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On another note,i know Tumblr servers are expensive to keep up but if there was a donation progress for this site like ao3 it would help relieve the costs a little i think. I hope Tumblr is able to cover servers costs once the situation at hand is resolved.

Answer: Hi, @taikeero-lecoredier!

Good question! And please do excuse us while we make a shameless plug or two.

At present, the best way to support Tumblr is simply by purchasing something from TumblrMart: perhaps a swanky badge, or maybe Ad-Free Browsing is more to your tastes. Every dollar (and other currency) helps! And there’s plenty there for everyone. 

And stay tuned to this, too. We will have more avenues for supporting your platform of choice in due course. Watch this space, folks.

#feature #subscriptions #donations #your suggestions

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Know how when we click a tag, it opens a page for all instances of said tag, and on that page is an option to follow it; would it be possible to have a similar option to block it from the same place?

It would make blocking a tag a lot simpler, especially since sometimes it’s necessary to remember whatever complicated spelling the tag has (on mobile I can’t c/p a tag, idk about desktop) while navigating several steps to the block menu, or for blocking several similar tags in a row, such as 37 versions of #(whatever new show) spoilers is the word of the day 😂

I just think it would make sense that clicking on someone’s tag, exactly as they wrote it, and being able to block it from there would be *incredibly* useful, and if blocking tags was simple, straightforward, visible, and readily available, then more people might use it effectively. How feasible is that, and how likely?

Answer: Hi, @trudemaethien!

We are sorry to say that while it would indeed be nice to have this, and there are plenty of us on the team who would love to see it, we can't make it a priority right now. It is also unclear when we’d get around to it, but if there are any updates here, @wip or @changes is the place you'll find 'em.

Thanks for your question. We appreciate submissions such as these, and fingers crossed!

#feature #blocking #tags #your suggestions

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hello! please feel free to ignore this, I don’t know if it’s the right place to ask, I just feel very curious. 🥴

I was wondering, would you ever consider in making country flags badges? like for everyone to use a badge of their country, if they want. I don’t know if I’m explaining myself properly nor if it’s do-able.

thank you very much, have a very pleasant day! ♡

Answer: Hi there @madame-fear!

We have considered it, as luck would have it! It would just be a lot of badges if we made them individually. We would have to make it a new kind of badge that can be more configurable than we’ve done before and while it is very possible, we just haven’t had time to do it yet.

Thank you for the idea—we will be sure to keep you posted here.

#feature #badges #backend #your suggestions

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Boop! I have a question for you, that I have asked before but have never seen addressed, so apologies for bothering you about this again:

Will the ability to use the archive come to the IOS app at all in the future? I really like having access to it in order to create master posts and look at old posts. Thank you in advance!

Answer: Hey there, @fandomsareforlife!

Maybe someday! Sorry, we understand this is not the answer anyone wants, and while we can say we like this idea, we can’t promise much more beyond that right now.

Thanks for your question, and please do keep ‘em coming. And don’t forget, you can catch bi-weekly updates for new features, and for bugs we’ve resolved, at @changes.

#feature #archive #iOS #app

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Hello! Please restore the ability to insert COUB videos. It worked perfectly until February 2024.

Answer: Hello, @stillnotspamdog!

With regard to your question in question. 

We do actually support COUB, as luck would have it. But it’s very possible something changed on their end that broke our ability to embed their content. How we handle their embeds, on our side, hasn’t changed in several years. One of our engineers would need to dig in on this more, but with time and resources stretched a little thin at the moment, we cannot say for sure when this might be.

Leave this with us. If we have news here, you’ll be the first to know!

#feature #COUB #videos #backend #your suggestions

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Would it be possible to get rid of the prompt to add tags when making a new post. I think it's actually a very good feature to have when someone first joins the site, because it shows them how to use tags here, but I've been here for over a decade. I know how to use tags, I just purposely don't use them on most of my posts, so it's just more of an annoyance than it is helpful.

Answer: Hi there, @gaelic-galpal!

Great question. As it happens, we are actually looking at changing the frequency of this potentially overindulgent prompt. It has proven to be somewhat effective, which is very useful to the Tumblr ecosystem, but it can be a bit much. Let’s see what we can do here. The more tagging, the better!

Updates as and when we’ve got ’em will of course come via @changes.

#feature #tags #prompt #posting #backend #your suggestions

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I love that I can use the small text option to make just part of my post small- I really wish the big text at least or all of the other text options allowed me to do the same, to only change certain words or phrases, rather than all or nothing

Answer: Hey there, @b-a-n-d-e-r!

A little good news and a little bad news here. First, the good: we would love to do this too, as luck would have it. Consider it duly noted on our proverbial to-do list.

It must be said, however, that it is not clear as and when we might get the chance to do so. The said to-do list is long, and bandwidth is limited. Should we make progress, you can find out here or at @changes.

#feature #text #posting #backend #your-suggestions

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I recently started getting notifications that say “blank just posted for the first time in a while!” And it’s always been like, a week, since their last post. Most of the blogs I follow are artists, and this is a perfectly normal posting schedule. How can I turn this annoying notification off? Or can we at least extend the time to like, 6 months?

Answer: Hello, @iguanodonwildman!

We are very glad to answer this, and not least because this is something we have noticed ourselves. 

The first thing to say here is this: to turn off this type of notification you can toggle the “Recent updates” notification settings in the app, and this will go away.

