🌟 New

• Already seen posts from blogs you follow will no longer appear in your For You feed.
• Admins and Moderators can now delete comments in their Communities.

🛠 Fixed

• People being invited to join us in the Communities closed beta will be automatically added to the Communities Feedback community. (We were doing this manually before and had missed a few people, sorry about that!)

🚧 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 the community.

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

🌟 New

• When you’re receiving lots of likes or reblogs in a short timeframe, we will stop sending individual push notifications in favor of a periodic summary.

🛠 Fixed

• Dailymotion videos could not be posted for a short time, this has now been fixed.
• Some of you were unable to scroll your followers in the iOS app, this has now been fixed in version 34.1 of the app.

🚧 Ongoing

• No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

• Tumblr Premium? Never heard of it. At least not yet anyway.

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!

🌟 New

• We’ve launched the Communities closed beta, which means many of you will get to play with it soon!
• When you’re receiving lots of likes or reblogs in a short timeframe, we will stop sending individual push notifications in favor of a periodic summary. We’re rolling it out slowly to everyone by the end of the week!
• If you don’t want your blog to be searchable on Tumblr, we now assume that you also don’t want your posts to be recommended to other Tumblr users.

🛠 Fixed

• No recent fixes to share here today.

🚧 Ongoing

• You’re not imagining things, we do have a new Help Center thanks to our friends at WordPress.com! Please pardon the dust while we fix up any formatting that did not survive the move this week.

🌱 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 the community.

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

🌟 New

• Posts from blogs you’ve blocked will no longer be shown in the “More Like This” recommendations next to your blog’s posts, even for other people looking at them.

🛠 Fixed

• We’ve improved the tag-based recommendations in the For You tab.

🚧 Ongoing

• No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

• Good job booping! Follow @staff for some interesting stats on those boops!

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!

🌟 New

• No recent launches to announce today.

🛠 Fixed

• The Blaze page wasn’t rendering properly on Safari and has now been fixed. Blaze away!
• A very small number of folks were being logged out unexpectedly as we were testing some exciting things with Communities. If you’re still affected by this, please manually log out and then log back in.

🚧 Ongoing

• No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

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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!

🌟 New

• Don’t want search engines to crawl your blog, but still want your posts to appear in Tumblr search and in-blog search? We’ve now split the existing setting for excluding your blog from search into two, letting you choose to hide posts from external search engines, Tumblr search, or both! If you previously had this toggled on or off, your existing preference was copied to the new setting.
• Speaking of search, we have increased the limit of indexed tags from 20 to 30. This only applies to new posts.
• We now have an exciting Known Issues on Tumblr doc, please feel free to check it out.

🛠 Fixed

• SMS text Two-factor Authentication codes were not arriving, and this is now fixed. For a more secure experience, we recommend using an authenticator app for your Two-Factor Authentication codes, and don’t forget to save your backup codes!
• Some ads were stopping people from scrolling for a few seconds, this has been fixed.
• With Bing’s policy change to no longer use content they index for their search engine for AI training unless opted in to, we are now allowing Bing to index posts from blogs that allow search indexing. We continue to discourage Bing’s crawling for AI training.

🚧 Ongoing

• If you’re using Avast, it’s currently incorrectly blocking the ability to use messaging in real time on the web. We’re working to clear this up with them.

🌱 Upcoming

• No upcoming launches to announce today.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and 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!

🌟 New

• We’re slowly rolling out the ability to use Blaze to target specific tags.
• There’s a nice new spot in the help center all about Patio.

🛠 Fixed

• Fixed an issue on iOS where the last reply in view was sometimes cut off.
• Spacing around your avatar in the web post editor is now a bit more consistent.
• Last time, we noted that it was taking longer than expected to deliver blog exports. This should be fixed now.

🚧 Ongoing

• No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

• No upcoming launches to announce today.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and 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!

🌟 New

• By popular demand, we have a new support doc on how Tumblr recommends content.
• Tumblr Patio has launched to all Ad-Free Browsing subscribers.
• The new option to “View previous reblog” in a posts’ meatball menu is now out to all iOS users.
• We’ve released a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.
• As the team focuses more on making Tumblr a better experience overall, Changes will now only post once a week.

🛠 Fixed

• Trending tags stopped updating on February 22, and was fixed the following week.
• Refreshing an Activity column in Tumblr Patio now properly changes Unread items to Read.
• If a note is deleted from a post, it’s now properly removed from Activity too.

🚧 Ongoing

• We are aware that it’s taking longer than expected to deliver blog exports, and are working to speed that up.

🌱 Upcoming

• No upcoming launches to announce today.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and 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!

🌟 New

• We’re continuing to roll out the option to “View previous reblog” via posts’ meatball menu to iOS users.
• Some activity items on Android have an updated look.

🛠 Fixed

• Fixed an issue with the ALT text indicator in the post editor on web, which would open the lightbox instead of displaying the description. It now correctly opens the image description.
• We’ve removed the prompt to gift Ad-Free to another person if you were already subscribed to Ad-Free yourself.
• Fixed an issue on Android where colored text was underlined in the editor.
• Also on Android, the anonymous avatar will now display correctly in Activity, when relevant, in languages other than English.
• On iOS, fixed an issue where sometimes blog avatars would appear blank in the feed.
• Also on iOS, fixed an issue where you could begin customization of someone else’s blog.

🚧 Ongoing

• No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

• No upcoming launches to announce today.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and 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!

🌟 New

• We’re starting to roll out the option to “View previous reblog” via posts’ meatball menu to iOS users. It’ll be available in version 33.2+ of the app.
• In the post editor on the desktop version of the site, we’ve made the header of the editor stick to the top of the view, when the post gets really long. The floating avatar is now also moved into the header, to better match what the post will look like once published.
• Also in the post editor on web, we’ve removed the option to make text yellow. In the future, we’re hoping to improve the contrast of colored text options to improve accessibility.
• Also on web, when you’re searching a blog, you’ll now also see an option to search all of Tumblr.

🛠 Fixed

• We’ve now put in some default placeholder text into polls and poll options where people have managed to figure out how to make them empty. Sorry to ruin the fun!

🚧 Ongoing

• We’re aware of an issue in the iOS app that can cause the dashboard feed to zoom up or down when tapping on the TumblrMart icon in the header. We’re working to have a fix in the next version of the app!

🌱 Upcoming

• The countdown to April 1st continues.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and 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!