And we're back to the previous Tumblr app icon. Last week's app icon change was short lived.
Tuesday, September 13th, 2022
🌟 New
- Version 26.3 of the Tumblr apps for iOS and Android is now available, and it uses the default app icon.
- Also in 26.3 of the Tumblr app for iOS, the alt text field now supports autocorrect.
- In version 26.3 of both apps, the recommendation reason will be displayed at the top of the post. We have been working to implement this across all platforms.
- In the iOS and Android apps, there’s a new landing page for Tumblr Blaze. Check it out by tapping “Tumblr Blaze” in your settings. You’ll also be able to access a dedicated feed of all of your Blaze-able posts here.
- On web, when sharing your post about how many crabs you summoned, you can now switch blogs and publish the post to a different one.
🛠 Fixed
- Fixed an issue in the Android app that caused some notifications to open a web browser rather than the app.
- Fixed an issue in both the iOS and Android apps that caused the new at.tumblr.com links to open the App Store or Play Store rather than the app. Be sure to update your app in order for this fix to take effect.
- Version 26.3 of the iOS app fixes an issue that caused featured tags to be absent from in-blog search.
- Version 26.3 of the iOS app also fixes and issue where Spotify and Soundcloud audio embeds were misaligned in reblog trail items.
- Version 26.3 of the Android app fixes an issue where italicized text was clipped at the end of the word.
- Version 26.3 of the Android app fixes an issue where your list of followed tags could include duplicates of the same tag after following a tag, then refreshing the page.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the Support from from loading in the Android app (please update your app in order for this fix to take effect).
- When logging into your account in a web browser, the cursor will now automatically be placed in the password field after entering your email address.
- Fixed a few issues that made it difficult for folks to verify their email address in some cases.
🚧 Ongoing
- Nothing to report today.
🌱 Upcoming
- With the release of iOS 16, we’ll be ending support for iOS 14 soon.
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.
I actually think the real advantage tumblr has over other websites is the ability of "reblogging" to create posts with contributions from multiple users. This allows people to build on others' posts, whether that's derailing them with a terrible joke, drawing the scenario proposed as a comic, answering the question posed originally in lively essay format, or rewriting the previous interaction as a scene in Shakespearean iambic pentameter.
This is also why Tumblr is hard to make profitable. Individual users have relatively little power to create good content. It's interactions between users that actually creates the good content, and therefore, no one involved in the good stuff on Tumblr can really claim to "own" it or be the "creator."
Posts have to navigate through Tumblr to pick up the people that can add to them in a constructive way, and then when users interact, the whole interaction can spread across the website as a new evolution of the content. There's no way to simplify this process.
Theres a whole ecosystem running here. It's not as simple as Creators and Consumers, and you can't simplify it to that. That's not how ART works, let alone posts. There's symbiosis. The users that do the nitrogen fixation aren't the ones photosynthesizing. The detritivores can't also be the predators. The "rappers doing normal shit blog" has a different niche than the person that asks why Lil Wayne has socks on in the jacuzzi, who has a different niche than the person who says "those are his hooves, you bitch!"
It's like bioavailability, you see. The user that responds "Those are his hooves, you bitch" is like a predator on a high trophic level, unable to directly feed on producers, needing primary consumers to convert the post into a form that makes a punch line possible.
This is what I love about Tumblr. It feels more like discussing a common matter with the people you meet while out for a walk than trying to hold a conversation with twenty people at once in a crowded room
I have seen a lot of these "how Tumblr works"-posts going around lately, and I think this one says it really well. I'm not necessarily here for the original post but for the snowball effect of a reblog chain that hopefully follows
College dorms in the late 90s early 2000s had poster boards everywhere and everyone stuck random notes on, some that continued a conversation. Tumblr makes me think of college posterboards.
Tumblr is improv. We’re constantly yes-anding each other.
