work in progress — hi wip! I was wondering if there's some kind of...

Answer: Hey there, @2am-poetry.

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

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

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

Answer: Hello, @cinna-bunnie!

A little plot twist for you. We actually built the infrastructure for pinned posts on Tumblr to allow as many pinned posts as you want. We have, however, limited it to just one for now.

This is mostly because pinned posts can take up a lot of space when viewing blogs, and this can be a little frustrating for people who have already seen the pinned posts and only want to get to the latest content. So we need to solve that problem before we expand it to more than one pinned post. We might return to this in the future—and we will be sure to let you know if we get around to it.

Keep the questions coming, y’all!

Answer: Hey, @iguanodonwildman!

Thanks for this. We have contacted you directly for more information, but we also have some suggestions we would like to share.

If you upload a GIF to a post (instead of inserting a link to one or using the GIF search), that GIF becomes inadvertently “yours.” Also, keep in mind that folks can edit their post to replace your GIF at any time after the notification is sent. It would certainly be nice if there were a notification type that could be muted, separately from others (and may we take this chance to say that we would love to build this one day, only it is not clear when. While we would like to add it… we’ve got a lot of other things we need to build first.) 

So, as there isn’t right now, if you are uploading a GIF to your post instead of inserting it, here are some temporary solutions:

• First, try to avoid uploading or reposting other people’s GIFs, and use the GIF search when possible.
• Alternatively, you could also copy the link to a GIF already hosted on Tumblr and paste that link into the post editor. It will insert that GIF without them needing to download and reupload it.

For those unsure how to copy image links, you right-click and select “Copy Image Link.” On Android, you tap and hold on an image, select “Share photo,” and copy the URL. iOS does not provide a way for us to do this in our iOS app. 

Alternatively, what works well is that you can get the first GIF in any post by pasting the post’s permalink into the GIF search. Bonus point: this will also embed any static image like a GIF, complete with a credit link. The only downside is that only the first image is returned, so GIFsets are out of the question unless you want to use the first GIF.

We hope this helps, and thanks for getting in touch with this. 

Answer: Hey, @theirprofoundbond!

So, a microcosm of good news here: we can say that right now we are thinking about it. Sadly there is nothing more to add here for now, but for any updates, you will be the first to know over at @changes.

Thanks for your suggestions, it’s much appreciated. Have a lovely day!

Best,

—Jon

Answer: Hello, @friend-dogor!

Thanks for your question. We love this idea! It’s a great suggestion, so we will look into it and see what’s possible. It could make a good candidate for the next Hack Day—we’ll keep you posted.

If we have updates, you’ll find them here at @wip or at @changes. Stayed tuned, and keep your suggestions coming.

Answer: Hey there @amtva!

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

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

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

Have a great day!

Answer: Hey, @pinkcat13!

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

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

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

Answer: Hey there, @bloggingakymbo.

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

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