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staff is no longer trying to hide how little they care for their user base. i turned off autonatic updates on my phone Specifically so i wouldnt get this layest update and it STILL went through. since tumblr became more “profit motivated” or w/e the quality of the app has taken a STEEP decline. first there was blazing posts, which, for $10, allows you to submit your post so that 1000 random users will see it. since theyve rolled this feature out, theyve allowed proselytizing, multiple forms of bigotry, SU***DE NOTES, nsfw, and pointless venting to be blazed, all while claiming they have actual people review all the posts that are submitted before theyre blazed. after that they added a feature called “post+” i have no idea what it does because no one uses it. after that it only went downhill, with the addition of the tumblr store, an addition of a “tumblr live” feature that collects MOUNTAINS of data on you in an attempt to emulate tiktok, edited the image format so you can no longer zoom in and the video format so you cant rewind or fast forward videos, and replaced the account button on your toolbar with the tumblr shop button. the userbase has been telling staff over and over that we dont want any of this, and they wont listen. meanwhile theyll ban people for even slightly insulting anyone on staff while allowing LITERAL N*ZIS AND T*RFS to run rampant and refusing to do anything about them no matter how many times theyre reported. but sure, they added polls. great job staff.

One step forward…. Two steps back. They occasionally add a useful or wanted feature like polls. Then there’s things like Tumblr Live (which cannot be turned off, only snoozed for one month when you must turn it on and off again, and includes a permanent “new” bubble on the bottom row of tabs), the new dashboards, the continuous presence of bots and bigots, and things are just as annoying. Ads take ages to scroll past and are so sensitive that attempts to bypass them send you to the app store. They occasionally have sound, which will stop anything you are listening to and won’t stop until you pass the ad. The new post button has been moved from its typical center-bar place to a bubble above it like Twitter, meaning not only do I accidentally tap it often, any time I try to go to my notifications or the search bar I miss what I’m trying to tap because of their new locations. The tags button has been moved. Why? I cannot tell you how many times in the last week I have attempted to add tags to a post only to have a pop-up for ‘community labels’ appear. New tools don’t mean you have to reorganize the whole bench. I am also very disappointed in the appearance of tags. If I tap a tag to take me to the tag for the whole site, the format is drastically different than a standard search and cannot be filtered or sorted other than by ‘Top’ or ‘Latest’.

UuuuuuGGGHHHHHH. This app is terrible and I don’t really recommend it if you get easily frustrated by broken assets that you can’t even use even though they’re everywhere. An example of this is the search option on everyone’s blog. When I go to type something in on someone’s blog so I can search for a tag that they have, even if they have a lot of posts in that tag it’ll give me the “Oops nothing here in this tag! It just doesn’t exist!”. This has been an issue for YEARS. I have never been able to go in someone’s blog, manually type a tag and be able to click search to get me all the posts in that tag. This is also an issue for my personal blog. I haven’t been able to search a tag by manually typing it in. I have to put the tag on a post that is COMPLETELY unrelated to the tag just so I can get into it, and then I have to remove the tag from that post after just because I wanted to find it...... it’s a lot of extra work because of a bug that has gone unfixed for a long time. I can’t tell you how much time I’ve wasted having to scroll far down to a miscellaneous post so my followers don’t see a weird tag on an unrelated post, typing the tag on the post so I can click on it, and then deleting the tag from that post after I’ve gotten into the tag. Why is there a manual typing search option for specific blog tags when it doesn’t even work???

Basically where I live online. Tumblr is hands down my favorite social media platform. The tagging system is unbeat by anywhere else and allows me to find any post I have already seen quickly and easily. There is a culture of citing sources, providing links, and challenging misinformation. There is NO individual tracking for advertising, and there never will be. You don't get endless suggested content clogging your feed like on so many other platforms. In fact, unless you choose to, you don't get any. Your experience is YOURS to create, entirely based on who you follow and what you seek out, not what some algorithm is guessing wildly at. And unlike short-form platforms, you can have actual discussions here. And you don't have content shoved in your face that you don't want to see. This makes it far less of a hotbed for polarization and heightened antagonism than, for instance, Twitter. Been here since 2013 and the current corporate owners seem to be the first in a string of them to actually care how the site is used and want to serve its userbase. The developments since then have been largely positive, so far, and I expect that to continue.

Going downhill fast. I’ve been on this site for over a decade and not once has search been fully functional, needing work arounds in order to find what you’re actually looking for. That should be the first priority. But instead of working on that developers decided to collapse reblog chains, making conversations that made the site fun to use take a back seat and leaving everyone who doesn’t expand a reblog chain open to even more misinformation than there already is. They’re talking about expanding the notes button into replies, reblogs and likes, similar to another failing blue website that enjoys playing numbers games with users, whether or not it may affect their mental health. They changed the photo viewer into a ux nightmare that’s impossible to leave unless you know how to get out. the video player has transformed into a tiktok clone where if you swipe wrong you could end up on another video from another post that’s not even on your dashboard. STOP trying to be twitter STOP trying to be tiktok and WORK ON THE SITES ACTUAL ISSUES. If people don’t know how to use a site just TELL THEM. If the site rolls back these changes and dedicates themselves to bettering the platform they have rather than cloning another one then I’ll put my money where my mouth is and buy as much merch and ad free as I can. If your investors want a bad product then they can be my guest, but I’m not sticking around for it.

Gets worse with every update. Don’t get me wrong, I like tumblr. I have been on this site since 2011 or 2012. I like the art community and the chronological dash and being able to show or hide my likes and following lists. Your experience is fully what/who you follow and what you search. That said, the tagging system that used to make the site so good has been screwed over yet again in the most recent update. Tumblr has added more banned words and suppressed more content supposedly in the name of following Apple’s guidelines. This ruins the search function and will prevent people from tagging things appropriately and will defeat the entire purpose of tagging and personal filters. They want to hide “unsafe” or “explicit” content and yet everything they do with the tags does the exact opposite. Why would anyone use the correct tags if it will immediately be suppressed? Also the old system of giving a warning on explicit blogs worked fine. Now on iOS you don’t even get the choice of continuing with that search or not. You get booted back to the search function. I don’t know the exact age demographics of tumblr but especially these days it seems to be a site for adults who grew up with it so the fact that they treat their user base like children needing to be censored is frustrating and useless. If they keep going down this path of censorship and incompetent search functions I might be forced to abandon it all together rather than continue trying to make it work.

Love tumblr, but things need to change. The app runs terribly. It constantly closes out of itself, is slow, and it heats up my phone to degrees that are higher than the hottest thing in the known universe. The app doesn’t allow for certain, very important, features that the desktop version contains (an example being: blocking blogs from side blogs, as the app only allows users to block through their main blog. This doesn’t stop blogs you’ve blocked on your main from viewing and interacting with your side blogs). New features are constantly being pushed out as well, and while I do appreciate the innovative approach, these features are not wanted or enjoyed by the user base. Most “new features” appear clunky and as if they didn’t do proper testing. The staff doesn’t seem to listen to the user base’s wants on the app, or the desktop version either. On top of that, the staff runs the app, and the desktop site itself, horribly as well. Blogs are terminated via user reports that are not reviewed by staff, the staff doesn’t take harassment seriously, and they list sfw queer topics as “mature” (while tumblr prides itself on its queer rep and acceptance). Overall, I love the community of tumblr and I don’t think there isn’t anything like tumblr that’s out there. However, I have not appreciated the approach that the app, and the desktop version, have been taking.

God help me. I could frankly care less about whatever features the app has or what kind of content is allowed in the rules. As long as I get to scroll mindlessly through my dash and occasionally spit out the odd text post that nobody will read, I’m pretty much set. So here’s the thing: I’ve got a phone and an iPad, both of which are ancient by technology standards. Probably not a decade old, but they can’t be far at this point. The app works fine on them. Glitchier than most I’ve used, but I can still do all two of the things I usually do on tumblr with ease, so I can look past it. With all that said, WHY does the app crash incessantly on my brand new phone? It’s the only app I have that does this, so I know the phone itself isn’t the problem. It freezes if I exit out of the app for a bit, sometimes if I reblog a post or look in the notes, it’ll freeze if I look at someone’s blog too long. The only thing I can do that doesn’t have a chance of crashing the app is scroll - and even then I can’t go down TOO far. I’m genuinely confused at how this app functions perfectly fine on the oldest devices that I have, and yet can’t seem to stay open for longer than ten minutes at a time on a two day old phone. I’m open to any reasonable explanations for this, because I’m honestly at a loss, but mostly I just hope this gets resolved soon. I can’t use my iPad out of the house and I absolutely refuse to redownload Twitter. This hellsite is my one source of entertainment, man, cmon

Just getting worse. I’ve loved tumblr for over a decade and they just keep adding worse and worse features. Tumblr live? I’ve never seen anything but scathing criticism over this feature and they roll it out in more countries? The app is extremely glitchy because of the new video ads (that play audio without your prompting!) and the apps actual video player only halfway functions! It glitches out, won’t play, won’t play the audio, won’t play the video, won’t allow scrolling through time stamps. It’s honestly a toss up, the glitches are random and rarely consistent. Tumblr needs to shape up and go back to its roots. The last year has just been bad change after bad change. If things don’t start back pedaling soon I will delete my account and find a new place to spend my time. Just today I had to scroll through 3(three) ads per single post! I know that this is a glitch but the fact that they have enough ads now that that glitch is even possible is insane!! I remember a time barely a year ago when tumblr ads were not whole screen videos, did not actively disrupt my experience, and did not make me just close the app in frustration. This is an app full of people who do not care for the normal functioning’s of the internet. How could you think that changing to conform to the likes of twitter would do anything other than shrink your userbase?

Brand New Review. I’ve reviewed before but gave it the same rating. Before Tumblr was a mess because of their bad coding — crashing after a little while of use, GIFs and images refusing to load almost constantly, videos not playing correctly, the list goes on. But the new algorithm for detecting NSFW content to be “kid friendly” when it was never meant to be a website for kids is lazy. Staff are condescending and don’t listen to the user base. Not only that, but a large portion of users are here for nsfw content. I understand that there is legal trouble and it’s not necessarily tumblr’s fault, but what is their fault is not doing anything about actually illegal content and instead punishing everyone whether they were involved or not. Porn bots are still rampant, neo-nazis and white nationalists and pedophiles are still free to roam while artists and content creators suffer greatly from the way this algorithm works. Up the age requirement to be on and keep your safe mode thing, it wasn’t perfect but it was way better than getting my post removed for having a single pixel of skin tones visible on a selfie or a piece of innocent fan art. The only reason this isn’t one star is because I’ve been using this site for years and years and it is honestly my favorite social media platform. It’s niche, doesn’t invade your privacy, and has a lot to offer within its user base. It has so much potential wasted by a terrible management.

extremely upset with the proposed + recently implemented changes. i’ve been on tumblr for years, and it’s the only social media where i actually enjoy creating my own posts and engaging with others rather than just lurking + endlessly scrolling. there’s a reason why i hate twitter (which i haven’t used in 2+ years and i’ve never looked back) and enjoy tumblr for its unique UI, quality media sharing, flexible personalization of blogs, lack of invasive algorithms, etc. so with all of the recently implemented updates and proposed upcoming features that aim to turn tumblr into the same tiktok/twitter/instagram/etc amalgamation that EVERY other social media is becoming, im extremely displeased. nobody wants tumblr live. nobody wants to see “liked by your mutuals!” (there’s a reason why everyone disables the public likes tab on their blogs). nobody wants to see notes split up by interaction type. nobody wants a video player that’s harder to use, or a photo viewer that is less accessible. if you really want to get your site out of debt, stop making changes to strip tumblr of its strengths and uniqueness just to become twitter 2.0. nobody wants it, and you’ll lose a hearty chunk of your userbase very soon unless you work to reverse these changes and start fixing the site’s ACTUAL problems. starting with, i don’t know, making the search function usable after years of it being borderline useless?