But we have actually looked into this ourselves and found the bug responsible. We can confirm that we have now rolled back the change for the activity items—so the bug is fixed, and that toggle is what controls those particular notifications.

And thanks also to @coffeecasuality11, who got in touch with the same question. We hope this will be good news for you folks. 

#feature #notifications

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why would overlays be shown for posts with filtered tags? if tags are filtered, we don't want to see them. instead now we have to scroll through tons of filtered posts for no reason, clogging up our tags and defeating the entire point. can we at least have the option to get rid of the overlays? thanks for reading this,

Answer: Hey, @vintacha!

It's a long story, so we'll make it short: there are indeed changes like this we would love to make, and hope to, when we have the bandwidth.

But these are important changes, so we want to make them carefully, and not just throw yet more options into an already-confusing mix. If—and it is an if, at present—we get a chance to take a pass at improving our filtering options, it will probably be more like our community label options, where each one has show, overlay, and skip options.

Thanks for your question, and keep ’em coming y’all.

#feature #tags #overlays #filter #posts #backend #your suggestions

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Can we keep the boops?

Answer: Hi there, @azure-prince! Boop.

Was it really two weeks ago today that Boopageddon was unleashed upon the dashboard?

At this time the answer will have to be no, but we also have to thank you heartily for all of your enthusiasm. That is not all we can say, of course: we will add a little never say never to keep you all on your toes.

Thanks also to @tulpafcker, @flust3rdyke, @alexdoestheart, and more. Boops to you all.

#editorial #boops #april fools #your suggestions

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Any updates on Communities? I have so many potential users for this feature and want to get going! 😊

Answer: Hi, @ktempestbradford!

Well, what are the chances? We have quite the update for you, and you can find it right here over at @labs. Happy reading!

#feature #communities

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I would love the option to change our vote in polls.

I follow things like ‘am i the asshole’, where sometimes we get updates that change the whole story, so changing my vote to reflect that would be helpful.

There are times when I’ve accidentally voted while scrolling, so even having a short delay where you can change your vote before seeing the results would help.

Answer: Hey there, @enby-ernhardt!

As it happens, someone had a similar question in the not-too-distant past, and we answered it back here. Our stance has not changed, sadly. This is democracy manifest, after all. Choose wisely.

Thanks for your question, and have a good day.

#feature #polls #backend #your-suggestions

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I swear a toggle for “contains commercial content” while editing a post. What’s that about?

Answer: Hi, @iguanodonwildman!

We are glad you asked. The answer, in short, is that the toggle is there to comply with the European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA). It simply adds a “Commercial Content” banner to the post and does not affect your post’s visibility or ranking on Tumblr.

There is a handy Help Center article with more info, which you can find right here.

Thanks for your question!

#feature #toggle #posting

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Hello, I'm sure you all have plenty to do, but can you please stop showing me people I have blocked in the Popular Reblogs feed? It works just fine in the Following feed.

Popular Reblogs is great, a really good way to see things outside of my following bubble, but by not honoring the blocked list it just becomes unpleasant to use.

Thanks!

Answer: Hey there, @bitslip!

Thanks for drawing this hither our attention: what you found is a bug that we need to fix. But know that we have started looking into it, and hope to have updates with you before long. 

Thanks for your question, and have a lovely day.

#feature #feed #blocking #reblogs #backend

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It would nice if the dashboard had a full wide version like you see on the explore page. The page that is home to Trending, For You, Staff Picks and Answer Time

Answer: Hey, @alistairwm!

Thanks for your question here. We think so too as luck would have it, and that’s why we’re working on Patio! But also it would be nice to include our feed viewing options everywhere, as you suggest.

Leave this one with us—it’s duly noted. Should we have news to share, you will be the first to know. Have a lovely day!

#feature #dashboard #display #backend

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Could we follow our own blogs again? I know we create content for others, but we create first and foremost for ourselves and I would like to see my own content on my dash.

Also I would like to get notifications for my own posts. Notifications are important to keep my blogs organized.

Answer: Hey, @hattersgirlalice!

As luck would have it, you can already accomplish this via the Inside Tumblrs setting in Tumblr Labs, which follows all of your own blogs and puts them in your Following feed.

We hope this helps, and thanks for your question.

#feature #account #follow #dashboard #backend #your-suggestions

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Hi! The option to embed Tweets, that automatically adds alt text, is very practical, and I seriously appreciate it. It has some imperfections though, such as not including the text of the quoted Tweet (when applicable) or, when the Tweet includes an image that itself has alt text, not including said alt text. Is it technically possible to add these functions in the future?

Answer: Hey there, @aseriesofunfortunatejan!

We’d love to improve the alt text we add to embedded Tweets! Unfortunately, we’re only able to use the text that Twitter sends us through their oEmbed API, and they don’t include the text of quoted tweets—or the alt text of images in the Tweet.

Over on WordPress.com, we used to have a more powerful Twitter integration: we were experimenting with using it to improve Tweet embeds on Tumblr. Sadly, Twitter decided to start charging everyone prohibitively large fees to access their API in this way, which meant we had to shut it all down. It’s the same reason we had to shut down sharing to Twitter from Tumblr, too.

We’re eternal optimists, so we’ve built Tweet embedding to be pretty flexible. Should Twitter ever decide to expand the text that they send us, we’ll start using it automatically.

#feature #bugs #search #labs #blocking