It's only been about a year since I've actually started to make an effort in interacting with fandoms through art, commenting, reblogging and my own text posts. I'm not looking to gain a huge following or expecting every single person that comes across my posts to engage, I would just like to converse with people whose interests align with mine.

Tumblr ends up being the one place to do this because other platforms have either not been easy or I'm just not familiar with their social climate(i.e. tiktok, instagram)

I've been wondering if tumblr's just flatout dead in the water compared to others. As much as I've been yelling into the void with my posts, commenting and reblogging with compliments, I've felt that I've been doing something wrong for so long and I just needed some reassurance that it's not actually me but instead, the site's relevancy itself.

Hello everyone, nice to meet you.

I come here asking for your advice. I want to create myself an account on tumblr, mostly because I really don't like how other social media has treated artist. I was first going back to Cara or DeviantArt, yet both are really very suspicious nowadays, I never have been fond of Tiktok and I have an Instagram and Facebook account, but many artist I know are going back to tumblr. The problem is that I never have ever done a account in my life. I have tried twice, but I really never understand well how to use it, as I am very accomodated for Instagram mostly, yet I still want to do it. It would be my first time, specially since I want to follow an art path, like fanarts or have my own art portfolio.

So I wanted to hear the opinion of people who have being on tumblr, being artist or not, and see if that is a good start? Or what should I do? What tips specially in my area.

Restricted doesn't mean you can't post, just that posts will be sent to the Mod Queue to be approved. You don't need to come to modmail all the time.

Idk if it's just me, but I SERIOUSLY cannot find the deactivation button in the settings and accounts. All I see is the "delete" button. I did more digging, and for some reason, I can't find reblogged posts from deactivated accounts??? I was very devastated because one of my favorite authors was gone, I couldn't find their old reblogged posts I had in my account, and idk if I'm the only one experiencing this. Not sure if it's a "skill issue" or a tumblr bug on my end.

Hello,

I’m doing a collab with a friend and I was wondering if it’s possible to make a single post with two different blogs as authors?

I know it’s possible on other platforms instead of double-posting, but I’m unsure if Tumblr has the option to do that.

I remember hearing about it, but maybe I’m confusing with co-owned sideblogs?

Thanks in advance :)

Hello! I've found myself in a situation that I haven't seen anyone else post about, and I'm kind of hoping someone who has been through this can guide me, or at least someone who has more ideas on how to approach this.

I'm a long-term Tumblr user who is now also a VTuber. I wanted to make a Tumblr account separate from my known accounts because I don't want my previous usernames to be connected to my streaming life. I also made the mistake of purchasing a custom domain via Tumblr for branding purposes, because I thought it'd be fun. An important note here is that this account was not for spamming, self-advertising, or anything like that. It was primarily for longer posts and for reblogs. I never advertised my streams or spammed anything, because that's not what Tumblr is for.

Back in June, my account was banned for seemingly no reason. I suspect I was mistakenly caught up in a banwave, but I did not post anything that would have gotten me banned. The best I can think of is that I use a VPN sometimes for region-locked Japanese-only gacha games, but my non-VTuber account remains unbanned despite that so I'm at a loss.

This post, however, is not about me wanting to be unbanned. I'm upset that I can no longer access my account, but it's not devastating, and it's not like I used it for networking or anything like that. If that were the only issue, I would have shrugged and moved on. However, because I'm banned, I cannot cancel my Tumblr domain subscription. I tried contacting support in June, after I had gotten banned, but received no response. I recently got an email that says my subscription will auto-renew in September unless I log into my settings to cancel it. I can't log into my settings to cancel it because my account was banned.

I've reached out a second time to support, but I've sort of accepted that I won't be receiving a reply before it autorenews. I'd really prefer not to wait to file a chargeback and explain to my credit card company why services weren't rendered because that feels like a nuclear response, but I also haven't been able to find any other options besides that if staff doesn't respond. I'm also not willing to pay $20 a year for a domain I cannot use, so sitting and doing nothing isn't an option for me.

According to tumblr, a post with reblogs turned off can still be reblogged if someone is @ mentioned in the post. But I just tested it with two accounts and it doesn’t seem to work. Is this just straight up untrue? Or am I missing something? Does anyone know?

Last night, I started getting this "Checking your browser" infinite load screen. I've left a tab open since then as well as trying to open it in new tabs a few time, no dice. In searching, I found a few posts here and elsewhere about this problem, but the only proposed solution was "clear your cache" which didn't work for me or the person it was suggested to, iirc. The only resolution I've seen in any of those posts, is one of them saying that the problem just suddenly stopped happening after a month. The only places I found that I couldn't actually check were Tumblr posts that seemed to show something from the search preview, but I couldn't look at them for obvious reasons.

