We’re rolling out a big new development today:
Introducing Tag Channels.
Similar to Flickr’s tag pages or Twitter’s hashtags, Tumblr’s Tag Channels aggregate tagged posts from everyone on Tumblr in real time with a few special twists:
- To deal with the overwhelming volume of content that makes most real-time search incredibly unwieldy, we’ve developed a clustering engine that lets you quickly filter the 650,000 new Tumblr posts created every day, based on likes and reblogs. You can see a few of the best posts or more unfiltered posts.
- Our post-filtering is automatically calibrating to apply more or less filtering (by default) based on the level of activity in a channel.
- Built-in throttling (still being tweaked) prevents monopolization by individual blogs.
- Tags are normalized, so “Barack Obama” = “barackobama”.
- We’ve made it super-easy to track tags on your Dashboard.
We’re still right in the middle of development. A few things might be acting funny, and we’re not done with the central tag directory yet. So please bear with us!
Now start tagging your posts. :)
For your inspiration: Tech, Politics, NYC, District 9, Healthcare, NFL, FAIL, Pizza, Baby Animals.
A few quick fixes
- The Dashboard arrow key shortcuts are now disabled when endless scrolling is enabled.
- Endless scrolling no longer interrupts Audio or Video playback!
- The J and K (next post / previous post) shortcut now works properly w/o endless scrolling.
- Automatic post recovery was occasionally throwing false positives. That should be fixed.
As always, please let us know if you see anything acting funny!
Hell yeah, we’re featured in an iPhone commercial! Thanks, Postman and Apple!!
Awesome photo Andrew :)
Tumblr Tuesday
You survived another Monday, but can you withstand the awesome power contained in yet another Tumblr Tuesday? I certainly hope so, because we have millions more Tumblr blogs to cover, and yours could be next.
Inside the Informal Speech
Urban Dictionary’s Blog is a stream of all things Urban Dictionary. Keep up-to-date on the evolution (or devolution, depending on your perspective) of the English language, and don’t miss some of the unintentionally hilarious emails they get in their inbox. Word up, dogs! Right?!Grind My Gears
I Am in Like With My Bike is pure, unadulterated bicycle fetishism. The discerning cycling enthusiast will surely find this blog just a little too exciting, but I don’t judge. I only plead that you don’t run me over in front of anyone I know.Gratuitous Picture of Your Hair Day
Having an amazing hair day, but frustrated that more people won’t see it? Make things right with Must Share Hair. Now you’re only a submission away from inspiring the entire world with that thing growing on your melon that you call a haircut.Aloha Yeah
Fuck Yeah Hawaii is a scrapbook of anything and everything related to America’s newest state. Unique culture, amazing food, and beautiful locales… It’s all here. Except me. I am not in Hawaii. I was never more aware of this fact than after spending two hours on this site.Migrant Blogger
Educated Hobo describes himself as a man who never accomplished anything and ended up living in a van down by the river, but I’d argue that creating such a diverse and thought-provoking blog is a serious accomplishment in its own right.Okay, you know the drill! Who do you nominate for next Tumblr Tuesday?
On taking over the world, and other things…
It’s been a month of milestones for Tumblr, and we thought it would be a good time to stop and say: Thank you to everyone for making this possible.
We can still remember watching your new posts come in one-by-one the day we launched. Now we’re waiting for five new servers to arrive to help us handle the 330 million (that’s 0.3 billion!!) hits and 20 million new posts we’re projecting for August.
More than anything, you continue to blow us away with the amazing things you do with Tumblr.
As our team gets bigger (we’re up to 9 people!), we promise we’re as committed as ever to making Tumblr the greatest place for everyone in the world to share the stuff they love and create.
We love you <3
Two awesome new features for theme designers: Theme Permalinks and Theme Author Pages.
You can now link directly to your theme on Tumblr to promote it yourself. People can also browse all your themes on your Theme Author Page like: http://www.tumblr.com/themes/by/petervidani
Two awesome new features for theme designers: Theme Permalinks and Theme Author Pages.
You can now link directly to your theme on Tumblr to promote it yourself. People can also browse all your themes on your Theme Author Page like: http://www.tumblr.com/themes/by/petervidani
Two awesome new features for theme designers: Theme Permalinks and Theme Author Pages.
You can now link directly to your theme on Tumblr to promote it yourself. People can also browse all your themes on your Theme Author Page like: http://www.tumblr.com/themes/by/petervidani
