🌟 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

• You can use the URL tumblr.com/new to create a post on web.
  

🛠 Fixes

• Fixed an issue where some media URLs were not loading.

🌟 New

• We’ve launched a new redesign of the tagged and Explore pages on web.
• We’ve launched improvements to the GIF Search lookup backend used when adding a GIF to a post or sending a GIF as a message.
• When sharing a post, the image used in its Open Graph tags will now be the 1280px variant instead of 640px, when available.
• We’ve disabled the activity popover on pages that have not yet been updated to the new web experience.

🛠 Fixes

• “Since you’ve been gone” posts will no longer be included in your dashboard when “Best Stuff First” is disabled in your Dashboard Preferences.
• Clicking on a top post in your blog’s activity graph on web should now open that post again.

🌟 New

• Nothing new this week, working on new things behind the scenes, and fixing bugs!

🛠 Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Share to Tumblr widget would never load when given certain links.
• Fixed an issue which prevented asks from being answered with images and text in the Tumblr mobile apps.
• Blogs with really long titles should no longer overflow wildly across the page on desktop web.

🌟 New

• Nothing new to report today. 

🛠️ Fixes

• Users in Colombia are no longer having trouble loading media.
• Fixed an issue causing some users in the EU to get stuck in a consent page loop.
• Tumblr messenger conversations should now be updating in real time on web.
• “Read more” can be the first thing in your post on web.
• Longer descriptions now have the expand icon in the right spot on web.

Heads up! We’re changing the way we parse URLs on tagged and search pages, to properly encode/decode them to support spaces, hyphens, plus signs, and underscores. Most of these changes will be invisible to you, but if you’ve kept bookmarks or links to tagged and search pages on Tumblr or your blog, read on!

We’re going to start this process by rolling out a new setting you can enable when customizing your blog on the web:

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What does it do? Today, and with that toggle disabled, going to a blog’s tagged URL like https://staff.tumblr.com/tagged/tumblr-tuesday would turn “tumblr-tuesday” into “tumblr tuesday” and you’d see posts with that tag. Same with search URLs. If you have that toggle enabled, that https://staff.tumblr.com/tagged/tumblr-tuesday URL will be decoded as “tumblr-tuesday” instead. If you want to link to the “tumblr tuesday” tag on your blog, you’ll have to use “tumblr%20tuesday” in the URL. But this means that if you use certain special characters in your tags, you’ll now properly be able to link to them!

The toggle above gives you early access to figure this all out. On December 1st, 2021, we’ll be enabling this behavior for all blogs on Tumblr.

We’ll update all of the links when you click on tags in Tumblr. However, if you manually added links to your tags in your blog description, theme, somewhere off Tumblr, saved bookmarks, or in posts (like a pinned post on your blog), then you’ll need to update those links if they contain spaces, underscores, or hyphens. Spaces in tags will now be encoded as “%20” rather than “-” or “+”. To do this, turn that toggle on, and click around on your tags to see if any of the URLs changed. Having this setting enabled and updating any links you’ve saved somewhere will future-proof you for when we roll this change out site-wide.

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We hope this is great news for anyone who uses tags in specific ways (we see you!) and has been frustrated that the way to link to them has been inconsistent, or just plain not working since… forever. We’re working on several fixes across Tumblr related to these inconsistencies, but the majority of them require no action on your part.

Please hit us up via Support if you have any questions or concerns about this!

🌟 New

• In the beta post editor on web, pasting or writing a single paragraph that exceeds the text block character limit will now split into multiple text blocks. We are still working to make the text editing process in the new editor more seamless for long-form writing, thanks for the continued feedback!
• An “Open in Dashboard” button has been added in the Tumblr blog header for opening blogs and posts in your dashboard on web.
• On web, you can now also hold “e” and click the reblog button to Fast Reblog; we’re trying to move away from using Alt, as it conflicts with browser shortcuts.
• There is now a “Goth Rave” palette available on web, inspired by the new app icon for Tumblr on iOS.

🛠 Fixed

• The post snake has returned in the latest Tumblr on Android. If you don’t know what the “post snake” is, try dragging the floating posting button around!
• Fast reblogging on web (by holding “e” and clicking the reblog button) should no longer copy the post’s date or tags.
• Images that are larger than 300px by 600px will be stretched to fill the full post view on web (formerly it was any image less than 300px wide, regardless of height).
• Sharing posts to Twitter was broken for a short period of time yesterday (March 4th), but it should be resolved now.
• Tumblr was generally unstable for a brief period of time yesterday (March 4th), but those issues should also be resolved now.
• Fixed an issue where using an emoji before a mention in a reply would break the mention.

🚧 Ongoing

• The Top Tags data for most blogs on Tumblr is missing and currently being regenerated; they should return to all blogs over the next day or so.

Experiencing an issue? Want to share your feedback about something? File a Support Request and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

🌟 New

• The new Activity page has now rolled out to everyone on web!
• We’ve added some more info to our public web platform documentation.

🛠 Fixes

• Tumblr no longer suggests you send the post to yourself when clicking the airplane icon on web.
• Fixed an issue that caused fewer items than expected to show up when tapping to expand rolled-up activity items.

🌟 New

• There’s a groundhog tee poking out of its hole at the top left of Tumblr on the web.
• More tag recommendations will now load as you swipe through them.
• Editing a post in a mobile browser will now open the new editor if you had made that post in a Tumblr mobile app.

🛠 Fixes

• Fixed an issue on web that caused a strange white bar to appear at the bottom of the sidebar blog view.

🌟 New

• Search now displays recommended tag searches first and provides more information next to recommended results when typing.
• In the apps, folks who are members of communities can now see a chronological list of all posts from communities they have joined under their community list. We’re trying this out and would love feedback on it!
• The page which lists your community members now has a tab to view just the moderators.
• On web, we’ve updated the blog name in the right sidebar to be a blog switcher on various pages, like the full Activity page, Drafts, Queue, blog settings, and the posts list.

🛠 Fixed

• Patio now respects the “Shorten long posts” setting.
• If you block an anonymous asker, the ask notification will no longer appear in your activity feed.
• Activity items from replies/mentions in communities now make more contextual sense.

🚧 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.

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