SnowBooties said:
So between imgur, tumblr, furaffinity, twitter, and patreon, which has the best and worst compression?

Highly dependable on situation: resolution, filesize, did artist use any tricks on any of the site to get past degratation?

With best case scenario:
Patreon attachment or PNG embed > Furaffinity double upload > Twitter transparency trick > tumblr/imgur
Usually:
Tumblr/Imgur/Patreon > Twitter > Furaffinity

Still, highly dependable on the situation. Always go with what's visually best quality.

SYphonkedo said:
https://abload.de this site allows to you to upload any full picture you have, i don't if it has any compression.

Anyone who has tried to access link to best version of anything, especially with multimedia content, knows that external links have extreme likelyhood of just going 404.

Not too long ago, safe.moe was nuked which many artists used to host their video files, so there's no way to get that content at all anymore. Dropbox links are extremely often not working and in past I have seen several megaupload links.

However that's more the reason for anyone using e621 to do their shit properly. When those links do go 404, hopefully we already have the material mirrored here.

Mairo

Anyone who has tried to access link to best version of anything, especially with multimedia content, knows that external links have extreme likelyhood of just going 404.

Not too long ago, safe.moe was nuked which many artists used to host their video files, so there's no way to get that content at all anymore. Dropbox links are extremely often not working and in past I have seen several megaupload links.

However that's more the reason for anyone using e621 to do their shit properly. When those links do go 404, hopefully we already have the material mirrored here.

We didn't got any solutions os answers to the tumblr "problem" right? Glad to know e621 is working good as a booru database just like "the big imageboard", in some cases.

Also what alternatives we have at the moment? What image compression can screw up "real bad" some images? i saw some examples with the raw and 1280 on tumblr but on witter, it looks slightly different depending of what art are we seeing there (some artists crop or resize their images so who i am to argue?).

I'm still imagining if we could see in the error messages, a possibility to know a alternate server or alternate link.... i don't know i'm being stupid at the moment.

https://a.tumblr.com/a7e94ffaf596a13c48a8fa331c853b59/tumblr_pdfsonggme1w50fxmo1_raw.png

This is the end.

is there another way for obtaining the higher resolution on Tumblr?

We need to educate artists on the tumblr problem. They need to start uploading to dropbox or drive and add the url in the post. I had an artist try to tell me that the full res of their artwork was on furaffinity but actually it was of lower quality than the tumblr 1280. They could have just been trying to avoid talking to me tho. But they [artists in general not just that guy] need to understand how to properly post to furaffinity or if they only plan on using tumblr add another means of accessing the file through a file sharing site.

And then they give me a link through imgur, the image got converted to a 232 kbs jpeg. Gah!

GlimGlam said:
And then they give me a link through imgur, the image got converted to a 232 kbs jpeg. Gah!

As a perfectionist I would have picked up on any quality loss in my work right away, but it's amazing how many good artists can slave away at a picture for hours then slap it up on Imgur and have it be compressed to hell and not even know about it. It's honestly like finishing a painting then some guy just comes in with 20-grit and sands it down a bit and the artist being like "meh, whaddaya gunna do? That's how they do it at this art gallery!"

And with the advent of Patreon I'm not even sure how many artists even care about the compression of what they certainly consider to be merely previews...they probably figure that the high-res uncompressed version is always available on Patreon so fuck it, if people want their art in highest quality then they'd better start paying. Kinda sucks.

Dyrone said:
As a perfectionist I would have picked up on any quality loss in my work right away, but it's amazing how many good artists can slave away at a picture for hours then slap it up on Imgur and have it be compressed to hell and not even know about it. It's honestly like finishing a painting then some guy just comes in with 20-grit and sands it down a bit and the artist being like "meh, whaddaya gunna do? That's how they do it at this art gallery!"

Well, this is two fold.

A lot of artists started arting when they were younger. A friend of mine--who worked with disney and is currently a freelancer--said this a few days ago on twitter "For the first 1-2 years I started drawing in photoshop as an 11 year old, I only knew to save jpg's so i thought that every time you start a painting, you have to finish it on the spot without exiting or you'll lose all your layers"

We 'learn' things and never question them until we question them. "Well, you just lose quality when you save a picture" is a mindset that happens. You're not born with the knowledge of file types... at some point you make the jump from drawing on paper to drawing on the computer and you just.... assume that the BEST PROGRAM FOR ART MAKING is set up to do things in the best way... but a lot of them are basically set up to be potatoes.

