Important: Please Signal Boost
This is going to be long so it can be detailed. Sorry dudes.
Myself and a few other people I know of are experiencing a really bad error with blogs (I swear to zeus I’m not overreacting and I’m not trying to generate fear, I’m just warning everyone cause fuck I’d be a mess if this was this blog or Leda frack). This has happened to multiple blogs the latest having been accessed fine yesterday.
If what’s written below happens to your blog, you should notify staff, and there will send you the following email:
Hello,
Thanks for sending this over. I’ve passed this along to our engineering team to investigate. As always, we appreciate your support and feedback. Thank you,
Which appears to be a copypasta deal, as the exact same message was sent to multiple people. Sometimes you have to be persistent for them to do this.
It looks a little like this:
Before receiving ‘engineering team’ email:
Theme has become basic, usually with a white background and all links are generic blue with visited links turning purple.
All pages will appear to be missing (but are not gone we’ll get to that later).
Blog settings will have changed so that your ask box is closed, replies are unavailable, and only one page of your messed up blog appears.
You can open up customise but no matter what you do it will not save.
You cannot use the drop down menu at the top right to sign out, you have to manually go to www.tumblr.com/logout
You can send mail but obviously not recieve it.
You cannot recieve fanmail
If you attempt to post, you will be redirected to back to the dash before it even opens
Your icon is a default icon.
You have no blog preview.
In some cases you can access your activity though this is only in one reported case I know of.
You have to manually enter in your URL, if you click the default icon it redirects you to www.tumblr.com/404 and you see the generic message.
After emailing ‘engineering team’ email: There's a post on this here too. (autoplay)
You are able to restore your theme at www.tumblr.com/themes/recover, though it’ll be the last version before you updated it before, your links remain the same, as do your title and description.
I recommend you copy the code once you do to be safe cause you’ve got t’ ask yourself one question here, do I feel lucky? And well do you? ‘Cause this bs just happened to you.
You can set your blog so it shows 10 posts a page again by going into advances settings on customize.
Customize works again and, yes, will actually save.
You can get your pages back now by making a new one, this was tested on and discovered by fxmily.
You can use the top right drop-down menu and access your settings/log out/following the normal way but you can’t view your followers/activity/drafts and it will redirect you to your blog.
You can reopen your ask box.
You can recieve privately answer asks, but you can’t receive fanmail.
Presumably you see your activity if you’re like the one case I mentioned above but we haven’t got that far yet with his blog.
You can start a post and start a reblog but when you press post it will just show load animation for about a second before it gives up, any further attempts and it won’t even try.
You can’t publicly answer asks, it gives a generic error message.
Altering your dash settings and turning them back has no effect.
You can see the activity on the lightning bolt.
That’s about all we know so far, tumblr’s being stingy with details and ain’t even but I’ll keep this updated if they actually answer me or if we work out more. If you know anything more yourself please either add it to this post or message me so I can add it to the original.
Again, sorry this post was so long.
Grace.
