#Tumblr Queue

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Whatever happened to Tumblr?

It's still here. It will remain.

Long after the metaverse collapses, when the tweets run dry and the googleplex lays rotting among the kudzu, tumblr will remain.

There will be none who recognize it, only a few dim sparks in a long forgotten server, a few stray posts queued before the world became what it would become. On a broken cathode ray tube, unseen by human eyes (or any other) the posts will flicker.

A joke about the year 2525.

A cat looking at a bird.

A gifset from Lord of Illusions.

News of the dead human epoch from a Supernatural meme.

This is all that will remain of humankind's flirtation with electricity after it grew so inept, so futile, so idiotic and cruel that nobody we might call human could ever survive it.

Tumblr too will fade in the end, this unappreciated remnant under a dying sun, posting one last question to no audience before the darkness reigns: "Do you love the color of the sky?" It asks.

But the sky diffused from Earth eons ago.

[marlinspirkhall]

I keep pressing "queue" on posts knowing full well that my queue is only allowed to post 2 times a day and I have a backlog of about 3 months built up due to all my scheduled posts and whatnot, so I'm curious:

Obviously some people might only have it set to post once a day and others might be churning out posts, so this number probably varies wildly.

[defendingwarrior]

Hey friends!

I haven’t disappeared, promise! Gifs are all queued up and ready to drop over the next few days. Even if I’m a bit quiet, the gifs will keep coming your way.

Feel free to scream in the tags with me when they go live

Thanks for sticking around, you’re the best!

[netscapenavigator-official]

I love the Tumblr queue. It makes me feel like a small business owner.

[absurdly-useful]

Absurdly-useful's Guide to Using the Tumblr Queue (for Desktop Users)

If your queue is already set up the way you want it to be, skip down to How to Add Posts to Your Queue

Pick which of your blogs you're going to be setting up a queue for. (If you just have a main blog, you don't have to worry about this. You'll only have one option in step 4, which will make things easy for you.)

Decide how often and when you want posts from your queue to appear. I'm writing this for @daily-crabbys who (I'm assuming, given "daily" in the blog title) is looking for a one post per day schedule, so that's what I'm going to go with the rest of this guide. Also, I'm arbitrarily picking "between 3PM and 4PM" as the time (we don't get to pick the exact times when using the queue).

Expand the "Accounts" section of the left-hand menu

Here's the expanded view (sorry, no, you don't get to know what my side blogs are):

4. In the "Accounts" section of that menu, click on the blog you are setting up a queue for. This will take you to your view of your blog, which will now add an additional menu on the RIGHT side of the column of posts:

5. Click on "Queue" in the right-side menu.

The number on the right is the number of queued AND scheduled posts combined. If you're just setting this up for the first time, yours may not have a number, it will be blank there.

6. Once you click on Queue, you'll end up at the Queue page! The important parts of it look like this (note: I switched to a sideblog that has no queued posts for this screenshot. You'll see what a populated queue looks like later):

7. Now change your queue settings. We can set the queue to automatically publish between 1 and 50 posts per day, and we can set what hours those posts appear. You can't fool Tumblr into giving your queued posts an exact time by setting your queue to automatically post "between 3PM and 3PM" or something similar. Go ahead and change the settings - once you do, a "Save" button will appear. Here's what it would look like for our example scenario:

8. Go ahead and click "Save". Now, your queue is set up...but empty. So let's fix that next.

One last note: If you see this:

Just click on "Resume Queue" to get your queue going again.

How to add posts to your Queue

There are several ways to add posts to your queue. We're going to start with the one that I think that @daily-crabbys will be using. Each of these options works slightly differently, and which one you'll want will depend on personal preference, how you want to use Tumblr, and probably tons of other things.

Adding a new post created from your dashboard to your queue:

Click on Create to open the new post editor.

Click on the little "v" shape next to "Post" to open the "what to do with this post" menu. This DOES NOT immediately add the post to your queue. It only sets what's going to happen when you click the button.

3. From that menu, click "Add to Queue"

Like I was saying...awful contrast.

Here's what that button looks like after clicking "Add to queue" from that menu:

You can also access this menu before beginning the post - but if you haven't written anything yet, the contrast between the button text and the button background is low, so I didn't want that as the screenshot. Just so you know what it looks like, here's the "nothing in the post yet" versions of those buttons:

4. Edit your post as normal.

5. Click the "Add to Queue" button once you're satisfied with your post.

6. Await your queued posts appearing automatically at the time you've set!

Note: You don't have to set "Add to queue" first - you can start editing the post, decide "hey, I think I want to queue this one", and change it to queue instead of post anytime before you click "Post now".

Now your Queue page will show you the queued and scheduled posts for your blog.

Things you can do from the Queue page

The bottom of a queued post gives you this confusing set of icons:

We're going to ignore the "(some number) notes" part - that works just like it does on your dash.

