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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024

🌟 New

  • Already seen posts from blogs you follow will no longer appear in your For You feed.
  • Admins and Moderators can now delete comments in their Communities.

đź›  Fixed

  • People being invited to join us in the Communities closed beta will be automatically added to the Communities Feedback community. (We were doing this manually before and had missed a few people, sorry about that!)

🚧 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 the community.

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

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Tuesday, April 16th, 2024

🌟 New

  • When you’re receiving lots of likes or reblogs in a short timeframe, we will stop sending individual push notifications in favor of a periodic summary.

đź›  Fixed

  • Dailymotion videos could not be posted for a short time, this has now been fixed.
  • Some of you were unable to scroll your followers in the iOS app, this has now been fixed in version 34.1 of the app.

🚧 Ongoing

  • No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

  • Tumblr Premium? Never heard of it. At least not yet anyway.

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 the community.

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

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Tuesday, April 9th, 2024

🌟 New

  • We’ve launched the Communities closed beta, which means many of you will get to play with it soon!
  • When you’re receiving lots of likes or reblogs in a short timeframe, we will stop sending individual push notifications in favor of a periodic summary. We’re rolling it out slowly to everyone by the end of the week!
  • If you don’t want your blog to be searchable on Tumblr, we now assume that you also don’t want your posts to be recommended to other Tumblr users.

đź›  Fixed

  • No recent fixes to share here today.

🚧 Ongoing

  • You’re not imagining things, we do have a new Help Center thanks to our friends at WordPress.com! Please pardon the dust while we fix up any formatting that did not survive the move this week.

🌱 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 the community.

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

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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024

🌟 New

  • Posts from blogs you’ve blocked will no longer be shown in the “More Like This” recommendations next to your blog’s posts, even for other people looking at them.

đź›  Fixed

  • We’ve improved the tag-based recommendations in the For You tab.

🚧 Ongoing

  • No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

  • Good job booping! Follow @staff for some interesting stats on those boops!

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 the community.

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

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Tuesday, March 26th, 2024

🌟 New

  • No recent launches to announce today.

đź›  Fixed

  • The Blaze page wasn’t rendering properly on Safari and has now been fixed. Blaze away!
  • A very small number of folks were being logged out unexpectedly as we were testing some exciting things with Communities. If you’re still affected by this, please manually log out and then log back in.

🚧 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 the community.

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

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Tuesday, March 19th, 2024

🌟 New

  • Don’t want search engines to crawl your blog, but still want your posts to appear in Tumblr search and in-blog search? We’ve now split the existing setting for excluding your blog from search into two, letting you choose to hide posts from external search engines, Tumblr search, or both! If you previously had this toggled on or off, your existing preference was copied to the new setting.
  • Speaking of search, we have increased the limit of indexed tags from 20 to 30. This only applies to new posts.
  • We now have an exciting Known Issues on Tumblr doc, please feel free to check it out.

đź›  Fixed

  • SMS text Two-factor Authentication codes were not arriving, and this is now fixed. For a more secure experience, we recommend using an authenticator app for your Two-Factor Authentication codes, and don’t forget to save your backup codes!
  • Some ads were stopping people from scrolling for a few seconds, this has been fixed.
  • With Bing’s policy change to no longer use content they index for their search engine for AI training unless opted in to, we are now allowing Bing to index posts from blogs that allow search indexing. We continue to discourage Bing’s crawling for AI training.

🚧 Ongoing

  • If you’re using Avast, it’s currently incorrectly blocking the ability to use messaging in real time on the web. We’re working to clear this up with them.

🌱 Upcoming

  • No upcoming launches to announce today.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and 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 the community.

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

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Tuesday, March 12th, 2024

🌟 New

  • We’re slowly rolling out the ability to use Blaze to target specific tags.
  • There’s a nice new spot in the help center all about Patio.

đź›  Fixed

  • Fixed an issue on iOS where the last reply in view was sometimes cut off.
  • Spacing around your avatar in the web post editor is now a bit more consistent.
  • Last time, we noted that it was taking longer than expected to deliver blog exports. This should be fixed now.

🚧 Ongoing

  • No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

  • No upcoming launches to announce today.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and 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 the community.

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

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Tuesday, March 5th, 2024

🌟 New

  • By popular demand, we have a new support doc on how Tumblr recommends content.
  • Tumblr Patio has launched to all Ad-Free Browsing subscribers.
  • The new option to “View previous reblog” in a posts’ meatball menu is now out to all iOS users.
  • We’ve released a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.
  • As the team focuses more on making Tumblr a better experience overall, Changes will now only post once a week.

đź›  Fixed

  • Trending tags stopped updating on February 22, and was fixed the following week.
  • Refreshing an Activity column in Tumblr Patio now properly changes Unread items to Read.
  • If a note is deleted from a post, it’s now properly removed from Activity too.

