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Changes to Tagged and Search URLs on Tumblr

Heads up! We're changing the way we parse URLs on tagged and search pages, to properly encode/decode them to support spaces, hyphens, plus signs, and underscores. Most of these changes will be invisible to you, but if you've kept bookmarks or links to tagged and search pages on Tumblr or your blog, read on!

We're going to start this process by rolling out a new setting you can enable when customizing your blog on the web:

Toggle on the Blog Customize page titled "Use better tagged and search URL decoding".

What does it do? Today, and with that toggle disabled, going to a blog's tagged URL like https://staff.tumblr.com/tagged/tumblr-tuesday would turn "tumblr-tuesday" into "tumblr tuesday" and you'd see posts with that tag. Same with search URLs. If you have that toggle enabled, that https://staff.tumblr.com/tagged/tumblr-tuesday URL will be decoded as "tumblr-tuesday" instead. If you want to link to the "tumblr tuesday" tag on your blog, you'll have to use "tumblr%20tuesday" in the URL. But this means that if you use certain special characters in your tags, you'll now properly be able to link to them!

The toggle above gives you early access to figure this all out. On December 1st, 2021, we'll be enabling this behavior for all blogs on Tumblr.

We'll update all of the links when you click on tags in Tumblr. However, if you manually added links to your tags in your blog description, theme, somewhere off Tumblr, saved bookmarks, or in posts (like a pinned post on your blog), then you'll need to update those links if they contain spaces, underscores, or hyphens. Spaces in tags will now be encoded as "%20" rather than "-" or "+". To do this, turn that toggle on, and click around on your tags to see if any of the URLs changed. Having this setting enabled and updating any links you've saved somewhere will future-proof you for when we roll this change out site-wide.

A table showing the new URL encoding behavior as it will appear in blog links.

We hope this is great news for anyone who uses tags in specific ways (we see you!) and has been frustrated that the way to link to them has been inconsistent, or just plain not working since… forever. We're working on several fixes across Tumblr related to these inconsistencies, but the majority of them require no action on your part.

Please hit us up via Support if you have any questions or concerns about this!

Friday, October 22nd, 2021

🌟 New

The alt text character limit has been increased to 4,096 on web. The increased limit will be in the Android and iOS apps soon!

🛠 Fixed

Fixed filtering for tags containing a + symbol on blog archive pages.
Fixed audio search (in the post editor) for track titles and artists that contain a + symbol.

🚧 Ongoing

No ongoing incidents to share today.

🌱 Upcoming

Starting November 1st, we'll require secure requests to the Tumblr API. You can read more about this change and how to prepare for it in our Help Center and over on the Engineering blog.
We'll be making some improvements to search and tag page URL encoding soon. These changes will fix some longstanding issues with how special characters in tags are handled! Stay tuned for a special announcement about this next week.
Version 22.1 of Tumblr for Android will fix an issue where the keyboard would cover your suggested tags in the post form.

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.

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021

🌟 New

Nothing new to share today.

🛠 Fixed

Made some changes to how the login/sign up page appears in landscape orientation on mobile browsers.
Closing a new post form on a /search or /tagged page no longer sends you back to the top of your dashboard.
You'll now see an error message when trying to open an existing conversation with a blog that's been deleted.

🛠 Fixed in Tumblr for iOS 22.0

Fixed an issue that caused blurry images.
Fixed an issue that caused the scheduled post time to disappear after editing a queued post.
Fixed an issue that prevented double-tap to zoom when lightboxing an image.
Fixed the aforementioned issues with playing Soundcloud audio.

🛠 Fixed in Tumblr for Android 22.0

Fixed an issue that prevented blog title and descriptions from saving.
Fixed the aforementioned issues with playing Soundcloud audio.

🚧 Ongoing

Some users are unable to access certain areas of their settings within the Android app. We're working on a fix.

🌱 Upcoming

Beginning in Tumblr for iOS version 22.1, we will no longer support iOS 13.
We will be increasing the alt text limit within the next couple of weeks.

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.

Friday, October 15th, 2021

🌟 New

In the latest Tumblr for iOS (21.9), you can now create a custom filter that removes literally everything from your Activity feed.
In the latest Tumblr for Android (21.9), in-app notifications are temporarily disabled as we work on a better solution so they're not as invasive.
The latest Tumblr for Android (21.9) now has dedicated settings for managing your account if you signed up with Google.

🛠 Fixed in Tumblr for iOS 21.9

Fixed the issue of content under "Read More" spilling out into other posts on the Dashboard.
Fixed the issue where the "notes" label on posts could appear doubled.
Fixed an issue that was preventing long presses from being recognized when viewing an image.
Fixed videos from continuing to play when tapping on a notification that would bring you out of Tumblr.
Fixed an issue that caused your tagged page position to reset if you navigated away from it.

🛠 Fixed in Tumblr for Android 21.9

Fixed an issue in the Tabbed Dashboard experiment that caused videos to continue playing when navigating to a different Dashboard tab.

🚧 Ongoing

The fix for Soundcloud audio issues should be included in version 22.0 of the apps, planned to be released next week.
We've detected an increase in loading times on the iOS and Android apps, we're working to make them snappier again on first load.

