Stella: When I was young, my mother told me that I was very lucky. I possessed beauty, wit, cunning and insight. These were weapons all women needed to survive in the world.
Sandra: So?
Stella: So take good care of your looks, Sandra. You don’t have any other weapons at your disposal.
According to the current situation that our community is losing a space to be free in their creativity to write and create what we all love I came up with an idea how it could be possible that we can continue and do what we love.
Here is the thing. I love our Sims-Community so much that I thought it would be truly sad to lose all those wonderful CC-Creators, CC-Rebloggers Storytellers etc. I gained new friends and met wonderful people it would be a shame to lose you guys.
In real life am a Marketing Manager so this is my field of profession. I made a reservation for the domain simblrs.com. If you love the Sim-Community as much as I love. May you are able to contribute:
Step: Reblog to let people know an idea is born
Step: Spread the word tell all your Simblr-Friends 😉
Step: Follow on Twitter for further updates, retweet!
Step: If your profession is a creative one as mentioned below, join our team and be a part of something promising and great and this will be only for us – THE Sims-Community
Step: Simmers who can contribute to making this project happen will be invited to Discord!
Step: A patreon page will be set up where even if you can’t support with your profession but if you can you will be able to support us financially.
Step: Further announcements will be done via Twitter and I will post here also some updates!
If you love this idea as much as I do and you can contribute because in your real life you are either
Graphic designer
Programmer
Web/UI Designer
Web-App-Programmer
and so on
But please inbox and contact me only if you can and if you are willing really to help to make this project happen!
Let’s create a space where Simmers are free to share their stories, cc and more.
I wrote already a concept of how I picture this to be – similar to a site we all know =D. It will contain a bunch of sims-related content and I think this would be insanely cool to have something like this.
I will also set up a patreon page within the next few days, for those who are willing to support this idea financially. Make sure to follow on Twitter “simblrs” for further updates!
I did set up also a Discord called “simblrs” this will be the space where all the simmers can join who want and can contribute to making this project happen. You will need to tell me how you can imagine to contribute and be a part of this new “Simblrs Community” and you will be invited.
If you like the idea – please REBLOG, REBLOG, REBLOG!
It would be dope if we can find people who are willing to join and create something we all love to do! If you want to tell me something which is not related to the things I wrote above simply drop a note in the comment section below.
So, let’s see how quick we can make this happen!
Beloved Simmie Simmers, I’m proud to be a part of such a great community!
Cheers,
Sue
I would 100% join this platform if/when it exists.
I swear to God, I just mentioned it few minutes ago on MTS without having seen the post. Of course I’d join!
Okay, folks. So. Tumblr’s jumped the shark in a big way, and I’m not even just talking about indiscriminately blocking all “adult” content on a platform that IS, in fact, primarily 18+.
Many blogs, like the wonderful @blackkatmagic , that are not especially NSFW have vanished.
(And I for one LIKE being able to go to curated porn blogs run by actual people and have a chance of finding stuff to my taste, it was one of the things that kept me on this hellsite, but that’s another issue entirely.)
I know lots of people are talking about migrating, but none of us are sure to where yet. Pillowfort seems to be an option, some people are talking about Twitter. But for now, it’s a mess, and even if we knew where we were going, it’s often a huge process, and a lot of us have stuff on tumblr that ONLY exists there.
One possible quick solution to save your blogs, both NSFW and personal, is to import it to WordPress. I found this solution through from frantic googling on how to save an entire blog, text posts an all. There are several apps for downloading all the pictures from a tumblr, (Plently for Windows, but only a few paid ones for mac, of which Tumbelog Picture Downloader is working for me so far) but this is the only solution I’ve seen so far that allows you to save EVERYTHING. I downloaded my NSFW blog in like 10 min. My regular blog, which is significantly larger, is in the process of importing, but I don’t anticipate any problems. I will, of course, update you if I have any.
This tutorial I found worked really easily. http://quickguide (.) tumblr (.) com/post/39780378703/backing-up-your-tumblr-blog-to-wordpress
I put parenthesis around the .’s like we’re back in FF-Hell, just in case tumblr’s new thing about outgoing links kicks in. You know what to do.
To break it down, just in case:
Sign up for a WordPress.com account at wordpress (.) com/start
You’ll have to create an account, with your email, a username, and a password. They should send you a confirmation email immediately, check it, activate it, and you’re good to go.
On the site, it will ask you for a site name. That page asks you a bunch of other information too, but you only have to fill out the site name.
Then you have to give your site a URL. If you’re lucky, your tumblr URL is still available, if not you’ll have to come up with another one, sorry.
It will tell you if that option is still available for free.
Then it will ask you to pick a plan. Free is really good enough, I swear.
Now you’re set up! You can import your tumblr!
The only differences from the linked tutorial are that the Import button is now on the first level menu, not in tools.
Hit Import, then you have to follow the link for “other importers” at the bottom, to find the option for Tumblr.
Then you’ll have to sign in with tumblr, using your normal tumblr credentials. You’ll be redirected there automatically.
You’ll have to allow WordPress permissions on your blog.
Then your blogs, including all your sideblogs, will show up in wordpress.
Hit import, wait a WHILE depending on the size of your blog, and you’re done!
ALSO!!
I made my NSFW blog private for now, since I don’t know WP’s policy on NSFW.
This means that to access it, someone has to have an account and request access. But hey, part of our problem on this hellsite has been people going places they aren’t wanted, so I don’t personally see this as a bad thing. They can send a request from the landing site on your blog, you get an email, click a link in the email, and PRESTO, they have access.
To make it private, go to Settings > Reading > Site Visibility. Go back and check, it took me changing the setting twice for it to actually stick.
tl;dr, you can import your entire blog to wordpress in just a few steps.
I’m going to tag the hell out of this, in no particular order. PLEASE reblog this and spread the word so people know it’s an option. If you’re having trouble, PM me, and I’m happy to help.
There are a whole bunch more, but that’s a start. Please reblog the hell out of this, so people are aware of this one simple option.
For people asking how to backup thier blog
Fellow Simmers, another solution that might be helpful while looking for a new place. I’m going to
try and see how it goes – meanwhile, I have already exported my tumblr, using the defatult option!
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