Over 400 new features, fixes, and improvements. Introducing Tumblr 3.0
It’s been six months since we launched Tumblr 2.0. We’ve spent a lot of time looking at the ways you’ve been using Tumblr, want to be using it, and could be using it. Today, we’re delighted to show you the culmination of all your feedback and support. The most powerful and simple application we’ve ever built.
Interfacelift
Two things were clear as we were building the next version of Tumblr: Lots of new features would require a very refined interface so as not to be overwhelming. And mobile was going to become very important.
November’s Macworld called Tumblr “ideal for posting from a mobile phone“, and we’ve been thinking a lot about mobile interfaces since we first got ahold of our iPhones a few months ago. Elsewhere, “mobile” means a stripped down baby version of the real thing. But for the first time we’re starting to have the real internet in our pockets. And we’re taking advantage of it.
You can already post text and photos from any mobile phone, but the new Tumblr interface has considered the iPhone in every aspect. Not only is the new interface a pleasure to use, but there is something absolutely magical about using the real Tumblr on an iPhone.
A HUGE thanks to Bobby Andersen for crafting the great pixel work you’ll see through the new design. He was able to squeeze Tumblr into his schedule just before being snatched up by Apple where he’s now working on something he can’t tell us about.
Now let’s talk features.
Flawless Photos
Tumblr will already take just about any photo format and scale it to fit perfectly on your tumblelog. We’ve just upped the quality of those photos dramatically. We’re also now leaving GIF and PNG images in their original format.
We heard you. Tumblr now does audio.
Post up to one MP3 audio file per day. It will play back in a sleek Flash Audio Player. Nothing you don’t have permission to share, please.
Two major updates to Video
Tumblr used to recognize embed code from the major video sites and scaled it down to fit your theme. Tumblr will now take any video or Flash embed code and scale it down proportionally.
Tumblr + Vimeo
“Partnerships” and “collaborations” have become such a lame stereotype of corporate culture. For us, teaming up with the guys down the street at Vimeo wasn’t just a natural fit. We realized there was a chance to build something truly meaningful for both our users.
As of this morning, Vimeo users can connect their account to Tumblr. And for the first time ever, via phone or browser, Tumblr now takes Video Uploads. Our deepest thanks to Jakob Lodwick, Ted Roden, and the rest of the Vimeo Staff for making it happen.
Lodwick adds, “This is the best thing to happen on the web in 2007.”
Channels
We’re REALLY excited about this.
Imagine using all of Tumblr’s posting tools to share and collaborate with a group of people. Imagine a hybrid of email, instant messaging, chat, and blogging.
Channels are the perfect way to share things with a group of people. They’re private, archived, and feature all the power of Tumblr. Just name your channel, and invite friends, family, or colleagues to join. Once they join, they can invite people too.
You’ll see the “Channels” link right up next to “Dashboard” tab. When someone posts something new to one of your Channels, the icon will glow.
The obvious next step for Channels is the ability to open them up as public, multi-author tumblelogs. It’s in the works.
Privacy
There are some new “Advanced options” when posting to Tumblr. One is an option to hide posts from other users. This is a great way to post things you want to keep, but don’t necessarily want to share.
Date posts
Another advanced option: Change the date and order of posts on your tumblelog. By default it’s set to “now”. Just type in the date or time (”yesterday 10am“, “5/10/2006“, etc.) and you’re good. No forward dating yet.
Tags … almost there
We’re about to start indexing all of the content on Tumblr. Aside from search, this will power lots of new functionality like browsing by tags.
In the meantime, we wanted to let you start adding these tags to your posts. They’re not visible or searchable in the Tumblr themes just yet. Though we did add one neat thing for any webheads that want to experiment:
<geek>
The theme variable {TagsAsClasses} will output an HTML Class-attribute friendly string of the post’s tags. Example output might look like “office humor new_york_city”. In addition, we automatically insert the originating domain for imported posts. So it would be set to something like “twitter_com” or “digg_com“. You can use this tag to add special styling to posts based on their tags or feed.
</geek>
Markdown
The Settings screen has a new option to use Markdown syntax when editing posts. Markdown is a great HTML alternative for web writers.
Archives
The guys over at Projectionist just won’t stop. They recently added this unbelievably inspired Archive view to their tumblelog.
We’ve added a page to all Tumblr tumblelogs that generates a similar microfiche view of all your Tumblr posts. Just add “/archive” to your Tumblr URL. It’s a seriously cool way to see everything you’ve been doing.
New Themes
Tumblr now includes four new brilliant themes by the pixel-gurus Cameron Hunt and Bill Israel.
