So sorry for the quiet month! We’ve been hard at work on the next iteration of Tumblr, and today we’re ready to pull back the curtain and let you play with some new features we’re totally excited about.
Snappy new interface
The first thing you’ll notice is the slick new Dashboard screen. There’s a ton of new functionality coming to Tumblr, and we’ve been meticulous in keeping the interface focused and dead-simple.
Follow your friends
One of our favorite things about the tumblelog form is just how easy it makes keeping up with the people around us. We’ve streamlined this process even more by letting you follow all your friends on your Dashboard.
More mobile
We’ve been thrilled with the amount of mobile activity Tumblr has been seeing since we turned on mobile photo uploads. As of today, you can send text messages to the same address, letting you update Tumblr from anywhere.
ReBlog stuff you love
Tumblelogs are already the easiest way to share stuff you find or create. But next time you want to share something you find on another tumblelog, just ReBlog it. ReBlogging let’s you quickly share content you discover on other tumblelogs, and even add or change the commentary.
When you’re logged into Tumblr, the ReBlog button is displayed on permalink pages and friends’ posts on your Dashboard.
What’s still missing?
Plenty. This is still only a tiny bit of the vision, and we still have lots more to launch over the next few weeks. A few pieces that are noticeably absent:
- More ways to find friends - It seems like a no-brainer to show friends of your friends, but we have some interesting tools for this that aren’t quite ready uncover. More ways to discover tumblelogs are right around the corner.
- Two-way communication - We hear you! And believe me, this feature is just as important to us. It’s been a lot of work to build an innovative system that doesn’t fall into the same trap that blog comments have. We’re on to something really cool, and we promise you’ll be playing with it soon!
- More ReBlog feedback - ReBlogging gets really cool when we start tracking the life of stuff you post on Tumblr. Imagine following your photo as it’s shared across thousands of users, always pointing back to the creator, while mapping the web of users along the way.
And some bugs fixed
Notably:
- The Write API is no longer failing to create photos in certain instances.
- PRE tags should no longer be seeing extra new-line entities in their markup. (Thanks Tim Lucas!)
So what do you like? What don’t you like? What are you excited about? And what do you absolutely need to see make it into the next update?
As always, your support has been immeasurable. The feedback from this rapidly growing community has been absolutely inspiring, and we are so excited to continue developing Tumblr with you. Thank you!
358 responses so far ↓
some dude // April 27, 2007 at 3:48 pm
That’s great, but you kicked me off while writing a post! I had that feeling as when a term paper is lost during a computer crash. OK not that bad, but not a good feeling. I gave up on it, I was just rambling anyway.
Marc LaFountain // April 27, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Hey, guys. I already love the new Dashboard interface. And, I can’t wait to see how you handle comments. BTW, I came upon an interesting WordPress comments solution today that would be pretty cool if ported to Tumblr:
http://www.mobatalk.com/
Thanks again for making such a great product! I’m vacationing in California next week and plan to tumblelog the whole thing from my phone via SMS and camera on Tumblr!
Marc :-)
naum // April 27, 2007 at 4:02 pm
great work, keep plugging in new features…
however, the bookmarklet process seems broken now — when i highlight text and click on tumblr bookmarklet, the resultant form fields are shown url encoded (i.e., %20, %7C, etc.…)
my tumblr wish list?
1. search
2. comment (or some sort of reader/viewer feedback mechanism)
3. code/source blocks
seifip // April 27, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Really nice work! That was a nice suprise when I logged to my account =D
Some of my feature requests…
1. Ability to upload photo from http://www.tumblr.com/new/text - for now, I have to create a photo post, copy the image link, delete the photo post before it get’s to RSS, add the image to the test post. That is very annoying, I hope you’ll add the Upload box to the Text post as soon as possible :)
2. Sidebar gadget for Vista (Simply recode the dashboard one) Pleaseeee!
3. PHP support in the template editing
2naum: You can simply add a Google or Live search to your tumblr blog, and even style the results under your blog’s design!
Shawn // April 27, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Absolutely love it! Thanks so much for the continued hard work toward making tumblr even greater.
It’s greatly appreciated.
Eric // April 27, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Pretty cool stuff.
How is the progress on embedding code snippet going? (Without having to disable Rich Text Editing)
Ghostvirus // April 27, 2007 at 4:32 pm
I like the dashboard color scheme a lot more than the old lime-colored one.
Good stuff.
Jeff // April 27, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Excellent work ! Thank you !
But, i still have a question :
Why the flower of tumblr’s logo isn’t already your favicon ?? Missing ??
;-) !
Dave // April 27, 2007 at 5:07 pm
The new settings for feeds are great, but there doesn’t seem to be an option to apply them to a feed one’s already importing, short of deleting it and adding it again. The feed import’s a bit glitchy anyhow - I’m importing a tag feed from del.icio.us, and when I last bookmarked a site with that tag, tumblr suddenly imported 30 other links as well! Overall though, tumblr is fantastic - I can’t wait to see what you have up your sleeves next: my main desire is to have some way of discovering other people’s tumblelogs, so I’m glad that’s in the works.
Paolo // April 27, 2007 at 5:26 pm
thanks a lot for your work! i was quite surprised to be greeted by the new interface :)
i’d have a silly unrelated request for the /radar: could you make the links either middle-clickable or target=_blank?
it would be great, sometimes i want to follow more than one link but i tend to get easily lost :)
Paolo // April 27, 2007 at 5:29 pm
(forget my request, there’s something wrong with my mouse!)
