Dec. 3rd, 2018
Tumblr Image Hotlinking
Hey guys! I was just talking with a friend about Tumblr's news of banning mature content and we've been seeing a lot of strangely non-mature content being flagged, and it brought up the issue of the future of images.
I have absolutely no confirmation for this, so please take me with a grain of salt here, but there's realistically a good chance that the gifs and other images you use from Tumblr in your layouts, bios, etc., could wind up deleted, especially if they are something Tumblr deems adult in nature or are flagged for review and mistakenly deleted if the original poster is no longer around to contest it.
My point: You may want to rehost images that are important to you to use in your layouts and other RP materials if you're using Tumblr URLs, or save them locally in advance in case the URLs end up broken in a few weeks time.
I have absolutely no confirmation for this, so please take me with a grain of salt here, but there's realistically a good chance that the gifs and other images you use from Tumblr in your layouts, bios, etc., could wind up deleted, especially if they are something Tumblr deems adult in nature or are flagged for review and mistakenly deleted if the original poster is no longer around to contest it.
My point: You may want to rehost images that are important to you to use in your layouts and other RP materials if you're using Tumblr URLs, or save them locally in advance in case the URLs end up broken in a few weeks time.
Comments
You're absolutely right but also. All the work this is going to be, though.
but also Tumblr. Why. WHY.
I was going to tell you about a fix for broken Tumblr URLs that involves not having to search down the image again, but I went to grab one of my journal gifs to show it to you and it leads to a 404 now even though the image still shows in the layout so... I'm not sure, but seems like It Has Begun.
Anyway, this may or may not still work, and it's likely an entirely moot point at this stage, but with image URLs from Tumblr you can (could?) remove the first number subdomain from the URL, so if it said
http://68.media.tumblr.com/etc
you could remove68.
and it would right itself. I'm sorry you're getting this tip only after it probably doesn't matter anymore LOL.But that's a good idea, and if I got to the image at least it could be saved and put elsewhere, I'll keep it in mind and I have no doubt that it probably WILL come in handy.