Have a theme you want to get included? Please send them over!
New Theme Tools
We’ve added a bunch of new tags to Tumblr’s theme engine to enable things like favicons, post titles in the page title, click-through photos, and more.
For information on customizing themes, check out their documentation.
Integrating Tumblr
The Tumblr API has been greatly expanded, and now includes JSON support.
We’ve also added a really neat tool: Your Extras page now has a line of Javascript code to embed your posts anywhere. The posts are easily styled with CSS, letting you incorporate your tumblelog on any web site. See an example on the front page of Fast Lane Daily.
Tumblr integrated
Since enabling the API, we’ve been seeing some very cool applications being built on Tumblr. Today, nearly 10% of all Tumblr posts are coming from apps built on Tumblr. If you have a Tumblr app or integration you’d like us to feature, please pass it along.
One of our favorites we wanted to show you today: Jott lets you call up 1-866-JOTT-123 and leave a message to appear on your tumblelog as text, so you can finally post to Tumblr safely while driving. Just visit Jott.com to get started.
Post via AIM (beta)
The TumblrBot is now live! AIM users, add TumblrBot to your buddy list for quick and easy posting to Tumblr.
Some other changes
- Mobile posting now supports more carriers, and will accept text, photos, audio, and video (if you’ve set up Vimeo).
- The Bookmarklet now supports Chat posts.
- You can now be logged in simultaneously from more than one location.
- After looking very carefully at Feed Importing on Tumblr (a feature which is very easily abused), we’ve made some adjustments: Accounts are limited to importing five feeds, but can request more. Because recycling entire posts was wreaking havoc on Google rankings and opening the door to too many copyright complaints, we’ve converted all “Import as Text w/ Title” feeds to “Link w/ Description” feeds. All imported posts are now truncated to 500 characters.
- “404 Not Found” pages on tumblelogs now render your theme instead of the standard Tumblr error page.
- The Tumblet Dashboard Widget now supports international characters. You can download and re-install it from the Extras page.
- And a few hundred more tweaks and additions. Can you spot them all?
Okay, a couple things aren’t here today
Most obviously, something like comments.
This is an area we’re fascinated with. You’ve made it very clear that you’re not satisfied with comments, but not always satisfied without them.
We’re cooking something up. It’s taking some time, but we think it has the potential to be something hugely significant to the web. Thanks for your patience.
Now that said — It just got a lot easier to have comments on Tumblr if you’re comfortable editing your theme.
Go sign up with our friends over at Disqus, and add the code they give you somewhere in your theme, like this:
{block:Permalink}
<div id=”disqus_thread”></div><script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://disqus.com/forums/__YOUR_FORUM__/embed.js”></script>
{/block:Permalink}
Lastly, some big news!
Last month, something huge happened at Davidville. Something totally exciting (and a little terrifying).
We shut down our services shop, changed our name to Tumblr, Inc., and went into business with some extraordinary people.
For the first time, our pride-and-joy is now our one-and-only. And 110% of our time gets to be spent making Tumblr the best it can be.
Welcoming on board:
- Bijan Sabet
Spark Capital. None of this would have come together without him. - Brad Burnham & Fred Wilson
Union Square Ventures. - John Borthwick
Former CEO of Fotolog. - Fred Seibert
Producer of most of the cartoons you’ve seen on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. Founder of Next New Networks. Former president of Hanna-Barbera, and creative director of MTV Networks. My mentor. - Albert Wenger
Former president of del.icio.us. On the board of Etsy. Creator of Daily Lit. - Jakob Lodwick
Founder of Vimeo and College Humor. - Michael Karp
My dad. - Martin Varsavsky
Too many accolades to list.
Of course, this would all be nowhere it weren’t for the 110,000 users that have taken Tumblr so much further than we ever imagined. It’s been a privilege building this with you, and we have some awesome things to come.
298 responses so far ↓
Obreahny // November 1, 2007 at 11:05 am
Love It x3!
lunamoth // November 1, 2007 at 11:07 am
bravo~!
Phil Renaud // November 1, 2007 at 11:07 am
way to go, guys! Everything looks phenomenal thus far. Can’t wait to tinker.
Oh! and good luck with the new business venture. I’ll still call you Davidville out of habit for the next little while though, I’m sure.
Teevio // November 1, 2007 at 11:08 am
Looks good, but hyped up way more than the new version delivers.
c0wb0yz // November 1, 2007 at 11:12 am
Kudos !
Nice from Thailand // November 1, 2007 at 11:14 am
Woohoo!