I knew a linguist once who did a study on conversations in bathroom graffiti and that’s something else tumblr conversations remind me of.
All of these things are accurate. And we also have a fair number of “taken-for-granted” things both between tumblr as a whole (do you love color theory?) and between individuals who might not even be mutuals.
DASHBOARD DIARIES, EPISODE 5 - 25 Million Crabs (+ Fall TV Shows!)
We are entering the fourth and final act of 2022, so now is the time to reflect on the silliness so far and look ahead to what we have coming up in the next few months that will inevitably put us into the throes of obsession. Also a brief visit to the more distant past featuring the downfall of a certain beloathed children's author and the more joyous bongo possum. Drop comments, questions, etc., in our ask box or email us at dashboarddiariespod@gmail.com!
Credits and transcript in our reblog. You can find transcripts for this, and every other episode, here.
Dashboard Diaries is a production of Atypical Artists, hosted by Lauren Shippen and Cherokee McAnelly. Our theme was composed by Lauren Shippen and mixed by Brandon Grugle. Art by Shae McMullin. Transcription by Laudable.
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Transcript under the cut!
Friday, September 9th, 2022
🌟 New
- You can now edit the tags you’ve already entered on a post in the beta post editor on web. No need to delete and re-add them.
- The beta post editor on web now has placeholders for every text block type.
- We’ve begun testing a way to live import Tweets. Head to your blog settings and add your Twitter account to see if you’re in the test group!
- When you Blaze a post from web, we’ll now send a receipt to your email address.
- Blog view URLs have been changed. Instead of /blog/view/blogname they’re now simply /blogname (e.g. tumblr.com/changes).
🛠 Fixed
- We fixed an issue yesterday that prevented queued and scheduled posts from publishing at the correct time.
- We fixed another issue yesterday that caused some trouble for folks trying to log in via Apple or Google.
- The aforementioned issue causing a big delay in posts showing up in search and tags has been resolved.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Firefox’s autofill from working with the Tumblr login fields.
🚧 Ongoing
- Nothing to report today.
🌱 Upcoming
- We’ve heard your feedback and we’ll be changing the app icon back to the way it was.
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.
Idk man i kinda like em
Starting a petition to rename him to Lil Tummy
Tuesday, September 6th, 2022
🌟 New
- The dashboard tab bar on desktop web now resizes in a more dynamic way, filling more space with tabs if there’s space available.
- We’ve opened up the reblog controls parameter (“interactability_reblog”) to the API for third-party developers to use.
🛠 Fixed
- The beta post editor on web now won’t allow publishing or saving a post until all media has finished uploading.
- We’ve improved a couple of tumblr.com pages from looking way too small on mobile devices, such as the “verify email” flow and the “delete blog” flow.
- In the latest versions of the iOS and Android apps (26.2+), you no longer need to force-quit and re-open the app if you enable more dashboard tabs via Tumblr Labs; refreshing your dashboard will update the tab bar.
🚧 Ongoing
- We’re aware of issues causing new posts to be significantly delayed from showing up in search results. We’re currently working on several fixes for this.
🌱 Upcoming
- Coming soon in the beta post editor on web: the ability to edit the tags you’ve already entered, instead of having to delete and re-add them.
- Also coming soon: we’re going to be experimenting with adding a way to import your tweets to Tumblr.
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.
found some old tumblr employee goodies. i know i had a Rick pin but no idea where it went. We had enamel anon and default avatar pins too, but I lost them when they fell off my backpack one by one (shitty backings)
Our survey of American teenagers ages 13 to 17 finds TikTok has rocketed in popularity since its North American debut several years ago. 67% of teens in the U.S. say they ever use TikTok, with 16% of all teens saying they use it almost constantly.
At the same time as TikTok has risen, the share of teens using Facebook, a dominant social media platform in our 2014-15 teens survey, has plummeted from 71% then to 32% today.
