Hello there, RainWorlders! ^-^
Do any of you remember this blog?
@ask-rain-world-characters
It's a essentially a neat little hub that I've been running, where you could submit stuff to your chosen characters from the cast - and me and my pals would react while roleplaying our designated characters. Mixing up the standard 'askblog' formula, by using voice based responses, rather than images or text (which... were also part of our posts, but were not the main point, were just there for flavor and clarification, respectively), while also having it be a collaborative one where multiple people would play and write for the different characters, instead of having one person making everyone's responses.
It's been going for about 10 months now, and I've personally been having quite a blast with it!
Thinking about answers to questions I otherwise would have never thought of, seeing the creative and well performed responses the other participants would come up with, and getting really taken aback by all sorts of weird and chaotic and out of pocket asks popping up in our inbox. (None of which were inappropriate, surprisingly. Y'all have done great, and have made many of my days ^^)
Sooooo, if everything's going awesome, then why am I making this post?
Well, it appears as if a couple days ago, there was a glitch on Tumblr's end, leading to an inexplicable shadow ban out of nowhere.
And it's unfortunately a pretty heavy one. The posts we make no longer appear, when you browse the tags. And the blog no longer appears, when you try searching for it. And the DM feature has been completely turned off.
So if you happened to notice any of these things, then rest assured that this was not a thing on your end. This site is just acting up.
Very badly.
I did the necessary step, and attempted to contact Tumblr Support a couple days ago (twice, once under the 'posts not showing up' category, and once under the 'social features' category). I responded to their automated emails, aaaaand... nothing.
It's been about 5 days, and still no answers, and no blog restorations. At least not yet.
I was really hoping to get this resolved immediately, but since that likely isn't happening, I think it's time to adapt.
So from now on, our response posts will be getting uploaded from this account (my main, @fadebolt).
'Does this mean that the blog account will be abandoned, until the shadow ban gets lifted?' - you ask?
Well, no. I still want to maintain that one as the central hub for all this, so we're still gonna be uploading response posts to asks in 'the regular old way'.
Except that this time, they will specifically be containing links to the posts I uploaded from this account (where the asks will still be visible, through the use of screenshots).
The goal is essentially to have as little change as possible. That no matter which way you've been viewing/searching for/accessing our posts, it'll still continue to be a viable route. And that you can still send your submissions onto the askblog, like before.
(You can send them onto this account too, I suppose, though I'd prefer it if you wouldn't. But if you want to exchange any DMs in regards to the askblog, then you will have to turn to this account)
That's about it. The posts will hopefully start coming soon.
Thank you for reading, and have a great day!
(P.S. - if you have any useful info/advice on shadowbans, then please let me know. I've searched everywhere across the internet, and the only thing I found is to send a ticket to Support, and pray. Which hasn't exactly worked out so far, so yeah)
