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Hello from the Tumblr Support Team, and welcome!

Is something confusing? Check our Help Center!

Want to learn about recent changes, bug fixes or on-going issues? Visit and follow @changes for details!

Are you experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and we'll get back to you as soon as we can! Please add as many details as possible to your report to help us investigate.

Want to share your feedback about something? Use the "Feedback" category for your support request, or check out @wip and start a discussion with the community!

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Tuesday, March 25th, 2025

🌟 New

  • On the web, we have revamped the filters on the Activity page to help you stay on top of what matters to you.
  • In the iOS app, you can now double-tap to Like videos and unmute them by hitting the volume up button.

🛠 Fixed

  • We identified an issue preventing password reset emails from being delivered to Yahoo, Hotmail/Outlook, and AOL/AIM email addresses. If you’re still not receiving password reset emails, please check your spam folder, and contact support if it’s not there either.
  • Adding tags should now be more intuitive in the Android app.
  • We also fixed a rare crash when adding photos in the iOS app. Please keep your apps up to date!

🚧 Ongoing

🌱 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!

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Tuesday, March 18th, 2025

🌟 New

  • Community posts can now be shared through messaging.
  • If you are unable to scan the QR code when setting up two-factor authentication, you can now copy a setup code instead.

🛠 Fixed

  • We fixed an issue causing an empty tab bar to appear for users with our iPadOS app.
  • On web, new replies on reply threads should show up more reliably when opening the notes to a post you’ve viewed before.

🚧 Ongoing

  • We are aware that the Tumblr app is missing from the Google Play Store in India and are working on a solution.

🌱 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!

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Tuesday, March 11th, 2025

🌟 New

  • Community browsing and tag filtering are both now a native experience in the iOS and Android apps. This means we’re no longer relying on the in-app browser, so your experience will be noticeably more responsive.
  • Community admins and moderators can now restore previously moderated content.
  • Comments can now be left on posts reblogged to communities, even if replies were disabled on the root post. The root post author won’t be notified, and comments left in the community post won’t appear in the original post’s notes.
  • Grouped Activity items can now be revealed in detail by clicking them.
  • You’ll now see a loading indicator when switching Activity tabs.

🛠 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!

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Tuesday, March 4th, 2025

🌟 New

  • Content Label and mature content visibility settings have now been consolidated into simpler single “Show mature content” and “Blur mature content” settings on the web and in the Android app (settings set on the web will be reflected in the iOS app.)
  • A new “Include posts from your communities” setting is now available in your Dashboard settings.
  • Communities you have muted will now appear dimmed in the sidebar on the web.
  • Community admins and moderators can now see all individual reports for each piece of reported content in their community.
  • We now support uploading videos in the AV1 format.
  • Two-factor Authentication via SMS is no longer available for anyone not already enrolled. If you are currently using SMS for Two-Factor Authentication, it will continue to work until disabled. Overall, we recommend switching to app-based authentication (if you have not already), which is supported by most password managers as well as dedicated apps.

🛠 Fixed

  • Embedded Instagram photos no longer have a play button.
  • Reporting a post to staff, via the moderation dialog in the mod queue, was broken. This is now 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!

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Tuesday, February 25th, 2025

🌟 New

  • Community admins and moderators can now reverse a ban.
  • Relevant posts from public communities are now included in search results.
  • Posts from public communities are now included in your For You tab.

🛠 Fixed

  • [tumblr] was briefly down for some folks today. We found the Tumbeast responsible and encouraged it to do something else.

🚧 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!

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Tuesday, February 18th, 2025

🌟 New

  • We now display unseen posts from communities that you’re a member of in the Following feed for everyone who has “Best Stuff First” enabled in their Dashboard settings.
  • We added a new option to the meatballs menu of recommended posts: “Not interested in this blog” or “Not interested in this community” (depending on the post’s origin), which will allow you to dismiss both the post and all other posts from the same blog or community.
  • Community members can now report posts and comments to their community admins and moderators from the meatballs menu. These reports will land in a new moderation queue, which admins and moderators can review.
  • Images in asks from blogs you don’t follow are now blurred in your Activity feed.

🛠 Fixed

  • The Dashboard once-again respects your pinned tab setting and will no longer drop you in For You if you had pinned Following instead.
  • When you start typing a mention in a comment on a community post, community members will now be recommended first.

