Pornocalypse FUCK!
I thought I was so damned clever.
I was trying to fix a busted Tumblr link in a post from 2010. First I checked the Wayback Machine, but it only had two crawl snapshots and both of them were broken. (They were empty redirects from some point when Tumblr was jerking web crawlers around.)
Then I had a bright idea. Hey! Isn’t this one of the Tumblrs I backed up myself using HTTRack? I checked, and it was. Glory! I should have that post saved right here, on my very own hard drive. I can’t fix the link with that, but I could snag the content and rewrite my own post to quote it, replacing the dead link that way. Yay.
Like I said, I thought I was so damned clever. It took some rummaging to find that post on my hard drive, but finally I was in the correct subdirectory. Bing! There was the .html. Bam! There’s a media file. Boom! I win…
Boom. I do not win. Pornocalypse. Fuck:
A long time ago, before Tumblr just started deleting whole porn blogs, their moderators would sometimes replace an image with this lecturing Tumblr-mascot. This was years ago. But some time between when I built the link in 2010 and when the entire Tumblr in question got blown away by the recent sweeping #pornocalypse, apparently this one post fell afoul of… well, we’ll never know, now.
There was a time when I could have worked though the Tumblr notes archived with my missing post, looking for sites that reblogged it, and trying those reblogs one-by-one in the WayBack Machine until I found one that got archived before the mishap that got the image replaced by Professor Guidelines. That’s the kind of obsessive research I do, sometimes. And I tried it, but no joy. It’s all broken parts and missing pieces now. There’ not enough left anywhere to piece anything together. Every site that ever reblogged that post is gone now, or locked up tight inside Tumblr’s “sensitive materials” gulag. And none of them ever got archived; none are in the WayBack Machine.
Yeah. It’s just a broken link, Bacchus. Let it go. Yeah, no, I know. I don’t have any other choice, do I?
Pornocalypse. Fuck!
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Amen to that sentiment! If there’s something out there on the Internet that you really want to keep – there’s no substitute for having your own copy. With off-site backups.
I still have some fan-fiction I wrote and posted to USENET News back in 1990. Otherwise, I’m sure it would be long vanished.
Fuck fuck Fuck FUCK FUk. I don’t suppose you have even a thumb or something of it, so we can try to help? (I realize that one picture isn’t the point, but every little bit helps?)
I also got tired of losing material to a) loss of online source, b) computer-death, c) technology obsolescence (or why not to put your porn collection on 8″ floppy disks…)
Speaking of technology obsolescence, I’m hoping that solid-state external drives don’t lose accessibility anytime soon.
This, though, is why I not only have my own copy of everything, but a back-up on a non-USA cloud server with zero-point encryption. Tumblr happened, and it was annoying but I have all my material that I ever posted; with one exception. It never occurred to me to keep a running copy of all my “text” posts or caption-commentaries, and I’ve had to laboriously go back and transfer what I want to keep, le sigh.
Namaste
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fuck tumblr, & fuck the pale horse it rode in on. [& then film it & post it far & wide]
Fuzzy, sadly I don’t even have a memory of what the photo was. Too many years ago. And 2010 was before I twigged to the fact that Tumblr links were even less reliable than links in general, so I hadn’t started taking precautions in those days (such as feeding the link to the WayBack Machine remembering-box, or storing a couple of backup links with the post.) There was usually a good reason when I linked to an image instead of mirroring it locally back in those days, but I don’t even remember what the reason might have been.
“Erotica? Bad. Nazi? Good.” The Tumblr policy. One group Tumblr apparently has no problem continuing to host, however, is far-right extremists, who seemingly survived much of last month’s purge unscathed.
(link)
Makes one wonder about the politics of the company owners and executives.