Exodus

venusianesque:

culturetrash:

alongthehike:

The time has finally come.
We’re all getting booted from this platform, but we’re a community, and
we’ll rebuild elsewhere.  The current alternative
sites are less than ideal, but maybe one will be suitable, or a new platform
will arise in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, let’s make sure we export everything so that
all our work was not in vain. We suggest a few different ways to do this, to
ensure that nothing is lost.

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1.  Send your email to
your favorite blogs to stay in touch.

Our email is: alongthehike@gmail.com

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2.  Export a list of
people that you follow, so you don’t forget any names/blogs accounts

While logged in, go to: http://www.tumblr.com/following.opml

This will automatically download a list of people you follow.  You can open the file in Excel.

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3.  Export your blog/site
within Tumblr.

Go to https://www.tumblr.com/settings/blog/yourblogname

At the bottom click export.
It will take a while to process.
Once ready, click download backup.  Ideally we’ll be able to import these files into another platform, but you should probably do the following steps just in case.

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4. Download your full site.

This is easy, but will take a while, and probably a few GB’s.

DL: https://www.httrack.com/

Choose the folder to download into.

Enter your site’s URL and run the program.  It will probably take a few hours.

“It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the
Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting
HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack
arranges the original site’s relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the
“mirrored” website in your browser, and you can browse the site from
link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an
existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully
configurable, and has an integrated help system.”

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5. Download all media from all of your favorite blogs.

TumblThree works great.

Download the file that says application: https://github.com/johanneszab/TumblThree/releases

Open the program and on the bottom left enter your blog’s
URL.  In settings make a new folder to
which the files should be downloaded.  Right click your blog and “add to Queue” then
click “Crawl”.

You can do this with any blog you follow, but it will only
take images, and no comments, tags, etc., hence the need to download your
entire site (and/or other sites) using HTTrack in step 4 above.

Downloading your “likes” is a bit more tricky.

Click settings, then connection, and log in with your Tumblr
credentials.

Add the following URL: https://www.tumblr.com/liked/by/yourblogname

Then add to queue and crawl again.

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With these
files/exports we should be able to migrate elsewhere and rebuild our community.  It will be hard to credit everyone for their
work, but we’ll do our best.

If you have any questions on the above just respond here, or
via email.

We’re to be kicked out on the 17^th, but it will probably happen
earlier, so the sooner you get started on the above the better.

It’s been a pleasure sharing with you all over the past few
years.

See you in the next place!

ATH

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Venusianesque, Neovenusianesque, Cult Queens, and Paper Candy will all be archived and ready for a revival elsewhere.