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: https://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.
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 17th, 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