🌟 New

• On web, notes navigation has received a refresh, with improved spacing and color highlights that make it easier to know exactly what you’re viewing.
• For the first batch of new communities, we were auto-adding new admins into the public Communities Feedback and private Admin Zone communities. Now that the volume of new communities has increased exponentially, we’ve decided to stop auto-adding people to those communities. Instead, soon we hope to make the Communities Feedback community free-to-join, and send admins an invite link to the Admin Zone so they can choose if they want to join. In the meantime, if you have any questions/problems/feedback, please reach out to Support.

🛠 Fixed

• When searching within blogs, search results are now correctly ordered from newest to oldest.
• When browsing communities, the “New stuff alert” notice now properly reflects the community you’re viewing.

🚧 Ongoing

• In the iOS app, we’re aware that the notification bubble no longer appears at bottom of the screen for messages, and we’re working on a fix.
• In the Android app, we’re receiving reports that badges purchased with in-app payments are not being received, and we’re working on a fix. Please reach out to Support if this happened to you.

🌱 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.

Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out the new Supporter badge in TumblrMart!

🌟 New

• The first cut of settings for communities is now available. Admins of communities can change the name, tagline, avatar, header image, tags, and description. You can find a link to these settings in the sidebar for your community on desktop, or in the context menu on mobile.
• The community invite popup has been given a design refresh, including a counter of how many invites you have left.
• Communities now display whether they are public or private in their header.
• Community admins can now promote members to moderators. Moderators can delete posts, and we’re still building out the feature, so expect to see things change in the next few weeks!
• We’ve updated the blog posts API endpoint to add the options to specify a sort order and an “after” time, to complement the current option to show posts from “before” a specific time. When using “before”, and by default, posts are sorted in reverse-chronological order (“descending”). With “after” and “sort = asc”, you can sort posts from oldest to newest instead, starting at a certain time.

🛠 Fixed

• Since secondary blogs cannot post to communities yet, your primary blog will now always be selected when posting to communities.
• Certain activity coming from communities, such as mentions in posts and comments, and soon invitations, now count towards your unread activity total.

🚧 Ongoing

• We are aware of ads auto-playing audio in the Android app, sometimes quite loudly, and are working on a fix!

🌱 Upcoming

• We are working to rename Community Labels to Content Labels across our official clients (Web, iOS, and Android), as well as Community Guidelines to User Guidelines. We hope this change will prevent any potential confusion regarding the relationship between these and Tumblr Communities.

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.

Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out the new Supporter badge in TumblrMart!

🌟 New

• We’ve just launched Blaze Pro, a self-serve and stand-alone advertising platform for Tumblr!
• The unified Blaze dashboard from the web has now joined the apps! First, make sure your app is up to date, then visit your blog (tap the snowman icon at the bottom-right), and tap the flame icon near the top.
• To avoid confusion with Communities, Community Labels are now Content Labels, and Community Guidelines are now User Guidelines.
• Also, the Community category of the support form has been re-assigned to Communities. Please feel free to use that for any questions, concerns, comments, or bugs regarding Communities.
• We’ve added Community Invitation push notifications to our mobile apps! When someone with push notifications enabled in the latest app is invited to a Community, they will now receive a push notification instead of a message from Tumblrbot.
• We’ve added “This ad has autoplaying audio” to the available reasons when reporting an ad!

🛠 Fixed

• An update for the Android app to stop ads with autoplaying audio is rolling out, so please update as soon as it’s available for you!
• You can once again navigate between images in a photoset from the lightbox when viewing a blog page directly, such as staff.tumblr.com.
• For a brief time yesterday, queued and scheduled posts were not posting. This has now been fixed, and everything that should have been posted was eventually posted. If not, please check your drafts!

🚧 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.

Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out the new Supporter badge in TumblrMart!

🌟 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

• Version 17.2 of Tumblr for Android has a redesigned camera mode! New tags view, blog selector, and publishing options. Swipe right on your dashboard to try it out.

🛠 Fixes

• Fixed an issue where your “Top Posts” in your blog’s activity page could include deleted posts.

🚧 Ongoing

• We’re aware of ongoing Ray Ban post spam and are working to resolve it. We encourage everyone to use strong, unique passwords.

🌟 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

• 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!

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!