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Please consider adding the ability to edit comments (replies) on Tumblr posts — even if only for a short period after posting (like 5–10 minutes). It would help users fix typos or clarify thoughts without having to delete and repost the entire comment.

Answer: Hey there @amtva!

Thanks for your question. It’s a good idea, and it’s certainly possible!

Such a feature would certainly require a bit of love, time, and effort, but it’s doable—and we would love to see it happen as well. It would make a useful enhancement to replies. Limiting time would make sense, as you suggest—many similar apps only permit such a feature for a short time.

Leave this with us, for now. We will definitely take a look into it—it might make for an ideal Hack Day project! Keep an eye here at @wip and @changes for updates.

Have a great day!

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Can you add Apple Music support for posting tracks and albums

Answer: Hey, @pinkcat13!

Thanks for your question! We received something similar from @australmixing recently, who asked:

Hi, would you finally support MIXCLOUD player to be embed? why Soundcloud is supported and not Mixcloud?, they are practically “the same”.

Both of these sure would be nice, but they are not a priority right now, unfortunately. But we thought we would put it to you in a poll:

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Would love to see basic formatting in replies and messages — plain text in 2025 just doesn’t cut it anymore.

Answer: Hello @amtva!

A little good news for you. We want to do it, and we are currently working on replies. We've got quite the to-do list right now, so there is no concrete timeline as yet—but it’s recognized among the team that replies can be improved, and we plan on getting to it soon.

Watch this space! You’ll get updates here at @wip or @changes. Thanks for your question, and keep them coming.

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Can you add Apple Music support for posting tracks and albums

Answer: Hey, @pinkcat13!

Thanks for your question! We received something similar from @australmixing recently, who asked:

Hi, would you finally support MIXCLOUD player to be embed? why Soundcloud is supported and not Mixcloud?, they are practically “the same”.

Both of these sure would be nice, but they are not a priority right now, unfortunately. But we thought we would put it to you in a poll:

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hi wip! I was wondering if there's some kind of limit on the amount of links that can be included in a single post? I've been trying to create a directory pinned post on a sideblog of mine with probably around 50 links to different tags on the blog & keep getting the incredibly vague "there was an error saving your post" message when editing.

Answer: Hello, @sydmarch!

We can confirm that the limit is 100, but we should add that mentions are also classified as links, and a lot of folks run into that number! So it’s really 100 links and/or mentions, in total.

For anyone close to the limit, we would recommend categorization. You could make a primary list per category, for example, and then make the primary list link to each category. Or, in your specific case, perhaps you could create a custom page instead of a pinned post—that might work better.

We hope that’s some help. Thanks for your question, and keep them coming!

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Any chance the Queue button will come back on mobile (iOS)? I try to be respectful of my mutuals’ dashes and like to pace my posts. And it’s such a drag to have to open every. single. post. to queue. :/

Thanks!

Answer: Hey there, @bloggingakymbo.

Good news! We hear you, and we will bring it back. We can’t say for sure when exactly this will be, but we hope it won’t be too long.

Stay tuned for any news here at @wip or at @changes. Thanks for your question, and have a great day!

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Tips to build an audience.

Hey folks. We recently received this submitted as feedback:

It is extremely hard to get any sort of attention to your posts/ page I don’t know if I’m not putting enough tags or what but it just turned me off the the app because it felt pointless. I want people to see my art, to make friends, and to see something besides the same 5 post over and over again.

This felt like a good chance to start a conversation with you all. How do you build your audiences? What are your tips for tagging, blog settings, themes, and paid options? How do you get attention to your posts and pages? How do you get people to see your content, make friends, and see more posts?

But first, we can say that building an audience can be challenging—it’s also a lot of fun, and very rewarding! Using tags, for example, can help reach users who might be interested in your art (if any of your posts has content that is not suitable for minors, please remember to apply Content Labels to your posts). Why not check these pointers below from our old tips blog? But please consider that some features mentioned in that blog are no longer available:

Tag it up.

Some tags are better than others.

Run a Q&A.

Using the queue.

In addition, you can Blaze your posts to promote your content even further and help you build an audience.

There's a poll coming. Stay tuned, and keep submitting your feedback!

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Tips to find friends and followers.

Vote, and then reblog your tips, or share them in the comments. Help others in the community to find more fans, followers, and friends!

Keep the feedback coming, folks.

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Hey it would be very cool if we could turn off colored text and custom blog backgrounds because some of them are genuinely impossible for me to read

Answer: Hi, @antiadvil!

Good news. You can turn these off! You can do so in your dashboard settings. You can enable a blog’s custom colors in the blog view (e.g. http://www.tumblr.com/staff) but, if disabled, all blogs will be shown using your selected palette’s colors instead.

Thanks for your question. Keep them coming!

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Tips to find friends and followers.

Vote, and then reblog your tips, or share them in the comments. Help others in the community to find more fans, followers, and friends!

Keep the feedback coming, folks.

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When do monthly premium perks (Blaze, TumblrMart item) reset? I often forget to use them until the last day of the month, but there have been multiple months now where I go to use them that last day, only to find it’s reset for the next month (showing “30 days left” to use or whatever).

