Welcome to Work in Progress! Tumblr’s official ask box, where we try to answer as many questions as we can about Tumblr: what we’re working on, hope to work on, or even your suggestions! We hope it can be a little halfway between staff and you fine folk, the community.
Please note if you’re experiencing an issue/glitch/bug on Tumblr, do not send here at WIP—please file a Support request instead of sending us an ask.
cloverydreamertt asked:
giv mi community!>:(
Answer: Hello, @cloverydreamertt!
Well, we are glad you’re excited about Communities! We’re excited, too. We want to get it out to as many people as quickly as we can, but we’re still in the process of building it. Consider yourself on the shortlist of potential beta testers.
For anyone with a little curiosity about this shiny new feature, you can get up to speed right here at the Help Center.
Thanks for your question, and watch this space, folks.
b-a-n-d-e-r asked:
I really appreciate that tag editing is a thing we have now… but coming from someone who uses this option lots: it can be a little overly fiddly to use. Specifically, the fact that at least on desktop clicking off a tag doesn't enter it and that if you accidentally try to move on to doing anything else without first making sure you have pressed enter (or comma IF it's the first time with the tag but not if you're editing it!! then comma will not work!!) it won't let you do anything else without telling you why until you go back, find the tag that hasn't been entered, click into it, and press enter (not comma! that doesn't work!) and then and only then can you continue to do things… maybe this could be fixed?
Answer: Hi, @b-a-n-d-e-r.
Thank you for your report! We are happy to let you know that we have started looking into it and believe it to be a bug, it transpires. We hope it will be fixed very soon, too, so keep an eye out for the usual channels, here at @wip or @changes, for any news. It shouldn't be too long, as we say.
Regarding the comma not working as “enter” when editing, we can confirm this is intended. Otherwise, you be unable to add any commas to your tags, which is not something we want you to stop doing!
Thanks for your question, and have a great day.
letsgirit asked:
It would be good if the error message "welcome back! It's time to change your password" become optional, not mandatory.
When this message appears and if a person could not change the password, then that person cannot access the account. That is because the password change is mandatory.
It would be great if it becomes optional, and user can freely decide whether to change password or just skip it.
Thank you.
Answer: Hey there, @letsgirit!
Password resets like this are very important for account safety here on Tumblr (and plenty of other sites!) and are often prompted for very important reasons.
However, if you’re ever not able to get that password reset working, we do have an account recovery process to help as noted here in this handy Help Center article. We hope this helps, and thanks for getting in touch.
bhawk-goose asked:
can we at least get to keep seeing how many times we booped/were booped even if those numbers can't change?
Answer: Hello, @bhawk-goose!
So it was indeed a fun temporary feature, perhaps the most fun of temporary features. But it’s a no, for now, as it would require some additional work to make it a lasting feature—which is work we cannot commit to anytime soon.
But, as we said in a recent answer, it is not inconceivable that the boops will be back in some form in the future. Eyes peeled, y’all.
stesosongs asked:
hello, i would like all my posts to stay on my “front page”, I don’t want them to go to the archive. is it possible to fix that? it’s for stesofolio.tumblr.com. I use it as a portfolio and want it to be an endless feed of posts.
Answer: Hey there @stesosongs!
We must start by saying that we are not entirely sure what you mean here, and so we have reached out to you directly to clarify.
However, we wonder if this may be a bug with the custom theme you are using—it seems to stop after loading a certain number of posts. We can’t fix that, we are sorry to say, so you’d have to reach out to the theme developer, which you can find here. We hope this helps!
puregrief asked:
It'd be great if we can check what we posted years ago everyday, like "on this day" or "memories". Are you planning on implementing this soon? ❤️
Answer: Hi, @puregrief!
Fun story: we tried this! A couple of times, actually. One of them is still up that you can see today: the @memories blog on Tumblr was an April Fools prank many years ago, and its posts are customized based on who’s viewing it (you!), and it has some fun things like this.
Another time, we had a thing that would show you a post of yours from long ago with a header like “Blast from the past!”—it was fun for only a handful of people… but most others who saw it really did not like it, and let us know, so we removed it.
There are no plans to bring it back at present. But thank you for getting in touch, and keep the questions coming y'all.
dreamlandcreations asked:
Hi! I was wondering if it'd be possible to access full posts even after the original was deleted? What I mean is if a post is reblogged but there's a keep reading add in it then what's under the divider is lost if the original is gone. From what (little) I understand this cut creates a sort of front for the original with a short and full version being kinda separate things. Instead of this maybe the shorten long posts setting could be the base of this function? Idk, I just wanna see old posts 😭
Answer: Hey, @dreamlandcreations!
Unfortunately, we cannot make this happen. Once a post is deleted, we don’t support a way to then un-delete it. Even if we could, that would also violate the original poster’s trust. And nobody wants that.
We are sorry it is a no here, but thanks for your question. Keep 'em coming, y'all.
fandom--collector asked:
Will there at any point be an option for mass deleting likes, either all at once or by date or tags? I am aware there's an outside computer extension that can be used for this, but as someone who only logs in on my phone, I was wondering about through the mobile app.
Answer: Hello, @fandom–collector!
There are no plans to include a function to mass-unlike posts, sorry. But there are some small workarounds, however—your best bet is a third-party extension or writing a tool that uses our API! We hope this might be of some use.
Thanks for your question, and have a lovely day.
gravelyorchid asked:
Hi! Maybe third time’s the charm of asking this. I have two separate blogs since I like having the perks of the main blog, now would it be possible to have multiple accounts or even max of 3 logged in to the tumblr app? Instead of logging in and out? Thanks! x
Answer: Hey there @gravelyorchid!
A little good news and bad news here. We will start with the good, just because.
We have actually been looking into solving this kind of problem already as it happens. So yes—we fully agree this would be great to have. There are no guarantees on when a solution may be provided though, unfortunately, at this time.
We will let you know as soon as we do. Have a good day, and thanks for your question!
g698 asked:
How about the grid visualization for feed on mobile devices app too?
Answer: Hi there, @g698!
So we can certainly say someday, we hope. We can certainly say we want it too, and it would be nice to have. That is as much as we can say to this point, but rest assured should there be news on this, we will be there and square to let you know. Fingers crossed tight—and thanks for your question.