I think there's more to it than a binary of "nothing happens" and "exodus". While I have not stopped using Tumblr altogether, the change pervades the way I use the site. My use is far more tentative, far more at-arm's-length.
I don't post OPs there anymore, though as a gesture towards those who still primarily use Tumblr I do post links to each Dreamwidth post I make. I mirror everything on my Tumblr to a Wordpress site. I haven't left Tumblr, but it's not *home* anymore, it's just a way to find interesting posts and to let people know about stuff. Nothing is primarily hosted there; everything has off-site URLs even if I have to manually paste a chunk of reblog into a Wordpress post drafter to get them†. The eventual deletion of my Tumblr is no longer a possibility to have a few emergency measures in place for, but an inevitability to be fully factored in.
I'm still tying up a *few* loose ends--for example, neither the initial Wordpress import nor the local tumblr-utils copy says who sent a posted ask, so I have to find those and edit them in--but within a few months I should reach a state where, should Tumblr fully implode, I can smoothly switch gears and lose nothing. In this post-purge world, I can settle for nothing less.
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†Wordpress removed the ability to do incremental Tumblr imports because they were overwhelmed by the demand, and anyway one of my previous incremental imports botched and left me with a couple thousand duplicate posts to clean up, so I don't think I'd want to use it again even if it were still there.
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Date: 2019-01-25 03:17 pm (UTC)I don't post OPs there anymore, though as a gesture towards those who still primarily use Tumblr I do post links to each Dreamwidth post I make. I mirror everything on my Tumblr to a Wordpress site. I haven't left Tumblr, but it's not *home* anymore, it's just a way to find interesting posts and to let people know about stuff. Nothing is primarily hosted there; everything has off-site URLs even if I have to manually paste a chunk of reblog into a Wordpress post drafter to get them†. The eventual deletion of my Tumblr is no longer a possibility to have a few emergency measures in place for, but an inevitability to be fully factored in.
I'm still tying up a *few* loose ends--for example, neither the initial Wordpress import nor the local tumblr-utils copy says who sent a posted ask, so I have to find those and edit them in--but within a few months I should reach a state where, should Tumblr fully implode, I can smoothly switch gears and lose nothing. In this post-purge world, I can settle for nothing less.
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†Wordpress removed the ability to do incremental Tumblr imports because they were overwhelmed by the demand, and anyway one of my previous incremental imports botched and left me with a couple thousand duplicate posts to clean up, so I don't think I'd want to use it again even if it were still there.