Evan // April 27, 2007 at 5:30 pm
There doesn’t seem to be a way to mass delete items. So, for instance, I imported a feed that I then deleted — but all the items are still on my Tumblr. Do I have to delete them all one at a time? If so, could we have a way to mass delete? :)
GreySheepDuo // April 27, 2007 at 6:17 pm
This is a beautiful, beautiful thing. I love it!
maique // April 27, 2007 at 6:32 pm
great work. looks amazing.
would also like to have search (i use mine also as a kind of journal and i ‘just know i had this somewhere’ and hate going through dozens of pages until i find it).
apart from that i thinks this is becoming an addiction. glad i joined.
Marc LaFountain // April 27, 2007 at 6:47 pm
How about support for custom favuicons? Maybe the icon we upload in Settings could be our favicon?
Thanks again!
Marc :-)
Hank // April 27, 2007 at 7:14 pm
I loves it. Very smooth.
However, is there anyway you could have an audio post like the video post?
I’ve always wanted followers.
cheers Hank.
David Chartier // April 27, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Love all the new changes, but you don’t seem to be handling Vox feeds quite right. One of my latest posts includes a video that I believe is 500px wide. It looks fine on Vox, but on my Tumblr site it’s busting out of my theme dimensions.
mrshl // April 27, 2007 at 7:22 pm
A lot of nice stuff here. Here are my thoughts on what future releases ought to include:
1) Custom favicons would be a nice addition. We’ve got one now, but we’re having to host it off-site.
2) Support for multiple authors would be ACES. I’m already running a tumblr with several authors, but we’re using the same password. I realize, of course, that we could all just get our own tumblr blogs and import those feeds. That’s a little more trouble than I’d like to go through.
3) Consider making it easier for users to use a custom banner/logo for their blogs. Again, we’ve done this already, and it’s not hard, but you guys seem to want things to be as easy as possible.
4) Create a Tumblelog directory that groups Tumblr blogs by category and allows a search by topic.
Finally, I’m not sure why, but for some Tumblr blogs, the “dashboard” and “add to friends” buttons in the top right corner don’t appear. This appears to be isolated to blogs that use their own domain names.
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Assaf // April 27, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Would love to have custom Favicons.
The add friends and dashboard link don’t show up when the tumblr is served from a custom domain name.
It’s cool that is shows my friends’ posts in the dashboard, but it would be even more useful if I could get a feed of that, instead of adding them individually to my feed reader.
Jonathan // April 27, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Great work! Can’t wait for the rest of the features to roll out. I love Tumblr!!!
mrshl // April 27, 2007 at 7:45 pm
“The add friends and dashboard link don’t show up when the tumblr is served from a custom domain name.”
Except SOMETIMES they do show up on custom domains. It’s really weird.
David Chartier // April 27, 2007 at 7:52 pm
I think the service-specific feeds still need some kind of attribution, like ‘via my Digg’ or ‘linked at my del.icio.us.’ Otherwise, as a linking and importing feature, these imported services look really ambiguous and are confusing to the reader. We’re sending them *somewhere else,* but we haven’t given them any indication that the link/headline they’re about to click on actually lives *somewhere else.*
mars-z // April 27, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Great update guys - the dashboard looks fantasic… just one question.
How come images no longer appear in the tumblr RSS feeds?
keep up the great work!
Your #1 Australian tumblr fan!
Marie // April 27, 2007 at 8:17 pm
I love the new interface, though the graphics aren’t quite as quick to use for me–but Tumblr definitely is a lot prettier now!
A feature I hope you guys will consider is sort of sidebar for RSS feeds. For example, if you’re importing a Last.fm feed, it seems like it would crowd my Tumblr if every single track played was displayed. (Haven’t experimented much with this yet though, so I’m honestly not sure how this works.) If there were some sort of sidebar feature for RSS feeds that displayed, say, the last five items without posting them to my actual Tumblr, I’d definitely integrate more feeds into/onto my Tumblr.
Anyway, no real complaints! Great update. Very cool Tumblr is starting to develop a social aspect. This will probably encourage my friends to read my blog and perhaps be more likely to join. Seems like a great direction for the site and can’t wait to see the new features!
Hank // April 27, 2007 at 8:41 pm
didn’t my old rss have images? or am I imaging things?
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Tim Lucas // April 27, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Thanks for fixing that newline problem. You guys are going great guns with the new developments.
Kevin J // April 27, 2007 at 9:19 pm
My requests are as follows.
1. Tags (i’d rather have tags than categories, and i think it fits with the real idea of a tumblelog better, it isn’t just blog lite)
2. Search (to address the other half of the organization problem, right now there is no way to go back to the things you have posted other than paging through, which is beyond painful)
thats it really, everything else is just neat extras, like custom favicons and such. Also, whatever other features you add please make them optional, i would like to be able to keep the current stripped down format if so desired, not be forced into having comments on each post etc.
Great job guys
- Kevin J
SteveP // April 27, 2007 at 9:53 pm
What a brilliant version 2 for Tumblr! I really like the new features.
Just one thing I’ve noticed when adding a friend to watch. Their icon links to their tumble log, but their name links to my site.
SteveP
c0wb0yz // April 27, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Kudos for the new features.