Stop trying to make tumblr into other, worse websites. The website’s always been a bit buggy. I can deal with that. But right now it’s under active sabotage. It’s getting harder to see people’s previous tags, an important way that users talk to each other. Custom blog themes are being axed, which has already forced some historical photo blogs I liked to shut down. Now they’re trying to kill reblog chains, which are THE thing that makes the site unique and where the best posts usually come from. Why do I have to log in to see stuff?! Searching my tags on my own blog from within the mobile app doesn’t work - buggy, but I could deal by searching “#pose ref” in a browser tab. Now? No. Intentionally made nonfunctional. No one likes Tumblr Live (illegal in many countries due to privacy violations) or the For You page (now the default for new accounts). If I wanted TikTok… I would use TikTok. TikTok is a better TikTok than Tumblr. But I don’t. I want a low stress place to look at cool art and see my friends read Dracula. All staff has to do is remove these features that are getting on the user base’s nerves and reallow porn and Tumblr would be booming. As the rest of the Internet moves towards being an ad-packed, data mining cesspit where grown adults are deemed too stupid to decide whether or not they want to see a nutsack today, Tumblr has the chance to be different. And it should take it.

AWFUL!!!!!!!. I grew up with this website, and found it quite enjoyable up until recently, when I was forced to begin searching for alternatives. The website seems determine to rid itself of everything that makes it unique and worth viewing. For example, one much beloved element of the site, the ability to click on a reblogged post and then click on a previous version, reblogged by another user, was a key social component. Users would share detailed anecdotes, additional information, recommendations and even engage in conversation using this mechanism. Now, it’s gone, and unless there’s hope of it being restored, I’ll soon be gone from the platform. Furthermore, the total inability to permanently opt-out of Tumblr Live, which is widely hated and mocked on the platform, leaves a bad taste in my mouth. If that weren’t bad enough, the website constantly adds new features absolutely NO ONE wants or approves of, while doing nothing about the things long time users have wanted solutions for. For example: the search function on most blogs is effectively useless. All in all, the recent changes have made Tumblr a horribly unpleasant and frustrating experience, not simply as bland as any other social media platform, but totally dysfunctional. I will be actively be looking for a replacement. I have no interest on remaining on a site so hostile to its long-time users.

Updates are awful. I ignored updating my app for the longest time because I saw other people complaining about all these things and I knew that I wouldn’t like it either. Unfortunately I clicked ‘update all’ on the App Store for my apps and completely forgot about tumblr :/ first of all the new Home Screen app icon is so gross I’m embarrassed to have it on my phone. Second of all I absolutely hate hate hate hate hate how that new storefront took the spot of your account/blog- I have severe adhd and used to heart stories to read later and use the account tab, home page and search tab to have two different things set up to be able to help keep me entertained and be able to explore the pages and work I love more but now with the account tab being on the home page and having its original spot be taken by a money grab scheme (something that insta also inputted that made me leave it!) , obviously can’t do that anymore. And third (I’ve had this update already) tumblr live is sooo freaking annoying like for the love of everything I already have lives for every other app I don’t even watch, I don’t want another app like that. Seriously I’ve been on this app for 12-13(?) years now and this is honestly the first time I’m considering deleting the app and just leaving tumblr. I understand needing to keep up with it’s competitors but tumblr is doing the opposite and getting worse and worse

Crashed in big time. I have being using tumblr for over a year now and it crashes me in big time. As I clean up on blogs that I follow the number stays on 514 but nothing to click on follow or unfollow and dashboard did not move at all as I tab for the update. Both web and app absolutely failed to move at all. Social media site like tumblr needs to be significantly improved on the platform. I am working very hard on my leisure to develop tumblr society for the world. The system video, photo, and multiple formats are very restrictive. We need tumblr to admit that most of there users are not children in fact very small percentage and so the platform needs to be a whole lot more adult friendly and at the same time more true society interactive social friendly. It is being existing for ten years already right? Please completely redesign and turn your app to be minimum 18 years or older and preferably 21 years and older. It doesn’t make any sense to do what Twitter or Facebook can already do and in other format alright. Seriously, can your team member truly just listen and truly make that difference? Most of your tumblr user don’t mind of paying for subscription, however, all of us care about all the inconvenience. This cannot wait, please make the major redesign and changes at once and not waiting at all. Your teams technology is too outdated, it needs completely overhaul and be five thousand times better and I mean it.

Potential to be great- selling out. I’ve been on Tumblr for at least 10 years and it’s a social media site I adore. As it existed before they started making broad “improvements”. Tumblr has been recently making some nice changes (adding polls, streamlining old features, attempting to highlight some of the artists using the site). But more so, it’s been making a lot of ‘improvements’ that make the site a lot worse. Tumblr Live was added to the site despite no one using it. It can’t be opted out of, and it also data mines information from those who do use it. There have been updates to the video player and the photo viewer that make it impossible to zoom in and WAY too easy to swipe into more videos I didn’t ask for and didn’t want. Most importantly, in an attempt to “streamline” the application, they’re trying to collapse Reblogs. So instead of being able to have a conversation with other users and share a sense of community, the website will function like a comment section on Facebook. I adore Tumblr, for what it CAN be. A unique, chronologically ordered dashboard with so much interaction and creativity. And I’m terrified that it’s hurtling towards what’s “trending” (ie: what makes other social media so annoying and unusable for me) to try and gain some of the traffic from those websites. I think allowing Tumblr to stay as unique as it is is the healthiest possible thing for the site. Because if I wanted anything else, I would’ve just downloaded Tiktok.

Statistic. The app is really interesting and it has a interesting flow given the algorithm on every trending item used to have a bunch of unregular weird people that would just want to message you over the site the site they weren’t really artistic at all so I don’t use Tumblr as a dating site. I use it as a blogging page right now I’m shooting on the FX 30 on log so I’m trying to get really serious with connecting apps into with my business so I understand how other people really wouldn’t want networking to turn into hook ups that aren’t going into anything wise you know, my morals and respect and as business owner I get disrespected all the time, so the site really helps it limited amount of traffic that’s coming through my inbox. If my content is looking student aka professional wise, then I will get more people who are applicable to understand my art and not the people that would just look and keep going. It’s all a social standard to what we’re creating so the same type of person that just watching is the same type of person with a social status is just watching. We have to wait for the people who are really wanting to view my content and see me grow as an artist🍾🎉

App/Site keeps going downhill.. Ever since all the NSFW content was removed the Site/App has become less and less usable (with less and less valuable content). The advertisements are extremely invasive (aka on phone apps an advert will take up a screen and 1/2 meaning that you cannot scroll past them without inadvertently tapping on them, which ends up blasting audio and video that you cannot stop or mute, and it forces the user to force quit the app. In addition to this, even when there are no advertisements onscreen... the app still hijacks audio and makes any music or video I have running in the background glitch out, causing me to have to forcequit tumblr.) Now I don't know about other tumblr users... but the second I have to forced quit the app, I'm done with tumblr for the day. The content that remains since the purge is not worth me force quitting the app multiple times just to get to where I left off in the feed. So maybe if you want your users to use the app longer than 1 minute a day, you should get ride of advertising that autoplays videos and audio and advertising that takes up an entire screen so you can't scroll past without being forced to swipe across a booby trapped advertisement. (stick to jpg and animated GIF advertising, autoplay video/audio ads are aids/cancerous).

Changing the entire site to accommodate Twitter users that aren’t coming. Honestly after all these years I was truly taken by surprise when Tumblr decided to chance everything for around 4 thousand people. Screw the hundreds of thousands of people that have been here for years. And as we’ve loudly protested and complained the Tumblr staff has had one thing to say to us. "This is what you asked for - this is what you want." Sorry but it most definitely is not. I don’t know who said that but they are a definite minority, assuming they exist. Way to destroy culture. And to say we’ve been given every opportunity to put in our thoughts? When reblogs are disabled? The very thing designed to spread and share information in this god forsaken (not affectionate) site? Last I checked only 300 people had even seen them. It’s a cop-out. This app/site/company is destroying itself just like the first time, except unlike the first time, it’s not some group who have no idea what they are doing. It’s the group that’s possessed tumblr for so long that they actually are tumblr now, not just site ruining imposters. Well we thought they weren’t sure ruining. Guess there’s no learning in the pursuit of money. Anyways I’m leaving and I’m not coming back because I don’t like it when a potential few people (cough, dollar bills, cough) are put before decades of culture and love.

:(. This app is... frustrating on a good day. When everything seems to be functioning properly, it’s fine but that so rarely happens anymore. So many things go wrong on any given day, it’s hard to keep track. Right now, asks seem to be busted for me and several others. We’ve gone through batches of “test asks” to see if they’re sending and receiving properly, after noticing a lack in our normal ask activity. I’ve also noticed a lot of trouble with posts disappearing after hitting send, not postings at all, connection issues, replies not showing up, and more. Most of this was noticed prior to the update but have shown no improvement after updating. I’ve had numerous issues with the app, especially after the December 2018 update. Please please please take your user base into account in a more interactive and comprehensive way. I’m sure you’re doing your best, but I think it’s time to re-evaluate your tactics. I’ve seen nothing but complaints about user interface for years now (to the point where it’s become a sarcastic joke) and a huge lack of addressing those issues from staff. I can’t see myself not using the app for good, just bc it’s where so much of my own following and work is. But I do frequent it less and less, due to these issues. So only two stars for now. Hoping to bump it up in the future.

A Genuine, user-friendly experience. I truly believe that Tumblr is one of the least toxic social platforms on the internet. Tumblr is just a fun place where you can destress after a long day at work or school, most of the communities are super wholesome and the platform is just an overall uplifting place where people can talk about fandom, Comics, Fanfics, The latest shows, Art, Etc. I’m finally at peace with myself after they removed “Tumblr live” because now that it’s gone I don’t have to worry about accidentally hitting the useless button on my feed. Another thing to mention is that there are so many fandoms to find and explore with so much creativity and love put into each one. It’s also a great place to post your own art and fanfics with genuine nontoxic feedback unlike Reddit or Twitter. The only thing to note is the NSFW (not safe for work) content but I do appreciate that the site doesn’t show you that kind of content unless you search for it, yes once in a while your dashboard will show you a NSFW pic but it’s genuinely minimized unlike Reddit which will show you a NSFW post every couple scrolls, another thing I will warn you about is that you will get scam messages asking you to join NSFW sites but these messages can be deleted and in my experience will go away after awhile. I genuinely rate the app a five out of five and highly recommend for anyone who’s new to the internet or is interested in a genuine, wholesome social media platform.

