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Tuesday, December 10th, 2024

🌟 New

  • We’re working on making your follower count more accurate. Specifically, for those of you with less than 1,500 followers, the follower count no longer includes followers that were deleted or suspended. We had previously launched this for folks with less than 200 followers, then later for folks with less than 700 followers. With follower count not being a status symbol here (on [tumblr]) our goal is to make the count overall more accurate to accounts that would actually be able to see your posts in the Dashboard.

🛠 Fixed

  • [tumblr] was briefly down yesterday, so we sent one of our best developers on a coffee run for the tumbeasts. Once satisfied, they brought everything back online.
  • We fixed an issue that prevented posts in a community from being filtered based on the author’s blogname.
  • We fixed an issue that was preventing links from being added to text in the iOS app. Please keep your apps up to date!

🚧 Ongoing

  • No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

  • No upcoming launches to announce today.

Experiencing an issue? Check for Known Issues and file a Support Request if you have something new. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

Want to share your feedback about something? Check out our Work in Progress blog and start a discussion with other users.

Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out Premium and the Supporter badge in TumblrMart!

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Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024

🌟 New

  • Posts on public communities now have a new share button so you can easily share them outside of [tumblr].

🛠 Fixed

  • Notifications on your blazed posts can now be muted again.
  • The editor no longer counts HTML characters as part of the 4096-characters-per-block limit.

🚧 Ongoing

  • We’re aware that the queue is not paginating in the iOS app, and we’re working on a fix. For now, you can manage your queue on the web in any iOS browser, like Safari.

🌱 Upcoming

  • No upcoming launches to announce today.

Experiencing an issue? Check for Known Issues and file a Support Request if you have something new. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

Want to share your feedback about something? Check out our Work in Progress blog and start a discussion with other users.

Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out Premium and the Supporter badge in TumblrMart!

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Tuesday, November 26th, 2024

🌟 New

  • We’ve added a new dedicated Communities tab to search in the apps. If you don’t see it, please update your app!
  • You can now report communities for spam or abuse via the meatballs menu (●●●) at the top-right.
  • You can now add content labels to posts in communities.

🛠 Fixed

  • No recent fixes to share here today.

🚧 Ongoing

  • We’re aware that the queue is not paginating in the iOS app, and we’re working on a fix. For now, you can manage your queue on the web in any iOS browser, like Safari.

🌱 Upcoming

  • No upcoming launches to announce today.

Experiencing an issue? Check for Known Issues and file a Support Request if you have something new. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

Want to share your feedback about something? Check out our Work in Progress blog and start a discussion with other users.

Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out Premium and the Supporter badge in TumblrMart!

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Tuesday, November 19th, 2024

🌟 New

  • We’ve added some new functionality on the web search page. It’s now possible on desktop to view community, blog, and tag results. You can also now filter by multiple post types rather than just one at a time. Finally, we’ve added sorting and filtering options for community results. Stop by Search and Filtering Basics for some tips and tricks.
  • We’re also taking steps to improve the in-blog search infrastructure and address issues with searching original posts since 2017.
  • Reasons for community member removals and bans are now available in the audit log.

🛠 Fixed

  • We fixed an issue in the iOS app where replies were not being displayed under Activity when they are a selected filter option. Please update your apps!
  • We also fixed an issue in the apps where attempts to post to group blogs could fail. Again, please update your apps!

🚧 Ongoing

  • No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

  • No upcoming launches to announce today.

Experiencing an issue? Check for Known Issues and file a Support Request if you have something new. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

Want to share your feedback about something? Check out our Work in Progress blog and start a discussion with other users.

Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out Premium and the Supporter badge in TumblrMart!

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Tuesday, November 12th, 2024

🌟 New

  • On the web, activity items have new unread and hover highlights to improve visibility.
  • We’re experimenting with new push notifications letting folks know when there’s activity in any joined communities you haven’t seen in at least 24 hours. You can control this new notification with the “community activity” notification setting.
  • Community owners can now set their community joining type to “New members can request or be invited to join.” Once set, besides the original invite flow, prospective members will be able to click a “Request to Join” button and admins will have a new “Requests” tab where they can Approve or Deny any request.
  • On the web, the “Do not sell my personal information” link has been moved to the footer of the right sidebar, so it’s now alongside the rest of the privacy links.