🌱 Upcoming

Nothing to share 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.

Tuesday, October 12th, 2021

🌟 New

There's a new bulk block endpoint available via the Tumblr API.
If you add an invalid content source link to your post, we'll now show you an error message.

🛠 Fixed

Fixed a validation issue that allowed savvy users to make it look as though another blog sent them an ask.

🚧 Ongoing

The Tumblr logo on web has some special, spooky effects for October.
Soundcloud audio can't be played in the mobile apps right now. We're working on a fix.
We're fixing an issue that causes some images to appear blurry in the iOS app.
In the iOS app, tapping the first blogname in a reblog trail won't do anything. We're fixing this up.

🌱 Upcoming

Nothing to share 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.

Friday, October 8th, 2021

🌟 New

Our Help Center has a beautiful new theme!

🛠 Fixed

Sharing posts from Instagram to Tumblr should now work as expected again.
The next version of Tumblr for iOS (21.9) will fix an issue that is causing content from beneath Read Mores to overlap with other posts on the dashboard.
The next version of Tumblr for iOS (21.9) will also fix an issue causing note count labels on posts to look strangely doubled.

🚧 Ongoing

We're aware of an issue in the Android app preventing blog title and description changes from being saved, we're working on a fix! In the meantime, as a workaround, you can update these via Tumblr on the web.

🌱 Upcoming

Nothing to reveal here 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.

Tuesday, October 5th, 2021

🌟 New

Version 21.8 of the Android and iOS apps now show you the reason why a recommended post is appearing in your dashboard (for example: "Because you follow #dogs ").

🛠 Fixed

Fixed an issue on October 4th that prevented the dashboard from showing new posts. The total duration of the incident was about 30 minutes.
Version 21.8 of the Android app reduces the sensitivity of the swipe gesture on the tabbed dashboard ("Dashboard" and "Stuff for you").
Fixed an issue on web where navigating to another page after scrolling down your dashboard could automatically scroll you down to the same position on the new page.

🚧 Ongoing

Posts shared from Instagram aren't showing up correctly on Tumblr right now. We're working on a fix.

🌱 Upcoming

We'll be removing in-app notifications from Android in version 21.9 while we work to make them less intrusive. Thanks to those who shared feedback about them!

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.

Friday, October 1st, 2021

🌟 New

The Explore view in the mobile apps now has a "Things We Care About" carousel featuring topics we think are really important to keep highlighting. Special thanks to the people who wrote in about creating this!
We've added documentation for configuring your filtered tags via the Tumblr API.

🛠 Fixed

Fixed an issue that was causing video uploads in posts to take an unusually long time to publish.

🚧 Ongoing

We're continuing to update different parts of Tumblr to ensure consistency with how certain special characters (spaces, plus signs, and hyphens, in particular) are handled when searching for content and/or tags.
We're aware of an issue in which old versions of the Tumblr apps using Dark Mode are showing dark text on a dark background for the new "Things We Care About" carousel – please update your app to fix this!

🌱 Upcoming

The next version of Tumblr for Android (21.8) will have a fix to make the Tabbed Dashboard experiment's swipe gesture less sensitive. Thanks for all of the feedback on this! Keep it coming!

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.

Tuesday, September 28th, 2021

🌟 New

Reblogs with just tags are now considered "Reblogs with comment" in activity filtering.
Made some adjustments to the order of tag suggestions in the beta post editor on web so that it is more consistent with tag suggestions in the mobile apps.
You can now press the arrow down key to open tag suggestions in the beta post editor on web. Press the esc key to close it.
We added the option to allow/disallow asks with media in version 21.7+ of the app for iOS.

🛠 Fixed

Version 21.7 of the Android app fixes a bug that broke support for line breaks in blog descriptions.

🚧 Ongoing

Version 21.7 of the iOS app introduced a visual bug that can occur with post note counts. This will be fixed in version 21.9.
Some Android users are currently seeing a test of a tabbed dashboard (version 21.6+). This allows you to see one feed of posts from the blogs you follow, and puts recommendations in a separate tab ("Stuff for you"). We're interested to hear what folks think about this, so send your thoughts to Support!

🌱 Upcoming

No imminent feature launches to share 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.

Friday, September 24th, 2021

🌟 New

We removed group chat on Wednesday, September 22nd.
Swiping right on the dashboard in the apps no longer opens the camera.

🛠 Fixed

We updated the message that would show in your Post+ settings page if you started but did not complete the Stripe onboarding. Now you'll just see a "Set up" button instead of a message about your "application."
Fixed an issue in NPF posts where certain URLs could be truncated if used in link blocks.
Fixed an issue where long tags (40+ characters) would return an empty page.
Fixed an issue where the like button would not show up on your own posts.
Fixed an issue that caused password-protected blogs to appear empty on the blog network.
Fixed an issue where side-by-side photos in NPF posts could be cropped on the blog network.
Fixed an issue with keyboard shortcuts which could prevent those keys from working in the post form.

🚧 Ongoing

We are doing some work to improve URL encoding on multi-word tag pages. Reach out to Support if you notice anything weird happening with /tagged page URLs.

🌱 Upcoming

No imminent feature launches to share 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.