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For myself, I really am focusing on gettfixing theand re-verifying all thed artist "User Links" that were lost as a part of the Tumblr diaspora - and if I find one that has been hijacked or redirected to malware or porn sites - regardless of whether that was originally a Tumblr link or not - then I work with the artist to get those links either re-homed, or deleted.


 
The hijacked source urls problem does occur with non-Tumblr sites, as well - it is a problem that happens with all kinds of blogs - safe and non-safe. And while so far the majority of the ones that I've worked on have been Tumblr blogs, I have seen them with Twitter, and even DeviantArt galleries and homebrew sites that have been lost to the artist and repurposed by whomever either hacked or bought the domain out from underneath the artist.


 
So - if you found any redirects, please PM me those and I'll take them on as a top priority to get fixed.


 
But if the link is just dead, but following the link you still end up looking at Tumblr or whatever site the URL points to in any way - even if it's just the boilerplate "There's nothing here" Tumblr display, then that seems like a much lower priority problem.


 
So - yes, please PM me any redirects that you found, because I really want to make sure we get those off of the site.


 
But I really am not going to be looking at dead sources that aren't redirects any time soon.

For myself, I really am focusing on getting the verified artist "User Links" that were lost as a part of the Tumblr diaspora - and if I find one that has been hijacked or redirected to malware or porn sites - regardless of whether that was originally a Tumblr link or not - then I work with the artist to get those links either re-homed, or deleted.

The hijacked source urls problem does occur with non-Tumblr sites, as well - it is a problem that happens with all kinds of blogs - safe and non-safe. And while so far the majority of the ones that I've worked on have been Tumblr blogs, I have seen them with Twitter, and even DeviantArt galleries and homebrew sites that have been lost to the artist and repurposed by whomever either hacked or bought the domain out from underneath the artist.

So - if you found any redirects, please PM me those and I'll take them on as a top priority to get fixed.

But if the link is just dead, but following the link you still end up looking at Tumblr or whatever site the URL points to in any way - even if it's just the boilerplate "There's nothing here" Tumblr display, then that seems like a much lower priority problem.

So - yes, please PM me any redirects that you found, because I really want to make sure we get those off of the site.

But I really am not going to be looking at dead sources that aren't redirects any time soon.