The four dots icon is called a "thumb" - you can click on it and drag it around to rearrange the order of your queued posts. (It's actually kind of annoying to use if you've got a number of long posts queued. Also, it's there on queued posts but not there on scheduled posts.)

The up arrow with a bar above it moves the post to the top of the queue (in other words, it will be the next thing to be posted, replacing whatever is currently next in line).

The next one is supposed to be a trash can - it deletes the post without posting. You do get a chance to confirm or cancel deleting the post.

The pencil icon lets you edit the post while it's still in the queue.

The "Post" button lets you post something from your queue immediately - after confirming, so it's not as dangerous as it could be.

Other ways to add to the Queue

Adding queued posts from the Queue page:

I find this one to be the most work to get to...but if you're the kind of person who gets excited that your post is ready and clicks the "Post now" without stopping to think "Hey, I meant to queue that!" then maybe this is the way you want to queue posts. Or if you want to create multiple queued posts at once.

Remember when we were on the queue page and I ignored everything below the blog settings? Maybe not (because it was a lot of words ago!) but that's what I did. Anyway: If you're already on the Queue page, you can click one of these:

to create a post of that type, and the button that is normally "Post now" will instead default to "Add to Queue". After that, you can edit it like you would any normal post that you're creating.

Adding reblogs of other people's posts from your dashboard (without comments or tags):

Method 1: With the post you want to reblog at just about the top of your dash, press Shift+Q on your keyboard. This will queue a reblog of the post you're on to your most-recently-used blog, without a chance to comment or add tags. (But you can go into the queue later and do those things.)

Method 2: Hold down the W key on your keyboard and move your mouse cursor over the "reblog" icon. Several little "bubbles" will pop up with your main blog and sideblog icons. Move your mouse cursor to the icon representing the one you want to queue this reblog to. Don't worry if you've got several blogs with identical icons - hovering over the icons will give you a little pop-up saying "Queue to" followed by the blog name, so it's easy to figure out which one of your blogs it's going to end up on. Again, you don't get a chance to add comments or tags with this method, but you can go into the queue later and do those things.

Adding reblogs of other people's posts from your dashboard WITH comments or tags:

Remember that menu that appears when you click on the "v" shape next to "Post now"? It's there in the editor when you reblog something as well. So, click on the "v", select "Add to queue" from the menu that pops up, add your comments and/or tags, and click the blue "Add to queue" button. The next time you hit the reblog button, it will default back to "Post now".

[distracted-milkshake]

Reblog for sample size and post some of your ding dang drafts!!!

[bcbdrums]

Thinking of changing my queue times for the new year...

IF it were to change, it would not go later in the day. It might start an hour earlier but if fewer posts, it would end earlier. Trying to be considerate of my international followers.

Regardless, the tea poll will still happen when it happens, random reblogs and posts will still happen when they happen.

[cecebeanie]

I don't know if anyone else has had/ has this problem but my queue literally disappeared:( I had queued reblogs that were supposed to be posted in like July and now it's all gone. I didn't delete anything, I think Tumblr just... forgot about it? Idk. Does anyone know anything about it? Is this a new, fun Tumblr feature?

[nerdalmighty]

Anybody else having a weird time with the queue feature? Instead of posts automatically going to the bottom of the queue, they're being placed at the top, not given a timestamp, and I can't move them to reorganize them on desktop or mobile. @support @changes

[snarp]

Is there any version of the Tumblr queue interface with a "Go To End Of Queue" or "Reverse Queue" button? So you can remove stuff you queued by accident without having to click through multiple pages

[ickaimp]

Tumblr has a new trick!

Under ‘settings’, click on ‘queue’

And there’s now a big shiny button at the top.

Click ‘shuffle’, and with the exception of scheduled posts, your entire queue shuffles. Click it a few times if you want, see the top posts change.

What’s going to show up on @mischif next? I have no idea. It’s a surprise!

And it’s kind of delightful 😁

[angybk7]

My tumblr queue addiction got me wishing for a “queue stack” (place item on top of list, first to be posted) and “queue queue” (place item at end of list, last to be posted) and that’s a bad sign

[salmon404]

@staff WHERE IS MY QUICK QUEUE BUTTON!!?!

[defendingwarrior]

Hey friends!

I haven’t disappeared! Gifs are queued and ready to go for the next few days, so they’ll keep coming even if I’m a bit quiet. Hope you enjoy them, feel free to scream in the tags with me!

[destinationtoast]

my tumblr queue is a self-experiment I'm constantly running on my long-term memory.

slowly figuring out how long something needs to sit in my queue before I will say to myself "wow what a delightful thing that is exactly to my taste!! I should add this to my queue! who put this excellent thing on my dash? ...oh! huh."

[paperbackribs]

So life has been a bit busy and I've not been on my beloved tumblr so much. But nothing makes that hit home so boldly like an unashamed baseball bat to the knee as seeing my queue with under 300 sad posts to go