🚧 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!

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Tuesday, February 11th, 2025

🌟 New

  • We now send a notification if your post gets reblogged to a community. To strike a balance between keeping posters informed and maintaining the safe space we want for communities, these notifications will only be sent if: you’re a member of the community, the community is free to join or can be requested to join, or the community is public and you have an invitation.
  • When filters are applied to Activity, you’ll now see a blue dot indicating that filters are in use.
  • Community moderation tools are now a native experience in the iOS and Android apps. This means we’re no longer relying on the in-app browser, so your experience with community moderation tools will be noticeably more responsive.

🛠 Fixed

  • Published submissions will now include include a small version of the submitting author’s avatar over the publishing blog’s avatar. It was always intended for this to display, but something broke along the way.

🚧 Ongoing

  • We are aware that some users from Turkey are being blocked from accessing [tumblr] and we’re currently investigating why that is. Please contact support if you’re affected!
  • We are aware that some email verification links are broken and we’re currently investigating why that is. Please contact support if you’re affected!

🌱 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!

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Tuesday, February 4th, 2025

🌟 New

  • Communities are now a native experience in the iOS and Android apps. This means we’re no longer relying on the in-app browser (with the exception of moderation tools, which we’re still working on), so your experience with communities will be noticeably more responsive.
  • We’ve improved the way you re-order your Dashboard tabs. It’s now more intuitive, and as a bonus, it actually works all the time now.
  • You might notice that the Activity filter icon is now different and easier to tap.
  • A few months back, we sponsored our new friends at The Iconfactory because we share their passion for great social media experiences, and their new app Tapestry, which supports [tumblr], is now publicly available! If you have an iPhone or iPad, check it out!

🛠 Fixed

  • Inbox items can once again be reported from the iOS app. Please keep your apps up-to-date!

🚧 Ongoing

  • No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

  • You’ll soon be able to see when your posts get reblogged to a community under Activity.

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!

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Tuesday, January 28th, 2025

🌟 New

  • We’ve added some new activity items for various community admin and moderator actions.

🛠 Fixed

  • All posts made by a community’s moderators and admins now show the appropriate moderator or admin badge in the post header, including posts that were reblogged into the community.
  • We fixed an issue preventing some users from leaving a community.
  • We fixed an issue preventing the renewal of some Tumblr Premium subscriptions.

🚧 Ongoing

  • We are aware that inbox items can no longer reported from the iOS app. For now, please report those with a browser from the web instead.

🌱 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!

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Tuesday, January 21st, 2025

🌟 New

  • The Tumblr TV tab, previously only available via a Labs experiment, is now available to everyone. New users will have this tab enabled by default in the third position, while existing users will have it available in the Dashboard Tabs configuration, if not already enabled.

🛠 Fixed

  • We fixed an issue where long tags could break the Tumblr TV grid.
  • We have made required fields and character limits clearer in several forms across Tumblr.
  • We fixed an issue preventing some new users from returning to where they left off after signing up.

🚧 Ongoing

  • We’re aware of an issue preventing some members from leaving communities.
  • We’re aware of an issue preventing the renewal of some Tumblr Premium subscriptions. Please contact support if you’re unable to renew your subscription!

🌱 Upcoming

  • No upcoming launches to announce today.
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Tuesday, January 14th, 2025

🌟 New

  • To help fight link spam in communities, we’re now blocking new posts from being created into communities when the post contains a suspicious link.
  • In the apps and mobile web, the community descriptions now have a “see more” link which sends you to more community details, including guidelines.
  • Banned community members can now see the reason for the ban in their membership removal activity item.
  • If you have reached the limit of communities you’re allowed to join per day, community recommendations will disappear until the next day.
  • Several design improvements have been made to community posts making it easier to identify the author and community the post belongs to.

🛠 Fixed

  • Tumblr was a bit laggy for an hour yesterday. We found a Tumbeast chewing on a wire and politely asked it to chew on something else.

🚧 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!

