Figuring Out How To Preserve Tumblr Meta
Apr. 14th, 2025 07:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grayestofghostsSo because of soc_puppet's comment that Tumblr may be in its death knell (again), I'm looking into preserving meta commentary that I've done on it. I was thinking of posting it to my essays and analysis (that I want to give a snappier name tbh) on my website, but I've found that a lot of the stuff I want to save has a lot of back and forth with other users. So it seems like it might be weird putting it on a personal site. But I still want to preserve it, and if Tumblr is truly dying this time, then I would like to preserve it somehow.
So... what do I do? Link back to the original post, the original user as well as long as Tumblr still exists? Would I be better off doing screenshots even though it's more difficult to code? Other ideas? Hrrm.
soc_puppet's comment that Tumblr may be in its death knell (again), I'm looking into preserving meta commentary that I've done on it. I was thinking of posting it to my essays and analysis (that I want to give a snappier name tbh) on my website, but I've found that a lot of the stuff I want to save has a lot of back and forth with other users. So it seems like it might be weird putting it on a personal site. But I still want to preserve it, and if Tumblr is truly dying this time, then I would like to preserve it somehow.So... what do I do? Link back to the original post, the original user as well as long as Tumblr still exists? Would I be better off doing screenshots even though it's more difficult to code? Other ideas? Hrrm.
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Date: 2025-04-15 11:05 am (UTC)Good idea! Make sure if possible that it's in the [blogname].tumblr.com/post/[id] format, not sure how well it works for tumblr.com/[blogname]/[id] posts but I can confirm that for the vast majority of blogs, the former works well.