My niece is 11 and is an adorable little aspiring artist. She posts her art on Amino or whatever. I have no idea what they do to her files, and neither does she. She's just happy to draw other people's characters.

She'll eventually learn better--but that's because her mom is an artist too.

The other thing to keep in mind is that after a few hours of staring at a drawing, a lot of the time? we're done with it. Sick of it. Don't want to see it again. WE've spent AGES working on the twiddley details, we're tired of it. and if we do want to look at it again, we're probably opening the file on our computer, not the resized version we sent to a website, and not the copy uploaded to the website.

This isn't laziness or maliciousness, i'ts 100% lack of knowledge and accepting that "well, that's just how things are" because.. well, tha'ts jsut how things are.

And with the advent of Patreon I'm not even sure how many artists even care about the compression of what they certainly consider to be merely previews...they probably figure that the high-res uncompressed version is always available on Patreon so fuck it, if people want their art in highest quality then they'd better start paying. Kinda sucks.

Now you're attributing to malice what can be explained by ignorance. :/

Plus, I think Patreon upscales, making htis even trickier.

SnowWolf said:
Well, this is two fold.

A lot of artists started arting when they were younger. A friend of mine--who worked with disney and is currently a freelancer--said this a few days ago on twitter "For the first 1-2 years I started drawing in photoshop as an 11 year old, I only knew to save jpg's so i thought that every time you start a painting, you have to finish it on the spot without exiting or you'll lose all your layers"

We 'learn' things and never question them until we question them. "Well, you just lose quality when you save a picture" is a mindset that happens. You're not born with the knowledge of file types... at some point you make the jump from drawing on paper to drawing on the computer and you just.... assume that the BEST PROGRAM FOR ART MAKING is set up to do things in the best way... but a lot of them are basically set up to be potatoes.

My niece is 11 and is an adorable little aspiring artist. She posts her art on Amino or whatever. I have no idea what they do to her files, and neither does she. She's just happy to draw other people's characters.

She'll eventually learn better--but that's because her mom is an artist too.

The other thing to keep in mind is that after a few hours of staring at a drawing, a lot of the time? we're done with it. Sick of it. Don't want to see it again. WE've spent AGES working on the twiddley details, we're tired of it. and if we do want to look at it again, we're probably opening the file on our computer, not the resized version we sent to a website, and not the copy uploaded to the website.

This isn't laziness or maliciousness, i'ts 100% lack of knowledge and accepting that "well, that's just how things are" because.. well, tha'ts jsut how things are.

Now you're attributing to malice what can be explained by ignorance. :/

Plus, I think Patreon upscales, making htis even trickier.

That's why I said we should educate them on the issue and about the quality their artworks is saved as. They're not dumb just ignorant of it. Also I posted what I was talking about, this time the full quality no compression. It's https://e621.net/post/show/1629460

rather than wasting your time "educating" artists who probably earn less than minimum wage, just message them, give a flattering comment (because it's the most effective form of persuasion) that you enjoy their work but that they should consider uploading their art on other sites like pixiv and inkbunny too because of tumblr's recent quality downgrade. that's all you have to do.

ampiaxxx said:
rather than wasting your time "educating" artists who probably earn less than minimum wage, just message them, give a flattering comment (because it's the most effective form of persuasion) that you enjoy their work but that they should consider uploading their art on other sites like pixiv and inkbunny too because of tumblr's recent quality downgrade. that's all you have to do.

You make it sound like we would be strict on them xP Recommending them to a better site like those would be best

SnowWolf said:
A lot of artists started arting when they were younger. A friend of mine--who worked with disney and is currently a freelancer--said this a few days ago on twitter "For the first 1-2 years I started drawing in photoshop as an 11 year old...

Considering the type of furry art I enjoy (*cough* PORN *cough*) I highly doubt any of the artists I'm interacting with are ll years old...I pray they are not cause that would be kinda fucked up.

