave meme was reminding me of all the time!

Thought that might have been some kind of meme. The computer I’m on is pretty craptastic with video, so it was just like a still image at first. I was just like “Prodigy… Uh, wait FOTL.” I don’t even listen to ‘em, but that cover is iconic.

Lance_Armstrong said:
100x doesn't ring true to me. 10x, maybe. I heard about how YouTube kids channels get way more advertising revenue per 1000 views.

What the hell kind of parent would let their children use the internet unsupervised? Probably the kind that knows very little about computers and the internet. In other words, hundreds of millions of parents. The result is that you have plenty of children accessing YouTube, Tumblr, Reddit, hardcore porn sites, and even e621, with no parental supervision. They are slightly more tech savvy than their parents, and if they want to learn how to cover their tracks, all the information they need is out there.

Easy, the same kind of moronic parents who let their six year old children play M-rated games like GTA.

Dunno if this has anything to do with it, but trying to go to http://thehiddenzone.tumblr.com now redirects me to ad sites. Don't know if anybody else has encountered this on other blogs.

JCV said:
Dunno if this has anything to do with it, but trying to go to http://thehiddenzone.tumblr.com now redirects me to ad sites. Don't know if anybody else has encountered this on other blogs.

Tumblr has pretty much zero downtime when username gets unused, so there's bunch of bots just waiting for some high traffic one to get released and immidiately snipe it and put redirects to advertisements and malware, because tumblr does allow pretty heavy HTML and CSS modifications to the blogs.

Get ready to see much much much more of this when more blogs get removed for containing porn.

As for e621, these are still legit sources, so simply make these URLs unclickable for time being (either remove http:// from source field or move to description and surround with inline code DText ""). Tumblr in past never deletes the actual content even if blog or blog post gets deleted, so these can still prove valuable. [quote]"fox_whisper85":/user/show/196433 said: Easy, the same kind of moronic parents who let their six year old children play M-rated games like GTA. [/quote] This is getting off topic.

I'm following threads everywhere on this same topic, so apologies if this was posted already here (did a quick look through and didn't see it though):

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/4/18126112/tumblr-porn-ban-verizon-ad-goals-sex-work-fandom

Apparently the NSFW ban was in the works for about six months, which means it was before Apple pulled the app.

This shit was going to go down anyways :(

"But a former staff engineer, who recently left Tumblr and asked to remain anonymous for professional reasons, tells Vox that the NSFW ban was “in the works for about six months as an official project,” adding that it was given additional resources and named “Project X” in September, shortly before it was announced to the rest of the company at an all-hands meeting. “[The NSFW ban] was going to happen anyway,” the former engineer told me. “Verizon pushed it out the door after the child pornography thing and made the deadline sooner,” but the real problem was always that Verizon couldn’t sell ads next to porn."

Seeing as many Tumblr artists are migrating to Newgrounds, maybe art.ngfiles.com/images/ urls should be whitelisted?

wolftacos said:
I'm following threads everywhere on this same topic, so apologies if this was posted already here (did a quick look through and didn't see it though):

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/4/18126112/tumblr-porn-ban-verizon-ad-goals-sex-work-fandom

Apparently the NSFW ban was in the works for about six months, which means it was before Apple pulled the app.

This shit was going to go down anyways :(

"But a former staff engineer, who recently left Tumblr and asked to remain anonymous for professional reasons, tells Vox that the NSFW ban was “in the works for about six months as an official project,” adding that it was given additional resources and named “Project X” in September, shortly before it was announced to the rest of the company at an all-hands meeting. “[The NSFW ban] was going to happen anyway,” the former engineer told me. “Verizon pushed it out the door after the child pornography thing and made the deadline sooner,” but the real problem was always that Verizon couldn’t sell ads next to porn."

Right, I get the actual issue at hand, but in the end, we can blame Verizon.

a strange thing happened. apparently all of the nsfw flags seem to be suddenly gone. idk if they just realized that blanket flagging content with a bot was not a smart move or what is going on.

siikaprinssi said:
a strange thing happened. apparently all of the nsfw flags seem to be suddenly gone. idk if they just realized that blanket flagging content with a bot was not a smart move or what is going on.

It's weird, only like, two or three of my posts have, but the rest, no. Huh.

An analysis from a seasoned techie:

https://micro.coyotetracks.org/2018/12/04/lets-talk-about.html

If you export your tumblr, all of your posts and reblogs will be the raw image size. A way to autoreblog all posts from a selected tumblr would be nice about now before they get purged. We probably could've had raw images all along.

Haljkljavahlibrz said:
An analysis from a seasoned techie:

https://micro.coyotetracks.org/2018/12/04/lets-talk-about.html

Really, really weirdly worded. Could've done without the pseudo-conversation, personally.

Dogenzaka said:
If you export your tumblr, all of your posts and reblogs will be the raw image size. A way to autoreblog all posts from a selected tumblr would be nice about now before they get purged. We probably could've had raw images all along.

Can't seem to export mine, waited like an hour on 2 blogs. Good to know if it does work though.