🚧 Ongoing

  • We are aware that it’s taking longer than expected to deliver blog exports, and are working to speed that up.

🌱 Upcoming

  • No upcoming launches to announce today.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and 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 the community.

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

#tumblr update
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2024

🌟 New

  • We’re continuing to roll out the option to “View previous reblog” via posts’ meatball menu to iOS users.
  • Some activity items on Android have an updated look.

đź›  Fixed

  • Fixed an issue with the ALT text indicator in the post editor on web, which would open the lightbox instead of displaying the description. It now correctly opens the image description.
  • We’ve removed the prompt to gift Ad-Free to another person if you were already subscribed to Ad-Free yourself.
  • Fixed an issue on Android where colored text was underlined in the editor.
  • Also on Android, the anonymous avatar will now display correctly in Activity, when relevant, in languages other than English.
  • On iOS, fixed an issue where sometimes blog avatars would appear blank in the feed.
  • Also on iOS, fixed an issue where you could begin customization of someone else’s blog.

🚧 Ongoing

  • No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

  • No upcoming launches to announce today.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and 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 the community.

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

#tumblr update
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Friday, February 16th, 2024

🌟 New

  • We’re starting to roll out the option to “View previous reblog” via posts’ meatball menu to iOS users. It’ll be available in version 33.2+ of the app.
  • In the post editor on the desktop version of the site, we’ve made the header of the editor stick to the top of the view, when the post gets really long. The floating avatar is now also moved into the header, to better match what the post will look like once published.
  • Also in the post editor on web, we’ve removed the option to make text yellow. In the future, we’re hoping to improve the contrast of colored text options to improve accessibility.
  • Also on web, when you’re searching a blog, you’ll now also see an option to search all of Tumblr.

đź›  Fixed

  • We’ve now put in some default placeholder text into polls and poll options where people have managed to figure out how to make them empty. Sorry to ruin the fun!

🚧 Ongoing

  • We’re aware of an issue in the iOS app that can cause the dashboard feed to zoom up or down when tapping on the TumblrMart icon in the header. We’re working to have a fix in the next version of the app!

🌱 Upcoming

  • The countdown to April 1st continues.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and 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 the community.

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

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Tuesday, February 13th, 2024

🌟 New

  • We’ve added titles to several push notifications in the mobile apps. Previously the title was just “Tumblr.”
  • On search and tag pages, we’ll now show an overlay if a post contains one (or more) of your filtered tags. Previously a post with a filtered tag wouldn’t be shown at all.

đź›  Fixed

  • When sending a post on web, there’s now a carat icon next to your blog avatar to make it more obvious that you can click it to switch to send the post from one of your secondary blogs.
  • We fixed an issue that caused Windows 10 to display as “Windows 10 10” in your list of active sessions.

🚧 Ongoing

  • No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

  • No upcoming launches to announce today.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and 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 the community.

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

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Friday, February 9th, 2024

🌟 New

  • We made a post about the hacks we worked on during our January Hack Week. Head over to Tumblr Engineering to take a look!
  • We’ve got some new default blog avatars! You’ll start seeing them on new blogs soon.
  • Based on your feedback, Tumblr Patio now features a blog picker in blog columns, allowing you to quickly switch through your blogs in a single column.

đź›  Fixed

  • Fixed an issue on web that would incorrectly display subavatars on group blogs.
  • In our last changes post, we mention a redesigned Tumblr TV on Android, but oops, that wasn’t actually launched at the time. It's launched now! Here is a more accurate description of the redesign: Video playback in the lightbox/Tumblr TV has been improved on Android. There is now a play/pause button, as well as a few other visual changes.
  • Fixed some keyboard shortcut conflicts in Tumblr Patio. You can now use the up/down arrows to scroll through a column. And you can use shift+left/right to navigate between columns.

🚧 Ongoing

  • No ongoing projects to mention.

🌱 Upcoming

  • Nothing to tease today.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and 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 the community.

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

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Tuesday, February 6th, 2024

🌟 New

  • On web, we’ve added a “View blog” link in your blog’s account settings secondary menu on the right sidebar, which opens that blog as if someone else were viewing it.
  • On Android, we’ve redesigned Tumblr TV. The seek bar has been moved to the bottom section of the screen, the playhead position text no longer follows the seek bar thumb position, plus we added some neat appear/disappear animations on some UI elements.