Read more: Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022
U.S. Tumblr Teens: The Five Percent
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Friday, September 2nd, 2022
🌟 New
- Some folks will see that we’re experimenting with new reblog options when tapping on the reblog button on posts.
- When we show send-a-post suggestions, @tumblrbot will always be included, if no other suggestions are available. You can always send a post to Tumblrbot, they’d love to see it.
🛠 Fixed
- Fixed a bug on web that was showing only blurry images in blog recommendations.
- Fixed a bug on all platforms that could prevent the search query from being first in the results when searching for tags to follow.
- Fixed a bug on web where the “Close notes” button wouldn’t appear after clicking the reply button on posts with zero notes.
🚧 Ongoing
- Nothing to report here today.
🌱 Upcoming
- Nothing to tease 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.
just saw a post. be careful out there
I’m know I’m not the first person to say this, but any newbies on tumblr really need to understand how different this is from a lot of other social media. Particularly tiktok.
I just saw a creator on tiktok reminding followers that it’s actually a problem when someone goes back to the earliest post and watches all the posts chronologically, liking and commenting along the way. The stupid app recognizes it as spam or something and then kinda puts a halt on their account? Literally punishing people for positive engagement?? 🥴🤦♀️
I’ve already heard people saying years back how they don’t want to be “creepy” and go through a persons blog, liking and reblogging tons of stuff. But think how many more people are going to be worried about it now, thinking they might do actual damage! Most people, especially younger people, are so used to the way tiktok works now. So please, do not ever worry about this on here. Just remember-
You will never do any harm if you go on a like and reblog fest through someone’s tumblr blog! The only risk you’re taking is to make the blog owner weep for joy!! 😭🤣
This website literally passes around posts that are so old, the newest comments are celebrating things like “Happy 10th anniversary to this post!” sometimes.
The worst that usually happens is a creator going “wait, what, HOW did you find that 7 year old post that had no tags buried in the depths of my blog?”, very few people actually get mad about it (and from what I’ve seen, the people who do are all entirely immigrants from socmed sites like TT where they have entirely different cultures about it.)
Tumblr itself is based around longevity in many ways. So, just have at it. Have fun. If you like that post 12,000 pages deep on my blog, GO FOR IT. That’s what this website is all about
DASHBOARD DIARIES, EPISODE 4 - Man Me a Sand (w/ Cates Holderness)
Make him the cutest man car door hook hand. Cates Holderness (@adulthoodisokay) from the podcast Big Week on Tumblr joins us to talk all things Netflix's The Sandman! From easter eggs to the poor little meow meow that is Dream to the Corinthian's eye teeth, we go deep into the Dreaming. Drop comments, questions, etc., in our ask box or email us at dashboarddiariespod@gmail.com!
Credits and transcript in our reblog. You can find transcripts for this, and every other episode, here.
Dashboard Diaries is a production of Atypical Artists, hosted by Lauren Shippen and Cherokee McAnelly. Our theme was composed by Lauren Shippen and mixed by Brandon Grugle. Art by Shae McMullin. Transcription by Laudable.
For bonus clips, ad-free episodes, and more, become a patron at patreon.com/dashboarddiaries
Transcript under the cut!
using my day off to think of ways to make tumblr worse
I love that Tumblr is like “We got Neil Gaiman to do a question and answer session so send in your questions and maybe he’ll answer them!” as though the man hasn’t spent the last few years hanging out here answering random questions and cementing himself as a widely beloved fixture of this site
Friday, August 26th, 2022
🌟 New
- We’re rolling out the “Your tags” tab on web now! Everyone on web should have it available on their dashboard tab bar by early next week.
- The beta post editor on web now supports adding a link clickthrough to images, like the legacy web editor.
🛠 Fixed
- Videos uploaded with portrait aspect ratio will now be resized correctly instead of being shrunk down to their landscape width.
🚧 Ongoing
- Nothing to report here today.
🌱 Upcoming
- Nothing to mention 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.