Anthony // November 1, 2007 at 11:19 am
Awesome work! Thanks!
David Bannon // November 1, 2007 at 11:23 am
UNG UNG UNG!!! Tumblr is offline!
New features DOES WANT!
blogrolle // November 1, 2007 at 11:25 am
Well done.
David Bannon // November 1, 2007 at 11:29 am
Yay! You guys are the best =)
Maxime // November 1, 2007 at 11:33 am
Please do NOT add comments. ;)
Kurt Munro // November 1, 2007 at 11:34 am
Please let us access http://www.tumblr.com when we’re logged in. I keep getting sent to the dashboard.
tumblr 3.0 ist da … - Blogrolle // November 1, 2007 at 11:35 am
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Kurt Munro // November 1, 2007 at 11:37 am
Another thing… the Theme page seems way too far removed from the new design. The “custom HTML” box is also tiny and wraps your code.
It would be better if it was split horizontally rather than vertically.
cabinetkitten // November 1, 2007 at 11:40 am
I agree, Kurt. I liked my big editing box.
cameron // November 1, 2007 at 11:44 am
Hey, thanks for the great product, and thanks for using my themes, they were a joy to make.
I love Markdown, I love the new image library (seriously, now I can post images again), I love TagsAsClasses, I love the 404 display on custom theme.
Great update, guys.
Paul Mayne // November 1, 2007 at 11:44 am
Loving the archives page, the photo quality increase, the markdown, the API, and date posts. YAY! keep it rolling.
Seems the next step should be bandwidth improvement as all Tumblr sites are currently down…
Are there any plans to make Tumblr an app that could be installed on a remote server. So it didn’t rely on the tumble servers?
Prahsant Agarwal // November 1, 2007 at 11:44 am
Archive view is awesome. Offer an option to make that the default view for my tumblr site.
Clintus McGintus // November 1, 2007 at 11:54 am
Good stuff guys. Still playing with Tumblr and finding my nitch with it. I love the simplicity of it all. Keep up the good work.
Livia Iacolare // November 1, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Good job guys! I think that a good idea would be to make comments available as an option.
Congrats!
Simen // November 1, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Wow…great. And now…experimentation!
travors // November 1, 2007 at 12:05 pm
It’s back, it’s bad, it’s techo crack and it’s mad! Loving your work guys :)
Hankins // November 1, 2007 at 12:11 pm
I haven’t been this excited for a web release in a long time. Woop woop. Congrats.
jdelmoral // November 1, 2007 at 12:11 pm
I love the changes! good work!
Marc LaFountain // November 1, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Guys. I am blown away. Amazing work. Tumblr has more new features than Leopard and they’re *way* more exciting!
Marc :-)
Pete Ashton’s Blog » Tumblr 3.0 // November 1, 2007 at 12:20 pm
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Matt // November 1, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Sweetness is my weakness.
* initial favorite new features:
1. higher quality images
2. photos as links
3. archives
* initial least favorite feature:
1. smaller custom theme editor (but it’s just as easy to copy/paste into Text Wrangler)
2. lack of “comments” option - or the highly anticipated “anti-comments”
When it comes down to it - this rules. I love Tumblr.
Now if I can come up with a good way to use this as a crazy simple CMS for client sites…that would be tasty.
Bijan Sabet // November 1, 2007 at 12:25 pm
congrats David and Marco. well done!!!
Laura // November 1, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Ok, I can’t figure out where to put this Disqus code so that it works. I signed up there, created my forum, got the code, added the {block:Permalink} opening & closing tags as show above… changed my theme to custom, & now have tried adding it in several places to no avail. Help!
The upgrade is great, really, but the Only Thing I actually wanted was the ability to communicate with readers through some sort of post system.
soxiam // November 1, 2007 at 12:33 pm
love all the changes but i must bring up once again… will tumblr ever support multiple accounts and improve the bookmarklet to support multiple accounts?
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Mark Schoneveld // November 1, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Awesome! Congrats, and great work! Can’t wait to dig in!
Ghostvirus // November 1, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Very impressive update, guys.
John Smith // November 1, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I had my fingers crossed for audio posts! Thanks! and the archives is a great touch.
David Zülke // November 1, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Five things still missing: http://blog.bitxtender.com/post/18124951 :)
Stefan // November 1, 2007 at 12:55 pm
New Version changed all my text into Italic. Theme is Fold. Don’t know why.
David // November 1, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Where did the radar page go?
Elissa // November 1, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Holy crap, that’s a lot of updates. And it’s all so pretty! Congrats on everything!
cii // November 1, 2007 at 1:18 pm
best ever audio player design!
