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Our favorite part of today’s big iOS app update? The Trending widget. The more Tumblr on my Today screen, the better. As the release notes put it:
Witness today’s trending tags without even opening the app. Install it thusly:
1. From anywhere in your phone, swipe down from the top of your screen to open up your “Today” view. This is where all your widgets live.
2. Flick your way to the bottom, then tap the “Edit” button.
3. Find “Trending on Tumblr” in the list.
There ya go.
Ever see a crazy-long, indecipherable reblog chain on your dashboard? Not ideal, right?
Starting tomorrow, reblogs will have a new look—one that showcases all comments as equals, not buried under an impossible stack of blockquote indents. Our change to reblog captions last month laid the necessary groundwork for us to arrive here, at a place where the dashboard will be a lot easier to read and cleaner-looking.
Here’s how this will look (original on the left, new look on the right):
Questions about all this? Keep reading for the answers…
FAQ
Q: Will this show up for all posts on the dashboard, or just the posts published from here on out?
A: All posts! So you can scroll back in time and see your older reblogs in this format too.
Q: Will it look like this on my blog?
A: Not necessarily: your public blog will continue to display reblogs according to however your chosen theme displays them. The new look is on the dashboard only, for now.
Q: How do I reblog starting from a certain post in the reblog thread?
A: Same as before: Just click the username of whoever made the reblog you want to reblog from. It’ll open up, and you can click or tap its reblog icon to reblog that post. Got it?
Q: Can I edit earlier reblogs, or the original post, in my reblog?
A: You can choose whether or not you want to include that stuff in your own reblog, but you can’t really go in and edit other people’s text. We know—that level of flexibility allowed you guys do some pretty interesting stuff, but it also made misattribution way too easy.
Q: Can I remove all captions on a post that I’m reblogging?
A: Sure. Click or tap the reblog button and click on the X that appears when you hover over the comments.
Q: Can I delete a single reblog caption within the thread?
A: No, it’s an all-or-nothing thing.
Q: How can I be sure my posts are credited properly?
A: Use the content source field! No matter how many times an original post of yours gets reblogged, you’ll always be credited as the source. Rebloggers might add a gif, or some commentary, or take out the caption entirely, but your username will always, always be stuck to the bottom of the post. Click on that source link any time you want to see what was originally posted.
Q: Can I send you my feedback on this change?
A: Yes. And for the record, even when you receive a simple thank-you response (which is necessary since there are millions of you and only a few of us), every word of your feedback is read lovingly by human eyes, then passed along to our engineers.
Whew, it’s a busy day in the Tumblrhood. Here’s another new thing that’s rolling out.
So you’re clicking around on the internet, and you’re reading some great article on another site that is interesting and has nice graphics and / or cool engravings from the 1800s.
And you want to share this article with your friends (your REAL friends, let’s be honest) on Tumblr. So you copy the link and paste it into a new link post on your dashboard, and it comes out looking like this:
Aw, man. Now it looks a lot less exciting. So you end up taking a screenshot of the original article, and posting that on Tumblr as photo post, and linking to the article in your caption. Sigh. Kind of a lot of steps for just sharing an article to Tumblr.
Enter our new and improved link posts. You can now paste a link into a new link post on Tumblr, and (if there are any images for it to pull from) it will pull an image from that article for you.
Much better, right? Enjoy!
One more thing: this is only available on the web now, and you’ll see it in the mobile apps real soon.
Also Worth Your Time
We’re testing out a new dashboard thing this week: Recommended posts that will appear to the right of a post you just liked. It’s simple: you like stuff, you get suggestions for other stuff you might like. Note that this won’t happen all the time—just when we think there’s actually something interesting or relevant to show you. Happen to like a brooding, melancholy black and white photo? Allow us to present a few more moody pics for your enjoyment.
Hopefully this’ll make it a just little easier to find the things you’re interested in.
Hey! About that wonderful beautiful full-text blog search that debuted yesterday: make sure you’ve got “Allow this blog to appear in search results” turned on in your blog settings if you want it to work.
Is your biggest fear fast reblogging to the wrong Tumblr? Good news: We added an undo button on the confirmation bar. Just one less thing to worry about. Now you can focus on spiders.
For several years, the Tumblr help docs have mirrored the Tumblr experience: clean and simple. And that was fine. But as we’ve added features and choices and compatibility and complexity, the whole Tumblr experience has gotten richer and it feels like our documentation should reflect that too.
Introducing the new Tumblr help center. At tumblr.com/help, you’ll find
Thanks for using the site and for giving us something to write help center articles about, Tumblr. 💗
A peek into our office… We have a few meeting places, as well as a number of prints and original works of art.
In this particular corner, we have work by Seth Ganz and Deniz Ercelebi, two members of Tumblr Support!
Little thing worth a mention: if you make a new account you might run into this new sign-up screen that’s rolling out to a few people. We’re testing out a new account manager with Yahoo.
Use your regular email to create an account—just like you normally would. The only difference is that you can use that same login on Flickr, Mail, News, Answers, Sports, Finance…all your Yahoo things.
Cool bonus: When you’re in the Tumblr app, go to Settings then tap “Manage accounts.” From there you can create another primary Tumblr using a different email address, and flip between them without logging out. Neat!
lovelyeevee234 asked:
Hello there! So I just made a community and wanted to ask a couple questions.
wip answered:
Answer: Hi there, @lovelyeevee234!
Some great questions here. Let us answer them one by one.
How will I be able to let people see my community during this beta test and in the future?
Right now, communities aren’t listed anywhere. They’re invite-only and “hidden” by design to keep the test somewhat constrained. But in the future, there will be rich discovery experiences just like we have for posts and blogs on Tumblr today! We’re building this stuff as quickly as we can.
Will the cap be removed or be severely bumped up once the beta test is done?
Our hope is to remove the cap entirely. The cap exists as a kind of bottleneck to keep our experiment limited for now, and we already expanded it from 25 to 500 per community. However, the cap could come in handy for communities managed by a small number of people—or those that actually want to be small, which we’ve heard feedback about. The most likely outcome is that the cap will become optional.
If a community acts out will there be an option to report them?
Yes, we’re building moderation features for inside communities now. We are also building moderation features for communities themselves—so they can be reported the same way posts and blogs can be reported. Communities, overall, have to adhere to the same guidelines as everything and everyone else on Tumblr.
Thank you for your questions, and keep ‘em coming folks.