Cabana, by Tumblr Hang out, watch stuff.

iOS and Android 

Hey! We made a new iPhone app. It’s called Cabana and it’s for hanging out with friends and watching videos.

Wait, a whole new app?

Yup, a whole new app.

Really?

Yeah! It’s good. You just open it, video chat with up to five friends, and watch stuff together.

Hey, neat. Anything else I should know?

Nah, it’s pretty simple. It looks like that👇 . We’ve got some ideas about where to go with it, but hey, all in good time. 

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Oh, p.s., the Android version should be out in a few weeks. Enjoy. 

p.p.s., as promised, Cabana is now on Android. Have fun, Tumblr.

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Fandometrics: The Week in Review

Some brand new babies, and those who have returned

 Who knows CPR? These things need to be revived:

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You did it. You went the long way around the sun and now you’re back for another Tumblr Year in Review. This year: 2016.

What is Tumblr’s Year In Review?

Why it’s all the top stuff on Tumblr. From all over Tumblr. Stacked and sorted by our very own Fandometrics, the pleasingly scientific system we use to rank your enthusiasm and love. Scan the categories below for the things you’re most enthusiastic about.

The best of 2016, right this way please 👉

TV: Live Action The stranger things in life: Zombies, teen wolves, big brothers, and Steven Moffat.

TV: Animated Gems, ladybugs, and transformers start our top 20 list.

Movies  Superheroes and strong women. Not mutually exclusive.

Solo artists 60% of your favorite musicians were women this year. Some of the others came from the Australian internet.

Bands In this year: Numbered groups. Out this year: The Beatles.

Albums The oldest album on this list is from 2010. It’s old enough to go to Kindergarten.

K-Pop Once you K-pop the fun don’t K-stop.

Actresses A commander and scavenger walked into this list.

Actors  Sebastian Stan is our boyfriend now. Sorry, Chris-es.

Models  The first time we’ve seen two male models grace this list.

Athletes With seven past and present members of the USWNT, we almost have a whole soccer team.

Reality stars The Kardashians continue to be your favorite family, but this list is 40% drag queens.

Video games  An indie game can beat out every major release this year. Take that, Big Game.

Web stuff Assorted stuff from the internet.

Social issues In a year of countless important conversations, these were the issues Tumblr talked about the most.

Books How many lists can Dan and Phil appear on? Here’s another.

Anime and Manga We made a dubbed version of this list, but it was way worse than the original.

Ships Set sail on the S.S. Conceptual Relationship.

Memes  So much more than just a picture with bottom text.

Tumblr communities Not every -blr on Tumblr, but the 20 that did the the most talking this year. From Artblr to the Simblr, Petblr to Applying-for-college-blr, welcome home.

Art You’ll know it when you see it.

Food  Serving size: 1 list. Contains natural flavors. A good source of riboflavin. 100%DV fun.

Animals  You can domesticate about half of this list. Two of them may even be real!

Tumblr Gets Deep When reblogs get witty, wise, or just straight-up WTF.

We're getting into affiliate links

In a couple weeks we’re going to start adding something called “affiliate codes” to links on Tumblr that don’t already have one. Questions are healthy and natural, so let’s go through some:

What are affiliate codes? Basically, they tell a merchant that a customer came from Tumblr. And if there’s a sale, Tumblr may get a commission for the referral.

What’s going to change? Not much, really. Links will look and function exactly as they do now. Even personal affiliate codes, if you use them, will keep working normally.

Why are you doing this? One might argue that affiliate links can help slow or even reduce the cost of goods and services to zero as required for a truly post-capitalist economy.

Can I opt out? Of course. We wrote that right into our TOS. There’s a switch in settings that keeps Tumblr’s affiliate code off of links you post.

I have more questions. That’s why we wrote this FAQ.

Coming soon: Money from your Tumblr

On Thursday, we’re going to introduce ads on Tumblrs, so that later this year people can start making money from their blogs.

Tumblr is a place where brilliant, creative, funny, impossible people shape culture. Some of you have even turned your passions into jobs: book deals, music careers, paid gigs with the Creatrs program. Now, (soon!) that opportunity will be available to any eligible Tumblr—poet, musician, fan artist, and misfit weirdo memelord alike.

Some things you’re probably wondering:

Do you have to? Good question. No, you can turn off on-blog advertising in settings if you’re not comfortable with it.

When? Who? How? How much? Also good questions! We’re still working out the details of the partner program but as soon as we have details to share, we’ll make announcements right here on trusty Staff. Just so you know: You won’t be able to make money until you register for the program—which is coming soon.

Okay, cool. Ta ta for now!

This is very interesting! We’d like to know how many of you guys would like to se this on Safe As Milk themes

Tumblr Theme Reset Glitch

Keep an eye on your blog theme. Tumblr has a recent glitch where some blog themes and theme settings are resetting to their defaults. If this bug strikes your blog, try recovering your custom theme to its latest backup.

From the “Recover Custom Theme” page, choose your blog from the drop-down menu (if needed). Click the “View backups” button. Revert to the latest theme backup then check your blog theme.

If the reversion doesn’t work, seek a cached copy of your blog and check the HTML source to manually restore your theme.