Ted Roden // November 1, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Looks awesome guys! For some reason I love the vimeo integration.
Pixel Kid // November 1, 2007 at 1:40 pm
For me the most exciting thing here is the Vimeo collaboration (although it’s all good), well it would be if vimeo worked properly!
It was working fine but they recently updated it and now I cannot upload any videos. They don’t seem in a hurry to fix it either or even find out why it’s happening. It’s a real shame cos the site itself is awesome.
Jan // November 1, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Boy, this is good. Rock on, guys!
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maique // November 1, 2007 at 1:46 pm
thank you!
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GreySheepDuo // November 1, 2007 at 1:52 pm
This is awesome. Well worth the wait — although I do wish you guys hadn’t fallen off the face of the earth while you worked on it.
It’d still be nice to have PHP integration, too, but I can live without it for now. So pretty!
captkevman // November 1, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Outstanding!
I’ve only been using tumblr regularly for about a month, but this goes to show that I definitely made the right choice for a blogging tool.
You’ve taken something amazing and made it even better. Thanks very much! I look forward to growing with Tumblr!
Robert_K // November 1, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Archive looks really great.
One thing: the “insert link” option in descriptions doesn’t work anymore. Creating links is only possible with HTML Editor, which is quite time consuming.
Jim // November 1, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Looks fantastic - and I LOVE the archive view but please, please please can you give us an option to remove the ugly white on black description text over the photos in archive?
I would think it would look better if there was no text there, and that it only showed up when you rolled over it.
Not a show stopper - but something I’d love see happen.
Thanks for all the hard work.
Booga // November 1, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Brilliant update, the archive view rocks!
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logjaw // November 1, 2007 at 2:11 pm
wonderland tumblr :)
Sameer Vasta // November 1, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Stunning stuff. Absolutely stunning. Very happy about the new archives display page and the markdown editing. (One thing: I’ve been playing with Markdown in Tumblr, and there are a few styles like Blockquotes and Smartypants characters that don’t quite work well. Just something to look into, I guess.) Oh, and I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I’ll pay for some of this stuff, so come out with a pricing model, okay?
Cody Kniffen // November 1, 2007 at 2:18 pm
You guys have outdone yourselves. The new design and feature set is AMAZING!
David Chartier // November 1, 2007 at 2:21 pm
RSS for my tumblelog is broken:
http://dc.tumblr.com
Is this just growing pains from getting pounded with today’s launch?
By the way: fantastic work, stellar upgrades and new features.
fredgraver // November 1, 2007 at 2:28 pm
David,
This is all AWESOME!!!! One thought — shouldn’t this great explanation of the new features be easily accessible to people on Tumblr? Only by going to your blog was I able to find a point-by-point guide to the new features.
Anyway… just carping (get it!?! It’s a PUN!)… it’s a great new version.
Fred
Stefan // November 1, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Fold is working again after I removed Italic from Description.
Thank you for your work.
Steve // November 1, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I’ve gotta say… I’m disappointed. I love my tumblr site. Love it. Update it constantly. But I’m not a web designer, and most of these updates are for people more web-authoring-savvy than I am.
Comments: I know some people are against comments. I’ve read the arguments, I see both sides’ points, it’s a tough thing to solve universally. But that doesn’t mean you can’t make it an optional thing. Let us say yes or no for each post if you want. I think most people who use tumblr as their sole blog want comments, “casual bloggers.” And this Disqus thing isn’t easy at all, in fact it’s incomprehensible if you don’t know HTML, which I don’t. I just tried to get it working, as I have with similar 3rd party commenting systems in the past, and again failed, just as Laura above did.
And I’m sorry, have you fully removed my ability to only see my own posts in the Dashboard? I don’t understand what reasoning went into that decision. I follow a lot of people, so I’m now unable to find my own posts to edit them without clicking Back a thousand times.
How about automatic crediting of reblogs? No? Because that’s been a pain for a while. And tracking of reblogs, so you know who’s using your posts? That would be great, too.
There’s a note in Settings, which was there in 2.0 also, called “Promote in the Tumblr Directory.” Can you please explain where this directory is? I’d love to be able to check out other tumblogs, but I can’t because you have to know about them yourself to find them or bump into them accidentally.
I’m sure these updates are good for somebody, but not really for me. Please, please please address some of this other stuff!
kr // November 1, 2007 at 2:50 pm
It’s amazing! Thank you a lot!
veewpe // November 1, 2007 at 3:01 pm
this is a wonderful thing to get home from work to find.
pkmk // November 1, 2007 at 3:02 pm
oh my,
i’m not emo
just a little bit beered up
but this post made me cry
just a little bit
Ben // November 1, 2007 at 3:02 pm
It’s Awesome!