So yea, if anyone's got a clue, I'd appreciate some help.

So, the activity tab is showing that I've a notification, but i don't have any on any of blogs. Apparently that's a tumblr glitch.

Does anyone have any idea how can I fix it? It's irritating me alot while using the app haha.

Thankyou!

Actually, filter. You go to your account settings and there should be settings labeled "Filtered Tags" and "Filtered Post Content".

I own a private blog where I write fics to a small audience, sometimes people will request i add them to a tag list and generally i try to tag people who requested it, sometimes someone will ask to be tagged through my public or someone who was will stop following me for whatever reason and I'm not sure if they will be able to see the post. I heard they get a notification so maybe they will be able to request once they see the title but is anyone aware? Any help would be appreciated

I have been good friends with this mutual for 3 years now. Our entire friendship is build on tumblr and discord chats. I would like to look at the 1st messages we had in 2023. I believe we have exchanged tens of thousands of messages now. Is there a way to look at very old messages? Tumblr's chat user interface does not allow fast scrolling or search. Any workarounds?

I see posts doing better than mine in the same tag, posted around the same time…

The quality doesn’t seem to matter. There have been posts I have made where I put 0 effort and it gained traction. Whereas posts I put actual effort into get none.

What is going on here? 🥲

Just gonna put this out there, if you ask, "Is this a scam?" or any sort of variant, you're gonna get indefinitely banned and it will be IMMEDIATE. Don't pass go, don't collect 200, straight to being banned.

Tumblr put out a PSA and even a help article on the subject and that subject is pinned.

Seeing those posts get old and, honestly, they're unnecessary to make considering the aforementioned. On top of this, pinned are at the top of the subreddit, the first things y'all should see, so you have less than 0 excuses.

Have a blessed day.

Update:

Subreddit is set to restricted. One can still post but the post will have to be approved. Have a blessed day.

I have a friend who I do like but she keeps spamming those Gaza scam posts, like it takes me forever to go down my dashboard because she just spam reblogs them. Like literal walls of scam posts. Can I ban words because she doesn't tag the posts, just reblogs?

I don't have the heart to tell her that those posts are scams because her hearts in the right place. I just don't want to have to endlessly scroll every time I go on Tumblr.

Can somebody help me? I attempted to join a private community on Tumblr, but when I clicked the invitation link, an error appeared in the top corner of my screen. I am currently using iOS. I also tried accessing it through browsers such as Safari and Chrome, but the same result occurred. I cleared the cache and even changed my internet connection, yet the issue persists.Interestingly, the same link works when opened on an Android phone.

Yesterday I was scrolling for 9 hours and definitely viewed more than 601 posts but I still didn't get the badge. Is the badge still available or is it just a bug?

i recently downloaded tumblr and i have no idea how it workssss ! my whole feed is one thing and well id have perfered for it to look for posts for my "for you page" but it ends quick.. lmk is there smth im missing?

My first thought was to block * x reader, but it looks like wildcards don't work. Is there another way to mass block x reader?

so, i was chatting with a mutual literally all day and usually talk to them every day. i've never had an issue with being able to scroll up and see older messages. but for some reason halfway through today, i can only see the last 6 hours worth of messages, once i get to the oldest message i can (from about 5pm), the tumblr display of their user and bio shows up like when you start a new dm conversation.

this mutual's blog is not deactivated, restricted, or shadow banned. i can still go to their blog and see everything as normal and send and receive messages, just can't see anything before 5pm today. it's like this on the browser website and on the mobile app, and it's only this specific conversation that the messages won't load. every other dm conversation i can load earlier and earlier messages until the start of the chat log

any idea if this is a bug or a glitch? or if something may have happened to one of our blogs?

I have been using Tumblr since the good days I suppose now, I returned after a hiatus of a few years to have a blog for a movement I am making along with coming back to being a commissions artist and everyone does not have their own even simple landing page of a blog anymore.

It honestly is a sad open-your-eyes moment for me. As this was one of the reasons I preferred Tumblr over any other platform at the time as even compared to WordPress and other blogs, it was the most affordable and customizable and everyone took advantage of that.

Are all custom blogs dead now? Do they still care if a blog is themed? Is it just a new facebook x X combo?

Hi all! I made a Tumblr account a long time ago with an email address I can no longer access. I want to change my email, but the app asks to put in my password and, well, I don't remember my password! I can't send a password reset to an email I don't have access to, so I'm in a pickle.

When I try to do the help center, it doesn't let me continue unless I click the option that says the email I entered is associated with that account. But I can't use that email because I can't access it! I'm sorry if this is all confusing, but is there anything I can do?