🌟 New

• Posting in communities no longer counts towards your overall 250 posts/day limit (500 for those with Tumblr Premium), instead we’ve made posting in communities a new, separate 250 posts/day limit (also 500 for those with Tumblr Premium).
• We’ve launched an option to make communities free to join and added a “Copy link” option to the community menu to make opening the floodgates even easier.
• If you’re banned from a community, you’ll now see “You’ve been banned” instead of “There’s nothing here.”
• In a community post’s meatballs menu, “Delete” has been replaced with “Moderate post,” where you can now select reasons for why you’re removing the post and add an optional note. At this moment, the removal reasons you provide won’t be visible to anyone yet. In the future, the person who posted the removed post into the community will see the removal reason as well as any included note.
• On public communities, all users can now access the list of admins and moderators.

🛠 Fixed

• For a short time Friday and Saturday last week, posts that were moderated in communities were still surfacing in the feed. We’ve fixed the issue, and moderated posts are now filtered out of the feed again.
• We fixed a bug that was preventing communities from being deleted when the last member left, and we’ve cleaned up any communities that had no members. The names they were using are freed up for new communities.
• We’ve made sure that community notifications are displayed properly, and with the proper icon, across all platforms.
• We found an issue that briefly prevented Tumblr Premium users from fully creating communities. This has been fixed, and all affected communities have been fully created.
• We fixed an issue that briefly removed the ability to backdate posts late last week.

🚧 Ongoing

• No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

• No upcoming launches to announce today.

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 other users.

Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out Premium and the Supporter badge in TumblrMart!

🌟 New

• We’ve removed the ability to anonymously submit posts to blogs, for blogs that had submissions enabled. Going forward, you must be logged in to submit posts to a blog, and you cannot do so anonymously, like you can with asks.
• Community admins will now be asked for a reason when they remove members from a community.
• We have some exciting new API documentation for Tumblr Communities!

🛠 Fixed

• Previously, on Web, when you looked in the notes view of a post in your queue or drafts, it would say that you can’t reply to or reblog the post. This is true — because the post is not live yet! — but the previous explanation was unclear. We’ve made it clearer now.
• You’ll now a see a preview of the image you uploaded or picked when setting a community avatar.
• Blog archives were briefly loading as if the blog didn’t exist. This has now been fixed.

🚧 Ongoing

• No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

• No upcoming launches to announce today.

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 other users.

Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out Premium and the Supporter badge in TumblrMart!

🌟 New

• The reply character limit in communities has been raised to 2,000 characters. We’re trying it out there, first, like we did with the new reply threading!

🛠 Fixed

• Activity items from deleted communities will no longer appear in your blog’s activity feed.
• On web, screenreaders will now read badges in blog headers and post headers as “(number) badges”, instead of announcing each badge individually.

🚧 Ongoing

• No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

• No upcoming launches to announce today.

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 other users.

Wanna support Tumblr directly with some money? Check out Premium and the Supporter badge in TumblrMart!

Threaded Replies are here!

Ever find it difficult to figure out what someone is replying to? Same! Now, when you reply to someone’s reply, it’ll create a nice indented thread. 

• Reply to a thread by clicking the reply icon at the bottom of a comment or tapping the meatball menu on a reply, then hitting “Reply.” 
• Collapse a thread of comments with “Hide replies” or load more with “Show more replies.” 
• Threads are only one level deep—replies to a thread will show at the end of that thread. 
• You’ll be notified when someone replies to you.

This should help keep conversations in replies more organized, meaning you don’t have to scroll back to find the beginning of an exchange: It’s in a thread!

🌟 New

• Tumblr URLs in Replies will now become clickable links!
• Speaking of Replies, they’re threaded now!
• Did you just get promoted to moderator in your Community, but don’t know what to do? Behold the new documentation!
• Community admins can now ban members! Banned members will not be able to re-join or even see the Community they were banned from.
• We’re opening up the Communities API to third-party developers via the public Tumblr API. Stay tuned in our public docs repo for updates on the different endpoints!

🛠 Fixed

• It was difficult to read long alt text on the web, and this has now been fixed! Please keep in mind that alt text should be a brief description of your image, as if you were describing it to someone over the phone, solely to make your post accessible to folks using a screen reader.
• On the web, it was previously impossible in many cases to add a Read More block to the top of a post, and now you can!

🚧 Ongoing

• Folks with the Android app are unable to block anonymous Asks, but they can still be blocked on the web, and there will be a fix in the next update.

🌱 Upcoming

• We’re still hard at work on even more features for Communities!
• We’re also … collecting … a new perk for Premium subscribers, stay tuned! 😉

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 Premium and the Supporter badge in TumblrMart!

🌟 New

• Group blog admins can now moderate the notes on all of the group blog’s original posts, not just the ones they created.

🛠 Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented folks from logging in on web if their password included certain characters.
• The activity page will no longer show a blank white page for blogs without any recent activity.
  
• The activity page no longer crashes in certain older browser versions.
  
• Twitter link previews are no longer empty.
  

🌟 New

• You can use the URL tumblr.com/new to create a post on web.
  

🛠 Fixes

• Fixed an issue where some media URLs were not loading.

🌟 New

• Nothing new to share today.

🛠 Fixes

• Fixed a couple of small formatting issues in the notes popover.
  
• Fixed an issue with text color when using Tumblr messenger on mobile web.
• Fixed an issue where you could only block a blog from your primary blog when viewing your secondary blog’s follower page.

🌟 New

• We’ve rolled out some changes to our search filtering algorithms to improve relevancy and consistency when searching for posts.

🛠 Fixes

• In the latest Tumblr for Android, we’ve fixed a variety of bugs in the followed tag management view in Explore.
• In the latest Tumblr for iOS, we’ve fixed an issue that caused searching for a tag with a hyphen in it to return potentially incorrect results.
• On web, we’ve fixed an issue that would cause blog cards to display incorrectly when the blog has chosen not to display its avatar or a header image.

🌟 New

• Nothing new this week, working on new things behind the scenes, and fixing bugs!

🛠 Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Share to Tumblr widget would never load when given certain links.
• Fixed an issue which prevented asks from being answered with images and text in the Tumblr mobile apps.
• Blogs with really long titles should no longer overflow wildly across the page on desktop web.