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fp // November 1, 2007 at 3:15 pm
{block:Permalink} doesn’t work properly now….
Popple3 // November 1, 2007 at 3:15 pm
“{block:Permalink}” doesn’t work :(
shadowfirebird // November 1, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Damn good work guys. That’s a lot of new toys.
But (and you knew that there would be a but, didn’t you?) a lot of this stuff I doubt that I will find useful. I’ll play with it, but. (Of course, just because I don’t like it, doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good idea.)
* I agree with the poster above that points out that they are now forced to see others’ posts in their dashboard. Even more reason for me not to “freind” people now.
* Channels. Certainly going to play with this, but I am not going to be using it to share private stuff with people. Because those people do not want to be invited to register with yet another web site. This is not an original feature: it’s just like LJ, Flickr, WordPress …
Seriously, though, well done. Don’t take the impression from this that I’m not a fan, because I am. It’s *because* I love Tumblr that I say these things…
Paul M. Watson // November 1, 2007 at 3:20 pm
You guys made linking fun again. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Sorry to gush :)
[SiMON] // November 1, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Same problem for me : Permalink block doesn’t work…
wes // November 1, 2007 at 3:26 pm
On two separate tumblr pages the RSS is broken giving an error stating that the following
Sorry, you do not have permission to access this page.
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Jason // November 1, 2007 at 3:37 pm
I’m super excited about embedding my tumblr into my website. It’s just what I need!
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hans hansen // November 1, 2007 at 3:40 pm
the update kinda sucks if you cant update anymore
i can access my dashboard but after
posting i get
“Sorry, you do not have permission to access this page.”
thats a bug
Phil Dawson // November 1, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Congratulations on the new version of Tumblr!
Thanks for all your time and effect in building such an awesome app and getting me hooked on blogging.
sonoindeciso // November 1, 2007 at 3:49 pm
in /custom_themes you mention:
{block:Text} {/block:Text} in the Posts section.
this does not exist. it is still block:Regular.
{TagsAsClasses} does not work too, at least not in Posts section. It works in singular sections (text, photo, link, ecc.), but this way we have to copy-paste the same code in every singular markup. Even if i don’t understand this implementation of tags: no links, no categories, nothing.
I was expecting an xp version of tumblet, mut nothing.
Marilena // November 1, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Hi, great jobs, I love Tumblr!
Everything’s ok, except for a little bug on the new theme “Dashed”.
At the end of the definition of the style, the commento for IE should be inserted before not after (otherwise on IE at the top of the theme you’ll see the css def)
I changed it and now Dashed looks GREAT.
thanks for you job!
Luke Noel-Storr // November 1, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Well done to all involved!
You guys have one of the sexiest, most useful, most fun, most polished, most usable, most reliable, most aceist web apps on the whole world wide web, and should be bloody chuffed with yourselves!
In a week where one of my other favourite webapps (Newshutch) announces they’re shutting down, it’s nice to see you heading in the other direction.
One thing though - in the future don’t just leave us hanging there with no updates on your blog for months on end. Sheesh!!!
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Sebastian // November 1, 2007 at 4:01 pm
I was really excited what the new features will be on tumblr 3.0 and at first sight, when I saw the updated dashboard and everything today, I thought “mh.. not so good at all…” but after clicking through the sections and things and reading the stuff here I’m happy and LOVE the new thing! especially the fact that there ISN’T any comment function yet!
keep it up, you did a great job!
Nisvara // November 1, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Thank you for all your hard work and for incorporating so many great features into the new release.
Much respect.
Kartik Agaram // November 1, 2007 at 4:02 pm
1. I still can’t post.
2. The link on the right of this blog doesn’t work: http://davidville.wordpress.com/2007/02/25/why-wordpress
Daniela // November 1, 2007 at 4:03 pm
I have to agree with a few commentors above, what happened to being able to disable displaying friend’s posts on your dashboard? I don’t like not being able to not find my posts.
Luke Noel-Storr // November 1, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Oh, and here’s hoping that Bobby Andersen’s job at Apple is making the Leopard Dock less pants!
Daniela // November 1, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Besides that, great job! I love all of the changes!
Luke Noel-Storr // November 1, 2007 at 4:08 pm
Oh, and I promise this is my last comment, but one more thing:
I’d love to try out the new themes, but would like to be able to switch back to my custom theme if I decide to stick with it. It would be great if this was possible, but selecting another theme warns me that all my custom settings will be lost.