No Excuse for this App. For one of the most popular social networking sites in the world, and after all this time, and given that most people access it through their phones, you'd think Tumblr would manage to put together a decent app. Alas, their army of nerds has failed. If you follow more than a few active users and only check your account a couple times a day, you have to scroll and scroll and scroll, waiting for each new page to load, to find the specific kind of content you're looking for (say, videos, images, etc.). If the app crashes, you have to spend another five minutes scrolling to get back to your place. It's 2017. How is this still such an issue? There should be some kind of comprehensive, accessible filter that lets you fine-tune your feed. And automatically brings you back to where you had last scrolled? There's not even a reliable workaround: the archive button doesn't exist or the user has to choose a separate app theme or something with that specific function? It's definitely not there by default. And the ads. They're so large. Again, it makes infinite scrolling a chore; a quarter of each scroll is ad space, meaning more pauses for loading and less easily accessible content. I'd happily by a reasonable subscription to disable the ads. Is programming really this impossible?

i’ve been on this site for 10 years and all i got was this crappy 1-star review. ever since the premier of the collectively-loathed ‘tumblr live’ feature, the tumblr app (which has historically been fairly unobtrusive as far as battery usage goes, i’ve been using it for several years across several phones and never had these issues) now causes my phone to overheat and drains battery to an insane degree whenever i use it, even if my phone is plugged in and on wifi. nothing else i’ve ever played or ran on my phone drains even a FRACTION of the battery that browsing tumblr does - i’d genuinely be better off playing pokémon go at full brightness for eight hours a day. there’s no way to actually ‘disable’ tumblr live, only the option to ‘snooze’ it for seven days, and even that doesn’t seem to actually stop the livestreams from being loaded in the background anyway as the performance issues stick around even when live is snoozed. the userbase has collectively been asking for the option to turn it off for good ever since it was added, but to no avail. it seems that pushing tacky, resource-hogging features that could maaaaybe bring them some more money is more important to tumblr staff than actually listening to the feedback they’re given by the userbase. i just want to be able to scroll for more than a few minutes without my phone getting so hot i can feel it through my rubber phone case 😬😬

New updates are painful.. "Tumblr live" is something nobody wants. If we wanted to use Tik Tok then we would use Tik Tok. The fact that we have to snooze it every few days shows that you already knew we'd hate it enough to want to get rid of it, so why did you add it in the first place? The new trending page is horrible too. People go to the trending page to see the actual trends at first glance. Not "today" and "staff picks." If you're going to add those pages you should still have the trending page open first when clicking over. I don't get the point of the "today" page, it's needlessly cluttered. And now Tumblrmart? Are you seriously covering up where OUR personal blog pages should be with a merchandise mart. I can tell you right now that NOBODY is going to look at that and say "What a good update, tumblr!" If you want money from your users then make better choices because nobody is going to pay for using this website when you've been destroying the entire layout. The people who've been using for tumblr for years are the people you want to appease, not this imaginary audience you've made up. Keep making this website unusable and people are going to leave - not purchase your merch. Why is it so hard to focus on the issues people have been begging for you to look at for years instead of adding things nobody wanted?

app gets worse every day. idk man…. ive been a tumblr user since 2014. i really enjoyed this app when it worked. but it is hanging on by a thread. this app is basically unusable now. after the app is open for a few minutes, my phone will start to overheat. i dont even have to scroll or use it, just having the app open turns my phone into a furnace. the dash board jumps and skips around randomly as the ads load in and out. dash is very laggy as i scroll, not even deep in the dashboard. the longer you scroll the longer things take to load. this was always a “feature” of tumblr mobil, but it’s gotten a lot worse. videos dont play easily. you have to scroll so the video is closer to the top or bottom, and even then its finicky. the volume icon on videos doesnt always react when tapped. tapping on the video itself enters full screen mode, but that always pauses the video and its hard to get it to play. if you do manage it, the video will pause itself every few seconds. cant listen to music on your phone while use the app- the ads override the audio and make your music pause and play and then pause etc. bots are still there. except they have the trashiest, most plastic porn on their front pages for all to see, including minors i assume. could be a plus depending on what you like lol. but its mainly strange and offputting AND MORE! 😀 idk what is going on at tumblr headquarters.

Love it here as per usual, but the new live feature ruins the experience.. I’m not often a review writer but I felt strongly about this. The live feature doesn’t sit well with me and other users. It forces content on you—content you do not follow, nor content related to what you follow. It doesn’t fit the rest of what tumblr has been about and is currently branding itself as (i.e. a place that’s not like any other place on the Internet, a place to find, follow, and connect over interests). It very much downgrades the Tumblr experience and feels out of place. Maybe it doesn’t need to be taken away entirely, but the way it’s shown on the app makes me want to not be on the app. When I’m shown irrelevant content that I do not want to see—that’s showing up under the following tab of my dash, without me having followed any of the users posting these lives—it takes me out of the moment and experience that is Tumblr. It easily pushes me out of the app. Y’all have felt like the break room of social media to me for a while now, so it saddens me to see this feature throw me (and many others) off enough to want to stop scrolling and hop off the app. It would be great if this feature could be presented in a less intrusive way, if the feature remains.

I love Tumblr, I hate this app. This app has so many issues that have yet to be solved after at least a year or two of them existing. Despite the messaging system, which I’m sure has been critiqued plenty, inconsistently and unreliably updating or not updating while you’re using the app- you also can’t click on asks or even keep track of your asks in any way through the app. If you want to go look at one of your apps, you had better be keeping constant track of whoever asked it because all you’re going to get is a notification, and clicking on the notification (if it was answered) only takes you to the person’s profile. The app will randomly crash for seemingly no reason, even while under little to no stress. The double-click-to-like feature doesn’t work unless you tap a large body of text or an image and even then, it may not register properly (maybe user error but still inconvenient). You also can’t keep track of submissions in any way unless you just miraculously remember- I think you get notified but I don’t even think you get that much. Aside from all this, there’s a myriad of other functionalities and nuances that are almost entirely unimportant (like how if you click on a person’s name that’s attached to a post, it’ll take you to a dedicated page with nothing but that post and a couple other posts from that person’s profile below it). This was a poorly-thought-through review but I think it covers most bases. Otherwise, it works enough.

I used to love tumblr. I’ve been using tumblr since 2010... my best friend put me on to it. I’ve been on and off for a few years now since i graduated high school. The app used to be good but now it’s just annoying. Still has funny post and is very informative but i hate the auto-reload feature. Since i don’t get on often, i like how i can scroll til forever without getting bored or seeing the same thing... but if i were to screen shot and send the funny or motivating picture to my friends or boyfriend, it refreshes as soon as i get back on. Small issue but highly annoying, i end up just not coming back for awhile again. Instagram i think is the only social media that doesn’t automatically reload. Yes you took away the NSFW content due to child pornographers which i 100% agree, get rid of the creeps! BUT to get rid of all nudity even if it’s pictures that are tastefully done or meant to be seen as art and not porn eh.... i think there should be a filter process... tumblr was great for expressing and exposing talent and creativity. You can’t put a limit on that. I don’t want porn back, but i don’t want my pictures being taken down because of an exposed nipple. Tumblr just not the same. People that were on before ALL the many many changes, know what i mean. Tumblr was a different outlet from your regular instagram or Twitter... it felt more private.. it felt more free... a place for creatives.... now it’s just.... blah. 🤷🏾‍♀️

You shouldn't bother, staff doesn't care. Don't download the tumblr app. Staff just keeps making it worse and worse for the user base. They haven't done anything meaningful about the bot problem or the hate-speech problem in years and anything they have tried tends to just punish vulnerable people in the end rather than fix anything, like LGBTQ+ people, as an example, although it negatively affects a lot more people. If you can think of any person who is not cis, white, straight, neurotypical, and abled, then Staff's incompetence and lack of action will negatively impact your experience. They've also been making changes to it that only benefit companies and shareholders while making things worse and less accessible for all users. There are too many ads. No one actually uses tumblr live. Stop trying to be tiktok. It's annoying. Why can I only snooze it for a week before I have to turn it off and back on again? That should be a permanent setting. And why can't I double tap to zoom in on images anymore? Why will it show me random images I didn't ask for when I'm trying to view a specific one or a photoset on a post? Stop trying to push stuff I didn't curate for myself! It's the only reason why I like tumblr compared to other soc media these days! Stop trying to push algorithms! Let me curate my own stuff! Actually listen to us when we tell you something is messed up, Staff! Don't give tumblr your time, attention, or money. It will be wasted.

Always partial to T.. Been using this app since long before Yahoo & the pedos ‘ruined’ it & it’s taken a few years but I love this site just as I did in 2012. It’s not quite as unmonitored as it used to be, but for gods sake there was a TON of child pornography all over the site. I would hope that if my child had lewd photos/videos leaked all over the internet, other adults would empathize and prioritize making Tumblr safe for kids over having an unmonitored blogging app. Yeah it can be irritating that certain things are no longer ‘okayed’ by the site, but to keep CHILDREN safer, it’s totally worth it. The content posted on my blogs hasn’t slipped in quality, ever. I have always been able to keep up the aesthetic I want on my blogs & if that’s the case, idk why people are mad over being monitored more. The app works just as it was designed to do, and it appears Tumblr has made an effort to correct the design flaws that allowed for so much child pornography to be distributed while tactfully keeping the same atmosphere that made tumblr the best social media app in the first place. This app is a happy place for me to recollect myself mentally and put myself into the mindset I want, and for that I am extremely thankful.

iOS update ruined things. Listen, i love tumblr. However, the new iOS update changed the way and number of banned tags that users on the mobile app were using to help make the site a safe and fun place for everyone. The fact that this is only for users on Apple products makes me more than a little annoyed, and I no longer want to use the app if it means that the content I used to engage with isn’t there on iOS. A lot of my mutuals and I are into horror, and so blocking tags like ‘scopophobia’ and ‘body horror’ means that I can’t see ANY of the fan art when I’m on the iOS app. I’ve looked through the list of newly-banned tags and I’ve gotta say, I’m disappointed. None of them actually will work to ban the harmful or hateful content that might be uploaded, because they were being used in a way that I don’t think Apple understands. When someone is being transphobic, they do not end their posts with ‘transphobia tw’. Those tags are used by ACTUAL TRANS PEOPLE, who are talking about their life experiences or calling someone else’s transphobia out. Blocking that tag and removing the content means that we no longer get to share those stories anymore, and it does nothing to the actual transphobic content one might come across. The same thing can be said for racist and antisemitic posts. Additionally, some of the banned words are flat out ridiculous. Why is #girls banned? Or #long post? It doesn’t make sense, and it makes me not want to use the iOS app anymore. :(

I love the h3ll site but there’s an important issue. This has always been a fun site to post about niche interests and build fun communities, but there’s one major problem. Lately my three accounts have been targeted by bots and nothing I do is stopping it. I tried clearing my cache, changing usernames, and utilizing the block and report option as always, but the three accounts keep getting artificial mass follows by porn bots. It’s annoying because I get spammed with notifications that new accounts are following me and it’s always accounts with generic stock images a women, weird emoji filled bios that say random things as well as innuendos and they have zero posts or headers. It been plaguing the platform as others have spoken on it and it’s annoying that y’all have done nothing to stop the artificial creation of accounts and mass following. It’s annoying to have to block and report several accounts everyday only for the same thing to happen because multiple artificial accounts are being created. Please do something to combat the issue and confirm that users creating accounts are genuine and not fake. otherwise I love tumblr and appreciate how it’s the only genuine social media platform that’s not trying to conform to the corporate, capitalist, tiktokification or social networking.