Of note, this has happened every time before it’s midnight anywhere on the continental US.

Answer: Hey there @okayto!

This might be a time zone issue. Tumblr Premium monthly perks reset at midnight, UTC. You can read all about it right here.

But we are taking a look into this in case something happened that shouldn’t have. Stay tuned! Thanks for your question, and you’ll get updates here or at @changes.

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Tips to build an audience.

Hey folks. We recently received this submitted as feedback:

It is extremely hard to get any sort of attention to your posts/ page I don’t know if I’m not putting enough tags or what but it just turned me off the the app because it felt pointless. I want people to see my art, to make friends, and to see something besides the same 5 post over and over again.

This felt like a good chance to start a conversation with you all. How do you build your audiences? What are your tips for tagging, blog settings, themes, and paid options? How do you get attention to your posts and pages? How do you get people to see your content, make friends, and see more posts?

But first, we can say that building an audience can be challenging—it’s also a lot of fun, and very rewarding! Using tags, for example, can help reach users who might be interested in your art (if any of your posts has content that is not suitable for minors, please remember to apply Content Labels to your posts). Why not check these pointers below from our old tips blog? But please consider that some features mentioned in that blog are no longer available:

Tag it up.

Some tags are better than others.

Run a Q&A.

Using the queue.

In addition, you can Blaze your posts to promote your content even further and help you build an audience.

There's a poll coming. Stay tuned, and keep submitting your feedback!

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Will formatting for code snippets or code blocks ever be a thing? I would love to make posts about various themes and coding stuff and the ability to insert code snippets would help a lot.

Answer: Hi @inkloin!

A few of you have asked this, or something similar! Unfortunately, this would be pretty difficult to implement right now. That said, we would love this—it would be nice to have. So we would love to know what other posts blocks you all would find helpful? Let us know in the comments and reblogs, and you'll get any updates here or at @changes.

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

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Hello! Can you add in ways for us to monetize our posts with affiliate links and sponsor banners? For example, adding a horizontal banner under some of my viral original work? This may be easier with a brand facing UI. Also, I honestly believe you should straight up just make a better version of Facebook, but a Tumblr version. Gen Z would love that. If no one else does it, I will.

Answer: Hey there, @2am-poetry.

Good news for you—it is already possible to add ads to your blogs and put affiliate links within your posts, and we would encourage you to read all about it at the Help Center. But note that you are limited to in-post affiliate links and/or linked image block banners in the blog network and the dashboard.

There’s more. With Blaze, you can send a post (whether yours or someone else’s) across Tumblr, which is shown as a Tumblr-sponsored post to an audience of your choosing. You can also select the location, language, and size of the audience—and target your post to relevant communities on Tumblr. 

We hope this helps. Thanks for your question, and keep them coming!

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Can we get any details about steps being taken to deal with all the falsely flagged as mature content? I'd love a way for an individual other than the OP to report a post as not mature. I'm seeing cats and bandaids and other innocuous things and accounts flagged as mature and it's getting really frustrating

Answer: Hello, @significantfoliage!

Thank you for this question—we are aware of incorrect classification issues and are actively working to reduce them. We’re also updating our appeals review process and expect to handle a higher volume of cases in the coming weeks. This is complicated and lengthy work, so we thank you for your continued patience.

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#update

Will Tumblr posts older than 2017 get indexed for searching?

Answer: Hello, @elemen!

UPDATE: We recently made a change that makes it easier to search for tagged posts from before 2017 using date-based search operators. For example, you can search for “star wars year:2015” to find posts tagged with star wars from 2015. Although it’s limited to only tagged posts, we understand that easier access to older content is important to you, and we’re glad to improve things a little.

It would be great to include all posts older than 2017, but to catalog the first ten years with the new search infrastructure would eat up a huge amount of time and space and require resources we don’t have right now. It’s a shame, but we know that the majority of you do not access posts that old even when we did provide support going back that far. To go back so many years would require a lot of difficult digging because we were not properly indexing posts before that time to begin with.

What are trying to do, however, is focus efforts on improving searching within your blogs—and this is something we have received a lot of feedback from you all. We are also working hard on reducing the amount of spam on Tumblr (which is not an easy task!) for the things you are all actually searching for on the Dashboard.

Thanks for getting in touch, and we hope this helps. Keep the questions coming!

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Hiiii I hope you're all holding on out there and have yummy drinks and soft pets on your laps! I've got a question: On the search page, where it shows previews of posts below each trending tag, I used to be able to tap those images and be taken straight to the posts they came from. Now it just takes me to the tag in general, which is unhelpful. Is this a bug, or is it a feature that was removed? Because it makes me sad and I would like it back. :/

Answer: Hi, @gotta-get-that-pma!

Thanks for your question. We thought we had fixed this in the past but have now found, after testing, that you’re right: it is broken on both iOS and Android. So we can say that this issue is not at all expected and as soon as we find the time, we will fix it. This would also be a good opportunity to gently remind folks to send these to our Support team in the future.

Now to the more important business: pets on laps for your eyes only, and an invitation to you all to send us your pets on laps.

And a blog for one of our dogs. Meet @alice.