#communities

[sinensis26]

I take back what I said earlier: I would absolutely sell my craft creations, and by "sell" I mean "trade for something I equally value". Do you like my punk rock giraffe stuffie? You can have one for $81... or a bag full of coreopsis seeds. A knit fringe lumberjack hat? Thats $195... or a jar of local honey. Ill sew new clothes for all of your kid's dolls, usually $300+ in labor and material, but Id rather they draw me a really cool picture that I can hang on my fridge.

[confusedgoldenflower]

You cannot flip shit every time you get upset, because humans WILL do that, no matter how unintentionally. Differences and disagreements will be had. Learn how to bow out of a situation and cool off. Likewise, how to communicate that this is only gonna escalate for you. Take breaks. That’s not childish, it’s mature and knowing yourself. It’s actual communication.

i mean this in the nicest way possible but some of you need to learn how to be annoyed

[dchuntress]

the comics of women community is open to join!

marvel and dc comics fans, both welcome! more information is available in the guidelines, and please dm me if you're interested in being a moderator! reblogs appreciated 🩵

[staff]

Tumblr! They’re here. Communities are finally here. 

Communities are a new and easy way to connect with the people on Tumblr who get it. You can invite mutuals who share your obsessions to a private Community or start a public Community for the things you love and watch all the new friends pile in. Like a clown car, Communities can fit (almost) as many people in ‘em as you want.

Today, we’re hatching Communities out of their beta shell and launching them at your collective Tumblr experience—for you to enjoy and tinker with as we continue to build them out. We’re talking globally, on web, iOS, and Android. Buckle up, baby. We’re going to be so normal about this.

You can make a Community for just about anything. Art. Gravity Falls. Knitting. Your current D&D campaign. Photography. Obscure ships. The gay people in your phone. Music. Science. Fashion. Design. Baldur’s Gate 3. You’re the wielder of your own destiny. And, thanks to our delightful early testing users, there are already so many for you to join. Hazbin Hotel? Check. Arcane? Check. The Phandom? Check, check, check.

How do you get started? 

You can browse Communities over here. 

Find specific Communities by tapping the Communities tab at the top of the search results page.

Want to create your very own Community? Right this way, maestro.

Here’s a help doc for any questions you might have.

We’re excited to see what you do with this. Go forth, hang out, have fun.

[labs]

Another idea: Communities on Tumblr

For a while now folks have asked us for better ways to connect with other people who share similar interests. We’re listening, and at Labs we’ve been looking into fulfilling that need, Tumblr style.

Introducing Communities, a new place to connect with others on Tumblr:

Here in Labs, we’re working on big ideas that could transform how Tumblr is used, while keeping that Tumblr vibe alive. You can see one of those ideas above. We’re calling it “Communities”, a new dedicated space on Tumblr for people to share and discuss all the content they love. Communities can cover topics like your favorite show, artist, movie, video game, your school, your board game group, friend group, big or small, whatever you want.

Each Community has their own semi-private safer space away from the regular dashboard where you can interact with other Tumblr users who share the same interests and passions as you. There are moderators and members (you!), rules, and privacy settings. Each community has its own feed of posts from members, separate from your Following and For You feeds. Interactions within community spaces stay there and replies will work more like a traditional comment section. Folks will be able to reblog posts into a community, but not out — at least not yet.

We’re very excited for you to try it, and help define the best path forward. What we have is a prototype to help us validate the idea, but there’s still plenty of questions that need answering. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be reaching out to people across Tumblr, and the internet at large, to try our prototype. Based on the feedback we get, we’ll iterate on the idea to see what resonates best with all of you on Tumblr.

If this sounds interesting, please like, reblog, or reply to this post, and we’ll invite you to beta test this feature when we roll it out to a wider Tumblr audience, as a little perk for following the Labs blog.

Stay tuned for more!

