That’s right! Live Photos work on the web now. Whenever you see that famous Live Photo icon, click and hold to make them swing.
Tumblr was the first third-party app to support Live Photos—you could even GIF ’em. Now we’re the first to support them on the web. And! We’re open sourcing the javascript library for any webmaster to use: GitHub and npm. We’re also working on an Android version for you.
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First, you can add images to reblogs. You asked for it, you got it.
Second, new text styles for your new text posts. Headers, lists, serifs, fancy cursive, serious typewriter. Look:
Lastly, intriguingly, you can drag paragraphs and images around to reorder them. Witness it:
Have fun with all this, Tumblr 😘
Want to take a deeper dive into the new text poster? Hit up our help center for everything you need to know.
How?
Whoosh. Off it goes. No post required.
Bonus thing: if you’re on the web, you can just drag the image right onto the conversation. No clicking. How ‘bout that.
Thanks, Staff!
We’d also like to point out a helpful little item: If you don’t follow someone, the images they send you will be blurred out. Just so there are no surprises.
Once you tap or click the photo, the blur goes away—and any future photos from that Tumblr will send in the clear.
You can’t re-blur a photo, but you can block the sender if you don’t want to receive any more messages or images. Open the menu (the three dots) at the top right of the conversation and hit block.
This three-step process is especially useful for starting conversations, ending conversations, and as word-alternatives in the middle of conversations.
Shed the burden of language. Commune with your friends in GIFs. Master GIF transference and elevate your conversations.
Talk to Tumblrs on a higher plane of existence: Use GIFs in messaging.
Tumblr Labs opens today with an exciting opportunity for healthy volunteers. Simply go to your Labs settings on the web and flip the switch ON to enroll. Choose from any of these completely safe experiments:
Qualifications:
Disclaimer: Tumblr Labs are experimental features that were designed and developed in someone’s spare time. Labs experiments are not guaranteed to work the first time or any time. Labs experiments may abruptly and unexpectedly cease functioning, or disappear altogether. Real features are not regularly tested for compatibility with Labs experiments. To disable a Tumblr Labs experiment, turn the switch off. New Labs experiments will be added and old ones removed, possibly (probably) without notice. By reading this message you imply a positive disposition towards Labs experiments as long as they last and accept that things will inevitably change as time moves on and on. Labs experiments have not been tested on live animals, your taxonomic rank notwithstanding. Please participate in Tumblr Labs only as directed.
Share options, permalinks, and report a post: All those are now under the paper airplane icon on the web, just like in the apps.
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!
Nice new thing for the web: You can have your post pages show related posts from the rest of your Tumblr. Yes, give passers-by a sense of your whole oeuvre from a single post.
Need an example? Okay, okay. Assuming you’re on the web right now, check out this old staff post. See?
If you’re using the default theme (Optica), it’ll be on by default. If it bugs you, you can turn off it in your theme customization panel.
And if you enjoy digging around in code and want to add this function to whatever theme you’re currently using, check out the theme docs.
New thing!
This’ll help surface not just recent, but older related posts from your blog, so your past masterpieces will see the light of day again.
Another reason to turn on replies: Starting today, you can delete any unwanted ones from your post notes. Just tap the note you don’t want to see, select the relevant option, and away it’ll go. (If it’s not on your own original post, tapping the note lets you report it to our support team.)
You can also hide inappropriate reblog comments using the same technique.
Just a little tweak to give you more control over your notescape. Enjoy.
Have you heard the good news? Now you can delete and report replies.
[Edit, July 1:
Aw, shoot. We just found a couple of bugs in this new system on iOS:
We’re working on these bugs right now, and both will be fixed as soon as we can get a new version of the app into the App Store.]
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. 💗
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!