#your suggestions

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.

Answer: Hi there @mitchipedia!

There are a lot of great ways to share Tumblr off of Tumblr! While email isn’t in the works right now, it’s a good idea, and it’s certainly something we’ve made note of—perhaps we could look into this in the future.

For now, we enthusiastically encourage the sharing of Tumblr content on platforms such as Facebook, Reddit, Threads, Pinterest, Mastodon, and Bluesky. You can share Tumblr posts via email, too, and find out more about sharing and embedding Tumblr content over at the Help Center.

Hey folks. We recently received this submitted as feedback:

It is extremely hard to get any sort of attention to your posts/ page I don’t know if I’m not putting enough tags or what but it just turned me off the the app because it felt pointless. I want people to see my art, to make friends, and to see something besides the same 5 post over and over again.

This felt like a good chance to start a conversation with you all. How do you build your audiences? What are your tips for tagging, blog settings, themes, and paid options? How do you get attention to your posts and pages? How do you get people to see your content, make friends, and see more posts?

But first, we can say that building an audience can be challenging—it’s also a lot of fun, and very rewarding! Using tags, for example, can help reach users who might be interested in your art (if any of your posts has content that is not suitable for minors, please remember to apply Content Labels to your posts). Why not check these pointers below from our old tips blog? But please consider that some features mentioned in that blog are no longer available:

Tag it up.

Some tags are better than others.

Run a Q&A.

Using the queue.

In addition, you can Blaze your posts to promote your content even further and help you build an audience.

Answer: Hi @inkloin!

A few of you have asked this, or something similar! Unfortunately, this would be pretty difficult to implement right now. That said, we would love this—it would be nice to have. So we would love to know what other posts blocks you all would find helpful? Let us know in the comments and reblogs, and you'll get any updates here or at @changes.

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. 

Answer: Hey @andmaybegayer!

Unfortunately, we don’t currently have such a feature. To build a list of all your muted posts would require a significant effort that we cannot prioritize at the moment. Maybe a notification to let you know your post is gaining traction? That would be easier, but it would still need a lot of thought.

We have a suggestion, even if it’s one that you might already know. You could always mute the post for a limited time instead of forever. After that period, you would start getting notifications for that post again, check the notes you missed, and mute it again. While we have no way of finding all of your forever-muted posts, it’s the next best thing we have to your question right now:

Speaking of, how is this website translated? Do you hire people to individually do all of the translating, get a robot of some kind to do it, or anything else?

Answer: Hi, @somethingsomethingspotted!

It is people doing the translating! It's a professional linguist team who work to ensure cultural and contextual accuracy as well as high-quality translations. This same team also creates and maintains the content in the staff blogs in the various languages currently provided.

This is also the reason why it is not so straightforward to add more languages. This is a time-consuming process, as is the translation work for the languages we currently support. But it is important to clarify to the community that it is real people doing the work—and nothing automated.

We would be curious to know what languages you would like, and we can look into it on our side to get an idea of how realistic this would be right now. It must be said that we cannot promise anything, but it’s certainly worth exploring.