Kurt Munro // November 1, 2007 at 4:33 pm
If you want to try other themes you can just copy your current theme into notepad then pasteback it in afterward, although it would be nice to have an option to save it.
Maybe if there was a custom theme section where you could save 5 custom themes permanently. They’re just bit of text :)
Álvaro // November 1, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Congrats. great job.
Álvaro
David Karp // November 1, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Thanks for all the quick feedback, everyone! We’re patching bugs as you find them. So if you see anything acting funny, please let us know.
Here’s a quick update:
* Themes are now correctly including all the new tags (including {block:Permalink}, {TagsAsClasses}, and more)
* Some issues with the Rich Text Editor are surfacing for Safari users. We’re buttoning this up as quickly as we can.
* RSS feeds were offline for the last hour for some necessary optimizations. Our apologies for any inconvenience this caused.
James // November 1, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Nice work on the new version. I see there are a few kinks to be worked out. I have one suggestion that hasn’t been made.
It would be nice to be able to reblog one of your own posts (or anyone’s) to a channel. Maybe this makes more sense for public channels?
ronky // November 1, 2007 at 5:16 pm
GREAT JOB!
I really love the /archive feature a lot.
Rene Visco // November 1, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Loved the look.
I do miss the old links on the top right of the “dashboard” column.
I like that I can click to “log out”, “back to my tumblelog”. it disappeared in 3.0 version.
It took a while for me to get used to it to “find” those links. I can go back on the link “post to my tumblelog” top of the dashboard.
I have to click on “Account” tab to log out. It would be faster if it’s on the dashboard instead in “Account” tab.
I agree with previous comments that there should be an option for us to hide other posts.
So far, love it. It’s hard to integrate the comments. It looks like I have to copy the new themes and custom-theme it again to enable the block:permalinks to work with the comments?
fp // November 1, 2007 at 5:45 pm
thanks!
{block:Permalink} now is rendered properly, but somehow the comments block from Disqus still doesn’t show up. I checked the source code and they are there but just not showing up on webpage. Do I need to some other things for this to work?
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Keith // November 1, 2007 at 5:51 pm
3.0 is amazing.
Also, the disqus comment integration works like a charm. For anyone with issues still, just put the permalink block right after {/block:Posts}. The comment area should show up on individual posts as soon as they are loaded.
“And a few hundred more tweaks and additions. Can you spot them all?”
Trying! :)
A // November 1, 2007 at 5:51 pm
I like the archive feature. Feature request: could you have the archive display private posts when logged in? I just made some posts private, and the only way I appear to be able to find them is by paging through the dashboard, which is pretty tedious.
Looking forward to your comments-but-not-really-comments feature.
christian // November 1, 2007 at 5:55 pm
I LOVE it ! Thanks for the great job.This is awesome so many great features, i am happy about the new archives. Great :-)
Stephen W. Carson // November 1, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Very excited that y’all are going full-time with Tumblr! Congrats.
I’ve been itching to blog for years but it has been too intimidating to get into and, since having three children in less than three years, my time for blogging is very little. I have needed to be able to throw things up there quickly with as little diddling as possible. Tumblr has made it possible for me to keep up with a personal blog. Thank you!
Tumblr 3.0 is wonderful. Keep up the great, and thoughtful, work. I for one would rather have you do things carefully and tastefully (like comments) rather than quickly. Tumblr is magically simple… No feature is worth losing that.
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Jeff // November 1, 2007 at 6:16 pm
love the changes and the look of v3.0
keep up the good work
(jeff)isageek
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Social Space Station // November 1, 2007 at 6:25 pm
The features sound amazing while remaining consistent with the spirit of tumblelogs and Tumblr.
Goin’ in …
dalas v // November 1, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Just wanted to get in on the love fest! I’m really psyched about all the additions and improvements. Tumblr has been an extremely rewarding experience for me.
@Pixel Kid: Sorry your issue has not been resolved yet, but it is a very particular bug that does not seem to affect other people with your same configuration. To say we’re “in no hurry to fix it” is false when the developers are constantly inspecting and improving on the code in an attempt to get it as close to perfect as possible.
Keep trying, because like I said, the code is being improved every day.
Case // November 1, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Love it, especially the changes to the way followers are displayed, and the archive function is nifty as well.
But yes, please bring back the radar. It was pretty much the only way we could see what was going on around on. Unless you’re concerned about content filtering and the like ..
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Patrick // November 1, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Can you provide the css style for the archive template? I’d really love to use something similar for my default theme.