SnowWolf said:
Now you're attributing to malice what can be explained by ignorance. :/

I wouldn't even call that malice per se. I mean they technically don't owe us anything when it comes to preview images. It's just something that annoys me nonetheless, but if I was was an artist with a Patreon I might be the same way.

ampiaxxx said:
rather than wasting your time "educating" artists who probably earn less than minimum wage, just message them, give a flattering comment (because it's the most effective form of persuasion) that you enjoy their work but that they should consider uploading their art on other sites like pixiv and inkbunny too because of tumblr's recent quality downgrade. that's all you have to do.

And who says I don't handle it like that? You're just making assumptions based off of...pretty much nothing as far as I can tell. I'm actually extremely nice when interacting with artists because they are the people who draw the shit I like. Honestly if you're a shit artist or you draw stuff I don't like (or a combination of the two) I wouldn't bother ever having such a conversation with you, because I wouldn't care if your images were low-quality. Save all your images as JPEGs with the quality slider at "1" for all I care.

so any luck finding a new raw method?? I've been trying to message some artist for the larger res images, and it's worked most of the time, but so far I've had three different artist just strait up ignore me. no response whatsoever.

Autumn-Ferret said:
so any luck finding a new raw method?? I've been trying to message some artist for the larger res images, and it's worked most of the time, but so far I've had three different artist just strait up ignore me. no response whatsoever.

I've had artist take up to a week to respond to me. Maybe the artists have a ton of inbox messages, or are skimming through messages and think you're asking for a higher resolution that what you could have gotten through raw and are like, "That's already the max, so they're out of luck."

can u ask instead that they post to pixiv as well? that's a more long term solution

Autumn-Ferret said:
but so far I've had three different artist just strait up ignore me. no response whatsoever.

Yeah, don't take it personally if someone doesn't respond right away; response is going to vary a lot depending on what the person's current IRL priorities are. I've probably got unread comments from six months ago sitting in seldom-used accounts.

Okay, I just found out something strange. This post right here:

https://hugoverse.tumblr.com/post/177144074659

If you change the _1280 part with a _500h, you can see what appears to be the full resolution. What's strange about it is that it doesn't seem to work anywhere else.

Edit: It also works if you just right-click it and choose to see the image.

Asterion99 said:
Okay, I just found out something strange. This post right here:

https://hugoverse.tumblr.com/post/177144074659

If you change the _1280 part with a _500h, you can see what appears to be the full resolution. What's strange about it is that it doesn't seem to work anywhere else.

Edit: It also works if you just right-click it and choose to see the image.

It works on the other pictures but returns smaller resolution:
https://78.media.tumblr.com/7cb0e73a1e7b2275d64a9ae978dc3e6a/tumblr_pdoecuuA4F1x4f7p6o1_1280.png

https://78.media.tumblr.com/7cb0e73a1e7b2275d64a9ae978dc3e6a/tumblr_pdoecuuA4F1x4f7p6o1_500h.png

It's probably some kind of a modification for images with big width.

H refers to Height, so images which are shorter than 500 pixels tall will get the full version.

Furrin_Gok said:
H refers to Height, so images which are shorter than 500 pixels tall will get the full version.

Unfortunate that other sizes don't seem to work so well. Would be a pretty easy fix to just put in "4000h" and have everything under 4000 tall magically go to max.

AbiCordo said:
Unfortunate that other sizes don't seem to work so well. Would be a pretty easy fix to just put in "4000h" and have everything under 4000 tall magically go to max.

It kinda reminds me of soup.io when you could "modify" those size parameters to a extent but in the process you get .jpeg artifacts. Maybe that could be a "hint" if we can fiddle in the links to see if we can find a full resolution.

SYphonkedo said:
Maybe that could be a "hint" if we can fiddle in the links to see if we can find a full resolution.

There probably is something like that. We just have no clue what it is.

Is anyone else having some trouble trying to get raw images? I can't access to them because they lead me into a error page. I tried the other method to get the raw files but it's the same outcome. Error pages, unable to connect to the page.

RobotHell said:
Is anyone else having some trouble trying to get raw images? I can't access to them because they lead me into a error page. I tried the other method to get the raw files but it's the same outcome. Error pages, unable to connect to the page.