However, like Kevin J and for the exact same reasons he exposes just two posts above, I think that tags and search are tremendously missing to tumblr.
Zverok // April 27, 2007 at 10:50 pm
First of all, a big thanks for Tumblr! It’s great.
A small feature request: it can make sense to have two RSS options: “one entry per Tumblr post” (as it is now) and “one entry per day” (as it is on anarchaia.org).
Reason: when browsing tumblelog online, posts are grouped inside each day, and it’s good; RSS breaks this impression.
Thank you and please sorry my poor English.
kyorecoba // April 27, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Oh, So goooood!
It’s comfortable.
Thanks for your great works.
gary // April 28, 2007 at 12:57 am
Looks great. A search function would really be nice however. With no archive list it would be very handy.
Anthony // April 28, 2007 at 1:54 am
Awesome. Thanks for all the hard work!
seifip // April 28, 2007 at 5:11 am
2 more requests :)
1. Tags
2. Update Theme Preview doesn’t work in Opera, refreshes twice in FF
Philip Seyfi, fs-studio.eu
Tom // April 28, 2007 at 6:37 am
Looks very cool indeed,a widget to automatically link on your sidebar to people your following would be aces.
Kevin Ballard // April 28, 2007 at 7:07 am
Looks pretty awesome. I just started using Tumblr because I saw a flickr screenshot of the dashboard page and thought it looked spiffy.
I even just released a Tcl library for the Tumblr API - http://blog.eridi.us/post/1311024
ausim // April 28, 2007 at 10:53 am
I love the new interface.
Do you plan to introduce some kind of traffic report?
Kevin // April 28, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Thanks for Tumblr, I love it !
And the new admin interface looks really great ! I can’t wait your particular comments system no longer :-)
I only ask for audio streams :-)
Thanks again.
Ed // April 28, 2007 at 1:44 pm
A brilliant update, thanks. However, there are a couple of things I’d like to seem implemented:
1. Importing other Tumblr feeds. I’d like to have a page aggregating the content of my and other friends’ tumblelogs. Or, even better, multiple authors.
2. More feed options, namely, the ability to import only the latest post per day. So that, for instance, Tumblr doesn’t automatically import the fifty images you just uploaded to Flickr (mind you, you can actually circumvent this in Flickr - by setting a ‘tumblr’ tag and importing just that tag’s feed -, but not in other similar sites).
3. Reblogging is quite useful (see point 1.), but it’d be nice if it automatically appended a “via …” link at the end of the posts. Also, what about a ‘reblog’ button next to each post in people’s tumblelogs if you are logged in (ie, as with friends’ posts in the dashboard)? Having to enter the permalink page is an annoying extra step.
4. Monthly archives.
5. Not that I miss it terribly (after all, Tumblr’s charm is its apparent simplicity), but the ability to have a second collumn with more RSS content would be a nice addition in 3.0.
Thanks again,
Ed
Eric // April 28, 2007 at 2:00 pm
@ausim: You can sign up at Google Analytics and embed the javascript they supply before your tag in your custom theme. It’s free and they supply a boatload of information about your visitors.
-Eric
Eric // April 28, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Sorry I left something out in the previous comment…you embed the Google Analytics code before your closing body tag in your custom theme.
Craig (mars-hill) // April 28, 2007 at 2:07 pm
I also love the new interface - nice work.
My wishlist? Working with RSS readers like net news wire and vienna to add bookmarklet-like tumblr functionality. I do most of my web reading via RSS and would love to be able to post from there.
erica // April 28, 2007 at 2:08 pm
like the new interface! very spiffy =) i’m excited to see what new features will be coming out next!
delFUEGO // April 28, 2007 at 2:43 pm
FEATURES:
1). The ability to disable those “coming in no time” comments (aka: tumblr “classic”).
2). A simple “contact the author” form (with a “how much is 4 + 9″ sort of antispam field).
3). DOCUMENTATION. I’ll love to know every “dinamic tag” we could use in the HTML, like the date ones, etc.
BUG FIXES:
I’ve customized a theme. Sometimes, I backup my themes code and change to one of the existing themes to look around it’s code, but when I go again to “custom” and paste my backuped code, the “dinamic” colors are gone. Instead of the ones I specified in the code, the ones from the last existing theme I selected are used. I have to change them all again through the “easy-to-use color selector fields” below the code block.
Thats really annoying.
I’ve tryed adding a del.icio.us feed, but not using the “del.icio.us” option, but the “RSS feed” instead, because I wan’t to import just the bookmarks tagged with a specific tag. Nothing happened, I’m still waiting. The feeds url its like this…
http://del.icio.us/rss/USERNAME/TAG
…any thoughts why isn’t it working?
GOODIES:
Some “I LOVE TUMBLR” or “TUMBLR FAN” banners wouldn’t hurt :D
Anyway, I LOVE tumblr just as it is, and I hope you don’t get too exited about adding features and lose that “minimalist, clean & quick” feeling that you’ve got now ;)
Great, GREAT work guys. Really.
delFUEGO // April 28, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Ok, finally the “del.icio.us” RSS feed appeared in my tumblr, ITS WORKING. Its just a little bit slow.
What I’ve noticed is that it has some problem with the codification. For example…
“colección de tipografÃas” (typography collection in spanish)
…has problem with accents.
