Friday, February 2nd, 2024

🌟 New

• You can now use keyboard shortcuts in Tumblr Patio. Use your arrow keys to move between columns.
• Based on your feedback, the default order for Tag and Search columns in Tumblr Patio has been set to Latest. You can change these to Top if desired by selecting Settings under the meatballs menu at the top-right of the column.

🛠 Fixed

• Some users may have been unable to upload videos earlier today. This is now fixed.
• The location of Active Sessions under your Account Settings on the web should now be more accurate.
• Most of you should now be seeing the correct Ask/Submission inbox totals.

🚧 Ongoing

• We’re looking into an issue affecting a very small percentage of users where the Ask/Submission inbox totals don’t appear, despite there being Asks and/or Submissions.

🌱 Upcoming

• Counting down to April 1st.

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.

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Tuesday, January 30th, 2024

🌟 New

• You can now add polls to reblogs!
• When searching on a specific blog, using a # as a prefix will now only match tags. So if you search for #cats on a blog, we’ll only show posts using that tag. (This is also how searching across all of Tumblr works when using a # to prefix a search term.)
• We’ve retired the Today tab in Explore on web, now Trending is the default experience again.

🛠 Fixed

• Posting to Tumblr from IFTTT was being rate limited more than usual lately, causing some actions to fail, but we’ve fixed the issue.
• We’re fixing lots of small visual issues with Tumblr Patio, for those who are helping us test it out.
• On Android, a small number of users were unable to access their messages on app version 32.9. This issue is now fixed in 33.0.
• We’ve rolled out the fix to issue in the iOS app that was preventing folks from editing draft posts.

🚧 Ongoing

• We attempted to fix the pesky bug that could cause the asks/submissions inbox to show an unread count of 1 or more when nothing was actually in there. This is usually caused by someone sending an ask, and then being suspended for some reason, or blocking, which all prevent the actual ask from being seen. We accidentally made this worse for some people, showing an even higher unread count when nothing was there. While we fixed that botched attempt at a fix, we’re still working to make the situation better overall.

🌱 Upcoming

• Nothing to report here today.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

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Friday, January 26th, 2024

🌟 New

• On web, we added “View previous reblog” to the post meatball menu. Find it by clicking the three horizontal dots in the top-right corner of a post!
• We also tidied up some of the other items in the post meatball menu on web, while we were there. The ordering of some items were adjusted, and “Subscribe to conversation” is now called “Follow post”.
• On Android, “View previous reblog” is now in the meatball menu of reblogs for all users on the latest version of the app.
• To comply with the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), you can now mark a post as containing commercial content, which simply adds a “Commercial Content” banner to the post and does not affect your post’s visibility or ranking on Tumblr.

🛠 Fixed

• Users can no longer send asks to blogs that have blocked them, or that they have blocked.
• On web, the blog selector in the post editor would incorrectly appear on top of the text format bar. This is now fixed.
• On web, the settings page for your blog (tumblr.com/settings/blog/blogname) used to show the account settings menu in the right-hand sidebar. We updated this area to show the blog sidebar instead (Posts, Drafts, Queue, etc).
• We made some tweaks which should fix that specific problem where you see a non-zero unread count on your inbox, and so you click into your inbox only to find nothing there. Let us know if you continue to encounter that issue.

🚧 Ongoing

• On Android, a small number of users were unable to access their messages on app version 32.9. This issue will be fixed in the next app version (33.0).
• We’re still working to fix an issue in the iOS app that’s preventing folks from editing draft posts.

🌱 Upcoming

• We just wrapped up another Hack Week, where we got to build whatever cool feature we wanted! Follow @engineering to see what we made 👀

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.

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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024

🌟 New

• Tumblr Live will be shutting down tomorrow, January 24th, 2024. Read more about it here.
• On web, we’ve brought back the button for subscribing to a post’s conversation from a post’s notes view. Click the bell icon to toggle whether you’re notified about new replies and reblog comments for that post.

🛠 Fixed

• No recent fixes to share here today.

🚧 Ongoing

• We’re working to fix an issue in the iOS app that’s preventing folks from editing draft posts.