As of August 10, 2018, Tumblr raw links are broken on Tumblr's end for many posts. As of August 2018, currently best variation available is `_1280.png/_1280.jpg`]

DiceLovesBeingBlown said:
As of August 10, 2018, Tumblr raw links are broken on Tumblr's end for many posts. As of August 2018, currently best variation available is `_1280.png/_1280.jpg`]

Ah okay, thank you for letting me know of that.
Tumblr is really crapping itself.

RobotHell said:
Is anyone else having some trouble trying to get raw images? I can't access to them because they lead me into a error page. I tried the other method to get the raw files but it's the same outcome. Error pages, unable to connect to the page.

If you had read the last set of posts here you'd have noticed that's exactly what we've been talking about.

I highly doubt these are useful, but maybe they're related to the current issue

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/PrivateContent.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/Introduction.html

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29784539/why-missing-key-pair-id-query-parameter-or-cookie-value

Slightly off-topic, but for anyone that has InfranView as their image browser. Have you been getting this notice every time you open a saved image from tumblr?

---------------------------
IrfanView
---------------------------
Warning !
The file: "{filepath to image}" is a JPG file with incorrect extension !
Rename ?
---------------------------
Yes No
---------------------------

I thought it was a one time thing but I've been getting it somewhat consistent over a few days.

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
<Error>
<Code>MissingKey</Code>
<Message>
Missing Key-Pair-Id query parameter or cookie value
</Message>
</Error>

Is there any word about someone finding a work around yet?

biznizz said:
Is there any word about someone finding a work around yet?

I'm sure if there was, someone would have said something.

And in all truth, I wouldn't expect we'll find one any time soon.

We went YEARS without having one. then we found a work around and they changed it. They don't *want* us to have it, it seems, so I'd expect that they've made it quite challenging to find, if a way even exists.

SnowWolf said:
And in all truth, I wouldn't expect we'll find one any time soon.

We went YEARS without having one. then we found a work around and they changed it. They don't *want* us to have it, it seems, so I'd expect that they've made it quite challenging to find, if a way even exists.

the way we managed on seeing the full resolution was probably too simple and we probably need to find a way to access these full resolutions through another method most likely.

Coffey25 said:
the way we managed on seeing the full resolution was probably too simple and we probably need to find a way to access these full resolutions through another method most likely.

Kids.

When I put the cookie jar on top of the fridge, that does not mean that you should get creative in ways to climb up there and take it down, it means no cookies.

While we should keep looking for a solution, I expect that if we do find another workaround, it, too, will vanish in time.

SnowWolf said:
Kids.

When I put the cookie jar on top of the fridge, that does not mean that you should get creative in ways to climb up there and take it down, it means no cookies.

While we should keep looking for a solution, I expect that if we do find another workaround, it, too, will vanish in time.

Could be my ignorance, but is there any reason why they wouldn't want the full version accessible in the first place?

I mean, if the full size isn't meant to be seen while the scaled down is, why not delete the full size version to free up server space? Telegram for example doesn't keep full size images whenever someone uses the compress option for sending it to someone.

Qwazzy said:
is there any reason why they wouldn't want the full version accessible in the first place?

http://rule34.paheal.net/post/view/2677319
Doing it for no reason would have been better tbh

Qwazzy said:
Could be my ignorance, but is there any reason why they wouldn't want the full version accessible in the first place?

If we're being super charitable, it could be for security reasons. If, say, a malicious exploit were embedded into a .jpg, an easy way to get rid of it is to resize and make a new image. A smaller site like this one can afford to manually filter out images like that, but a larger one full of bots like tumblr would have more trouble if something like that ever happened.

Less charitably, they're being cheap dicks and don't want to spend a couple extra cents on the bandwidth for larger files.

To be frank, we shouldn't have a raw view into their file store area. That was an architectural mistake on their part. They fixed it. I'm not sure why they refuse to proxy for the raw images, but I suspect it has to do with trying to save bandwidth costs. The difference between everyone downloading samples and full images on e6 is surprisingly effective at reducing overall bandwidth usage. It's why logged out users don't get full images unless they ask for them, and there is no option to turn that setting off.

Saving 1/3rd on bandwidth is pretty awesome when the the average user is not paying for it in any way.

KiraNoot said: The difference between everyone downloading samples and full images on e6 is surprisingly effective at reducing overall bandwidth usage.