Is this because how del.icio.us builds the feed? Isn’t there anything you/me can do about it?
fionda // April 28, 2007 at 6:29 pm
I love the new interface and updates. For those of us who have multiple tumbrs, it would be useful for the tumblr bookmarklet to state somewhere which tumblr will get posted when you click submit.
Keep up the wonderful innovation.
fionda
Jun // April 28, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Very nice work! But don’t forget keep it simple, free of noise, requirements, and commitments.
naum // April 28, 2007 at 7:29 pm
GhostVirus calls out “Tumblr Whiners” asking for “every WordPress feature under the sun”.
I must confess that I have lobbied for search and comments features.
1. Search is important because as my Tumblr log grows, I’d like to be able to find post content. Tumblr is evolving into a del.icio.us replacement for me, and I’d like to be able to be a click away from finding an item that my feeble mind has long forgotten. Google just isn’t performing a complete indexing solution, and barring a search, I may just roll my own.
2. On a commenting feature, I suppose it is necessary for me to clarify my wish — I don’t envision a “comment roll” for each post type of deal as is customary with the typical blogging software package. Instead, I propose more of a message board affair, one global topic (or maybe custom tags, for multiple categories, but nothing terribly complicated). No registration system either, unless maybe it’s tied to a universal Tumblr implementation — a decent enough CAPTCHA test to allow quickie style sound offs, and some template variables so that the last 10-15 comments could be shown on Tumblr page. Comments not as critical as search, but it would be nice and really round out the superb package that Tumblr offers. And, let me add, I would be willing to pay for that extra feature too.
All and all, keep up the great work, but don’t be surprised when users ask for features, especially when prompted…
sarahlane // April 28, 2007 at 8:12 pm
I use a banner in the description field as my tumblelog title (the title is actually there for RSS purposes, but I’ve set it at a “0″ font size to fake invisibility). However, my description image is showing up in its HTML form on my site. I keep fixing it in the dashboard, but the changes won’t stick. Any idea what’s up?
Ghostvirus // April 28, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Sarah, I use an image for my title as well, but using a slightly more effective method than yours. Check out my CSS to steal whatever bits that may help you.
sarahlane // April 29, 2007 at 12:34 am
Thanks Ghosty. Nice of you to say “slightly” more effective. More like “totally obviously”.
seifip // April 29, 2007 at 10:59 am
2Ed: You can add as many columns as you want… viz. my blog > http://blog.fs-studio.eu/
seifip // April 29, 2007 at 11:02 am
One new idea: “Sound post” where you would upload a sound that would be posted as a customizable (design) flash player with that sound.
grumblr. // April 29, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Is there anyway you could put up a picture of a scary looking hippo or sometihng? That might keep the monkeys off my computer.
Andy // April 30, 2007 at 3:31 am
Just adding my voice to the general noise about tags and searching: yes please.
The new interface is very pretty. I like the idea that it should be more useful than a blog control panel. Please, not too much myspace-like fluff; but this is all good so far!
Sid // April 30, 2007 at 3:45 am
my wishlist:
1- tags
2- a kind of widget to see our community (friends and followers)
no more…
just a mini-bug report: if i want posting an image the first time an error occurred and i need to reposting. This time still good…
thanks a lot ;)
Vinciiii // April 30, 2007 at 6:14 am
Hi, I’ve a little question.
Does tumblr support opera browser?
Thanks for the answer
odlitter // April 30, 2007 at 7:34 am
Wonderful! I love the new dashboard! thanx!
Andhika Nugraha // April 30, 2007 at 9:39 am
Could you add nicknames?
andy // April 30, 2007 at 10:12 am
Two small suggestions:
1) Break the posts in the dashboard by date, just like in the tumblog.
2) Put links to this blog, the FAQ etc on the dashboard.
grumblr // April 30, 2007 at 2:26 pm
I had a dream last night. In the dream lawn gnomes said you should add way to see random tumblr pages…possibly even a directory.
Personally I think this is a terrible idead, but the gnomes are very persuasive.
tbphx // April 30, 2007 at 3:46 pm
@Vinciiii:
Tumblr seems to work just fine with the short browsing I just did.
iván s. // April 30, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Feature request: Could you make it so that PNGs and GIFs uploaded as photos are not converted to jpg?
Marco Arment // April 30, 2007 at 9:06 pm
iván s.: “Could you make it so that PNGs and GIFs uploaded as photos are not converted to jpg?”
Yes, Iván! This is on our to-do list. More info:
http://tumblelog.marco.org/post/1314456
Misc Amy // April 30, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Tags? Yes, please. Though, I have to admit I have a bit of a crush on tumblr just as it is …
Hanna // May 1, 2007 at 1:03 am
Another feature (aside from comments) that I’d like to see on tumblr is to expand upon the video function. It seems to only work with Youtube. Videos are also uploaded and shared through other sites like Photobucket but I can’t embed them into my tumblog because the HTML code doesn’t like the embed code and the video function won’t work with it.
Another idea is to allow us to reorder the content as we please, so if we posted something earlier that day that we would like to stay on top of the blog, we’d be able to drag and drop it there.
And though I’m sure someone must’ve mentioned it by now–a search function. (: Better for users and organization.
Thanks for all your work!