[markscherz]

With basically no attempts to promote it, Frogblr, the community I founded on an absolute whim when tumblr communities were first announced, now has nearly 13,000 members. I think we may be in the top ten largest communities on this hellsite (affectionate)‽ There doesn't seem to be a way to quantify that. But yeah. Apparently an affinity for frogs is a near ubiquitous part of the tumblr user experience.

So uh… get in, losers, we're going frogging?

[jstor]

📢 Introducing The JSTOR Collective!

We’re thrilled to announce our new Tumblr community: The JSTOR Collective! 🎉

This is a space where faculty, librarians, students, researchers, and lifelong learners can come together to share ideas, spark conversations, and, yes, even post academic memes. 😉

Whether you’re deep in research, looking for study tips, or just want to connect with others passionate about knowledge, this is the place for you.

✨ What you’ll find:

Meaningful discussions and resources

A welcoming, inclusive space for all

Humor, curiosity, and plenty of memes

Join The JSTOR Collective and help us build a vibrant, self-sustaining community that celebrates the joy of learning.

Let’s connect, collaborate, and grow—together. 🌱

[sabertoothwalrus]

FINALLY GOT COMMUNITIES

[hello-there]

Communities are a new way to connect with the people on Tumblr who care about the things you care about! Browse Communities to find the perfect one for your interests or create a new one and invite your friends and mutuals!

[runby2]

i needed to put my two cents in because i've seen a post going around with 90k notes that made me somewhat frustrated. it was saying that " private discord servers" are ruining tumblr's fandom community and that you're going to be lonely and alone when the servers die and that you should be posting to fandom community tags to keep it alive.

and first off, no, you're not a bad person for having private discord servers. that's ridiculous. yes servers die over time. that's just how it is. it doesn't mean it was pointless to enjoy a small group of friends even if you drift apart. and it definitely doesn't mean it was pointless to share your content with them.

my main point, no, private discord servers are not "killing tumblr's fandom community"

the real reason fandom communities are dying is just that we're all growing older, and fandom communities on tumblr are hostile towards creators that don't fit a certain niche.

i don't blame anyone for making private servers for friends for their specific creations. safety and peace comes first with creation. as someone who is traumatized from certain fandom communities not accepting darker content or personal takes on characters, i 100% understand why anyone, mostly neurodivergent creators, would want to not post their art publicly in those tags. hostile environments birth isolation.

also consider art theft, and the ai boom, and the lack of ability to post mature art or content in tags for adult creators trying to share their works.

so no, you're not bad for having a discord server of private friends to share your work with. no you're not killing tumblr. no you're not going to end up alone and sad because you chose to protect your peace.

and just because someone posts their art in a place you weren't invited to doesn't mean someone's hiding it from you. you are not entitled to someone's content just because "it could have been posted on tumblr"

this also applies to people who prefer private communities on this site.

enjoy your day and rest easy.

[genericpuff]

besides the fact that i've already had access to the communities feature in forever (so now that they're officially "announcing" it i'm just here like 'oh i thought that was always a thing' lol) i think the whole "appeal" of communities that tumblr is trying to sell is really funny

"you can make a community for anything, like gravity falls or supernatural or your fanfiction project or your D&D campaign!"

and it's like hmmmmmbutwe'veliterallyalwayshadtheabilitytodothat, it's called the literal tagging system that the site has freaking built on ?? 💀😆 but now even worse because apparently OP's aren't notified when their posts get shared to communities so they don't get to see the engagement or reactions or whatnot to their posts, which sucks because reblogging stuff is literally the best way to engage with stuff you like (i love seeing the tags in reblogs of my art, esp when it's like that one person doing a marathon of my gallery and reblogging each piece and leaving little comments and compliments, you're the real MVP) and communities will constrain visibility for both the OP's own content as well as the people in their own tag circle

but it could also create that nasty echo chamber effect where discussions are "privatized" to only include people in those groups and exclude anyone who doesn't conform to the "inside rules", so you don't get other opinions from other people coming across the discussion like they would with tags ???

like this is just discord, but no one was asking for discord, because if we wanted to use discord, we would (and are)

i guess it's not as invasive and garbage as Live was (yet) but idk i feel like this is another classic case of "staff members forgetting what site they work for" 💀

[mushroomw1tch]

If you're interested in a community that is Adult Witchcraft Folk Magic Intermediate to Advanced or just any "magic" path or faith that falls around these practices, I've started a community for one.

