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[contrarianarchon]

Uh, is it just me, or is Tumblr actively fighting my attempts to archive it or use it in any non-transient way? URLs keep irrevocably redirecting to the dashboard and/or the explore page and thus deleting themselves from my search history; this is leading to link rot is my goddam tabs in real time.

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[brin_bellway]

IME, redirection to dashboard view means a blog has been marked as adults-only, and redirection to the explore page means a blog has been deleted (or maybe name-changed with no change-of-address-notice sideblog sitting on the old username).

I haven't had it happen in my tabs in real time, but probably just because I don't normally leave a Tumblr tab open for more than a week or two. You might want to leave long-term Tumblr posts open to a Wayback Machine version rather than the original, depending on exactly what it is you plan to do with them.

In general, Tumblr *has* been known to actively fight attempts to archive it.

[contrarianarchon]

Leaving a tumblr tab open means "I have not archived this thing yet" so archiving actions are counterproductive. This is a thing I do because reading the cool things on my dash is a standard daily activity but making downloads of various kinds is not something I will do every day as a ritual.

The latter re: explore sounds plausible for that case but it was unhelpful in the extreme for actually figuring that out. Also the link was from a tumblr internal reblog label, and I thought those were either marked as dead or changed to link to new locations?

The former ... that sounds very unlikely to be the cause; it was effecting all the tabs (Spread over a wide variety of blogs) on one window and not having any effect on another spread of tabs (from the same spread of blogs) in another window. I'm honestly more frustrated that open-in-new-tab pages, reloaded after a restart, got hit by a new redirect that then left me with no information to find the URL with, which I then could have done something with? It might plausibly be a failed application of that redirection policy or an IP block of some kind that only transiently hits (because I'm in a large block of apartments all operating off the same internet contract?) but I don't really know.

As it stands, I'm going to mourn the lost potential in the ten or fifteen tabs that I didn't get to archive, and chivvy myself along with getting the archiving done for all the tabs that I didn't lose.