GOOD MORNING INTERNET
This morning, Tumblr mass IP-banned entire swaths of @archiveteam volunteers and warrior instances. Some of our folks will do some work to see if they can get a little more out, but Tumblr has spoken: Get the hell off our lawn, we got some deletin' to do.
This morning, Tumblr mass IP-banned entire swaths of @archiveteam volunteers and warrior instances. Some of our folks will do some work to see if they can get a little more out, but Tumblr has spoken: Get the hell off our lawn, we got some deletin' to do.
For people who have contacted us/me about making sure your blog doesn't end up in our project, it'll be another few days to complete uploading the buffered terabytes of Tumblrs. Keep an eye, as I will too.
This project was lead by relatively-new Archive Team member Kiska, who had assists from long-timers but bravely did dozens of code changes and hours and hours of work to get us the 150,000 Tumblr blogs we have downloaded.
If you're running a warrior, your project probably swapped over to URLteam, the project to keep saving the URL shortener lists of all those services, because that project is simple and ongoing and hugely important. Disconnect with honor, though.