It's geared to not include very baby witch information/inquiries. For me, that content no longer serves me. Its also a safe space for information on magical concepts that you may not want to discuss with children/minors.

We still need a lot more interactions and community involvement and its almost spring! When I think a lot of us start to defrosting lmao.

Request to join if you're interested! 🕯

[wobblydev]

is anyone timing how long it takes tumblr to shut down the first transgirl community and ban all its members?

[222beetle]

i can not believe there is not a gaalee community on here??? i know you guys are still alive!! im disappointed,,, do i need to make one,,?

(REALLY) LATE UPDATE: i've made it,,, join,,,

[labs]

Communities closed beta is here

Hello again! We’re back with an update on Communities, a big idea we had last year that we’ve been working on steadily since then. We’re abnormally jazzed to announce that we’re beginning a “closed beta” phase of this new feature, which means many of you will get to play with it soon!

We want to build this whole thing together, with as much input from all of you as possible. We’ve read and re-read the feedback from our previous post, and we’ve been surveying and interviewing people about this idea for a few months now. But it’s time to open this up even more for hands-on testing.

We’ve already begun reaching out to most of you who interacted with our previous post, as promised, with a survey asking whether you’d be interested in helping (check your email!). Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be using the results of that survey to narrow down who we’d like to help test Communities in these initial batches.

The process is looking a bit like this:

If you received a Communities survey email to your registered Tumblr email address, fill it out! If you’re interested in helping us in this beta test period, that’s your way of potentially getting early access. If you did not receive an email with the Communities survey, don’t fret! Communities will be rolling out to more people as we expand our testing. 

We’ll go through the results and choose a diverse range of community ideas to gather a wide array of feedback.

Selected testers will receive a second survey with more detailed questions about their proposed community. Very practical stuff, like the name, title, and description, whether it should be public or private, the About page contents, its own community guidelines, and more.

We will create the new Tumblr community on your behalf using the information supplied. We’re building the tools that will let people create and edit communities themselves, so eventually you’ll be able to change them without needing our help. But for now, we’re creating and editing them for you, as needed.

After we’ve created the community, you’ll be made its first admin. Everything from here on out is up to you – Tumblr staff won’t be in your community (unless you invite us, of course). You’ll be able to invite anyone on Tumblr to your community. However, your community will have a population cap to start, limiting how many people can be in it and invited, as a way of keeping this beta test somewhat contained and manageable for us. We’ll be able to raise that population cap for communities that are growing and if we want to test further in that direction.

And throughout, we’ll be asking for feedback, both in some special communities for everyone in the closed beta, and via more surveys and the Support tickets we receive.

This closed beta version of Communities is far from finished, and that’s part of the reason we want to start opening it up to more of you for feedback. There are a lot of rough edges and known issues, but we think it’s far enough along that it’s usable enough for testing. We need feedback in order to feel like we’re building the right thing.

The very first public community is called “Communities Feedback” for this reason! We want everyone helping us test out communities to tell us about it, so people in this closed beta will be in there by default. We want to use that space to be more public and real-time about new pieces we’re building, bugs we’re fixing, things we know are broken, and answers to common questions. There is an additional, private community for community admins, to help shape how administrating and moderating these spaces will work. And if you don’t want to use those spaces, you can always use the “Feedback” category in our Support form.

Stay tuned for more, and keep an eye on that Communities Feedback space if you’d like to see how things are changing over time.