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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.

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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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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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Tuesday, October 8th, 2024

🌟 New

• You can now add a community to a column in Patio. For now, only communities you’re already a member of will be available to add.
• The new dropdown option on search that lets you browse communities related to your search term is now out to everyone.
• The new “check out these communities” section of recommended communities in the Dashboard has also rolled out to everyone.

🛠 Fixed

• No recent fixes to share here today.

🚧 Ongoing

• We are aware that ads are interrupting background audio in the latest version of the iOS app and we’ll have a fix next week in version 36.7 of the iOS app.
• 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.
• On the web, we are aware that removing reblogs from under an older non-NPF post when reblogging will also remove OP’s text from the post.

🌱 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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Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024

🌟 New

• Your communities are now sorted by their title, not their URL/handle, since you can’t see that in the list.
• We’re slowly rolling out the ability to add a campaign goal and a special action button to your Blazed posts.

🛠 Fixed

• Some of you were unable to queue or draft posts on Monday. This has now been fixed.
• Many of you were unable to find your posts yesterday in the search and tag listings. This has now been fixed, and the posts are being re-indexed, which could take up to 24 hours.

🚧 Ongoing

• We are aware that ads are interrupting background audio in the latest version of the iOS app (36.5) and are working on a fix.
• 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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Thursday, September 26th, 2024

🌟 New

• We’ve launched new search operators that work on all platforms so you can find the exact post you’re looking for.
• You can now mute the unread count from a joined community via the meatballs menu at the top-right of the community.
• Community admins can now allow moderators to invite new members too. Check out your community’s settings!
• The ability to search for communities on web is rolled out to everyone. There’s a new dropdown option on search that lets you browse communities related to your search term on the web (this will be in the apps with the next update), and there’s a new “Related Communities” section in the sidebar on the web.
• We’re recommending communities for folks who have already joined communities in more places, including a new carousel in For You.
• Backdating posts has always had the potential to act in unexpected ways, so we’ve added new warnings about this.

🛠 Fixed

• Ads in the iOS app no longer interrupt your background audio. Please update to version 36.4 for the fix.
• When leaving a longer reply on desktop web in certain cases or mobile web on Android devices, the cursor will no longer jump up unexpectedly in the text area.
• Custom domain verification emails were briefly not being sent September 18th. This was fixed and all pending verification emails were re-sent.

🚧 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, September 17th, 2024

🌟 New

• The character limit has been raised from 500 characters to 1,975 characters for all replies on web! No more having to string multiple replies together to say what you want. Thank you to everyone who tested this first in communities!
• We started enabling some of those long-anticipated community discovery features for a subset of users! Anyone currently in a community, plus a small and random percentage of all users, will see a new dropdown option on search that lets you browse communities related to your search term. We will also show a sidebar of “Related Communities” on the web for some folks. Communities that are free-to-join will be ranked higher, so if you are the admin of your community and want to get your community in front of more eyes, consider changing your join setting from “invite-only” to “free to join.” We also leverage the tags (in addition to title and description) that you’ve set for your community to rank results, so update those if you haven’t yet!
• When you engage with your first community, new signposts will guide you through the experience.

🛠 Fixed

• When purchasing items in TumblrMart, important elements will no longer be missing or obscured.

🚧 Ongoing

• No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

• Over the next little while, we’ll slowly increase that percentage of random users until all users are able to find communities via search.

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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Thursday, September 12th, 2024

🌟 New

• When a community post gets 10 reactions (not counting reactions from the post author) the post author will now receive a notification about those reactions. We want to give some kind of notification when you’re getting reactions, but not for every single reaction (that could be a deluge of hundreds of notifications in our big communities). Let us know what you think!
• Community admins and mods will now be asked for a reason when they moderate a comment.
• Logged out users, likely new visitors to Tumblr itself, can now start requesting new communities to be put on the waitlist. They will be asked to log in or sign up before finishing.
• To celebrate the new folks joining Tumblr from Brazil, we have launched a lot of communities features if you’re in that country, such asrecommended communities in the For You feed and related communities carousels when searching and viewing tag pages in the mobile apps.

🛠 Fixed

• Dismissed “Check out these blogs” recommendations are now dismissed forever.
• New custom domains were not receiving renewed SSL certificates, and thus not properly accessible. This has now been fixed, and new SSL certificates have been granted to the affected domains.
• Archives and custom pages on blogs with custom domains were broken. This has now been fixed.
• On web, some dialogs did not disable our keyboard shortcuts while they were open. For example, you could like a post with the ‘l’ key even though a dialog was open on top of the post! This is now fixed.
• On web, we were displaying an option to block a community in Activity, which is not actually possible, and has now been removed. Instead of blocking a community, you can simply leave a community.
• The community tags section has been updated to make it clearer that they will aid in discovery of your community.
• We’ve made a few small design improvements throughout communities. Less wasted space FTW!

🚧 Ongoing

• We’re aware that some ads may interrupt background audio on iOS and are working on a fix! We have also received reports of a weird “cricket-like” sound in the app, which we think is related.

🌱 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, September 3rd, 2024

🌟 New

• The reply character limit in communities has been raised to 2,000 characters. We’re trying it out there, first, like we did with the new reply threading!

🛠 Fixed

• Activity items from deleted communities will no longer appear in your blog’s activity feed.
• On web, screenreaders will now read badges in blog headers and post headers as “(number) badges”, instead of announcing each badge individually.

🚧 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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Wednesday, August 28th, 2024

🌟 New

• We’ve removed the ability to anonymously submit posts to blogs, for blogs that had submissions enabled. Going forward, you must be logged in to submit posts to a blog, and you cannot do so anonymously, like you can with asks.
• Community admins will now be asked for a reason when they remove members from a community.
• We have some exciting new API documentation for Tumblr Communities!

🛠 Fixed

• Previously, on Web, when you looked in the notes view of a post in your queue or drafts, it would say that you can’t reply to or reblog the post. This is true — because the post is not live yet! — but the previous explanation was unclear. We’ve made it clearer now.
• You’ll now a see a preview of the image you uploaded or picked when setting a community avatar.
• Blog archives were briefly loading as if the blog didn’t exist. This has now been fixed.

🚧 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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