On a side note, thanks for that. I normally don't log in most of the time, and lately the file sizes on here have been getting absurd.

Ijerk said:
On a side note, thanks for that. I normally don't log in most of the time, and lately the file sizes on here have been getting absurd.

You have always had the option to toggle this mode from your user settings.

Mairo said:
You have always had the option to toggle this mode from your user settings.

Before I made an account I was most likely blocking all cookies from here, so if it's possible to change this setting without logging in I'd never know.
Not many websites support non-logged in functions like this.

Ijerk said:
Before I made an account I was most likely blocking all cookies from here, so if it's possible to change this setting without logging in I'd never know.
Not many websites support non-logged in functions like this.

User settings involve logging in.

I've seen some confusion about this in a couple of places about whether the original versions are still even on tumblrs servers at all, and whether they may be moving to a more twitter like system with compression on upload and so on, so I went and checked myself by exporting a backup of my friends account (who graciously did this for me) and seeing what the result was.
I can safely say that the original uploads are still on their servers, so as long as someone figures out how to get to them again, there'll be something to get to. (Also got images uploaded for messages that wern't uploaded to the blog proper as well interestingly enough.)
This also means that anyone with a tumblr account that wants to get their art as originally uploaded to tumblr back still can, just by rooting through the blog setting instead via each image.

Reminder to kindly ask the tumblr-only artists you like to consider uploading their art to pixiv and/or inkbunny. Always start with a compliment. if they are nsfw artists, tell them that tumblr is ramping up their crackdown on nsfw artists and that you are worried their stuff might be deleted and that tumblr compresses to poorer 1280 pixel quality unlike pixiv and inkbunny, and that they would get some more exposure by not being limited to just tumblr. If these are artists who earn their living through commissions, patreon and ko-fi they really should be incentivized to get out there beyond tumblr.

artistname.tumblr.com/ask or if they disabled it see if there's some other contact like tumblr's messaging or email

Tumblr is shit if it's not possible to download the posted images in full resolution...

disko said:
Tumblr is shit if it's not possible to download the posted images in full resolution...

Reason why I have been hammering about how furaffinity is the worst places and even now tumblr still hosts better quality versions of images compared to furaffinity.

Anonomn said:
I can safely say that the original uploads are still on their servers, so as long as someone figures out how to get to them again, there'll be something to get to.

There is a way to achieve this, but one would need to know how the whatever url is structured in terms of large and small resolution images. The image hosting site from long ago called Big Shots had a feature which could block downloading of larger resolution pictures. However, the way around this was to omit the last portion after the file name. Then you could pretty much download the image to your hearts content. I believe it worked on Photobucket and couple of other sites as well, but cannot remember.

If it weren't for all the pic collectors and webmasters that run con sites. One could probably ask for the larger resolution pictures from the artists with no problem.

We could always write a short protest text regarding this issue and send it massively to the Tumblr support team. In that way they would see beyond any doubt that there too many who are pissed off about this situation.

disko said:
We could always write a short protest text regarding this issue and send it massively to the Tumblr support team. In that way they would see beyond any doubt that there too many who are pissed off about this situation.

The only thing companies care about is boycotts.
And since this isn't about taking a knee or something like that, nobody will boycott tumblr over it.

disko said:
We could always write a short protest text regarding this issue

"We" should probably write some sort of Artist's guide to image hosting sites, clearly stating which ones are better and which are worse. That is something e6 people have much more knowledge about than your average artist.

Too bad any chances of having noticeable impact will be stemmed by e6's tricky reputation among artists.

Apparently tumblr's been purging nsfw blog for a while now, so there's more reasons for artists to leave that shithole

Lightbuld said:
Apparently tumblr's been purging nsfw blog for a while now, so there's more reasons for artists to leave that shithole

...you got some proof? cuz i have two porn blogs that are even flagged as porn blogs and yet nothing has happened to them. are you sure that these blogs have not been deleted just for breaking tumblr’s guidelines or that you are not just mixing up the porn bot purge with this?

siikaprinssi said:
...you got some proof?

Just search 2 of the words above and you'll see, dimwitdog's blog's just been deleted recently (without any warning what so ever)

Lightbuld said:
Just search 2 of the words above and you'll see, dimwitdog's blog's just been deleted recently (without any warning what so ever)

I vaguely recollect that, years ago, Tumblr said NSFW blogs would be removed fom the search engine.

