Welcome to our discussion on a recent development concerning Tumblr and the archiving community. Here's a brief overview:
- Archive Team's coordinators and volunteers faced an unexpected challenge over the weekend as several of their IP addresses were blocked from accessing the Tumblr API. This action was presumably in response to their efforts to preserve adult content on the platform.
- Despite these hurdles, the Archive Team has successfully saved a significant portion of Tumblr's content. Their "Tumblr Warrior" project has archived over 320,000 Tumblr blogs, amounting to more than 46 terabytes of data.
- This situation highlights the ongoing tension between content preservation efforts and platform regulations, especially concerning adult content, which is estimated to constitute a substantial portion of Tumblr's user engagement.
Participants in the forum have expressed a range of reactions, from frustration to solidarity with the archiving efforts, emphasizing the significance of preserving digital content and the challenges that come with it.
For more in-depth information on this topic, you can access the full story here.