Bring back the OG format. Tumblr used to be so cool Bc you could look at all your posts in a grid and even set up 🤤 infinite scroll 🤤. The grid view was even better than Instagram's because you could have more columns and control the view size of your posts. Everything you'd posted or reblogged, everything that made you you, was just right there in a huge collage and you could control its aesthetic and theme. But now there's no way to control the look of your page. It's just a buggy slow-loading scroll of your recent posts interrupted by adds and overlain with banners on a white background whether you like it or not, one post at a time. Everyone I know personally who has abandoned tumblr has abandoned it for this specific reason alone. Stop trying to mimic other social media sites. Realize what you are. Even Instagram has a grid for you and even Pinterest lets you create boards and Blogger lets you control the whole look of your page. If you want tumblr to have a resurgence stop looking to what others are doing and remember what made tumblr tumblr in the first place. Everyone loved designing their tumblrs so much that WE ALL LEARNED BASIC HTML in order to make the changes we desired. That's how important the web design of our personal collections was to us. That's how big a part of the tumblr experience your own gallery was. The people who made these devastating changes completely missed that part.

iOS’ censorship damages an otherwise great app. I’m an adult, who uses my credit card to pay for an ad-free subscription. Having deselected every option to ‘hide potentially nsfw content’ there is no reason I should ever see a post censored with “iOS has decided to hide this potentially nsfw content” (like that isn’t the reason I’m on this app on the first place), and even less reason to GIVE ME NO OPTION TO VIEW IT. As a longtime user (10ish years at this point), I really hope that staff doesn’t decide to force a worse content algorithm on the user base trying to chase impossible profit margins. I use tumblr because it hasn’t turned into the site formerly known as twitter yet, and the more features they copy from other social media sites, the closer I get to quitting them just like reddit and facebook and twitter. If Apple’s idiotic policies force you to arbitrarily censor content, at least give your adult users a way to view the post in browser, instead of just removing the content I pay for from my user experience. Otherwise, there’s no point in continuing to pay for a subscription that deliberately hides the content I’m looking for. (I’m not even going to start with how censoring tags made the search function go from ’mostly useless’ to ‘completely worthless’. :\ I love this site, and I’d like to see it succeed, but that will never happen while they’re focused on chasing a new trendy theoretical user base over listening to the core users who pay to support the site.

It gets worse. I’ve been using this app for the better part of ten years. I can assure you, every single update (with the rarest exceptions) makes it even worse. I can’t count the amount of times I’ve felt a sense of dread when I notice another update ready to be downloaded. I loathed the change where the search tab was replaced with tumblr’s weird version of IG reels so you can’t search for anything easily without remembering to manually turn it back to search every week. (Yes, every week. There’s no option to permanently change it back.) With this most recent update — where they move the profile tab in lieu of the tumblr market — it makes this app nearly unusable for me. Gone are the days of being able to easily access your own blog, settings, etc. Instead, you get a whole section dedicated to a store that you have zero interest in and will never ever buy from. The profile button is now hidden on the dashboard. You click on it, you cannot save your scrolling on your dash. You cannot switch over to another tab without completely exiting out of your profile. If I ever use tumblr again, I’m only using the online site via my computer. I can’t stand the way the app works now and I know this is going to cause issues for so many other people. I doubt any of these problems get addressed either. In the past decade, staff has shown no interest in listening to what their user base is needing or asking for. Terrible updates always stick around. This time, I refuse to.

I’ve had a tumblr for essentially all of my teenagerhood and adult life. I’ve waited 13 years to review tumblr. It was the first social media account I was allowed as a 14 year old (not really the smartest choice given how easy it was to find certain things on old tumblr lol) but I can honestly say that in my 13 years as a tumblr person, as my account has shifted from moody black and white couples, to witchy emo stuff, to entirely avatar the last airbender, and finally to a horrifying mixture of all of these things plus memes, I love tumblr. I never feel like my self esteem is at risk. I find the community fun and engaging and I love the amount of anonymity it provides me in a world of other very self focused social media outlets. People on tumblr joke about different bugs over the years, but overall I find it to be consistently great to use, allowing me to make my page look (and sound) exactly how I want it to. It’s a little time capsule of my journey through adolescence and one of my happy places. :) I like the little twists the dev team puts in like fun new graphics and icons. I don’t utilize “live” at all but that’s just preference. In summary: after 13 years of mulling it over, I’m happy to report that tumblr is great

It depends how you use it. I’ve been on Tumblr since 2010, and I have seen the changes over the years. Tumblr is a great site and whatever you’re looking for you’ll find it if you look hard enough (the same goes for literally every site, though) and Tumblr’s attempts to create ways to block users, tags, and content from your personal feed is slowly getting better as the years go on. There are still some issues there (I have had to block at least five versions of the same tag before) but that’s more because the users themselves make up new tags daily and it’s hard to keep on top of for everyone. In all, it’s a great site for art and writing, as well as a variety of other things ranging from recipes to history to writing or drawing advice, with the only remaining drawback being it’s quite reactionary at times and the reblogging webs can lead to very different and isolated takes on the same thing without any cross-conversation. As a final note, instead of attempting a Tumblr+ system (which is only going to end badly), the site moderators would get more out of fundraising like Ao3 or Wikipedia does.

Very minor issues. Oh, I love Tumblr, but there are a few things that make my experience less enjoyable. The top thing contributing to my dissatisfaction would be the bots. I get two or three follows from robots every day. I like to post and re-post things designed for a target audience to also take inspiration from my vision boards but instead most of the only interaction I get is from robots. It’s come so far to the point I don’t think I should block them anymore. If I’m gone from the Internet for long enough, it will take me too long to go through the entire list of robots and block them all. Number two would be ads. I am not going to pay for a no ad experience and that is no reason for me to dislike ads more than I have to. Every time I’m scrolling through my feed I accidentally land my thumb on an ad because I am scrolling so quickly. But because of this Tumblr thinks I am clicking on the ad and it takes me either to the App Store or my browser. I don’t like that I have to have to back out of a different app so frequently in a five minute time frame purely because Tumblr thinks I’m clicking on ads. Other than that I love my Tumblr experience. As I mentioned, I love to make vision boards. All of the pictures and videos. I see on the app are so inspirational and aesthetically pleasing. The messaging aspect is very nice and works well, i’ve had a great experience with it too.

Sadly disappointed in a once amazing app. Tumblr has been a place I’ve come to for years to express myself. It’s somewhat my secret outlet. Having an app available is super convenient and I honestly prefer to use the app versus a desktop. If there wasn’t an app available i probably wouldn’t even use tumblr anymore. It’s extremely annoying when you’re in the middle of using the app and it crashes out of nowhere exiting you out the app. It seems like every time you guys update the app to fix bugs etc. there’s just another bug that’s created. How difficult can it possible be to finally get this right. Don’t update the app if you’re not sure it’s absolutely going to fix the problem. Sometimes posts are missing from my blog or others. I can’t even refresh my notifications without it freezing and me having to exit out he app and enter into the app again just to see new notifications. I can’t even view my drafts on one tab without exiting out my blog, which was one of my favorite features. Now I have to go to settings to view my drafts which is INCONVENIENT! Would be 5 stars if I didn’t have to exit the app 20 times a day just to use it. Using tumblr shouldn’t be a job people. Fix it or you’re going to lose people’s interest in a great website.

Tumblr content is good, features are bad. For a while, tumblr has been trying to get engagement from people on tiktok with a feature called tumblr live. It is incredibly unpopular since the button to make it not appear in your main 5 buttons on your dashboard has been something you have to snooze every week. Most users disliked this but dealt with it. Most recently, that snooze button no longer gets rid of this icon, but the pop up on the top of the dashboard is no longer there with this feature. I just don’t want to see it at all, on the older version I have, it takes the spot of the search feature, which means I HAVE to search on desktop. Incredibly inconvenient and the announcement of this feature has been loudly criticized. Other features, like polls, are good and free for everyone, unlike twitter (and it isn’t run by a drugged out fascist apologist). I haven’t heard anything about api changes, so things like xkit rewritten still help in the features that tumblr doesn’t have the budget to implement. They could have been the one mario party meme where luigi wins by doing nothing, but they had to make poor layout choices and add features few are interested in. I won’t be supporting add free until changes are made for user comfort. They can make things better, but recently they’ve made it worse. It really needs a lot of work in order for the site to be the internet home most of us would like it to be again.

clássic. Tumblr inspires everyday artists to see the beauty in simplicity. Whether it's a random picture of some mundane thing or a few simple words strung up and pieced together. Art inspires art. And everyday that I go onto my Tumblr account, i not only find things imjuskittying about (ha) but I find people who find my cheesy humor endearing instead of trying to belittle me. It's good vibes. It's a place where quirky individuals can find some solice. A place where people who are extremely factual and weirdly eccentric can come together and take a picture of a pine cone and call it art because it really is. Have you ever thought of the magnificent ways pine trees add to our planet? Think about it. I challenge you to see the beauty within a picture of a pinecone. What will you find? That's Tumblr. A place where art and thought collide. Tumblr is about taking a policial stance but learning the facts first. As you scroll through you'll find intellectuals discussing major issues and tons and tons of pictures. Art inspires art. I find myself writing a poem every time I open the app. I'm writing a novel right now and I know who I'm making it out to- Tumblr. For inspiring artist everywhere to see the beauty within a pinecone.