🌱 Upcoming

• No upcoming launches to announce today.

Friday, January 19th, 2024

🌟 New

• Tumblr Live will be shutting down on January 24th, 2024. Read more about it here.
• Post+ is also being shut down. All subscriptions to Post+ blogs that were paid for on web have been canceled, and you’ll no longer be billed for them. If you have subscriptions to Post+ blogs that were paid for via an in-app purchase on Android or iOS, you’ll need to cancel them on your device (we’ve also emailed the people who were subscribed this way). All existing Post+ posts have been converted to private posts.

🛠 Fixed

• The latest version of the iOS app, 32.8.1, has a fix for a bug that was preventing images from being rearranged when making a photoset.
• Submissions in your inbox on web no longer display a duplicate avatar for the submitter.
• Mentions in private group blogs’ posts will now send a push notification, like other mentions, but only if you’re a member of the private group blog.
• You’ll no longer receive a push notification about your own reply on a group blog’s post that you’re a member of.

🚧 Ongoing

• We’re working to fix an issue in the iOS app that’s preventing folks from editing draft posts.

🌱 Upcoming

• As noted over on the WIP blog, we’re working to add a “View previous reblog” option to the meatball menu on reblogs, on web and in the apps. This is actually already rolled out to a small percentage of people using the latest Android app.

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.

Tuesday, January 16th, 2024

🌟 New

• Remember the badge we announced then unannounced? Well, we’re announcing it again and it’s actually in your local TumblrMart now. Behold the Zodiac badge!
• Starting this week, some Ad-Free users will be getting a sneak peek of a new feature we’re testing out on web called Tumblr Patio—an additional screen accessed from the dash that enables you to combine different feeds. If you use Ad-Free, keep an eye out for the banner on your dashboard, and let us know how you like it!

🛠 Fixed

• In Android 32.8, you can now double tap to like a post again.

🚧 Ongoing

• Nothing to report today.

🌱 Upcoming

• No news 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.

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Friday, January 12th, 2024

🌟 New

• In Android 32.7, you can shuffle, pause and restart your blog posting queue!

🛠 Fixed

• You can edit drafted ask responses again in Android 32.7.
• Fixed a race condition on web where the ask form would not receive keyboard focus if it took too long to load.

🚧 Ongoing

• We are aware that you can’t double tap to like a post on Android 32.7. It’ll be fixed in 32.8.

🌱 Upcoming

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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.

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Tuesday, January 9th, 2024

🌟 New

• Receiving mentions in replies and in posts now counts towards your unread activity count!

🛠 Fixed

• We fixed an odd website crash that specifically occurred when visiting your dashboard using Safari at 125% zoom.
• We fixed a gnarly bug where the “Share the Tumblrs you’re following” setting wasn’t displaying accurately on web, showing it as “off” when in fact it was “on.” This only affects people who had never altered that setting. If you looked at that blog setting on web in the last year or so, it may have been incorrect. The value shown on the blog settings page is now accurate. We recommend checking your setting to make sure it matches what you expect.
• We also fixed a bug that was preventing push notifications from being sent whenever a secondary blog replied to a post.

🚧 Ongoing

• Nothing to report here today.

🌱 Upcoming

• Nothing to tease here this time.

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.

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Friday, January 5th, 2024

🌟 New

• No recent launches to announce today.

🛠 Fixed

• Theme names on the Tumblr theme garden can no longer overflow into other theme tiles.
• In the web post editor, the block inserter buttons now work again when they’re inside a new line of a Quote or Chat block.
• On web, when hovering over the post interaction buttons (Like, Reblog, Reply), the tooltip text no longer needlessly wraps onto a second line for certain languages.

🚧 Ongoing

• No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

• No upcoming launches to announce 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.

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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024

🌟 New

• Nothing new to announce today.

🛠 Fixed

• We’ve fixed an issue in the post editor on web that was preventing people from using the question mark character (?) in the post content or tags when reblogging a post in a blog’s search results.

🚧 Ongoing

• Nothing to report here.

🌱 Upcoming

• Nothing to tease 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.

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