🛠 Fixed

  • We have fixed an issue causing custom domains to be trapped in a redirect loop.
  • We have fixed an issue causing some users to see the wrong activity filter options in the latest version of the iOS app.
  • We have fixed an issue causing Tumblr to count links twice in custom pages, which normally isn’t a problem, but it turned our 500 links per page limit into a 250 links per page limit. Tumblr now counts links only once, so you can once again include up to 500 links on a single custom page.

🚧 Ongoing

  • In the iOS app, we’re aware that replies are not being displayed under Activity when they are a selected filter option, and we’re working on a fix.

🌱 Upcoming

  • No upcoming launches to announce today.

Experiencing an issue? Check for Known Issues and file a Support Request if you have something new. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

Want to share your feedback about something? Check out our Work in Progress blog and start a discussion with other users.

Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out Premium and the Supporter badge in TumblrMart!

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Tuesday, November 5th, 2024

🌟 New

  • Reblogs with matching text content can now appear in search results. Toggle on “Original posts only” under the filter options if you want to remove them.
  • A new 3-day duration is now available for new polls.
  • Community moderators and admins now have access to an audit log which shows the history of all moderation actions, including the reasoning, timing, and the specific content involved.
  • To reduce clutter, the community Moderators and Admins tabs have been removed and replaced by having moderators and admins displayed at the top of the Members tab.

🛠 Fixed

  • We fixed an issue that made it impossible to block an anonymous asker when reporting them. Blocking anonymous askers still blocks their IP address from sending you further anonymous asks.
  • We fixed an issue that was causing some replies to disappear as soon as they were posted.

🚧 Ongoing

  • We’re aware that some users are seeing the wrong activity filter options in the latest version of the iOS app, we’re working on a fix!

🌱 Upcoming

  • No upcoming launches to announce today.

Experiencing an issue? Check for Known Issues and file a Support Request if you have something new. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

Want to share your feedback about something? Check out our Work in Progress blog and start a discussion with other users.

Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out Premium and the Supporter badge in TumblrMart!

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Tuesday, October 29th, 2024

🌟 New

  • On web, when managing your followed tags, tags are now listed alphabetically rather than by last-viewed.
  • The search box has had some design tweaks, and communities are now included alongside the other suggestions when the box is first opened.
  • On communities, the Popular tab, which was never fully implemented, and the Discover tab, which hasn’t seen the kind of use we had hoped for, have been removed for now.

🛠 Fixed

  • An issue preventing deleted or changed blognames from being immediately available for use for has fixed.
  • For a brief time, we were accidentally showing Blaze Pro ads to Premium subscribers who had set their Ad-free browsing setting to “Show only Blaze ads.” We didn’t mean to cross those streams. This has been fixed.
  • Ghosts briefly stole the Boop badges for nefarious reasons. We still remembered who to call, and the badges were returned.

🚧 Ongoing

  • No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

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Experiencing an issue? Check for Known Issues and file a Support Request if you have something new. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

Want to share your feedback about something? Check out our Work in Progress blog and start a discussion with other users.

Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out Premium and the Supporter badge in TumblrMart!

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Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024

🌟 New

  • Navigating to your Dashboard on the web will now direct you to the most recent tab you clicked on, with your pinned tab as the fallback.
  • We no longer show the member cap in communities now that it’s very high (10,000 possible members per community currently), unless the community is within 5% of hitting the cap.
  • When leaving a comment on a community post, you will no longer be automatically subscribed to other new comments on that post, unless they’re replies to your comment.
  • We’ve made some design changes to the post footer in communities, moving the comments button in line with reactions, adding a preview of commenter avatars, and vanquishing our nemesis, vertical whitespace.