Cwings // November 1, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Awesome update but what happened to /radar?
fp // November 1, 2007 at 7:31 pm
I still can’t make Disqus comment work…..
Pratham // November 1, 2007 at 7:53 pm
The delete posts (at least for photo posts) don’t seem to be working.
KenMat // November 1, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Thanks for the great work, guys!
Greetings from Japan.
bridget // November 1, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Everything is great! Except I can’t get Disqus to work, I can’t delete posts and posts aren’t showing up in IE.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
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Laura // November 1, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Well, I now have comments in Disqus, but it’s not exactly what I was expecting. The comment availability & posted comments are only visible if you click on the permalink, which I think people are unlikely to do. If there’s another way to have them appear on the main page at the bottom of the posts, I’d appreciate it if anyone could post the info here… thanks :)
Pratham // November 1, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Laura, If you want comments both on the home page (and the permalink page) just take the comment code out of the block:Permalink block. You could place it in the block:Posts block and it should be displayed after each post.
ausim // November 1, 2007 at 9:00 pm
If comments don’t work, select “Javascript code snippet” in the “Step 1. Create a new forum” page on Disqus site, and use that code.
Chris Messina // November 1, 2007 at 9:01 pm
This is pretty awesome stuff. Great job folks. Oh, and ATOM, hAtom, OpenID and OAuth should also be on your TODO list. ;)
A // November 1, 2007 at 9:06 pm
I third the “can’t delete posts” observation. You can make them private in the meantime, but that leaves your dashboard looking a little messy.
Daniel // November 1, 2007 at 9:17 pm
For anyone having problems with Disqus on tumblr, we just put up a new integration page that details the entire (short) process.
It’s located at http://disqus.com/integration-start/_YOUR_FORUM_/tumblr
If anything comes up, just send us an email: help@disqus.com
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martoon // November 1, 2007 at 10:30 pm
well done! The new features are great. Wish you luck with the future of tumblr
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Tim // November 1, 2007 at 11:14 pm
I hope it’s not so slow as it use to be
Esau // November 1, 2007 at 11:18 pm
(First glance before I found your blog explanation)
1) How many people perpetually login to the sign up form? (“Me..” Hand up sheepish look on face)
2) How do you logout? Oh instead of simplifying it you ADDED and EXTRA STEP. Nice.
3) Where is the explanation of the new “channels” button. Oh, I am expected to intuitively know, oh I am supposed to comb the internet for an explanation, how convenient. (Now that I created a channel it leads me to tumblr sign up page to make a blog very confusing thankfully I only invited one friend.)
4) (Biggest peave) Where is that cool little flower logo? Is this the prep for the sale? Like painting your house beige and removing the furniture so it will sell?
5) Read this quote from the help file:
“Where can I see some tumblelogs in action? Check out the “Featured tumblelogs” on the Tumblr home-page to see how some people are using their tumblelogs.”
Ahhh..there not there any more, might want to update the help when you publish changes ya’ think?
Here is what I am stoked about:
• Date posts/hide
• Archives
• Audio
Stoked about tagging, but that channel deal is unclear. What did happen to the radar beta? The Japanese porn bog it down?
Peter // November 1, 2007 at 11:21 pm
Thanks for the update, guys! Looks great!
Love the archive page…
stonemonkey45 // November 1, 2007 at 11:34 pm
“What did happen to the radar beta? The Japanese porn bog it down?” … lmao
Rene Visco // November 1, 2007 at 11:42 pm
a channel feature is a great way to collect and organize information about an event or a movement.
drag and sort of each post would be a neat feature.
I can drag each post in the order I prefer. It can be a great benefit to students who need help organize various bits of information.
think of del.icio.us on steriods.
re: daniel of disqus….looking forward to using your web app.
stavrosthewonderchicken // November 1, 2007 at 11:44 pm
This is fantastic news. Tumblr is and has been best of breed of the tools out there, but the total silence for so long has been really worrisome — I was afraid it was going to go away.
PLEASE keep talking to us users about what’s going on in future, if you can!
And thanks for the service. It really is good, and I’ve used ‘em all over the years.
Esau // November 1, 2007 at 11:49 pm
I like the channel concept just not the execution. I see the idea- instead of authoring multiple tumblogs you just add channels. I love that.
Glad to entertain SM45. Instead of porn elves you have porn Asians.
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woosniff // November 1, 2007 at 11:56 pm
I love the new additions. Any chance in the future of allowing us to customize the layout of the archive page?
I hate the fact that the archive page looks nothing like the rest of my site.