13 year user - bad tumblr policy. I don’t support the changes recently outlined to come by this app in their recent news post. I want reverse-chronological newsfeeds based on who I follow only. I don’t want suggestions. If you insist on making suggestions, then you should apply those changes strictly to the “for you” tab. It’s a click away. Even the people you seem to think too stupid to use the platform, which you are somehow trying to lure to be content creators, could figure that one out. It just makes the site absolutely worthless. Tumblr itself is not a subreddit or facebook or twitter page showcasing “the best of tumblr” or something. The claims about trying to showcase newer users just seems incredibly stupid. If they are humans that want to connect with other people, then they should be making posts that you can connect with others of its kind through pre-existing functions. For example: tumblr search, tumblr tags, recommended blogs, recommended posts, because you liked! posts, liked by people you follow, for you page, the list goes on. On top of that, the bot problem is horrible and the blogs most likely to be promoted by this stupid system will be bots. Guess there’s that to look forward to. Tumblr will not beat out competitors or gain interest by copying other social media platforms, poorly. Fix the assets you have and make them function, stop building a treehouse on a tree with dying roots.

The new updates are concerning.. I love the community on tumblr, and it’s absolutely been an incredible experience. However- with the recent changes on Twitter, Reddit, and Tiktok this app has been changing too. It’s been changing to take on more of those apps “good features” to make it more palatable to audiences coming in. Those that have used tumblr for a long time are becoming increasingly annoyed with the updates to the desktop and the mobile apps. Many tumblr users don’t want collapsible reblogs, or to log in to view anything like on Twitter. It’s a severe deviation from how tumblr has consistently thrived off of old web functions. Taking away some users abilities to access the original post from their url is a huge issue that comes to mind, as well as the change to where the post button sits. Tumblr has a lot of amazing features but making something like “tumblr live” a thing that you can’t permanently turn off on your dash, when it’s nothing but clunky and as tan is concerning. I urge tumblr to look at the concerns that your og user base has. The whole reason people are coming from other apps is because they are rapidly seeing the functionality of these apps go down hill. Tumblr has been an amazing community for years now. I would hate to see its customization and community worn down due to add ons NO ONE asked for.

Extremely frustrating new layout. Listen, I love tumblr. I only joined about a year ago, but the environment on the app is so weird and welcoming and I use this app every day. But the last few update have been extremely frustrating. I get that you’re trying to optimize the app to be able to make a profit so that you can rely more on the community and less on ads, but you’ve now made both searching and looking at your own blogs completely unintuitive. While I don’t think the live function is useless, the fact that it took the place of the search bar at the bottom of my screen (a function I’m WAY more likely to actually use) made it feel like I was being tricked into clicking on a feature o never asked for. But that was the last update, this time, it got so much worse. My sacred corner of my screen where I could go to access my blogs has now been replaced by an internet storefront. It feels like blogs have been devalued in the face of selling features. Now that both the search bar and access to my own blogs has been moved to the top of the screen (the hardest part to reach on your average iPhone) it feels like the app only cares about you seeing your feed (so more ads) and selling itself to you. I hope you change it back.

Let’s cut to the chase. TUMBLR is, at least to a large extent, a very good porn site. Adults ought to be free to make their own decisions about the content they choose to view and contribute. TMBLR is free to set its own moderation policies. The way TUMBLR has approached this reality- and I understand the choices it has made, and why- has been an attempt to reach a middle ground, but it has been lackluster. In the 21st century, there are ways to set age limits for certain content, to moderate very highly offensive and illegal content reasonably well, and to do so without punishing the conscientious and law abiding adults that want to exercise their perfectly sound inclination to engage porn. Content providers should tag content as porn and the app should filter pornographic content for all accept those that opt to view/contribute porn. For those users that opt, require some authentication that has a reasonable association with age, and make it binding. If the user is caught lying about their age, ban them- ban their isp# or whatever number IDs their device, etc. If the content provider fails to tag content, ban them. If a user posts illegal content, block them, give them an opportunity to appeal, and then block them if they don’t or if the appeal fails. TUMBLR is a great app- for all things, not only porn. It’s a worthy contender, and more than anything it can support the (legal, ethical) interests of everyone… users, advertisers, TUMBLR, and even the US Congress.

update: profile and market are back to normal. update: 5 stars for listening to feedback. thanks for restoring the profile tab in the bottom right. Now we can easily view our blogs again my one minor complaint is that videos now must be fully opened on your entire screen to play, rather than just unmuting without opening them. but this seems like its probably a temporary glitch, so 5 stars Bad update. Aside from the lil wizard icon- which is nice i like when icons have eyes- this was an overall bad update. for some reason it was decided that on the blogging app where you manage blogs... to make it harder access your blogs. Now you cannot view your blog at the same time as the dashboard, search, or notifs. you cannot easily switch between these tabs but must use the top right of the dashboard to access it. The dashboard is another main reason to go to tumblr, why is it now the only path to go to your blog. In the settings you cannot even adjust this to make your blog next to the marketplace in your tabs or to switch places with the marketplace again. the website is great and gives a lot of freedom, the app on the otherhand has only become more stifling and less about the main purpose of tumblr

Chill place the majority of the time. Yeah there’s occasionally a lot of discourse but you can block posts with the discourse tag in your settings if it makes you uncomfy. A lot of reviews are angry about how staff took away all the porn on the website, staff did that a few years back and the people who are angry only came to Tumblr to find pornography instead of using an actual porn website or just going to reddit. The apps got a lot of glitches i know, but that’s because staff isn’t the best at managing the app, they’re doing their best but every update there’s an even bigger bug which is kinda funny. Somehow this is one of the only apps where straight people are actually a minority, LGBTQIA+ thrive on the app which is so fun, being on tumblr was one of the first times i got to see people actually like me. The ad’s aren’t as bad as some people in the reviews say, there short and easy to skip even though they pop up frequently, also sometimes they’re super obscure, the most common ad I get just says “my wife told me to put vinegar on bread and leave it in the trash can” and I always chuckle whenever I see it

DO NOT COLLAPSE REBLOGS. The Tumblr app used to be mediocre. It was an okay way of accessing the website. Chock full of bugs but at least functional, and the UI was similar of that to the desktop website; streamlined and intuitive. However, since Twitter was put under new management, Tumblr has been trying too hard to emulate Twitter. Staff consistently ignores what existing members of the website want. They keep implementing new "features," ALL of which are broken and genuinely unusable, and ignoring all feedback. For simplicity's sake, I'll just type a list of what I, and most existing users, want out of the app. 1. Roll back the "lightbox" update. It is broken and inaccessible. 2. Get rid of Tumblr Live, or add an option to INDEFINITELY mute it. 3. Put the post button back to the bottom center of the screen. The blue pencil bubble is an obvious Twitter rip-off, and it is permanently in that corner, which is annoying to look at. 4. Make the "following" tab the default tab for all accounts. The "for you" tab is obnoxious, and nobody is on Tumblr for its algorithms — Tumblr is for curating your own dashboard. 5. Stop with the constant layout changes. The way the app was around 2019 was great. Intuitive and easy to read. Changing it constantly drives away old users & scares away new users. 6. Fix the bugs. Just. Please. Add an easy-to-find bug report button and let us report bugs. And fix them. In a timely manner. Please.

Once great, now it’s not even close. I’ve been on Tumblr for a very long time, so it pains me to have to rate it so low. However, I want to caution new users of what the app/website has become. Firstly, despite marketing themselves as the “gayest place on the internet”, Tumblr staff continuously bans openly lgbt+ accounts, and will even mark completely sfw selfies/personal images as nsfw. Whether this is deliberate by staff, or an error in their system, staff has done nothing to right these wrongs. Secondly, Tumblr is trying to turn itself into a Twitter/Tiktok copycat, despite the majority of the userbase disliking the changes. Tumblr has been an extremely unique platform since it’s start, and that drew in most of the current userbase, so I don’t understand why they want to change it so drastically. Thirdly, the new Tumblr Live is a major breach of privacy, to the point that (if I remember correctly) it’s not even allowed in the EU because of it sells massive amounts of data from those that use it. Also, once again, the complaints from the userbase about Tumblr Live have fallen on deaf ears, and, instead of allowing us to turn it off permanently, staff has now made it an integrated part of the website that cannot be turned off. Overall, this website used to be great, despite its issues, but now it’s become nearly unusable because of the changes Tumblr staff has made without consulting any of their userbase.

A Weird, Wonderful World. Tumblr is not for everyone, and it isn’t meant to be. It’s a weird place where people let their freak flag fly. It’s for people who want to immerse themselves in stories and ideas. Some of those stories are NSFW. I, personally, won’t let my kids on Tumblr until they are mature enough to navigate away from things they aren’t ready for… or when they become adults, whichever comes first. I actually appreciate that there are a lot more filters than there used to be because, unfortunately, there are people out there who will exploit others and Tumblr should not be giving them a platform. That said, I would recommend that Tumblr add a filter for creators to choose for their content only to be seen by 18+ (or age of adulthood in a region). I, personally, enjoy reading/writing fiction that would be inappropriate for younger audiences but, like many content creators, am responsible enough to indicate that it isn’t meant for children. Most writers include disclaimers on their work stating that underage users should not engage, but for many kids that just makes it seem that much more exciting and harder to resist. Let’s go ahead and give content creators the tools to help protect kids, most of us would use it.

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Getting worse instead of better!. App freezes constantly and then crashes, especially when trying like a post or look at notifications. The design of the app has been getting progressively worse, and the notifications feed is not only ugly, but also completely useless. Also, despite turning off the 'best stuff first' feature, the app continues to show me 'since you've been gone' posts and other content from users I don't follow. I like Tumblr, but all these glitches and issues are incredibly frustrating and making me begin to wonder if I should even bother. Please fix this Tumblr.

Rampant bots and explicit advertising. As a support staff, those at Tumblr seem intent on brushing their reports under a rug with the hopes that no one will be the wiser. This app is run rampant by bots - bots that target every blog and follow accounts using automated porn or dating app-oriented blogs. Tumblr's response? To do nothing about the actual problem even after dozens of reports to them, downright refusing to acknowledge they have an account verification problem and that possibly half of their platform is held firmly by automated accounts that could easily be weeded out by having a CAPTCHA check when creating an account, and choosing to punish their user base instead. That's not even mentioning the inappropriate ads that run on your very own dashboard, which you cannot hide from your personal view or have any choice in dictating, as they do not attach to your cookies. Do not allow yourself or children on the app as you will be immediately targeted by bots and explicit advertising, and will receive not even a word of acknowledgement of this problem by those who take reports, as they choose to remain blissfully aware of their platforms shortcomings, and prefer to give the finger to their users instead.

Something needs to be done about the cyberbullying. I used this website a few years back and was bullied horribly by lots of people on it. It was to the point I would have to block people on a regular daily basis. I had at least over 200 people say horrible things to me using swear words and writing to me in all capitals, sending me threats and calling me names as well. It got so out of hand that I ended up hurting myself physically and almost took my own life. I have terrible trauma because of this website but came back to it a year later simply because another fandom caught my attention. Sadly this fandom turned toxic too and I had more people bully me after I had only just recovered. Friends of mine had to experience similar problems as well. We need strict rules and policies. There are far too many bullies using this site and it’s dangerous and should be taken much more seriously.