I don't know if anyone noticed this, but tumblr has changed their image to either 1280 wide or 1920 high (last time the limit was only 1280 wide), so now comic strip won't go past the 1920p height. Yep, tumblr is officially dead.

Lightbuld said:
I don't know if anyone noticed this, but tumblr has changed their image to either 1280 wide or 1920 high (last time the limit was only 1280 wide), so now comic strip won't go past the 1920p height. Yep, tumblr is officially dead.

that height limit has always been there. i know because i have been using tumblr almost for a decade and i have seen people trying to post too tall comics so many times. i have tried too until i learned that i need to cut the comic into pieces for it to not look shitty and squished.

siikaprinssi said:
that height limit has always been there. i know because i have been using tumblr almost for a decade and i have seen people trying to post too tall comics so many times. i have tried too until i learned that i need to cut the comic into pieces for it to not look shitty and squished.

If that's the case, my bad. I guess cuz I don't see too many vertical images to notice that.

Somehow, my thoughts on not having the raw version on Tumblr were, "Hurray? No more deleting inferior versions?" and "Big bummer."

Posting in this dead thread to repeat what was posted elsewhere. The "Downloading blog feature", the one that was mentioned a while ago,

Anonomn said:
I've seen some confusion about this in a couple of places about whether the original versions are still even on tumblrs servers at all, and whether they may be moving to a more twitter like system with compression on upload and so on, so I went and checked myself by exporting a backup of my friends account (who graciously did this for me) and seeing what the result was.
I can safely say that the original uploads are still on their servers, so as long as someone figures out how to get to them again, there'll be something to get to. (Also got images uploaded for messages that wern't uploaded to the blog proper as well interestingly enough.)
This also means that anyone with a tumblr account that wants to get their art as originally uploaded to tumblr back still can, just by rooting through the blog setting instead via each image.

apparently also downloads reblogs. I didn't know this because the person who tested this for me mentioned nothing of the sort, but apparantly you can get the full resolution contents of a different blog if you have it reblogged on your own tumblr blog as well. The process takes a few days, so anyone dedicated / determined to do this is going to need to wait a few days at most in order to get the .zip with the art in it, so my suggestion is to do it in extremely large batches for maximum efficiency.
Well, at least for the few days the nsfw stuff is still up anyway.

I put raw in the URL and it didn’t work. The world needs to see this guy! https://66.media.tumblr.com/3822963344a66c13070ed7412af972c0/tumblr_pn0wp7BYX11wvnrni_1280.jpg

EmtheCartoonist said:
I put raw in the URL and it didn’t work. The world needs to see this guy! https://66.media.tumblr.com/3822963344a66c13070ed7412af972c0/tumblr_pn0wp7BYX11wvnrni_1280.jpg

You need to reblog and export the blog.
howto:sites_and_sources#tumblr

Also no, at least not in here, that would be clear deletion.

I don’t know to Export my blog https://emthecartoonist.tumblr.com if I was linked to a YouTube tutorial or something, then MAYBE I’d be able to actually do it (also I do it on my iPad 6)

I was trawling through old blogs today, and found two NSFW (and non-furry) tumblrs which yield nothing via Tumblr's v1 API. I have never heard of this before. I'm guessing that blogs created after some recent date don't have v1 API entry points, and I tried to reach their earliest posts to check the date they were made, but it's impossible to reach the end of those damn botted blogs without the archive. This also means indexers like Tumbex can't view them.

https://sandsgold.tumblr.com/
https://robstoughts.tumblr.com/

Anyone heard about this?

OneMoreAnonymous said:
I was trawling through old blogs today, and found two NSFW (and non-furry) tumblrs which yield nothing via Tumblr's v1 API. I have never heard of this before. I'm guessing that blogs created after some recent date don't have v1 API entry points, and I tried to reach their earliest posts to check the date they were made, but it's impossible to reach the end of those damn botted blogs without the archive. This also means indexers like Tumbex can't view them.

https://sandsgold.tumblr.com/
https://robstoughts.tumblr.com/

Anyone heard about this?

im pretty sure thats just because the blog owners has set the blogs unindexed and hidden

hiekkapillu said:
im pretty sure thats just because the blog owners has set the blogs unindexed and hidden

If by hidden and/or unindexed, you mean you need to be logged into Tumblr and have to view it in a sidebar on your dashboard, then this problem remains, because I've seen plenty of hidden/unindexed/NSFW tumblrs and all of them until now were accessible via the v1 API. For example: https://nsfwnox.tumblr.com/api/read/json

If you mean those words in another sense, please elaborate.

