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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, @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, @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.

Hello there, @ilovery.

We love giving you the ability to personalize things! And the good news is you already can do all of what you want in our mobile apps.

1. You can change the fonts. When on a paragraph, long-press the Aa icon and select another font.
2. Changing text color is also available when composing a post using the mobile app. All you have to do is highlight some text, and color pickers appear.
3. Color palettes are available on Android and iOS, too! Go to [Snowman] > ⚙️ > General Settings > Color Palette.

You can find a complete guide to using and formatting text in our Help Center guide.

We hope this helps, and thanks for your question. Keep them coming, folks.

—Eli (Tumblr Engineering).

Hey there, @charmedslayer.

We love this idea, too, and we would love to get to work on it someday. However, our hypothetical plate is pretty full right now, so while we can’t make any promises, please know that we’ve made a note of it. On our hypothetical wish list.

So we one day hope to hypothetically push the hypothetical peas to the side of our (you get the idea…) plate and make a little room for this project. In the meantime, keep an eye on @changes for updates.

Thanks for your question. It’s great feedback!

William (Tumblr Engineering).

Hello, @abigailpents!

We think that’s a great idea, and we’d love to do it. However, we’re afraid we’re focusing on improving other areas of the platform first, and don’t quite have the time or resources at the moment. We think this is a neat idea, however, and would advise you keep watch on @changes in the meantime.

Thanks for your question, and have a great day!

Love,

—Cyle (Tumblr Engineering)

Hey there @exocomets!

This is an important question, and we couldn’t agree with you more, so we sent the crabs a letter in a bottle. They responded and said they’d love to come back, but they’re not sure when—they are enjoying their time on the island a lot!

This is understandably a popular question. Thanks also to @astrophysiciann for getting in touch—and never say never, people.

—Caroline (Tumblr Engineering)

Answer: Hey there, @automaticllamacycle!

So you’re right. There is currently no community-facing way that you can get your account back in the event it is deleted.

However, we are not too far away from having this technically feasible on our backend, and we don’t think it would take too much work to make it a reality. You’re right on this one—such a feature would be really nice to have, and we’re grateful you drew this to our attention.

Leave this with us—we will see what we can do. In the meantime, you can catch up with updates here at @wip or at @changes, should we have them.

Thanks for your question, and keep ’em coming. Happy weekend!