1. Read comments By david Testing: Dashboard Notifications We’re trying out a new feature and are really curious to hear what you think.   Notifications appear on your Dashboard for things like new followers and reblogs.  It still has some glaring holes, but we’ve been loving this feature for discovering new people on Tumblr. You can enable Notifications on your Preferences page.

    Testing: Dashboard Notifications

    We’re trying out a new feature and are really curious to hear what you think.  

    Notifications appear on your Dashboard for things like new followers and reblogs.  It still has some glaring holes, but we’ve been loving this feature for discovering new people on Tumblr.

    You can enable Notifications on your Preferences page.

  2. Read comments By david Jacob Bijani never fails to amaze us, and his last idea was too smart to pass up. Posts that are featured on Tumblr Radar will now show a “This was featured” note, along with any reblogs. Thanks, Jacob!

    Jacob Bijani never fails to amaze us, and his last idea was too smart to pass up.

    Posts that are featured on Tumblr Radar will now show a “This was featured” note, along with any reblogs.

    Thanks, Jacob!

  3. Read comments By david

    We’ve just made a few changes to make your tumblelogs a bit more accessible and search-engine friendly. One thing you’ll probably notice right away: Permalink URLs now include a summary of the post content.

    http://www.davidslog.com/post/34145219/dont-laugh-at-us

    This makes the URLs a little more attractive, and can help search engines identify your posts.

    (Huge thanks to the guys at Disqus for preserving comments from the old structure!)

    We’ve also added the theme tag, {PostSummary}. This is an alternative to the {PostTitle} tag (used on permalink pages) that will generate a short text summary if the post doesn’t have a title. We’ve switched our preset themes to use this tag, and we suggest including it in your custom themes to help search engines index your posts.  See the theme docs for reference.

  4. Read comments By marco New feature: Audio posts with externally hosted files Now you can optionally create Tumblr audio posts with MP3s hosted outside of Tumblr. Just click Use an externally hosted audio file on the New Audio Post form. Audio posts using external hosting have no size limit and no daily limit.

    New feature: Audio posts with externally hosted files

    Now you can optionally create Tumblr audio posts with MP3s hosted outside of Tumblr. Just click Use an externally hosted audio file on the New Audio Post form.

    Audio posts using external hosting have no size limit and no daily limit.

  5. Read comments By david We just added an “Advanced” button to the Tumblr Bookmarklet, letting you set privacy, date, and tags.
    We just added an “Advanced” button to the Tumblr Bookmarklet, letting you set privacy, date, and tags.
  6. Read comments By david Yesterday, Amit Gupta had a great suggestion to include thumbnails on Video posts in the Dashboard: I love Tumblr, but I almost never watch the videos people post. But I click on photos to see the bigger version all the time. Video posts could really use a still frame to give you a peek at what’s inside. Anyone else feel this way? We were already doing this with videos uploaded to Tumblr.  Now we’ll also show thumbnails next to YouTube videos. Thanks, Amit! 

    Yesterday, Amit Gupta had a great suggestion to include thumbnails on Video posts in the Dashboard:

    I love Tumblr, but I almost never watch the videos people post. But I click on photos to see the bigger version all the time.

    Video posts could really use a still frame to give you a peek at what’s inside.

    Anyone else feel this way?

    We were already doing this with videos uploaded to Tumblr.  Now we’ll also show thumbnails next to YouTube videos.

    Thanks, Amit! 

  7. Read comments By marco

    New feature: Tag filtering

    You’ve been able to enter tags on posts for a while using the “Show advanced options” link. Most people use tags to indicate categories or topics, such as vacation, music, photography.

    Today, we’ve added two new ways to use tags:

    Tags can now be displayed for each post in your theme (see the Custom Theme reference’s new Tags section). You can link to URLs that look like this:

    http://tumblelog.marco.org/tagged/New_music_experiment

    …where you can replace New_music_experiment with your tag name. Underscores in the URL are interpreted as spaces in the name, so that tag was actually entered as "New music experiment".

    The standard view shows posts in reverse-chronological order (latest posts on top), like your tumblelog’s front page. If you want the opposite (earliest posts on top), you can append /chrono to any tag URL to display the posts in chronological order, like this:

    http://tumblelog.marco.org/tagged/Ohio_trip/chrono

    It’s a great way to present all posts relevant to a certain event (in this case, my trip to Ohio) or a category (e.g. "photography tips").

    You can link to these URLs in your Description for commonly used tags, or you can link each post to its tags using the new Custom Theme variables.