Answer: Hey there, @themirokai!

Not right now, but we actually have this ticketed! It may even be implemented before this answer goes live—you can see the latest over at @changes.

Hmm, now that’s an interesting idea to discuss with the team! We love this idea, but we don’t support that yet. It’s a good next step after we add activity items that your content was reblogged to a community in the first place. Leave this with us, and we hope to have news for you before too long.

Thanks for your questions, and keep them coming! Have a great day.

Answer: Hey there, @kuromi-hoemie!

This is not working as it should be, and so this feels like a bug to us. If the post has text, we should always show a summary for text posts!

So this feels like a great chance to direct folks to the Support Form instead, for bugs experienced on Tumblr, where you can fill all of this in as much detail as possible and file it as a Support request. From there, someone will take a look into it pronto.

We hope this helps. Thanks for your question!

Answer: Hey, @1randomperson15!

We *think* we have good news for you, here.

If you’re asking what we believe you are asking, then there is good news. The Bell icon on the top right inside the notes view accomplishes what you want. As you can see in this handy little screenshot:

If, however, this wasn’t quite what you were asking, please do get in touch again at @wip and we will see what we can do. Thanks for your question, and we hope this helps.

Keep the questions coming, folks!

Answer: Hey, @iliusolympios!

A two-part question requires a two-part answer. To address your first point, we can say that not all blogs can join communities yet. But we are currently working on that—and hope to have more news for you soon, on that point.

Regarding private communities, that’s good feedback, and we are grateful you raised it. Maybe we can make it a toggle whether or not private communities have some kind of “preview” or not—in any case, leave this with us, and we will see what we can do.

Thanks for your feedback. We appreciate it and hope to get back to you with updates soon!

Answer: Hello there @cinna-bunnie!

Great question. We try to summarize posts for notifications in a variety of ways, but we have limited space in the current notifications space, so we try to optimize it as best as we can. There is always room for improvement, though, so if you find specific posts that seem like they are missing a text summary that should be there, please feel free to send them to us in a Support ticket, and we’ll take a look! There may be a bug here we can fix.

It is unlikely that we’ll make our notifications longer or more verbose, even as a toggle, because we’d have to store even more redundant data in the notification. Ultimately, we want activity and notifications to be quick and easy to parse through, which typically means small and concise.

Thanks for getting in touch, and keep ’em coming, folks!

Answer: Hello, @iguanodonwildman!

We are very glad to answer this, and not least because this is something we have noticed ourselves. 

The first thing to say here is this: to turn off this type of notification you can toggle the “Recent updates” notification settings in the app, and this will go away.

But we have actually looked into this ourselves and found the bug responsible. We can confirm that we have now rolled back the change for the activity items—so the bug is fixed, and that toggle is what controls those particular notifications.

And thanks also to @coffeecasuality11, who got in touch with the same question. We hope this will be good news for you folks. 

Answer: Hey, @iguanodonwildman!

Thanks for this. We have contacted you directly for more information, but we also have some suggestions we would like to share.

If you upload a GIF to a post (instead of inserting a link to one or using the GIF search), that GIF becomes inadvertently “yours.” Also, keep in mind that folks can edit their post to replace your GIF at any time after the notification is sent. It would certainly be nice if there were a notification type that could be muted, separately from others (and may we take this chance to say that we would love to build this one day, only it is not clear when. While we would like to add it… we’ve got a lot of other things we need to build first.) 

So, as there isn’t right now, if you are uploading a GIF to your post instead of inserting it, here are some temporary solutions:

For those unsure how to copy image links, you right-click and select “Copy Image Link.” On Android, you tap and hold on an image, select “Share photo,” and copy the URL. iOS does not provide a way for us to do this in our iOS app. 

Alternatively, what works well is that you can get the first GIF in any post by pasting the post’s permalink into the GIF search. Bonus point: this will also embed any static image like a GIF, complete with a credit link. The only downside is that only the first image is returned, so GIFsets are out of the question unless you want to use the first GIF.

