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[100indecisions]

I had this Dreamwidth account before but I'd mostly used it to back up my old LJ...and then with all the nonsense going on at Tumblr, I started planning on maybe using this site again and discovered that 99% of the ancient imported LJ entries were incredible garbage. like, there's some garbage in my Tumblr archives because I think I first joined Tumblr around when I started slowly pulling away from my super-conservative upbringing and it was a gradual process over several years, but I stopped using LJ around the same time, which means...it's aaaaaaaall from when I was still pretty goddamn thoroughly indoctrinated. I don't need to see that shit and neither does anybody else and luckily Dreamwidth has an option to delete all imported posts so THE GARBAGE IS ALL GONE NOW.

at the moment, I've just reposted a small handful of personal Tumblr posts that I wanted to save, all backdated to their original posting date and tagged "tumblr archive". I have several other fandom-related posts that I might put on AO3 or I might repost here, and then there are probably lots of posts I haven't even seen yet because even narrowing down Tumblr to original posts means A LOT to go through. also it turns out a lot of my Tumblr posts are pretty much just shitposts but I think they're funny so maybe I want to repost those too? but that would be VERY TEDIOUS AND TIME-CONSUMING? I guess we'll see how badly it looks like Tumblr's going to shit the bed.

Comments

[felicitygs]

Good work throwing out the trash! It's incredibly freeing being able to shove that all away, isn't it?

And yes, there's no good way to archive things, I spent literally 8 hours my Monday/UTC Sunday archiving valued tags on the wayback machine and I wanted to lay down and die by the end of it.

I still need to back up my steve rogers tag and that's only 82 pages but y i k e s

No matter how you decide to archive stuff, good luck. It's thankless work.

[100indecisions]

I used TumblThree to download all my original posts and at least one major tag, but as far as I can tell it’s...not really in a usable format? Which probably means there’s no real substitute for doing it manually, ugh.

[felicitygs]

Yeah, there is no really good way to archive tumblr blogs--nothing maps one to one, and short of manually recreating a site that can use all the disparate pieces to display it, a lot of stuff is going to be lost. I went mutlipronged--download, wayback, manually saving pieces, wordpress backup for sideblogs.