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tbphx // May 1, 2007 at 8:38 am
One tiny bug that I’ve found is, if you select some text on a page and click your “Share on Tumblr” bookmarklet, it brings it up as a quote post and deletes all the linebreaks, which is normal (I think). However, if you click that you want to make the selected text a regular post (which is what I normally want to do with huge chunks of text), it doesn’t bring the linebreaks back. I still have to copy-and-paste all my text in to retain linebreaks. Thanks guys and keep up the fantastic work!
dep // May 1, 2007 at 9:43 am
I know you’re trying to keep the interface simple, but some BASIC filtering of a tumbl would be great! Being able to show JUST quotes, JUST discussions, JUST images, etc — would be awesome…
Keep up the amazing work!
Mike // May 1, 2007 at 1:13 pm
I love Tumblr, but have two little problems. I had an HTML flickr badge in the “description” It worked some of the time, and other times it would just show the HTML. Are there any workarounds without using a custom theme?
Also, can you please add a “save settings” button at the top of the Settings page, right now you have two scroll all way to the bottom of the page.
Thank You!
Richard // May 1, 2007 at 4:46 pm
One problem I see with the new UI is that you’re hiding the options for delete etc behind a rollover. For a new user, heck for me, my initial reaction was “where are all the options”.
Hiding such important parts of your UI is a serious design mistake. They should always be shown. At the moment you’re expecting the user to hunt around the screen just to work out how to use it.
naum // May 1, 2007 at 5:50 pm
One other thing that got dropped with the new dashboard UI is a page count (or I am too blind to see it now…)…
…now I’m going to be in the dark when I hit my 100th, 500th, 1000th, 10000th, 100000th, 1000000th, 10000000th, 1000000000th page…
Doh!
La Sandanga // May 1, 2007 at 8:02 pm
No sé si alguien de Tumblr habla en español. Estoy encantado con mi nuevo tumblelog. Le puse comentarios de haloscan, pero no me gusta como quedan, así que espero los de ustedes, que seguro serán mucho mejores. Y sugiero también alguna interface sencilla para subir archivos de audio al blog.
Saludos,
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SIMKathy // May 2, 2007 at 10:48 am
Tumblr has become an obsession for me! Thanks guys/gals. Two things i would love to see:
1. Audio for me entire site (except when another blog contains audio)and ability to turn it on or off
2. Ability to customize audio to a single blog entry
3. Ability to sort blogs oldest on top
4. Ability to have several tumbleblogs
YOU ARE BEYOND KEWL>
SweetDiscovery // May 2, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Great job guys, keep up the good work!
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danimal // May 3, 2007 at 11:46 am
Tumblr has made blogging fun again! Thanks so much for the service.
I like the new Dashboard interface but I agree with Richard that rollover effect for modifying posts is unintuitive.
Wants:
- How about a forum for support? The Tumblr community has a wealth of knowledge. Let us share it!
- Commenting. I can’t wait to see what you have up your sleeves.
- Saving of draft posts?
- Better video post creation: I agree with Hanna that, so far, it works best with YouTube. I have video on my site that I would like to be able to post as easily as one can post from YouTube.
- fionda is on to something as well. It would be great if, for someone that has more than one tumblog, there were an option with the bookmarklet, to choose which tumblog you want to post to. Maybe even a dashboard area that allows you to administer more than one tumblog from one panel.
- …I’m sure I’ll think of something else…
danimal // May 3, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Oh yeah:
- tags
…told ya I would think of something else =-)
danimal // May 3, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Oh, wait, I though of another one:
- The ability, mid-post, from the dashboard, to change the type of post you are creating (like you can in the pop-up window accessed by the bookmarklet)
There have been many times I have been writing one type of post and decided that the topic would be better served by another type.
…I think that’s it…
Tumblelogs are fun! at Ramkumar Shankar // May 4, 2007 at 7:24 am
[...] There’s no way for a reader to add comments. But the folks behind Tumblr are apparently working on something cool to fix that. I can’t [...]
Andy // May 4, 2007 at 7:34 am
I’m gradually coming around to the idea that the posts for a given day should be shown latest last, not latest first.
I often find I’ve posted a follow up to an earlier post that day; which of course does not work. The follow-up gets shown first.
Ruminator // May 4, 2007 at 8:55 am
It would be great if Tumblr could host stylesheets/images/scripts and what not for those of us using a custom theme (I modified a WordPress to work with Tumblr and of course there were a ton of image files and what not to go with that).
fesja // May 4, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Great improvements guys!!!
I love the new interface.
The only thing I want to be completely happy is to have comments in my tumblelog :-D. I know it’s in your ToDo list, but I hope to have it soon.
Continue the good job!
travors // May 4, 2007 at 6:49 pm
It’s so purrrrdy, well done guys, I didn’t think I could love tumblr even more but you’ve outdone yourselves =p
danimal // May 5, 2007 at 1:02 am
It seems that Tumblr wants to strip anything it deems “extraneous” out of my links. I tried to install the Lightbox2 script but it requires that there be more between and tags than just the path. Anything else Tumblr removes. I’d like it to stop that =-)
If your interested:
http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/
game // May 5, 2007 at 10:29 am
Could you expand the display capability? 15 posts seems very limiting
zenera // May 5, 2007 at 11:18 am
Trés pretty, but yes, more posts per page please…otherwise it quickly becomes all a twitter…
SoftSaurus // May 5, 2007 at 12:16 pm
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danimal // May 5, 2007 at 4:52 pm
My, what a terribly unintelligible and misleading comment I left earlier. My apologies. What I meant to say was that Tumblr seems to strip everything except the “href” attribute from links in posts.