đź›  Fixed

  • On web, the meatball menu item linking to a reblog’s parent post is now labelled a little more intelligently. If the parent post is another reblog, it’s still labelled “View previous reblog”—but if the parent post is the original post, it’s now labelled “View original post”.
  • On Android, we now show the full date and time on queued posts.
  • On iOS, we fixed a bug where tapping a push notification for a gift you received would take you to the wrong place. Now, tapping the notification will bring you to the gifts screen as expected.
  • Tumblr on the web was unavailable for a brief time, but it’s all fixed up now!

🚧 Ongoing

  • Nothing to report today.

🌱 Upcoming

  • Nothing special today.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and 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 the community.

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

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Friday, February 2nd, 2024

🌟 New

  • You can now use keyboard shortcuts in Tumblr Patio. Use your arrow keys to move between columns.
  • Based on your feedback, the default order for Tag and Search columns in Tumblr Patio has been set to Latest. You can change these to Top if desired by selecting Settings under the meatballs menu at the top-right of the column.

đź›  Fixed

  • Some users may have been unable to upload videos earlier today. This is now fixed.
  • The location of Active Sessions under your Account Settings on the web should now be more accurate.
  • Most of you should now be seeing the correct Ask/Submission inbox totals.

🚧 Ongoing

  • We’re looking into an issue affecting a very small percentage of users where the Ask/Submission inbox totals don’t appear, despite there being Asks and/or Submissions.

🌱 Upcoming

  • Counting down to April 1st.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and 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 the community.

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

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Tuesday, January 30th, 2024

🌟 New

  • You can now add polls to reblogs!
  • When searching on a specific blog, using a # as a prefix will now only match tags. So if you search for #cats on a blog, we’ll only show posts using that tag. (This is also how searching across all of Tumblr works when using a # to prefix a search term.)
  • We’ve retired the Today tab in Explore on web, now Trending is the default experience again.

đź›  Fixed

  • Posting to Tumblr from IFTTT was being rate limited more than usual lately, causing some actions to fail, but we’ve fixed the issue.
  • We’re fixing lots of small visual issues with Tumblr Patio, for those who are helping us test it out.
  • On Android, a small number of users were unable to access their messages on app version 32.9. This issue is now fixed in 33.0.
  • We’ve rolled out the fix to issue in the iOS app that was preventing folks from editing draft posts.

🚧 Ongoing

  • We attempted to fix the pesky bug that could cause the asks/submissions inbox to show an unread count of 1 or more when nothing was actually in there. This is usually caused by someone sending an ask, and then being suspended for some reason, or blocking, which all prevent the actual ask from being seen. We accidentally made this worse for some people, showing an even higher unread count when nothing was there. While we fixed that botched attempt at a fix, we’re still working to make the situation better overall.

🌱 Upcoming

  • Nothing to report here today.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and 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 the community.

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

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Friday, January 26th, 2024

🌟 New

  • On web, we added “View previous reblog” to the post meatball menu. Find it by clicking the three horizontal dots in the top-right corner of a post!
  • We also tidied up some of the other items in the post meatball menu on web, while we were there. The ordering of some items were adjusted, and “Subscribe to conversation” is now called “Follow post”.
  • On Android, “View previous reblog” is now in the meatball menu of reblogs for all users on the latest version of the app.
  • To comply with the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), you can now mark a post as containing commercial content, which simply adds a “Commercial Content” banner to the post and does not affect your post’s visibility or ranking on Tumblr.

đź›  Fixed

  • Users can no longer send asks to blogs that have blocked them, or that they have blocked.
  • On web, the blog selector in the post editor would incorrectly appear on top of the text format bar. This is now fixed.
  • On web, the settings page for your blog (tumblr.com/settings/blog/blogname) used to show the account settings menu in the right-hand sidebar. We updated this area to show the blog sidebar instead (Posts, Drafts, Queue, etc).
  • We made some tweaks which should fix that specific problem where you see a non-zero unread count on your inbox, and so you click into your inbox only to find nothing there. Let us know if you continue to encounter that issue.

🚧 Ongoing

  • On Android, a small number of users were unable to access their messages on app version 32.9. This issue will be fixed in the next app version (33.0).
  • We’re still working to fix an issue in the iOS app that’s preventing folks from editing draft posts.

🌱 Upcoming

  • We just wrapped up another Hack Week, where we got to build whatever cool feature we wanted! Follow @engineering to see what we made đź‘€

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and 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 the community.

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

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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024

🌟 New

  • Tumblr Live will be shutting down tomorrow, January 24th, 2024. Read more about it here.
  • On web, we’ve brought back the button for subscribing to a post’s conversation from a post’s notes view. Click the bell icon to toggle whether you’re notified about new replies and reblog comments for that post.

đź›  Fixed

  • No recent fixes to share here today.

🚧 Ongoing

  • We’re working to fix an issue in the iOS app that’s preventing folks from editing draft posts.

🌱 Upcoming

  • No upcoming launches to announce today.
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