Rating of trumblr. Be honest if trumblr got rid of all the porn would 10/10 but sadly the latest crack down only made people hide there porn ,I am not against porn but trumblr should have a adult only blog for the pornography and smut and have one pure so all can enjoy but at times you come across predo porn and should be a more direct way to report it but porn even start to be visible on other social media networks ,I notice twitter has a adult only online social media maybe trumblr could follow there lead , but what’s left of trumblr is great art photography is beautiful and the other subjects are great too

Getting worse and worse every day. I can tell tumblr wants so desperate to capitalise on the fall of twitter by trying to change the entire format of the app and site to hopefully bring in new users. I've never had a problem with tumblr making changes and updates in the past, but in this year alone, they've managed to make everything uniquely convoluted, and riddled with unflattering useless features and merch plugs. Its like this pathetically desperate scramble to make money any way possible and failing at every turn. These decisions have been worse than twitters and i dont mean that lightly. Its even more frustrating because theyre making all these unnecessary changes while still refusing to add login authentication to stave off some of the relentless bots that infest the site.

Good, but has some weird glitches with notifications. The App is nicely designed and easy to use, but occasionally it will continuously tell me I have a new notification (or bunch of notifications) and even after I’ve viewed it, it keeps telling me I have new notifications when I don’t. It also crashes a few times when this glitch was happening but that hasn’t been frequent enough to be a major complaint and I assume they were connected. All in all, it’s a good app.

Pretty good :). its pretty great!!! 99% of people are super nice and i have made a lot of friends. there are lots of antisemites and porn bots but you can just ignore them and block them pretty easily. also, i wish you could like filter out specific tags on specific blogs and not all of tumblr. (you can filter certain tags out tumblr wide already). like for example, let's say there are 3 topics, A, B, and C, and im following two people. one person posts about A and B, the second about B and C. i like A's posts about topic B but not the second persons, im following them for topic C. so i wish i could filter out the second person's topic B specifically without filtering out the first person's B too. i feel like this would be helpful. thanks.

Need to get their $#!t together. After years of their users complaining about the nazis, white supremacists, and the porn bots, their solution was to make their policy extremely anti women and anti nsfw content (majority of the users were there for nsfw content) and roll out a blanket ban and new algorithm. They’ve had some bad updates in the past, but this current one has seen users leave in droves, seen their algorithms flag things as nsfw that could be something as simple as a picture of a daisy, and seen the nazis and porn bots safe to remain. I won’t lie, the site did have issues before, and those issues definitely needed to be addressed. How they’ve gone about that is the entirely wrong way and for the wrong reasons. I’ll be deleting my account in the next few days after 10 years on the site.

Hostile user interface and staff hate us. The latest update really goes to show how little the staff actually care about their user base. Banning basic words in tags such as ‘girl’ and ‘lace’ and ‘me’??? This is just harmful to the microblogging platform for all sorts of people, especially artists and writers. Why are you trying to alienate your user base? This so-called ‘censorship’ does nothing to prevent NSFW content and simply makes it harder for people to engage with each other. The English language isn’t something to be ‘cut’ (oh look, another banned tag) at the ‘request’ of the ‘self’-important few in a sloppy Orwellian attempt at enforcing ‘submisson’. Stop blaming Apple for your staff’s basic lack of consideration and common sense, otherwise we’ll all just leave and find another platform that’s kinder to fandom spaces. It’s happened before, and if things keep going the way they are, I’m sure it’ll happen again.

Love the app. Have used the online interface for ages, so I knew the functions when I downloaded the app. It's clean and simple and easy to use. I love it. Suggestion: Can we have a quick-use button like reblog/send to/message/like for add to queue? Or an option to chose/individualise what buttons appear there so if we want it we can add it or if we want to take away say the send to option we can? I queue a lot and it's so difficult to do on the app.

It’s amazing just add some adjustments to the direct messages! <3. Hey, so I’m an artist on Tumblr, and I have a mutual on there, who is really nice. We talk a lot on Tumblr, via Direct Message (DM) But some issues came to us. 1. We cannot reply, as in swipe on the DM we want to reply to if it’s a few messages away. It would be a nice touch to have it. 2. We cannot delete messages. I have an opinion that deleting words we never meant to send would help the other person know that we regretted/didn’t mean to say all that. It’s a essential part of the DM. It would feel more nicer. 3. We can’t do reactions to it, as in press the DM, and do a emoji reaction on it, as in a heart, thumbs up, ect. 4. We cannot send audio videos (full length) but we can send gifs. What is the logic in this? Thank you for hearing me complain about this -nightfallartta and tacofuus

Honestly my favourite. Tumblr is easily my favourite platform to this day. I think the lack of emphasis on followers and such really makes it a less narcissistic place to be. In my personal experience it’s been a lot easier to make genuine connections and get good photos out there on tumblr than IG or any other photo sharing platform. Also I’ve always loved having my secret blogs for inspiration or random phases that I have and I still really appreciate being able to set and customise the themes for desktop. It was always a really good way to make a photography portfolio back before I could afford a website too. Not to over do it, but I would honestly credit tumblr quite a lot with my development creatively.

Tumblr is run by a bunch of Raccoons. This app/website/hell hole is run by three raccoons in a trench coat, except all the raccoons are made up of 6 1/3 pigeons. Nobody knows the rules, except THERE A RULES. I like ur shoelaces btw. Anyways this hellsite single-handedly caused and cured my depression, and I occasionally forget it exists, and when I remember I have exactly one notification and it’s that I liked my own post three weeks ago. If anything happened to Tumblr I wouldn’t be surprised because the only thing keeping it together is staples and PVA glue which is slowly dripping onto the floor.

To Whom It May Concern. Tumblr is objectively the best and most advanced social media platform on the web and thus it is unsellable and a horridly gigantic risk on investment. It is full of backwards hicks, hippies, rednecks and most of all: sick and twisted cycle paths. 10/10, A*+++**++++ GREAT DELIVERY MUCH VERY FAST , would bobba my bobba for this most beautiful Internet Cafe. The truest discourse, the biggest dorks, the dumbest webkits, truly a site made by creatives with the intent to spurn further discussion, more discourse, more lies, more liabilities, and certainly less favourable likelihood’s learning lecturn on LinVeatment.

Just one annoyance. I absolutely love tumblr soooo much. I just spend hours scrolling through it and making posts. Reading other posts and interacting with my mutals. The one problem I have with it is that while making a post if I have a darker colour scheme the writing is black. If I have dark mode then I can’t see what I am writing. It was working fine but suddenly happened one day and isn’t changing back. Even when I try change the colour manually. I would appreciate if a way to fix this was found soon. It doesn’t really bother me unless it comes yo writing fics.

Was great but has turned sour. Used to love using this app, but now it’s so glitchy. I’d try to open a post to read and then my screen would turn black and it would shut down, loosing the progress of where I was. If I luckily hearted something and tried to go back to it, it would glitch again. Sometimes it’s on the same post and others it’s not. Wanting to read something and then having to try and search it on the web browser is the most annoying thing. What was most annoying was when they changed the search algorithm. If I had a term followed such as polar bears, and I pressed on the little square that says that, it would say “sorry there’s nothing new” for recent or “sincerely we found nothing” for top searches. But if I take the long way and type polar bears into the search bar myself then I’ll see HEAPS AND HEAPS, of post on both recent and top. Why implement something that not going to work. I understand why they had to start putting in some new algorithms for inappropriate things, but that kinda what the platform was built on. But when they’ve started all these new changes it’s just been destroying the communities that are on here, and disrupting the flow of trying to search for things. No one is probably going to read this but it’s still upsetting every time I open this app it glitches and doesn’t actual show the correct search results.

Constant crashes and Removed good features. What with the plague of the nsfw thing. Tumblr was already crashing down before that, quite literally. The app constantly just shut down on me not being able to keep up with my tumblr I guess because it couldn’t load the photos or save photos thus making it hang and shut down. Second of all, who’s idea was it to remove the manage accounts feature? A lot of people out there has more than one blog and that was actually an amazing tool that helped in managing my blogs and now I don’t even use my accounts now because of the hassle of having to log out and log back in and the repetition of having to that just to manage my blogs. I’ve started using tumblr less and less. Everything was so much more convenient, to manage your accounts through your phone and now you can’t do that. Very disappointed in what tumblr has become. I hope they learn unlike most companies and listen to their audience and provide because at the rate they’re going and new competition coming up, tumblr will be a fad just like MySpace

Small crashing issue. Love this app. Has a perfect mix of pop culture, aesthetic images, memes, politics and everything in between. The community (communities) are generally friendly as well. HOWEVER, when I click on the three dots next to one of my posts, the app completely closes. I’ve tried reinstalling, freeing up space, doing this on different posts, but I can’t seem to fix it. I also wish there was a way to queue posts for a specific date and time instead of just having a number of posts in between times.

Frustrating changes, won’t accept feedback. Updated review: The search function is next to non existent, it barely functions and is infuriating. The app and website keeps making unnecessary changes that make things worse and more annoying to use. You used to be able to click on someone’s post and see the post on their blog now and if you clicked the person they rebooted it from, you would see it on them blog, now you are taken directly to their blog instead of the individual post page. The UI changes are also awful and making things worse for the sake of being like every other app, to make things ‘easier’ for newer users, even though those newer users are joining tumblr to get away from those design features from other apps. The app had decided to become yet another ‘TikTok’ lite with a ‘for you’ page, short video reels, live feature you can’t turn off(in some countries) and an annoying image viewer that forces you to scroll to the next image and is overly distracting with the way it displays things. Tumblr staff refuse to listen to criticism and dismiss it because these new changes are apparently better, but they are not. Very very disappointed.

Photos and Asks. Okay so I like tumblr, but being an artist that draws on the iPad it’s seriously frustrating that every time I answer an ask I have to take a photo of it and THEN add it to a separate post with the drawings instead of just simply being able to answer the ask and then instantly place in my artwork. Tumblr is a decent app but this one thing both seriously bothers me and not to mention the only real way you can get anywhere on tumblr is if someone famous reblogs one of your posts and even then most people won’t actually check out the rest of your account. Tumblr is amazing and I love the whole ask idea but it’s becoming impossible to bare with the app version, I don’t want to keep putting my art on the computer either because it lowers the quality of it. Honestly if you’re just there to post random stuff and move on with your life then this app is for you but if you want to be here for a long time and gain a following? Not so much.

Broken app. Imagine using a bot that identifies the stupidest posts ever as nsfw, like cat photos. Imagine not monitoring your own website and then having to go into damage control when the App Store takes action. Imagine banning major blogs. Imagine not actually solving the issue of porn bots (which the staff have known about but haven’t taken action). This is tumblr. I will not support tumblr going forward if they uphold a sfw only website, and thus damage blogs and even things that are sfw because their own bot is so basic a cat photo can get marked as nsfw. The sexist language in their new policy is disgusting. The banning of the chronic pain tag, which was reinstated, was so offending and horrendous I could not believe it.