Lightbox is a script that allows a translucent layer to appear above the current window and for a picture to appear within that translucent layer. It is all explained much better here:
http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/
In order for Lightbox to work Tumblr would need to cease removing everything except the“href” attribute from links and allow more info, specifically, for the purposes of this commenter, the “rel” and “title” attributes. These are necessary for the Lightbox script to work.
The applicable post (and the only applicable post until I get this to work) is here:
http://blogish.ohdanny.net/post/1508650
I have a forum post started here if anyone is interested:
http://www.huddletogether.com/forum/
So I guess that is my request: that Tumblr allow us to use more that simply the “href” attribute in posts.
XNet // May 6, 2007 at 9:07 am
I am Tumblr-addicted. I already have two tumbleblogs with two different email-adresses. But the constant logging in and logging out is annoying. Could it be possible for one user to manage two tumbleblogs? And change the bookmarklet ina way that it asks you which blog you want to contribute an item to?
marco // May 6, 2007 at 11:19 am
nice update, but you have a long way to go.
feature requests:
1. post search
2. easier way to move through tumblog pages (previous/next sucks)
3. more/improved templates or at least a less buggy custom template creator (doesnt like opera and updating the css and refreshing the preview is a pain in the ass).
4. easier ways to customize templates and body, width and content properties without messing with the css.
5. easier way to add customer header image (text as a title sucks).
6. improved Opera support
7. tagging
8. better bookmarklet.. one that doesnt try to best-guess what you want to do, mostly getting it wrong.
9. more than 15 posts per page.
10. hit counter
11. custom favicons
12. different “todays top tumblogs” always the same few sites.
im sure i’ll think of more but these are by far the most annoying problems
delFUEGO // May 6, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Better HTML markup maybe?
Why are the quotes wrapped inside “span” tags when you could simply use “blockquote”?
dw // May 6, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Neato! Looks like you’re well on your way to awesome-ness
tj // May 6, 2007 at 9:02 pm
coolness! just used the re-blog feature with awesome success. so glad to hear you’re working on some sort of comment system too. can’t wait for that one. i’ve been programming a .NET version of tumblr for my own personal use and adding comments because that was my biggest beef with your service. however, if you’re on it, i can scrap my work. :-)
Respiro the logo design guy // May 7, 2007 at 1:42 am
The new Dashboard screen is great!
tibor // May 7, 2007 at 4:54 am
like the new dashboard, it looks very eye-candy. and thanks for the tumblet, it really makes twitter obsolete for those little textmessages that just come to my mind and want to be posted.
to temporarly solve the missing comments on my tumblr page I just added a meebo widget into the description and it seems to be working - it’s an interesting way of replacing comments…like it, although I don’t really like meebo, especially their awwful looking page, but I just use it to see if someone said something on my tumblr page.
but anyway, great work guys - really felt in love with tumblr as my secondary blog with all the stuff I come around on the web that don’t fit into my “real” blog’s topics. and of course it’s just fun to post everything with the lovely bookmarklet…I’am really looking forward to the future enhancements and some more “social features” but it seems you’re working on this;-)
what I also really would like to see is a way for the visitor to view just all cites, all text, all pics, all vids, all links - kind of a category system with only the categories you allready offer for posting.
JC // May 7, 2007 at 8:18 am
@danimal
“Saving of draft posts”
That breaks the whole simplicity thing. A tumblelog is drafty by nature, and having the ability of working upon a post over and over makes it no different than the good old “blog”.
jd // May 7, 2007 at 11:36 am
Hey guys, great work.
Quick Q: My dashboard widget is complaining that authentication is failing. Are the credentials for this different than those on the website?
David Karp // May 7, 2007 at 11:43 am
Hey folks - Very sorry we missed this. If the Tumblet is throwing “Access Denied” errors, please download and re-install. It was made before the official Tumblr API, and required an update to work correctly.
SteveP // May 7, 2007 at 6:55 pm
(Shameless self plug) For everyone who wants to try out a windows based tumblr client please visit http://www.feedfeast.com/wintumblr/. It requires .NET 2 to run. It’s main feature is support for multiple accounts. I’ve also linked to some of my source code (C#) for those wanting to write their own clients.
Kris Nair // May 8, 2007 at 5:25 am
Where’s the comments part?
Its a tumblelog - but it’d be gr8 if u can add the “Comment” feature
Thanks!
chino // May 8, 2007 at 2:51 pm
hope there will be an option to adjust the size of the pictures, videos, or to automatically adjust the whole page. i find it too big..big fonts big pictures, big videos…. it hurts my eyes..
Andy // May 9, 2007 at 10:20 am
I second the thing about the “top tumblogs” being the same ones every time. Are these actually the most-viewed tumblogs? What are your criteria?
JC // May 9, 2007 at 2:34 pm
@Andy: probably, at some point they were, and once they stuck there for a while, they well… got even more stuck to the top. It’s a catch 22: they’re on top because they’re the most viewed, and being on the top makes people view them, and so on.
Some suggestions:
- top tumblelogs in the dashboard, not just the homepage
- comments (maybe something alike twits, forcing them to be short)
- one new type of post that (I think) doesn’t break the simplicity goal of tumblelogs: lists (like 5ives.com).
- better markup for the default themes (quotes in blockquotes, e.g.)
