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All good things…
We love coming up with new features to make your experience on Tumblr more visceral; when they don’t work out that way, we remove them to make space for new features. Unfortunately, group chats haven’t lived up to our expectations, so we’ll be removing them from Tumblr this month.
Some of you have really leaned into group chats, discussing the merits of various sourdough proofing times, sharing your WIPs with new audiences, and exchanging complicated fan theories on the provenance of Croki.
The majority of you, however, have preferred to have these interactions elsewhere. And so, as we get ready to remove the group chat feature from Tumblr, it’s time to take these conversations to your reblog chains, your replies, and your messages. We’ll leave your chats up until September 22 at 6pm EST. After that, well, the weird will continue to be your oyster.
Hey there, PayPals.
As of today, you can use PayPal as a payment method when purchasing Ad-Free Browsing on web, whether buying for yourself or someone else.
How does it work?
- If it’s for yourself, go to your account and select “Go Ad-Free” from the dropdown menu …
- …or, to gift, select the present icon in the recipient’s blog header.
- Pick a subscription: one month or one year.
- Choose PayPal from the payment options.
- Log in and select “Pay now.”
Who’s eligible?
Anyone based in a region supported by PayPal purchasing Ad-Free Browsing for themselves or someone else. PayPal will be coming to other features soon.
Any questions? Then please drop us a line on @wip or Support, and keep an eye out for more updates @changes.
Tag! You’re it…
Ever yearned for a dedicated hub for finding content from your followed tags? Well, yearn no more. We are rolling out this feature on mobile platforms starting today.
What is it?
- Until now, there was no easy way to find content specific to tags you follow. You can now find “Your tags” alongside “Following” and “For you” on the dash. Don’t worry, your regular “Following” tab experience won’t change: you’ll still see posts from followed tags on your dashboard.
- In “Your tags,” you will find a wealth of new content exclusive to your followed topics. This is also the new home of “Tags you follow,” which has moved here from Explore.
- You can view, manage, add, and unfollow your tags—and create a technicolor patchwork of your interests. Art? Politics? Shitposts? All here.
- If you’re using “Hide potentially mature content” on iOS, you won’t see posts under tags deemed sensitive. If “Your tags” is almost empty, try following more tags or disable the “Hide potentially mature content” setting from the web.
Why?
While other features do something similar, they are a little out of the way for most users. The “Following” tab has posts from blogs you follow, content from your tags, and things we think you’ll like—leaving a risk you might miss potential new content and creators. So “Your tags” is only posts from the tags you follow. Please note this feature is launching as a test on Android and iOS and will expand to web in the future. So why not give it a spin—and tell us what you think!
Any questions? If so, please drop us a line on @wip or Support, or keep an eye out for more on @changes.
Theme designers: Notes are now available in tumblelogs
We’re about to start rolling out a bunch of features focused on interaction between tumblelog authors and their readers. Post notes are going to be the glue for all of this interaction, so we’d like to ask all theme designers (and anyone with custom themes) to incorporate this new tag:
{PostNotes}
This will render the post’s notes (including reblogs and likes) on their permalink pages. Check out an example on my tumblelog.
Unlike our other theme tags, this outputs generic HTML markup, so all you need to do is style it with CSS. Here’s a basic stylesheet to get you started:
ol.notes { padding: 0px; margin: 25px 0px; list-style-type: none; border-bottom: solid 1px #ccc; } ol.notes li.note { border-top: solid 1px #ccc; padding: 10px; } ol.notes li.note img.avatar { vertical-align: -4px; margin-right: 10px; width: 16px; height: 16px; } ol.notes li.note span.action { font-weight: bold; } ol.notes li.note .answer_content { font-weight: normal; } ol.notes li.note blockquote { border-color: #eee; padding: 4px 10px; margin: 10px 0px 0px 25px; } ol.notes li.note blockquote a { text-decoration: none; }
You can get the full documentation (including complementary tags like {NoteCount}
) on the Custom Themes page.
Announcing…
Three new features for posting from the mobile app
First, you can add images to reblogs. You asked for it, you got it.
Second, new text styles for your new text posts. Headers, lists, serifs, fancy cursive, serious typewriter. Look:
Lastly, intriguingly, you can drag paragraphs and images around to reorder them. Witness it:
Have fun with all this, Tumblr 😘