I only like to people on tumblr, the app itself? Lord help me. I’ll try to make it short with dot points as to why tumblr is rapidly getting worse. •P*rn bots. I get up to nine or ten new p*rn bots following me every day. •The new icon is horrific, what even is this ugly flaccid pickle wizard? •The newest update made it so to look at your page, you need to click in the top right instead of near everything else on the bottom. Now on the bottom right? Tumblr mart. Who uses tumblr mart? Also; now, when you’re on your account page, you can’t make a new post. You have to press ‘x’ to go back, then you can make a post. •Ads are everywhere now, and if they’re ever inappropriate, you can report them or say ‘don’t see this ad’ •The community labels are ridiculous I love the people I follow on tumblr, but I hate this most recent update: so much so that I felt the need to leave a negative review. Put things back where they were. No one wants the mart there, I want to access my page on the bottom- where it’s always been and should be. And please, make that ugly icon normal again. It’s embarrassing. And ftlog please sort out the insane amounts of p*rn bots.

13th year on this site. Appreciate the recent candour re: nsfw posts. Please consider not limiting the reach of community-labelled adult posts and being more explicit about what gets labelled. It would encourage users to label and tag their posts as such, making it easier for those who want to avoid adult posts to avoid them. Managing sideblogs would be easier if we were able to move posts from the queue of one blog to another. Also would be nice to edit tags that have been entered rather than deleting them and re-entering them. The tattered social media landscape needs Tumblr!

NOT SEIZURE SAFE, APP GIVES NO CARE FOR NONPAYING DISABLED CUSTOMERS. Despite touting their “report an ad” function as fixing the epilepsy-causing problem that plagues the site, the function doesn’t actually do it’s job. It doesn’t even remove the ad immediately. Migraine and seizure inducing strobing effects are every few posts thanks to how many ads show up, and when you attempt to report an ad? It just goes “cool, we’ll take a look at it :)” and does nothing. I have reported the same ads MANY times, and will be discontinuing my use of the site as NONE of these ads ever actually stopped showing up. And when questioned about it, their spokesperson simply said they were ‘working on it’ months ago, and told disabled users to ‘buy ad-free’ This is basically holding the health of disabled users for ransom money. So many support tickets unlistened to. So many strobing ads. And their ad-free is double the cost in my country as they use USD only.

New update has raised a lot of concern for users. Hi, I’ve been using tumblr for quite a few years now and slowly over time the app has become worse with the spam of ads and the silencing of nsfw creator’s, tumblr is known for being edgy and having art and im thankful for past updates which got rid of most of the gross stuff on there but now with this new update you can’t even interact with mutuals who post “sensitive content” or even turn on a switch that allows you to do so, I understand the update is to stay on the apple store but even then twitter has a nsfw side to it and it’s still here so I just don’t get it? This has affected a lot of people on tumblr cause now people can’t even see their own mutuals pages anymore. Please fix this because it’s raising a lot of talk on the app thankyou.

Notifications??. Ever since tumblr was brought back to the app store after being removed I have not received any notifications. None. I don’t know why. Ive checked in the settings for notifications, deleted the app and reinstalled it, and I still don’t receive them. Its kind of frustrating because I have to actually constantly come onto tumblr and check individual blogs when Im waiting for content from other users, rather than seeing a notification. Would appreciate being able to have them back lol

Strange lack of features. No accessibility settings, not even an option to zoom in/out or reduce motion. You can set your theme to xX_r4v3r_Xx, but zooming out? Now you’re pushing it too far, pally. Strangely steep learning curve for something a simple as a reblog. Instead of just clicking the reblog button and choosing to reblog now, add additional media or queue to reblog like in the web app, you have hold the reblog button and slide upwards, or in the direction of the blog you want to post to. Weird and unintuitive; it took one of my moots telling me how to do it for me to get it. Useless icons are sprinkled everywhere, and again, lots of unnecessary motion. The video player is kind of trashy as well. And the app prioritises RAM, meaning it’ll keep itself loaded in favour of other apps, which doesn’t help when the app is so poorly optimised! And for the love of all, TURN OFF TUMBLR LIVE. It’s run by a third-party company that will steal your info without your consent if you don’t turn it off. Just use the web app.

I like it, but some things need fixing. First of all, moving the profile tab to the top right of the dashboard and replacing it with TumblrMart is the most frustrating change and that NEEDS to be reversed. Secondly, you really need to do something about the bots. Half the time I spend on Tumblr seems to be spent reporting and blocking all these boys that keep following me. It’s so annoying. Now one other, less complain-y thing just for fun: there’s theme settings but not very many themes to choose from. More themes would be great, or even better would be custom themes.

This entire app is notorious for a reason. Tumblr has always had the reputation for ignoring user complaints about things that damage enjoyment or functionality of the app, in favour of half-assed improvements to aesthetics. Additionally, their management has for years let white supremacists, nazis, paedophiles, malware-spreading bots and bullies make as many blogs and posts as they want. The recent ban of any images of sexual nudity and its ineffective implementation (an ai filter than flags pretty much any thing and everything) raises the question - if they could have put effort into banning nipples, why haven't they put effort into banning the aforementioned harmful users? If you are new to this app/website - be warned. You will not be protected, you will not be listened to. Your time will be better spent learning how to program your own app. At least yours might not break every half hour and get passive-aggressive about it.

Incompetent Garbage. Look I’ve been on tumblr for a while. But in recent years its gone downhill and its not getting better. The recent changes to the community guidelines would have been fine, if things had been implemented properly. As it stands, they’ve given us a broken algorithm which flags sfw posts as being sexual or adult content. Posts like photos of mushrooms or drawings of bears. The actual issue - the rampant pornbots - is still prevalent, because tumblr has done nothing to fix it. Sfw bloggers are being affected by this, and marking your posts to be reviewed does nothing, because they are not reviewed by a real person and are instead put through the algorithm again. This buffoonery needs to end. Either hire competent programmers to run your website or cut your losses. You are driving away your userbase. Tumblr is barely more than a laughing stock and the only reason people are still using this app and website is because there are no viable alternatives.

Blocking Random tags. Apparently talking about disabilities is banned on this site now, many tags, including mental illness, spoonies, suicide prevention, Ritalin and stimboard have been banned as of the most recent update, under the pretence of being “explicit”. A lot of other arbitrary tags have also been banned, there isn’t even a list of the banned tags available, we have to figure them out for ourselves, meaning that completely normal posts about biology are being blocked because they are tagged with bones or skulls. It’s ridiculous and has made the app unusable.

Bug Fix Please. I genuinely use this site all the time which is why I want it fixed. The button to turn off the “Shorten Long Posts” feature is currently broken. I have “Shorten Long Posts” turned off, however despite this my dashboard has dozens of “View Post” icons. It’s clearly still shortening posts despite it being turned off. In previous versions the button worked it’s clearly just a problem with the latest update. If you can fix it I’d be very grateful thanks.

Better than Meta. Out of all the social media platforms, tumblr is definitely the easiest to use. It’s a lot easier to maintain privacy as it doesn’t constantly try to link you up with your other platforms and contacts. You can run multiple themed blogs, it’s easy to tag, easy to search, easy to post, easy to switch to other blogs, you get choices in text size and colour and font, plenty of people active, and their sense of humour is something else. I’m not about to switch platforms anytime soon.

7 years of loving this app!. Cannot think of a better app where you can completely be yourself, express yourself/interests and have so many people support you or have similar interests. I’ve found it also great for learning through other people’s experiences and insights! I would be lost if I haven’t had this app to use for the past few years as it is completely different from your standard social media apps/websites. A few tech issues here and there, but overall a great app to have! Thanks tumblr for producing the goods ✌🏻

:) tumblr!. Okay, so the bots are annoying but I love tumblr! It’s my comfort social media that I can always come back to. Obsessed with the tumblr accounts on other social media and how the app itself leans into the weird wackiness of the people on it. A lot of people don’t like that it’s hard to grow on here but there’s a lot of other websites to do that with and I actually really like it because it makes it very chill rather than the stress other websites put you through daily :) Thanks tumblr!

great community. terrible site.. the latest update has made the site not just harder to navigate regarding tags and blocked terms, but a lot unsafer for everyone using it. permanently blocking certain tags for everyone makes it harder for users to tag appropriately, and for others to filter tags and terms that may be harmful or undesirable. this means users will find lesser-known tags to post content under, resulting in that content showing up on the dashboards of people who want that kind of content blocked, because tumblr removed the well-known tags. banning words like mental illness, suicide prevention, transphobia, gynaecology, etc. takes away access to conversations about those things. it takes away education material and resources and support for people who need it. this is harmful, especially since talking about these things is still so taboo on other social media sites. tumblr (apple) decided they (supposedly) wanted a safer environment for everyone and then turned around and made the whole thing a lot unsafer for everyone involved. it’s absolutely ridiculous.

Almost perfect!. I like the new colours, they’re vibrant and pop on my iPad. However, I think it could stand to be a bit cleaner. The faint white lines separating the icons on the left hand side from the dashboard and the taskbar from the dash could be done without. I’ve also been requesting multi-user support for the past 5 years and we still don’t have it. I hate having to log out and in again in order to see a different dash. Otherwise, it’s a very functional and responsive app which works well for what it’s for. If those issues above are fixed, I won’t hesitate to give the app 5 stars.

Good but needs just a bit more. App is great for the average joe or people new to blogging etc but it would be great to have a bit more versatility in it. Some people may want to post as another name on another blog the have (aliasing), or if that is not an option allowing a quick switch between accounts would be nice rather than signing out and back in all the time. Small productivity things really to streamline the usage for larger or multiple projects. p.s Vids often freeze in the apps feeds but play fine on the web page, tested on multiple devices and networks with same issues

Hope you like ads. Have you been looking for an app that shows you advertisement after advertisement? Well this is the app for you! You will be subjected to ads that companies pay for AND ads that tumblr users submit through the Blaze system. Want to listen to music while you scroll? That’s just too bad. Each ad you pass your music will be paused and an advertisement screen will replace the music player on your lock screen. Now you can listen to ads both in and outside of the app! Amazing! Ever wanted to participate in an ARG (alternate reality game)? With Tumblr, you will be forced to participate in any and every mimicry of an ARG a corporation can imagine! Just last week, Tumblr users were subjected to a heavy handed and incomprehensible attempt that was designed for Netflix’s new One Piece television show. This is not the blogging website that it promises to be. You will be a guinea pig for marketing experiments and your value as a user is based on the ease with which they can access your wallet.

Shortcuts via keys. It's great! I love the app. But I also want to be able to change my default reblogging to put it in queue, for example, instead of needing to select that through the menu each time. Also, as I have the magic keyboard, the key shortcuts work on the website (such as holding 'w' when reblogging to immediately put it into queue, or 'e' to reblog without the additional screen, etc) but not on the app, and I would think stuff like that would work on the app? Anyways, great app and thank you!