- separate theme editing from setting (the page gets too long, which is specially noticeable when oe must scrooooooooooooll to get to the Save button)
- an option to display friended tumblelogs in the template (similarly to a blogroll)
Keep up the good work :)
tbphx // May 9, 2007 at 2:52 pm
@chino:
adding resizing to pictures, videos, text, would just add another layer of complexity, and I love having a simple blog because I update it SOOO much more often and don’t get bored of it. Plus, it’s very Web 2.0 to have big, bold elements.
tbphx // May 9, 2007 at 10:07 pm
On another note, why does reblogging not automatically cite the source of the post, like images, videos, etc, do? I’d like to give credit where credit is due.
I also second whoever said that hiding the edit buttons is a bad idea. And they’re also really small now.
andy // May 10, 2007 at 6:45 am
Just to set the cat among the pigeons:
* I don’t agree that the editing buttons are more difficult to use.
* I don’t want to see the top tumblrs in the dashboard. They don’t work for me anyway.
* I like the idea of a “lists” posts type, though.
andy // May 10, 2007 at 7:04 am
… just typing “site:tumblr.com” into google is a lot more fun than ‘todays top tumblogs’. Sorry about that.
On a seperate note, maybe this is me just being an old fogey, but I don’t really want to mark every blog I like as a “friend”. I’d like an “aquaintance” button! Seriously, it would be nice to have two lists of friends, so I could see just the posts from one list, but have a note of the others…
Andy // May 10, 2007 at 9:01 am
Eurgh. Three in a row. Sorry. But I think this one is important.
I want to actually have a tumblog that other people will maybe find interesting, can read. That’s cool, I can that. (Well, maybe not the “interesting” bit.)
I also want to use Tumblr to mash-up a bunch of other blogs that I read regularly. That’s cool, I can do *that*, too.
BUT, here’s the rub. I can’t do both at the same time without having two different accounts. And I can’t have two different accounts without using two different email addresses.
Perhaps if I could have my mashup appear in the Dashboard?
amir brown // May 10, 2007 at 3:10 pm
I love tumblr. The interface is wonderful and it makes it easy to collect web ephemera.
I do have one request for the reblog function. Can it automatically add credit in some fashion? Like a “From sosandso: ” prefix or a “(via blah)” link at the end. I like passing on people’s content but I want to make sure they get noted as the place I found it.
Jeevan // May 11, 2007 at 2:18 am
It seems the “{PostID}” tag mentioned in the “Changes a brewin” post ( http://blog.davidville.com/2007/03/30/changes-a-brewin/ ) is no longer working.
Is this a bug that popped up recently?
Andy // May 11, 2007 at 11:17 am
Back again!
I just tried to print an article posted from a Tumblr and it attempted to print the entire blog…
I think maybe it should stop at the end of the page?
Marre // May 11, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Valid RSS feeds…
David Karp // May 11, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Marre: Feeds should be validating correctly.
alicia // May 11, 2007 at 3:58 pm
tumblr is my new favorite! very fun. :) umm, i also would like some kind of a comment system. tried a few different things like adding javascript commenting tool and meebo widget but couldn’t get them to work. maybe tumblr disables some html?? i thought so until i saw some other user here comment about having meebo on there. hmmmm. *shrug*
alicia // May 11, 2007 at 4:11 pm
nevermind. i got meebo to work. yippee. :)
doug // May 12, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Tags.
I’d like to see tags and a tag-cloud.
That’s it.
All my filtering needs would be addressed.
Outside of that - keep it simple.
Kudos.
Chad Crayton // May 12, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Tags. Let me tag my posts, and I will be more than happy.
Nice from Thailand // May 13, 2007 at 4:40 pm
feature request
- search
- navigation
like page 1,2,3,..,last
grumblr. // May 13, 2007 at 8:27 pm
We gots the video, we needs the audio. Once we gots it, we won’t needs it, but we still wants it.
Steve // May 14, 2007 at 12:24 am
I can embed music by calling it a video post and using tags with Twango.
iván s. // May 14, 2007 at 3:42 am
I post music as a link-post pointing to a file hosted elsewhere. I added some javascript to the template to allow visitors to stream the mp3s in the same page.
iván s. // May 14, 2007 at 3:43 am
I guess you can embed polls as video posts. ¿Anybody know of good ones?
delFUEGO // May 15, 2007 at 12:30 am
Iván, have you tried http://www.twiigs.com/ yet? It lets you play with its CSS, it looks pretty customizable. I haven’t tried it by myself do… yet.
PS: Have I mentioned that a “search” feature would rock?
iván s. // May 15, 2007 at 1:23 am
delFUEGO: Se ve bien, I might try it. I liked your blog as well -I even stole from it.
tulse // May 15, 2007 at 5:25 am
I conjecture, that OpedID support in tumblr would be great feature.
For LiveJournal users that could be a great opportunity to use lighter and more transparent service with traditional feedback from lj-friends.
hillary // May 15, 2007 at 7:34 am
I really would love to see the ability to create draft posts. That way I could create a heap of content in one go and publish when I want to.
Beyond that I’d love to see Tumblr support multiple users on the one account with different access levels.
nervousacid // May 15, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Love the new interface, but I’m actually very bummed out on the “Reblog” feature. It gives no credit to the actual source, and since I use my own server to host pics and other media on my tumblelog, other sites are now feeding off my bandwidth.
