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Answer: Hi there, @aconitum-nerium!

So, we must assume here that you are referring to being subscribed for notifications when new reblogs and replies come in. This would be nice, for sure, but it's very unlikely at present. It's not clear where we’d put it, for one thing, or indeed when we would have a chance to build it. 

We're sorry to be the bearers of bad news, but keep your questions coming folks. 

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.

Answer: Hey, @fourcheesecalzone!

First, a long story short. We didn’t start recording this timestamp in reblog trails until ~3 years ago, so any reblogs from before that time may not have the information in the trail. We do our best to “backfill” the timestamp, but in cases where the post or blog was deleted, we don’t have anything to look up, so we can’t backfill it.

And now a little longer version. Reblogs store copies of the previous items in the reblog trail. So if I make a post, and then you reblog it, your reblog has a copy of my post content. This leads to some fun things: like if I edit my post, your reblog of it won’t be updated, and if someone clicks the original post in your reblog, they’ll see a new post. Fun! We did this to increase the performance of the whole platform. It means we don’t have to look up every post in the reblog trail, which can be dozens to hundreds of posts long.

Unfortunately, it also means things like what you’re describing can happen. If we make a change to what we’re storing in the reblog trail (like we did with NPF in ~2017), it’s incredibly difficult for us to update the tens of billions of posts on Tumblr. Recording timestamps in reblog trails is a very similar problem. It would take us years to go through each reblog across Tumblr to update them, and we don’t feel like it’s that big of a deal for it to be sometimes missing.

Thanks for getting in touch, and we hope this clarifies things.

Answer: Hey there, @fourcheesecalzone!

This is a good question. Let us start by saying that it is very unlikely we’ll do this anytime soon. There simply isn’t the bandwidth on our side to be taking on such a project right now. We are sorry to be the bearers of bad news—but then that’s not quite all. 

As luck would have it, there is a public demo example way of using the API to do just what you ask here. We like to think this is a more than adequate workaround, and hope this helps. 

Thank you for your question. Keep ’em coming, folks!

Answer: Hey there, @bregee13!

We have something of a multi-pronged answer for you here. You can make polls on web right now, as it happens:

However, if you mean adding a poll to a submission sent to another blog’s inbox, we’re sorry to say there is no way to do this on web yet. The submission form on web is built with very old legacy code, which was never meant to be extensible for new content types, such as Polls. While we would like to rebuild it to be compatible with all content types, the fact is that submissions are one of the least-used features on Tumblr, and we’ve only got so much room on our immediate roadmap. 

But, just because we have bigger fish to fry today doesn’t mean we aren’t keenly aware of this feature gap! When we are able to justify giving it some attention, we’ll let you know, pronto.

Thanks for getting in touch!

Answer: Hey there, @razbb!

Good news! We already have a guide for keyboard shortcuts built into the dashboard, as luck would have it. You can access it by clicking the little floating keyboard icon in the bottom-right, as in these screenshots:

But as you point out, there is no keyboard shortcut for opening the keyboard shortcut guide. This seems like an oversight to us, so we will get to work on this as fast as we can. It should be easy enough to add!

We also have various mentions of other features and how to make use of them in the Help Center—we think this article, Lesser-Known Features, would be ideal for your question.  

We hope this all helps, and thanks for getting in touch! Keep ‘em coming, folks.

Answer: Hello, @kurt-dontcry!

We like this idea. We like this idea a lot, even.

We like it so much, in fact, we have already given ample consideration and would love to do it. First, though, we’re working on making replies "threadable,“ so you can respond to specific comments. After we get that rolled out, we may come back to the idea of being able to like or react to specific comments in the notes—and certainly hope to bring this one to fruition.

Thanks for your question, and fingers crossed here. Have a good day.

Hi @mewharley!

Let us describe how sorting works on community hubs (AKA tagged pages), using #relaxing as an example.

When you navigate to the relaxing tagged page, either by searching and selecting “Go to #relaxing” or by using the URL https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/relaxing, the following will happen:

• If you are not logged in, you’ll land on the “Top” tab.
• If you don’t follow the tag, you’ll land on the “Top” tab.
• If you already follow the tag, you’ll land on the “Recent” tab.

You can click on “Recent” or “Top” to navigate between both.

You can also type the URL with the sort parameter and the tab will be selected according to that parameter, regardless of whether or not you are following the tag. Try it out:

• https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/relaxing?sort=recent
• https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/relaxing?sort=top

Why are we doing this?

We default to the Recent tab if you follow a tag because we assume you have seen the page before, and are looking for the latest posts with that tag.

Spoiler alert! We have the following plans for this page:

If you navigate to #relaxing, and the tag is trending, we’ll take you to the “Top” tab, regardless of whether you are following the tag or not. You will still be able to see the “Recent” tab if you click there, or navigate to https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/relaxing?sort=recent directly.

We are still working on this one, so keep an eye on Changes for updates.

Best,

—L (Tumblr Engineering)

Hi, @barkgrowlbyte​!

Thank you for your question. We currently support narrowing down search results by searching posts with more than one tag. How?

Use the # sign before each of the tags on the search box.

i.e.: #the good place #jason mendoza

Try it out!

Sneak peek: Later this year, we’ll be working on supporting tagged pages by more than one tag. i.e.: Posts with any of the following tags: #goblincore, #cottagecore, #fairycore, #naturecore  

Best,

—L (Tumblr Engineering)

Hey, @allthegleefeelings.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. It seems you’ve found a bug!

The bad news, in short, is that it happens consistently for some and randomly for others, and seems to occur across all browsers. Reloading the page or navigating to another will get the infinite scroll back into a working state, but you will lose your spot in the dashboard. The good news is that we started looking into it in the last week and we are working on it. In the meantime, stay tuned to @changes.

Big thanks also to @spooky-jumpropes, who asked a similar question. We hope this helps.

Best,

Jon (Tumblr Marketing)