Tumblr now disables custom pages by default and no longer allows users to turn off promotional banners from displaying on them. From a user perspective, it feels like the use of custom pages is being discouraged. It also feels like Tumblr prioritizes the social media aspects of the platform over the blogging aspects. Interest in the web revival is growing, and with that in mind, it would be awesome to see Tumblr embrace it with a renewed focus on custom pages and improvements for bloggers. :-)

Answer: Hi there, @unicornwishes!

We also love the blogging side of Tumblr, but unfortunately we haven’t had as much time to focus on it with our recent work on Communities. But blogging on Tumblr isn't going anywhere! We’re just not sure yet when we'll work on features like custom pages.

If you're interested in custom pages or other blogging features, we also have a wonderful sister platform called WordPress.com specifically for blogging, so feel free to check that out too!

Thanks for your question. Keep ’em coming, folks.

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I noticed that when you Blaze posts, one of the metrics you get back is the number of "Shares". I really liked seeing that data because it means people are sending your post outside the Tumblr ecosystem to friends or family.

Are there plans to add this to normal posts?

Naturally this feature shouldn't include the identity of who shared, just the number of total shares. And since the bottom of posts is currently cluttered, it could instead be placed in the Notes tab for each post. 🤔

Answer: Hi, @vaguelygenius!

We hate to disappoint, but right now, no, we’re not planning to show this for all posts—sorry. It remains a special thing for people using Blaze at least for the foreseeable future. It would also require considerable work to incorporate more widely, and that work is a little outside our current bandwidth.

That is only the foreseeable future, of course. If things were to change, such as if we saw more usage of Blaze, we’d be more keen to bring this out to more people. Keep the questions coming, and happy Blazing, people.

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will we ever be able to search for communities to join? i would use the feature but cant find communities without digging

Answer: Hi @darkswagamerpiratecowboyclown!

Thanks for getting in touch. The short answer is yes: we are currently testing it internally.

You can find a wealth of information here in this little preview of Communities discovery. We’ve heard loud and clear that folks want a way for other people on Tumblr to discover your communities, and we’re working on a new search results page to do exactly that.

It was lightly leaked in the Admin Zone community for admins when announcing free-to-join communities:

Updating your community to free-to-join will make it appear higher up in the discovery features we’re building! This is the best way to get your community discovered.

We hope this is good news. Plenty more to come on this, folks.

Will something like rss feeds be available for Tumblr Communities? Will communities be able to post to facebook or X(formerly twitter) or Discord or other online social regions?

Answer: Hi, @richardmurrayhumblr!

A great question! The short answer is that we have, as luck would have it, started opening Communities to the API. Find out more right here via @changes.

The longer answer is an even more emphatic yes—we hope to open it up as much as it can be supported. Public communities technically already have an RSS feed (because they’re shared blogs behind the scenes) but we just don’t have a friendly URL for them yet. Regarding sharing to Twitter and Facebook, we had to remove those integrations some time ago. For Discord, we are planning on using a similar set of features, like our existing Discord integration for communities.

Thanks for getting in touch here. Keep the questions coming!

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Do you know when they're using your image? And does it feel kind of cool when that happens? 😀

I wrote this! So I did know, yes. I used myself because I didn't need to ask permission - and I knew Cyle wouldn't mind, either.

When we have all team meetings, teams will sometimes use posts to illustrate a launch or something, and whenever it's one of mine, I get a little jolt of happiness! It's just a little bit of fun.

Do you know when they're using your image? And does it feel kind of cool when that happens? 😀

I wrote this! So I did know, yes. I used myself because I didn't need to ask permission - and I knew Cyle wouldn't mind, either.

When we have all team meetings, teams will sometimes use posts to illustrate a launch or something, and whenever it's one of mine, I get a little jolt of happiness! It's just a little bit of fun.

Before, for quote posts, in the editor you had a) special location for author; b) hyphen. Now, with new editor, these basic feats are gone, it's degraded version of the quote type posts. Check imgur[.]com/ITRn3ID. It's been 1 year, and since then I've stopped posting because of it. Tumblr support said it’s not a bug. Maybe you have a work around? It may sound like a detail but it’s these little things that make our experience good and tumblr neat, for us, quote lovers. Please give us some love!

Answer: Hello there, @d1kiz!

This is simply something that we deprecated and will not be bringing back anytime soon. In truth, not enough people were using it to keep it around. While it saddens us to have to cut neat little things like this, they tend to add to our maintenance burden, which is already significant. So we have to make difficult decisions like this.

Thank you for your question, and keep them coming, folks.

What would happen if I liked every single post on tumblr. Every single one. What would tumblr recommend to me after that?

we wouldn't recommend you anything, because we filter out posts you've already liked! you'd beat tumblr!!! you'd win!!!!!