I’ve been blogging for a long time and I know that there are 2 golden rules:
1. Never steal someone’s bandwidth
2. Always give credit
Reblogging breaks both of those golden rules, and that’s a problem — especially when I’ve spent some time composing something and another tumblelog just posts it as its own.
Rene // May 16, 2007 at 4:11 am
I really like the new interface, it keeps things simple (even for advanced users).
For an update I prefer:
- Modifying the date and time of a post
- Draft posts
- Commenting
- Navigation as in a sort of monthly archive
Adam // May 17, 2007 at 2:59 am
I love tumblr because it’s so lightweight. I love that there are no drafts, tag clouds, polls, pseudo-mashups or any rubbish that bloats other blogging systems. All I’m missing is code snippet.
Peter // May 18, 2007 at 12:53 am
I love tumblr, but noticed that subjects from sending email updates to my account do not show up as a title. Any fixes?
Vincent // May 18, 2007 at 6:32 am
I love tumblr and completely agree with Adam (2 posts above). Tumble-blogging is about posting with as little as possible thinking, not reworking drafts over and over.
The only thing that would kick even more ass would be the ability to use custom domains with /blog.
I ran a serious blog for two years and this way is so much more refreshing. Thanks for making it easy!
Vincent // May 18, 2007 at 6:38 am
Oh, and should ‘Blogs’ now be renamed to ‘Tlogs?’ -_^
Rene // May 18, 2007 at 8:11 am
@Vincent:
I guess you are right about the draft-idea. Keeping it simple is what makes Tumblr great…
In that case, I would love to see:
- Commenting (or other two-way communication)
- Navigation as in a sort of monthly archive
DawnOwar // May 18, 2007 at 10:16 am
I’d love it if I could host my tumblelog locally!
Then I could have a fav icon, and I could also keep my own copy of my archives.
DawnOwar // May 18, 2007 at 7:23 pm
and it’d be fab if there was an easy way to add a header image
Ariah Fine // May 18, 2007 at 11:12 pm
you need to integrate google picasa albums with your photo option. I can’t seem to get that to work.
Tucker // May 20, 2007 at 4:55 pm
One request: the ability to mark favorites throughout Tumblr sites. It would be awesome to have a page that kept track of peoples’ favorites.
iván s. // May 22, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Huge request: I think Tumblr’s image resizing is an awesome thing to add to a blogging platform, but as you know it kind of sucks.
Sometimes I use picnik.com to crop an image before uploading it to Tumblr. It works nice, as does their resizing tool.
Please consider if the two of you could complement each other someway. I love both of your technologies.
iván s. // May 22, 2007 at 6:03 pm
I really love making feature requests: I would love to have the date of my posts in Spanish.
K3NNY // May 22, 2007 at 8:22 pm
iván s. said:
“[...] I would love to have the date of my posts in Spanish.”
That makes two of us ;)
chelsea // May 23, 2007 at 2:26 am
I keep trying to log in and it seems that I am stuck in some freakish perpetual cycle which loops me right back to the login page without ever logging me in. I’m getting irritated. What is the deal?
Robert C. // May 23, 2007 at 10:25 am
I like tumblr. I like that it’s simple. I like that it just works. I like the look. But I still need more options.
I am excited about moving away from dumb and useless monthly archive that comes with most blogging defaults, but not if I don’t have a search feature. Drafting posts is very useful. If you incorporate all these options–and Spanish dates, and the other feature requests here–are you still making tumblr? There is some inherent complexity in providing options; including them without losing the elegance that comes from simplicity is the holy grail of software development.
(And for the love of all that’s holy don’t incorporate a monthly archive. Instead: let me search for a post, and when I click on that post, put it in context–with its original neighbors, and with the ability to go forwards and backwards. Make the search box smart so that searching for November 17 brings me to that day and lets me go backwards and forwards from there.)
So I’m worried that what I secretly want is just a tumblr theme for WordPress. Nobody yet has made a blogging system that feels as effortless and graceful as this. Can you create a system robust enough to meet users’ needs without losing the simplicity that defines tumblr? I hope so. There are elegant solutions out there. Thanks for fighting the good fight and pushing back against unnecessary complexity.
In other words, you gentlemen have style. Carry on then.
Margaret // May 23, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Can you add someone as a friend if they use a custom domain name? I haven’t been able to figure out how.
R // May 24, 2007 at 3:22 pm
*cries*
tags & comments pleassseeeeee
fastdump // May 26, 2007 at 10:25 am
Would be great to have a template or two where you could designate different content types to different sections, e.g. feeds of links in a right-hand column while maintaining other feeds in the main content area.
Also, in the ‘Feeds’ tab, I need the list of feeds already imported to be described better. If I import a number of feeds from the same source but with different parameters (e.g. different searches), they all list with the same name, so it becomes impossible to know which is which if I want to delete a specific one. A way of seeing the full URL for each feed would be enough.
alicia // May 26, 2007 at 7:42 pm
getting excited to see the upcoming features!! no pressure or anything…hahahahaha….but hurry up! lol. lots of good feature requests here. the only one i care about is having some kind of communication/commenting. i temporarily solved that by adding a meebo widget but am anxiously awaiting the tumblr solution. :)
Rob // May 28, 2007 at 10:23 am
I would love to see a commenting system, tagging, and human friendly urls (like the ones used here on your blog).
Thanks for this great service!
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