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Tuesday, January 7th, 2025

🌟 New

  • We’ve adjusted the limit to how many free-to-join communities a person can join down to 10 per day max / 3 per hour max. If you’re super jazzed to join more than 10 free-to-join communities per day, please contain your excitement for 24 hours. Also, this limit does not get counted when being invited to a community or requesting to join communities.
  • When filtering posts by tag in a community, we now highlight the tag in the list of tags in each post.
  • Moderators can now kick and ban members from communities, not just admins.

🛠️ Fixed

  • Posts made in the first ~24 hours or so of 2025 weren’t being indexed into search results, but we’ve fixed that up.
  • When reporting a post, blog, or community in the mobile apps, there’s now a “Done” button after filing the report, to make sure there’s a way you can go back to where you were.
  • We’ve fixed a couple of bugs that were causing activity unread counts to be incorrect because your request-to-join for a community was accepted or rejected.
  • If you have Fast Queue enabled in Labs, we fixed a bug that was causing the fast queue button on web to have the wrong color on Blazed posts.

🚧 Ongoing

  • We’re aware that popular free-to-join communities are facing an unfortunate amount of spam. We’re working to add tools to help mods and admins fight that spam, stay tuned for more info here and in the Feedback community!

🌱 Upcoming

  • We’re working on implementing a “moderation queue” for communities, which will be a place where admins and mods can see member-reported content and take action on it quickly and easily in one place. We may also use this space to automatically move suspicious posts from new members for admins and mods to take a look at before they’re published to the community.

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!

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Monday, December 23rd, 2024

🌟 New

  • We’ve made some improvements to how comments (and replies) are displayed on the web to take more advantage of the available space.
  • Tag pages now have a “Communities” tab to help you find communities related to that tag.
  • Community admins will now receive a notification when someone requests to join their community.

🛠 Fixed

  • Tag filtering now works properly on posts reblogged to communities.
  • We’ve fixed the random crashes in the iOS app. You don’t need to update the app to receive this fix, but we recommend that you always keep your app updated anyway!

🚧 Ongoing

  • We are aware that media in communities is not respecting your device’s auto-play settings in the apps and are working on a fix.

🌱 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!

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Tuesday, December 17th, 2024

🌟 New

  • Communities are finally here for all [tumblr] users!
  • You can now click a tag in a community post to view only posts with that tag on that community, just like you could already with blogs.
  • Added screenreader labels to reaction buttons on community posts.

🛠 Fixed

  • Fixed a bug where only the first 5 mentions in a post would properly link.
  • Fixed a bug where multiple tooltips for reactions on community posts could remain open simultaneously.
  • Fixed an issue in the Android app, where the Notes field when moderating community content would be hidden by the onscreen keyboard. You can now scroll the dialog to see the Notes field.
  • Fixed reaction button tooltips running off the screen at some screen widths.
  • Fixed an issue where a stored payment method could not be updated.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented premium theme purchases for some folks.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented purchased premium theme credits from being added to your account.

🚧 Ongoing

  • On communities, the ability to pop the video player out of the feed has been disabled since it was not working properly. We’re working on a fix for it.

🌱 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!

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Tuesday, December 10th, 2024

🌟 New

  • We’re working on making your follower count more accurate. Specifically, for those of you with less than 1,500 followers, the follower count no longer includes followers that were deleted or suspended. We had previously launched this for folks with less than 200 followers, then later for folks with less than 700 followers. With follower count not being a status symbol here (on [tumblr]) our goal is to make the count overall more accurate to accounts that would actually be able to see your posts in the Dashboard.

🛠 Fixed

  • [tumblr] was briefly down yesterday, so we sent one of our best developers on a coffee run for the tumbeasts. Once satisfied, they brought everything back online.
  • We fixed an issue that prevented posts in a community from being filtered based on the author’s blogname.
  • We fixed an issue that was preventing links from being added to text in the iOS app. Please keep your apps up to date!

🚧 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!

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Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024

🌟 New

  • Posts on public communities now have a new share button so you can easily share them outside of [tumblr].

🛠 Fixed

  • Notifications on your blazed posts can now be muted again.
  • The editor no longer counts HTML characters as part of the 4096-characters-per-block limit.

🚧 Ongoing

  • We're aware that the queue is not paginating in the iOS app, and we're working on a fix. For now, you can manage your queue on the web in any iOS browser, like Safari.

🌱 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!

#tumblr update#tumblr staff#changes
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