spaceboykenny:

tsuki-chibi:

whitmerule:

liz-squids:

pearlmaser:

elfwreck:

olderthannetfic:

unclutterme:

olderthannetfic:

I’m curious how many related deletions we can come up with.

• 2002 – FFN bans porn
• 2002 – FFN bans RPF
• 2004 – FFN bans script format
• 2005 – FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic
• 2007 – Strikethrough, Boldthrough
• 2009 – GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites
• 2010 – FFN forums deleted
• 2011 – Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence
• 2012 – major FFN crackdown on porn
• 2014 – Quizilla shuts down
• 2015 – Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank

Didn’t quizilla have purges before finally shutting down? And I know basically every vidding home hot destroyed, repeatedly taking out the entire history of vidding online.

… they deleted Fandom Wank???

Well, not specifically. Journalfen failed completely and has never come back. FW was on Journalfen, so while you can see some entries on the Wayback machine, I think (?), the long comment threads aren’t archived.

• 2007 – Youtube starts using its “content ID” system to identify (and block) works that include copyrighted material in their database.
• 2009 – Greatestjournal shuts down, taking down fandom’s biggest collection of blog-style RPGs
• 2012 – Megaupload shut down by FBI; some (many?) fanvid archives lost

I thought there was also some kind of purge at Deviantart, but I don’t recall the details.

I’d like to remind folks that there was literally wank last month about why do we need the OTW.

Well, this would be why: we sincerely believed in the internet values of a decade or two ago, which involved owning our own servers if we wanted to see our projects remain stable, in the long term, online.

Worth mentioning: Yahoo purchased GeoCities, and was behind the decision to shut all those sites down. 

Yahoo’s incompetence destroyed Delicious.

Yahoo owns Tumblr.

1356: 50% of monks.

People just… completely forget. I was there for all of the bans on fanfiction.net. You don’t know panic until you go to log in one morning and find out a bunch of your works have been deleted, gone forever, because some asshole arbitrarily decided that they wanted to ban something.

AO3 IS IMPORTANT. IT MATTERS.

people shitting on AO3 because of the constant request for donations – THIS IS WHY. the OTW team does its fucking best to protect your fancontent legally as much as possible and it irritates me when we get people who are ignorant of the painful history of fandoms yell loudest about AO3 being a money-sucking bag.

THIS IS WHY.

alyssaaaaaaa:

2018 was complete shit

– this year literally started with logan pauls suicide forest video, in case you forgot.

– eating?? tide?? pods??

– giant spike in school shootings and shootings in general in america

– stephen hawking is dead. rip

– shadowhunters was cancelled (one of the few shows on tv to date with actual asexual rep, also freeforms ONLY good show imo)

– daredevil & luke cage were both cancelled

– iron fist was also cancelled

– stefan karl is dead. rip

– avicii is dead. rip

– stan lee is dead. rip

– stephen hillenburg is dead. rip

– all US toys r us locations died

– tumblr shot itself in the foot and is now on its deathbed

– wildfires murdering a giant part of california

feel free to add more, this was a catastrophically terrible year and I’m 100% sure this isn’t all

diabeticlesbian:

Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement dir. Susan Muska and Gréta Ólafsdottir (2009)

theveryworstthing:

mckaytriarchy:

arubbishmedic:

bollymusings:

nickthenerd:

1. Soup.io – well-known alternative to Tumblr. Reblogging, post types, themes, collab blogs, dashboard, artsy, great community already there. Soup can auto-import everything you’ve posted on Tumblr.
2. TypePad – Includes reblogging. Dashboard and post types similar to Tumblr.
3. Jux – Artful posts, beautiful blogging experience

Reblogging cause one day it just may be neccessary.

It became necessary

WordPress will also import Tumblr blogs.

i’ve gotten a lot of suggestions for pillowfort and mastodon and even newgrounds, but here are some other alternatives.