We hope this helps, and thanks for getting in touch with this. 

Answer: Hey, @pumpkin-patch-opossum!

Snap! We have been discussing a very similar subject recently, as it happens, and we are glad to see your interest. It could well be worth iterating out more notification control, as well as other, similar notification issues (allowing group blogs to set what their notification defaults are, for example.) 

Thanks for getting in touch here. We will take a look at this and get back to you with news when we’ve got it. You know the drill: stay tuned to @changes, folks.

Answer: Hey, @b-a-n-d-e-r!

We would love this, too. Only this is something that would be very hard to do right now with the way that notes and replies are stored. As things stand, it’s hard to say where this may or may not figure in our plans, but rest assured, the will is there!

Thanks a lot for taking the time to send your feedback. It’s appreciated, and we have made note of this for future reference.

And we will remind you, as always, that you can catch regular updates for new features, changes, and bugs we’ve resolved over at @changes.

Thanks for your question!

Answer: Hey there @youreverydaydemikid!

So, theoretically, we could, but to do so, we would need to make a lot of other changes. These changes would be difficult, and demanding of time and resources we don’t have right now.

But we will never say no to a theoretical “could,” particularly when it is something we would really like to do. We will say maybe in the future here, and with a lot of enthusiasm!

Answer: Hello there, @higherhell!

This is admittedly incredibly complex to do, but it still might be worthwhile. 

What we can say is that we would love for us to do this: to enable more private/small-group interactions. We have talked about it, possibly, as much as one billion times internally. It has been on our idea backlog before, and the good folks at the @labs blog are working in this direction. We would certainly hope to make it happen someday. 

What we would also add is that the only workaround in the product right now is to create a private group blog, one with those people you want able to see the content you’re trying to share with them privately. That’s the best we can offer right now.

We may well get to this in the future. If so, you will find updates either here on WIP or over at @changes.

Posts are too popular? Worry not. Consider your notifications covered.

Sound familiar?

Broken the internet with a post? We love that for you. What we love a little less is the barrage of likes and reblogs you have probably received. This can be a little intense. A bit much. Stressful, even. And unnecessarily so. 

If your post has gone stratospheric, but you don’t want to completely mute notifications for it, we are working on something that might just help. We are experimenting with grouping your push notifications from anyone you don’t follow into neat, occasional summaries. This will roll out to a small number of you, first as an A/B test, for a limited time.

Why are we doing this?

We hope to steady, streamline, and calm your Tumblr experience when you’re grappling with overwhelming notifications from a popular post or reblog. The goal here is to reduce overload so you can receive the notifications you care about the most—while keeping up to speed with everything else.

In July, you may remember that we turned on post-level muting on the web. We also extended muting to affect your activity feed, as well as your push notifications. This feature is the next step in managing notification overload—one that will make your devices a little more peaceful and, hopefully, work a little more proactively against the problem.

Before and after:

Feedback?

We’re all ears. Let us know what you think in the replies—we would love to hear from you. And we will be back in touch with updates on this test in the near future. 

Answer: Hello there, @bleuskais!

We hear you loud and clear on this one—so for now we’ve updated the activity list to only show a maximum of three of these thank you notes per page of your activity items. Hopefully, that will help reduce the noise—and thank you so much for reporting so much spam! Keep on at it folks, and keep the questions coming.

Best,

—Echo and Cyle

Answer: Hey there @steadfvsthearts!

Why, what are the chances. We have only gone and added this very feature today, of all days. Praise be!

We hope this helps, and thanks for your feedback! And keep the questions keep on keeping on.

Love,

—Cyle (Tumblr Engineering)

Ahoy, @jadefyre!

This is an intentional change—well, the first in probably a series of changes, to help highlight when you have activity to view as we do on desktop web.

It is, however, an experiment, so we’re still figuring out what works best here, and what really works. We’ll likely be doing more with viewing activity on mobile web soon. Keep eyes glued to @changes for updates as and when we have them!

Love,

—Cyle (Tumblr Engineering)