🛠 Fixed

  • As of version 36.8 of the iOS app, adding tags to a queued/drafted reblog will no longer remove its queue/draft state. Please update your apps!

🚧 Ongoing

  • No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

  • No upcoming launches to announce today.

Experiencing an issue? Check for Known Issues and file a Support Request if you have something new. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

Want to share your feedback about something? Check out our Work in Progress blog and start a discussion with other users.

Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out Premium and the Supporter badge in TumblrMart!

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changes

Tuesday, October 15th, 2024

🌟 New

  • The character limit has been raised from 500 characters to 1,975 characters for all replies in our apps. The limit was previously raised on the web last month.
  • We have added new “since” and “before” search operators. Using both together will allow you to limit your search to a specific date range.
  • The number of online community members is now displayed in community recommendations and search results.
  • Posts reblogged into communities will no longer show notes from outside the community’s reblog.
  • Tumblr is home to some of the most incredible creatives on the web, from brilliant artists to creative fandoms. However, any such large community will also inevitably have bad actors who try to take advantage of the kindness and generosity of the community members, so please take a look at our new guide on how to avoid scammers.

🛠 Fixed

  • We weren’t displaying the right error message when admins were trying to update their community handle with invalid characters. This is fixed now!
  • When you receive a lot of grouped Activity items on Web, we now fetch more Activity items, so you can scroll through more Activity items before you need to click “See Everything”.
  • Ads are no longer interrupting background audio in the iOS app as of version 36.7. Please update your apps!

🚧 Ongoing

  • In the iOS app, adding tags to a queued/drafted reblog will remove its queue/draft state, meaning the action button switches to “Reblog” which publishes the reblog if tapped. The fix will be in version 36.8 of the iOS app. For now, either add tags to those on the Web, or be extra careful about checking the action button before tapping it.

🌱 Upcoming

  • No upcoming launches to announce today.

Experiencing an issue? Check for Known Issues and file a Support Request if you have something new. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

Want to share your feedback about something? Check out our Work in Progress blog and start a discussion with other users.

Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out Premium and the Supporter badge in TumblrMart!

changes

We heard you – the Avoiding Scammers doc was unnecessarily specific, and it ended up conveying a different message than we intended.

We have made several changes to decrease specifics, simplify certain sections, and highlight that not all requests are scams.

Thanks so much for all the feedback!

tumblr update

Tuesday, October 15th, 2024

🌟 New

  • The character limit has been raised from 500 characters to 1,975 characters for all replies in our apps. The limit was previously raised on the web last month.
  • We have added new “since” and “before” search operators. Using both together will allow you to limit your search to a specific date range.
  • The number of online community members is now displayed in community recommendations and search results.
  • Posts reblogged into communities will no longer show notes from outside the community’s reblog.
  • Tumblr is home to some of the most incredible creatives on the web, from brilliant artists to creative fandoms. However, any such large community will also inevitably have bad actors who try to take advantage of the kindness and generosity of the community members, so please take a look at our new guide on how to avoid scammers.

🛠 Fixed

  • We weren’t displaying the right error message when admins were trying to update their community handle with invalid characters. This is fixed now!
  • When you receive a lot of grouped Activity items on Web, we now fetch more Activity items, so you can scroll through more Activity items before you need to click “See Everything”.
  • Ads are no longer interrupting background audio in the iOS app as of version 36.7. Please update your apps!

🚧 Ongoing

  • In the iOS app, adding tags to a queued/drafted reblog will remove its queue/draft state, meaning the action button switches to “Reblog” which publishes the reblog if tapped. The fix will be in version 36.8 of the iOS app. For now, either add tags to those on the Web, or be extra careful about checking the action button before tapping it.

🌱 Upcoming

  • No upcoming launches to announce today.

Experiencing an issue? Check for Known Issues and file a Support Request if you have something new. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

Want to share your feedback about something? Check out our Work in Progress blog and start a discussion with other users.

Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out Premium and the Supporter badge in TumblrMart!

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