OneMoreAnonymous said:
If by hidden and/or unindexed, you mean you need to be logged into Tumblr and have to view it in a sidebar on your dashboard, then this problem remains, because I've seen plenty of hidden/unindexed/NSFW tumblrs and all of them until now were accessible via the v1 API. For example: https://nsfwnox.tumblr.com/api/read/json

If you mean those words in another sense, please elaborate.

hidden and unindexed are two different things. hidden means that only logged in users can view it, and unindexed means that the blog and original posts wont show up in search results, and bots cannot index the blog or it's contents.

hiekkapillu said:
hidden and unindexed are two different things. hidden means that only logged in users can view it, and unindexed means that the blog and original posts wont show up in search results, and bots cannot index the blog or it's contents.

Oh, you mean the two options in the 'Visibility' setting of one's blog, right?

All blogs deemed NSFW by Tumblr are automatically hidden, and all hidden blogs, whether hid by Tumblr or its user, are automatically excluded from the search results. And owners of non-hidden blogs can choose to be excluded as well. Source.

Still, I can find nothing about this missing API thing.

OneMoreAnonymous said:
I was trawling through old blogs today, and found two NSFW (and non-furry) tumblrs which yield nothing via Tumblr's v1 API. I have never heard of this before. I'm guessing that blogs created after some recent date don't have v1 API entry points, and I tried to reach their earliest posts to check the date they were made, but it's impossible to reach the end of those damn botted blogs without the archive. This also means indexers like Tumbex can't view them.

https://sandsgold.tumblr.com/
https://robstoughts.tumblr.com/

Anyone heard about this?

Blogs that have been set to only be viewable in the Tumblr dashboard (See the "Hide your blog from the web" section of this article) have always been inaccessible by the API, or at least as long as I've been aware of it.
The blogs that were hidden due to the NSFW ban are not affected by this; I assume it's technically a different status internally.

Piscator said:
Blogs that have been set to only be viewable in the Tumblr dashboard (See the "Hide your blog from the web" section of this article) have always been inaccessible by the API, or at least as long as I've been aware of it.
The blogs that were hidden due to the NSFW ban are not affected by this; I assume it's technically a different status internally.

Oh, so being hidden by the author is not the exact same thing as being forcibly hidden by Tumblr? I guess that makes sense. It's just that I never bumped into this before.

Are you aware of any Tumblr which you know to have been hidden by its owner?

OneMoreAnonymous said:
Oh, so being hidden by the author is not the exact same thing as being forcibly hidden by Tumblr? I guess that makes sense. It's just that I never bumped into this before.

Are you aware of any Tumblr which you know to have been hidden by its owner?

I couldn't find any, I'm sorry! It seems like most people use it as a temporary state, most either unhide their blog or delete it outright soon after.

However, you can quickly check for yourself my making a sideblog and activating the setting for it; The API will return an error with the message "This Tumblr is only viewable within the Tumblr dashboard", like the blogs you linked to above.

So I noticed that the wiki doesn't actually mention how to get the raw source, but this thread suggests reading the wiki for the most up to date information? Does that mean there is currently no method of obtaining it?

Furrin_Gok said:
So I noticed that the wiki doesn't actually mention how to get the raw source, but this thread suggests reading the wiki for the most up to date information? Does that mean there is currently no method of obtaining it?

But it does?

Mairo said:
But it does?

Oh, somebody updated the link on it. Thanks, @Pupslut

Bumping this thread because I'm confused as to how to handle the other link format:

https://66.media.tumblr.com/ac78fe659710db6ea3b92c0ff3837380/a0f8af50b1f001bf-90/s500x750/940984b3753be3a77a86a9125ea02f54b90b1610.png

I've tried messing around with the "s500x750" bit but I just get error messages from doing so.