Changes on Tumblr

🌟 New

• We’ve made some improvements to how comments (and replies) are displayed on the web to take more advantage of the available space.
• Tag pages now have a “Communities” tab to help you find communities related to that tag.
• Community admins will now receive a notification when someone requests to join their community.

🛠 Fixed

• Tag filtering now works properly on posts reblogged to communities.
• We’ve fixed the random crashes in the iOS app. You don’t need to update the app to receive this fix, but we recommend that you always keep your app updated anyway!

🚧 Ongoing

• We are aware that media in communities is not respecting your device’s auto-play settings in the apps and are 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!

🌟 New

• We’ve adjusted the limit to how many free-to-join communities a person can join down to 10 per day max / 3 per hour max. If you’re super jazzed to join more than 10 free-to-join communities per day, please contain your excitement for 24 hours. Also, this limit does not get counted when being invited to a community or requesting to join communities.
• When filtering posts by tag in a community, we now highlight the tag in the list of tags in each post.
• Moderators can now kick and ban members from communities, not just admins.

🛠️ Fixed

• Posts made in the first ~24 hours or so of 2025 weren’t being indexed into search results, but we’ve fixed that up.
• When reporting a post, blog, or community in the mobile apps, there’s now a “Done” button after filing the report, to make sure there’s a way you can go back to where you were.
• We’ve fixed a couple of bugs that were causing activity unread counts to be incorrect because your request-to-join for a community was accepted or rejected.
• If you have Fast Queue enabled in Labs, we fixed a bug that was causing the fast queue button on web to have the wrong color on Blazed posts.

🚧 Ongoing

• We’re aware that popular free-to-join communities are facing an unfortunate amount of spam. We’re working to add tools to help mods and admins fight that spam, stay tuned for more info here and in the Feedback community!

🌱 Upcoming

• We’re working on implementing a “moderation queue” for communities, which will be a place where admins and mods can see member-reported content and take action on it quickly and easily in one place. We may also use this space to automatically move suspicious posts from new members for admins and mods to take a look at before they’re published to the community.

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!

🌟 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!

🌟 New

• Nothing new to share today.

🛠 Fixes

• Fixed a couple of small formatting issues in the notes popover.
  
• Fixed an issue with text color when using Tumblr messenger on mobile web.
• Fixed an issue where you could only block a blog from your primary blog when viewing your secondary blog’s follower page.

🌟 New

• Soft launched this very blog! 

🛠 Fixes

• Read mores can once again be the first thing in your post. Soon!

🌟 New

• Nothing new to share today.

🛠 Fixes

• No fixes to report.

🌟 New

• The top tags displayed on blogs now prefer the tags used recently rather than all tags ever used by the blog.
• We’re updating the copy we use across the platform in lots of places, on web and in the mobile apps, to improve consistency and clarity.

🛠 Fixes

• No fixes to report on today.

🌟New

• We’ve added three limited-edition spooky color palettes for the web dashboard.

🛠Fixes

• Fixed the bug where you could only block a blog from your primary blog when viewing your secondary blog’s follower page. We had to revert the fix for this that we mentioned in Tuesday’s post.

🌟 New

• We’ve rolled out some changes to our search filtering algorithms to improve relevancy and consistency when searching for posts.

🛠 Fixes

• In the latest Tumblr for Android, we’ve fixed a variety of bugs in the followed tag management view in Explore.
• In the latest Tumblr for iOS, we’ve fixed an issue that caused searching for a tag with a hyphen in it to return potentially incorrect results.
• On web, we’ve fixed an issue that would cause blog cards to display incorrectly when the blog has chosen not to display its avatar or a header image.

🌟 New

• In the latest version of Tumblr for Android, creating a post while visiting a tag will auto-populate your new post with that tag in the editor.
• We’ve published our Kanvas media editing and camera library for iOS as open source! Read more about it here.

🛠 Fixes

• The latest version of Tumblr for Android fixes an issue that was preventing edits to tags in posts.
• Fixed an issue on web that would cause screen readers to say there were unread messages when there were none.