There’s a bug going round (though I have my doubts as to how much of a ‘bug’ it actually is) that prevents people from accessing their blogs if they go to the blogname.tumblr.com address. Any attempt to access blogs this way (ours, those of others or any kinds of links on the web that lead back to Tumblr posts) results in us being redirected to the main Dashboard page (tumblr.com/dashboard). The only way to access a blog, for those of us affected by this bug, is to go to the Dashboard pop-up view (tumblr.com/dashboard/blog/blognamehere). Of course, the Tumblr mobile app is wholly unaffected. Of course.
Here’s where it gets very fucking sketchy for me:
so far, every single user I’ve seen affected by this bug is located in Europe, like myself;
when I tried to access several blogs (my own among them) through a US proxy, I was able to do so, without being redirected to the Dashboard
I repeat, this ‘bug’ affects European users and I was able to access blog-pages by using AN AMERICAN IP ADDRESS. What in the ever-loving hell, @staff?
In light of GDPR (and Tumblr being singled out as one of the sites that made it as onerous as possible to opt-out of your data being shared with a ludicrous number of third-parties), I really wouldn’t be surprised if they’re trying to kick European users to the curb in this way / trying to force us to use the mobile app instead. Just the thought of having to pay for a VPN so I can keep this fucking site even remotely functional (remember – no Tumblr content link from the web is accessible anymore – if I click on a link that’s blogname.tumblr.com/post/postnumber, I’m always redirected to the first page of the dashboard) makes my blood boil.
EDIT: Several users in the notes saying that they’re in the US / on US IPs and also having similar problems
It remains to be seen exactly how many American users affected, versus how many European ones.
if you do // at the end of the url itll work (or at least its worked for me)
Every social network should have a button for “Stop trying to be clever with algorithms and just show me the posts of everyone I follow, in the order they were posted.”
THIS. I saw a post the other day that literally said if you do it to a fictional character, you’ll do it in real life.
No. Just NO.
I’m so glad someone put it into words.
In art, we can be fucking nuts.
If someone tells you that what you imagine doing to a figment, a thing neither flesh nor bone nor heart, something that can not hurt, is “just as bad” as if you’d really done it to a living being, do you know what you can do?
Turn your back. And walk away. Damn well walk away. They know nothing.
if it happened at all, it happened like that 