A link back to the index page at the top of the archive page would be handy as well.
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Redge // November 2, 2007 at 12:46 am
I did all the indications for comments integration and Its not working at all. Very frustrating…
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Zachary Wolk // November 2, 2007 at 2:19 am
THANK YOU DAVID. You make the web fun again. Tumblr is my favorite user generated content site since youtube (as much as people shit all over it, there’s good quality if you look in the right places) and now you’re changing that too! Amazing.
When you go public, let us know… also - a Pro Tumblr would be a Godsend for things like opening up the width, removing ads (which have to be coming, right?) and file storage. I thought Pownce was cool conceptually, but Tumblr has follow through and has enhanced my life dramatically - fuck social networks.
-z
drywontonmee // November 2, 2007 at 2:55 am
One thing that makes Tumblr HARDER to use is the loss of the option to not have your friends posts on the dashboard.
It was enough of a pain before to go looking for old posts in the dashboard - now it’s like a form of torture.
Please, please, please let me turn off my friends posts - otherwise I’m going to have to just delete all my friends.
Thanks.
drywontonmee // November 2, 2007 at 3:11 am
Also, the text on the buttons for ‘dashboard’, ‘follow’ and ‘reblog’, doesn’t come out very clear and tidy in Firefox on PC - a little bit rough for a pro site.
I see you have a bundle of Macs in the office, I don’t blame you… but, er, you gotta check everything on PCs
Michael Broukhim // November 2, 2007 at 3:13 am
Congrats Dave!
andrewacomb // November 2, 2007 at 3:17 am
Thanks for a great post.
Jonathan Gillespie // November 2, 2007 at 3:21 am
I absolutely love what you have done! Great work! keep it up!
mmopro // November 2, 2007 at 3:29 am
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This code is NOT friendly, Now my site loading slowly……
mmopro // November 2, 2007 at 3:31 am
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This code is NOT friendly, Now my site loading slowly……
mmopro // November 2, 2007 at 3:33 am
The iframe code is NOT friendly, Now my site loading slowly……
Esau // November 2, 2007 at 3:51 am
drywontonmee said “Please, please, please let me turn off my friends posts - otherwise I’m going to have to just delete all my friends.”
I second that motion.
Esau // November 2, 2007 at 4:05 am
Yeah scrolling down several pages to find your last post is a pain in the sitter. You want to force other people into the dashboard? Hmmmn…meh.
Please someone explain how channels work? I made one, I sent an email inviting myself and it took me to the sign up page. Nada no channel. I cannot invite people to a channel they cannot view. Someone?
Robert_K // November 2, 2007 at 4:12 am
I don’t want to spoil everybody’s fun, but I really miss the simplicity of the v2 dashboard.
As other people already mentioned: I’m kind of forced to delete all my friends, if I just want to see my own posts.
And “log out” is hidden in the account menu now, that seems a bit odd.
Bigger issue: inserting links or images in body text or descriptions is not possible anymore. The actual insert button has disappeared out of the box. The alternative is working in the HTML source editor and creating links yourself, which is quite time consuming.
Working on your template is no fun either, the small screen makes the text close to unreadable.
O, and just one other thing: why did we lose Tumblr radar? How am I supposed to find other great [or not so great] Tumblr’s now?
Jack // November 2, 2007 at 4:16 am
Awesome as ever david!
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olorintook // November 2, 2007 at 4:40 am
hmmm, the javacript for embedding tumblr into other sites isn’t working for me: it displays the first page of posts, but no ‘archive’ link, no ‘rss’ link, and, worst of all, no ‘next’ link, so one page is all visitors can see… : (
shadowfirebird // November 2, 2007 at 4:41 am
Second thoughts (like first thoughts, only …second):
* The interface is not as good. I have to click more times to do the same stuff; things that I could see without clicking are now hidden behind clicks. Don’t get me wrong, it’s prettier — but less functional.
* If channels had a web page and an RSS feed then they would be mucho useful. But not for collaberation. No-one wants yet another invite to join yet another web product that they would not use otherwise.
* “private posts” are redundant; it makes more sense to create a channel and not invite anyone.
* The teeny-tiny editors for description and template suck.
* I love the archive with mad abandon — that will do nicely as a search tool. Plus, I gather that I can solve the post title thing, so Technorati can play? I’ll fiddle with this soon.
* Not wild about the fact that the interpreting of line feeds has changed in the description box — but that’s my problem.
* Everything else rocks.
tily // November 2, 2007 at 5:09 am
I’ve translated this entry into Japanese. Let me know if any roblem.
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/tily/20071101
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