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.
Also, I’ve noticed the app doesn’t play nice with VPNs lately. It acts like it has no WiFi connection; meanwhile, everything else works fine.
It just started to affect me, too (FR).
Like, 10 min ago I could access my blog, and now I can’t .
The funniest part is when I opened the bloody mobile app to check a message, I had AGAIN the thing about “we changed our policy blabla”
AND HAD TO UNTICK EVERYTHING ALL OVER AGAIN
THE BEST PART
IS THAT THESE THINGS DONT STAY UNTICKED
I unticked everything, clicked on “done” (btw, yay for you to NOT make that page in French or other languages than English, fucking arseholes) and then thought that when I changed pages these thing were ticked AGAIN when I came back so maybe I should check, even if, I mean, I saved my changes by clicking “done”, right ?
THEY WERE INDEED TICKED
So I ask to opt out but when I come back to the settings they are in still ?
I find you can get around it by rightclicking on the link, copying the url, and pasting that url into a not-logged-in browser. Which is of course ABSURD. Grrr.
Thank you for trying to help. Sadly that just redirects me to the login page. Edit: ok it worked now, for some reason only with Microsoft Edge.
what if you’re giving birth to twins and it’s the end of daylights savings day and the older twin was born first but the second twin travels back in time and is born an hour before the first twin, would that be fucked up or what.
I don’t even remember typing this holy shit
Being born physically later, but chronologically older is a fucking power move if I’ve ever heard of one.
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