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Roleplaying Community

Given Tumblrs upcoming NSFW ban (and clearly no idea of what will be truly removed seeing they’re too busy flagging posts of people’s dogs and stuff right now), I have a few recommendations of things to do to prepare.

1) Get to know Google Docs. I highly recommend writing up your rp rules, character headcanons, profiles, etc on Google Docs. If you move to a new website like Pillowfort, Twitter, etc, all you’ll need to do is simply post publicly viewable links to your rules and such. No re-writing with new unfamiliar formats, juggling what should be shared and what shouldn’t be. Quick links is all it takes and you can easily post your rules and information anywhere you’d like.

2) Save your artwork and images. I’d use OneDrive, Dropbox, Google, etc, to save all of your artwork, roleplaying icons, gifted art, etc somewhere that you can easily access and get to for later.

3) Save any old RP you want kept to Google Docs. You can make header links within documents that work like chapters in a book: click the link to instantly go to a specific saved rp within one master document.

4)Get acquainted with Discord. Besides being a chat program to keep up with friends, Discord offers server creation which is excellent for building and maintaining RP communities. If you haven’t joined yet, it’s free and doesn’t ban NSFW content. You can even create servers for just yourself that work just as well to save important links and posts.

5)Know your alternatives. Have a list made of places to migrate to should your blog be flagged and deleted. @pillowfort-io is a new blogging platform I’m already on. It doesn’t offer side blog creation just yet, but it does offer many features Tumblr doesn’t, such as threaded replies, the option to make posts non-rebloggable, community creation, and a very simple blog layout that doesn’t let people post flashing gifs and impossible to read tiny text boxes on their profiles.

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I know for a lot of people this is intense; being on Tumblr since it’s creation and growing a community here can leave a weird feeling behind. For many of you who’ve already lost friends and fandom members to NSFW blogs being flagged and deleted, the upcoming total ban leaves a lot of uncertainty.

We don’t need to panic though, as that won’t fix anything. Having a solid game plan and idea ready to go instead is the better alternative.

Alternatives to Tumblr if Yahoo goes any further

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.

Teenagers are always going to be exposed to nsfw material, purposefully or not. Sure the idea of making a site safe for them is great! It’s wonderful even. But this site has been nasty since the year it was created and you can’t lie to me and say it hasn’t. A Website is a website and unless it’s garnished and prettied up for children only, there is no way they will not be exposed to something or another. 

for fuck’s sake, I was on Nick.com and saw a porn ad once. Literally nowhere is safe from the mitts of NSFW. Doing this will do little for the teens roaming the site, and will have a more negative impact on the regular adult users. Sure, porn isn’t everything, but when a site claims to be laying down the law and removing entire blogs on what the SITE claims as NSFW, it becomes frustrating to even want to be part of the user base. 

So, if Tumblr wants to do this, I’m not against them. Keeping children safe is something I’m 100% for. I just don’t think it’s going to do much in the way of protecting them from what the world is filled with. 

It would honestly be better to make the site 17+ and up, in my honest opinion.