#primary blogs

Hello @the-emo-asgardian, thank you for this question.

There has been a ton of chatter around using secondary blogs to interact with others for so many years, and we definitely hear you on this.

If you haven’t seen Cyle’s post on his own blog about the concept of Identities, I highly recommend you go check it out. He shares a lot about how the relationship between primary and secondary blogs work on Tumblr and how they are built—definitely give it a read.

What we want:

The ability to change secondary blogs to primary blogs. 

Why we want it:

When a new tumblr user makes their first blog, it is automatically their primary blog.  Along the course of their stay at tumblr, they make secondary blogs, and after a time they decide to retire the first blog they made, or they make a personal blog if their first blog was an art blog or a role play blog.

And there's the problem: we don't want to have that retired blog or that non-personal blog as our primary blog, because the primary blog is the default for everything.  Reblogs, asks, replies, EVERYTHING.

What we want, part 2:

The ability to send asks as secondary blogs.

Why we want it:

If my primary blog is based around something totally unfitting to the blog I want to send an ask to, my only other option is to send anon.  And not only is that impersonal and anonymous and not what I want, some blogs ban anons altogether.  

Here are some examples: 

I want to send asks from my personal blog, but it is secondary.

I want to send asks from my role play blog to another role play blog, but my role play blog is secondary.

I want to send an ask to a nsfw blog, from my nsfw blog, but my nsfw blog is secondary.  Or vice versa, I want to send an ask to a sfw blog, from my sfw blog, but my sfw blog is secondary and my main blog is nsfw.

Tumblr @staff, you've been ignoring or pushing back on these two requests for years now.  We have nothing but logical reasons for our requests.  We basically REQUIRE them as features for tumblr’s secondary/multiple blog mechanic to work fluidly.