Reminder that I'm on Dreamwidth (and DeviantArt)

[auronlu]

There are rumblings that Yahoo may have to sell its internet businesses, including Tumblr. This may be a bunch of empty hoopla. But it's yet another reminder that fandom sites come and go.

Listen. On a still night, you can hear the ghosts of geocities wailing faintly on the wind.

Meeedeee has a tut on how to backup Tumblr on Wordpress.com from a blog you own to a private Wordpress blog. I'm giving the tool a test run on my own website, because I've got oodles of space.

That means importing 4500 posts. I'll let you know how it goes. (Note: setting entries private by default is a must, to avoid posting other people's content without permiss. I'm just trying to archive my own meta and liveblog posts.)

(X-posted to Tumblr)

Comments

[samuraiter]

*hat*

Good to see you, and thanks for checking in!

[sarasa_cat]

The ghosts of geocities. Such an image.

While it seems unlikely that tumblr will die, the platform has been heading in a new direction ever since yahoo purchased it.

FWIW, I have simultaneously laughed and headdesked whenever someone on tumblr (usually someone young) talks about tumblr as if fandom==tumblr and as if fandom runs the show over there and produces the majority of tumblr's content. It is easy for someone to live a content bubble on tumblr without realizing what else is actually there. So much of tumblr is not fandom. Pro bloggers, art bloggers, and many others have been on tumblr before fandom arrived and if yahoo continues to need to push tumblr toward generation of revenues, that audience is where it is at.

And while AO3 has UI issues and is slow to integrate new features at the code level, and while DW's interface feels a little bit long in the tooth, both of these platforms make fandom a priority. In my dream world, DW would engage in an overhaul of its code so it feels a little more up to date but even if that never happens, it works and it won't get sold off to some media company in Russia or elsewhere.