Favourite social media app on my phone. Tumblr is what social media should be: a bunch of people sharing content about their interests, it’s where I find the funniest memes, the hottest takes, the most inspiring art, the best discussions about the books and movies that I love. Follow who you want to follow, curate your own experience. No algorithm pushing content that I don’t care about, no weird influencer culture, just straight up cool people posting about cool things. It’s relaxing, it’s invigorating, it makes the internet a better place

Invasive repeating ads ruin the timeline. The ads are more invasive than even Instagram, and there's no option to remove them or even hide a particular one that gets repeated ever forth post. No one appreciates ads, especially the same ad every time with no way to even remove it or see a different one. Wouldn't recommend the mobile app if you have the choice. Also, the fact that you censor tags that can help people filter unwanted content yet you have invasive gambling ads showing every 4 posts is disgusting. Really shows what your priorities are, forget suicide prevention, we really want you to install gambling apps.

disappointing changes. i have been using tumblr for a long time now but some of these changes they’re implementing are making me consider deleting my account. proposed changes such as needing to log into tumblr to see anything, removing custom blog themes (which is something i’ve spent a lot of time doing and am proud of the result), collapsed reblogs, and promoting content creators are all features that i feel goes against what tumblr is about and disappoints me immensely. Tumblrs success is rooted in its community and interaction, and the timeline of changes will hurt that community. it’s success is its individuality over other social media’s. I’d even been considering purchasing fun decals like the “verification symbols” but I won’t be now.

Banned Tags. I’ll put my review up to five stars if the recent banned tags is reversed. it makes the site practically unusable and unsafe for everyone involved because people will use multiple ways to get around the ban and that will make it extremely difficult to filter those posts out. this isn’t just from a nsfw content perspective - I actively try to avoid nsfw content but this still effects me greatly. they banned things like “my post”, “my art”, etc. as well as any way to effectively tag posts with warnings - such as “blood”. this makes an incredibly hostile environment for artists and people who enjoy art. either a majority of the user base will leave or they’ll find work arounds. this is a stupid update that just harms everyone including the app itself. please reconsider.

Censorship. Censoring random words like “about” or even the word “girl” is weird and shows a want to control the user base. Banning mental health words like “mentally illness”, “depression” and “anxiety” show a level of ablism platform wise. Why can’t people talk about their issues? Censoring the the word “CW” is an issue as it stands for content warning. People put that stuff in so they don’t trigger someone. Again, the ablism. Then the censorship of the word “girl” and “girls” shows a level of sexism. Also the censorship of “homo” can be seen as a level of homophobia. Funny. Idk what made this change, but clearly no one in the room who made these choices actually knows what they are doing and should be fired.

Nice community, but app has flaws. There’s some really nice people on here, and it’s a really enjoyable place to be in since most people are accepting, but the app itself is not the best. It keeps crashing even though I have a strong connection and am on the latest version of the app. Random posts keep getting flagged and hidden. Tagging system doesn’t work very well (I can’t find some of the posts I tagged, which honestly makes the tagging system useless). Can’t recover accounts (rip teenagepotatoninja ver 1). Recommended posts never renew, leaving me with a bunch of posts I’ve already seen multiple times before. Lots of flaws and sadly, a good community can’t always make up for everything.

Goodbye Tumblr. You know what-- I couldn't be more disappointed. Tumblr has steadily been a sinking ship slowly getting worse and worse overtime and yet I stubbornly clung on. Through the nsfw ban, the blog purge, the broken changes to our dashboards and attempted targeted advertising, the issues with predators using the platform and the bots-- but I stuck it out but-- When your account can be without warning just terminated and you can't even sign back up without it being instantly deleted when as far as you are aware you have done nothing justifying deletion of your blog. I have long since stopped enjoying tumblr-- but this is it. At the least you're supposed to get a message right? A warning and cease and desist with whatever "wrong" content you're posting before just gone right? But hey-- guess it's all on the support and staff now whether my blog comes back, fully restored-- but as it is. Termination of an account without warning along with all the false nsfw flags on images such as photos of cats or drawings of pokémon has me saying goodbye. -tammyhybrid21

Cursed website. It’s phenomenally hilarious to me how much users both love and hate this website. I don’t think a single week goes by where I don’t read “god forsaken website”, “dumpster fire of a page” or similar exclamations of dismay regarding tumblr. And honestly - yeah, I feel the same way sometimes. But it’s bringing me fresh art and memes and the most cynical and sarcastic of the internet and the chaos is kinda beautiful to me, so thanks for being and absolute dumpster-fire-god-forsaken-website that is both beautiful and horrible, literally the internet condensed down to its essence and an absolute mess.

The recent updates :(. Hi there long time tumblr user here. In your recent updates you’ve added collapsed reblogs, so users can no longer see a full conversation in a post. This is a terrible idea. You’re also keeping tumblr live, a feature that is a mine for data. This is a terrible idea. You’re also keeping it that you can’t permanently turn off tumblr live. This is a terrible idea. You also changed the photo viewer and now users can no longer zoom. This is a terrible idea. You also took away the ability to look at the previous tags. This is a terrible idea. You are taking away everything that makes tumblr good. Tumblr is great all on its own, you do not need to make it more like tiktok or Twitter. Doing so, will only make the current (and loyal) users leave the site. Please do not continue with these updates.

An Honest Review. That one star isn’t there for the reason you’re probably thinking. The app itself does leave much to be desired, and for some, it has become an app that holds the title of ’Most Downloaded App And Then Deleted Afterwards’. It’s community varies, sometimes pleasant and sometimes downright violent. On the same line, the app has a constant stream of content that is inciting and wonderfully diverse not due to the developers but more to the people who produce and consume the content directly from the app. It’s why it has that flip switch where some days you hate it and other days you love it. However, it is due to this sporadic behaviour from the staff and from their odd focuses on details that limit the extent of this app’s functionality. The app’s community has allowed a brilliant mindspace for all kinds of creators and producers. Its value is diminished by the capabilities of its current holders. I ask that for the sake of those creators, producers and consumers that action is taken accordingly following the input of the multiple complaints that I know have made their way to you and adapt appropriately to the app’s existing structure to further your success. As for others reviewing this app as a consumer, I do advise you to look into this app, not because of its design but because of the wondrous expanse of content that you can find that matches your interests. You will find without a doubt that you are most certainly not alone within this app’s community.

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THE END. You have kill my love for tumblr by Dictating what we can and can not do on your site. I really hope your company falls part and crashes to the ground !! There are newer better apps out there now, tumblr will be old news soon !

Ya messed up bru. All ya had to do was get rid of the bots but no you mess up the whole site.

Has gone downhill. This app keeps getting worse and worse. Ads You can’t post what you want anymore, it’s a glorified Facebook posing as a blog.

Messy. Y’all honestly truly biffed it on this one. Ever since December 17, the content has gone down due to basically censorship of more than just nudity. Because of the new system that has been put into place, it has mistaken both many blogs and posts to be deemed ‘inappropriate’ in which they are not and it is frustrating to see something that was so popular and well respected to being a joke and I honestly don’t think y’all can recover from that.

LOUD ADS. in an app that is not audio based it is BEYOND OBNOXIOUS to have LOUD ADS THAT AUTO PLAY. this might be the last straw for me, it’s offensive and so incredibly of out of touch with UX i cannot fathom thinking this was a good choice

Thank u, next update. The new font and colour scheme of this app is killing my eyes. However, if the last 5 years of being on this hellsite have shown me anything it’s that the staff refuses to listen to their user base on complaints so I guess we can all look forward to eye strain 🙃

Hypocritical garbage.... Really...reallyyyy garbage.. the only thing tumblr was good for was NSFW artists but you took that away and continue to keep literal nazi content

Oh tumblr... Personally, I love tumblr. In the beginning it was phenomenal. As far as social media platforms go, tumblr was a safe place to voice whatever was on your mind (and really it still is.....but). For myself, tumblr was the place I could go to really be myself. I could reblog, post, and like whatever I wanted without worry of judgement. It was the only platform I could go to truly post whatever my heart desired. I still consider it my safe space, but since the policy changes that took place around New Years It just doesn’t feel the same. There used to be so much honesty, humbleness, and raw, originality amongst the community. I feel the policy changes constricted and controlled the rawness of the community’s atmosphere. It doesn’t feel as freeing and unique as it once did. Also, since the changes there’s an insane increase in random sketchy porn accounts that follow and try to contact you (I didn’t have a problem before the changes, but now I’ve got porn bot accounts trying to follow my personal account all the time, and the other tumblr users I’ve talked to are experiencing the same issue). I don’t know man, I just feel like the tumblr now is not at all as great and original as it used to be. It used to feel like we (the community) were one big ol awkward family, and now it’s almost overrated and it’s losing its originality. Hoping the staff sees this (doubt they will), I just feel like this concern should be voiced somewhere. In the long run though, if you’re new here and thinking about joining the community, do it. It’s worth it. There’s a place in my heart for tumblr, it’s helped me through some rough patches for sure.

Terrible App After Adult Content Ban. After Yahoo bought Tumblr, the whole platform went up in flames. Tumblr was my absolute favourite website until the adult content ban. My blog is marked as “sensitive content” which means I can no longer view my own blog. I understand that the adult content ban was because of legal issues that Tumblr was facing but Tumblr should implement a monitoring system that bans/deletes blogs that engage in actual criminal activity. Tumblr should at least allow the 18+ user to view their own blog. I’ve had my blog for over 7 years and because my blog is flagged as “sensitive content” I can’t view any of my posts at all. This app did not age well.

They’re killing the site. The problem: Nazis and child porn Tumblr Staff’s solution: Leave the nazis and pedos alone and get rid of all other 18+ content that makes up a large portion of the website. 👌 Plug the app has always been bad, never loads right glitches and logs you out. In general tumblr hasn’t functioned well in years so they decided to just kill the site and purge a majority of their users. 🤷‍♀️

Upset. Bring back adult content

Obscene sponsored posts. Against my will, Tumblr just served me an obscene ad for penis enlargement. It had pictures of penises on it. When they banned pictures with skin tones, it was to make room for ads like this, I suppose. Tumblr’s bad.

Not worth it. Ever since they banned porn it’s not worth it

Bugs and limitations. Wow. Years of my work wasted, since tumblr has decided that artistic nude photography is forbidden. Useless Calvinist puritans. Byeeee.

Reverse the nsfw ban. You guy are sexists and incompetent. You were the one of the few good platforms that didn’t treat the female body as inherently sexual. Now you’ve accepted the normal sexists behaviour of everyone else. STOP DELETING BAD REVIEWS

Please fix tumblr. blanket nsfw ban really isn’t helping anyone, please stop

Infested with nazis. Y’all need to buy some raid because this place is infested. Those Nazi cockroaches are still here. Clean up your mess.

Censorship to the extreme. Censoring female skin and discriminating against a large portion of its user base all in the name of making a little extra ad money. Yet the porn bots, spam bots, and nazis are all still able to post in full swing. “Breast” is a blocked tag but “white supremacy “ is not (and has ads on it?!?)

worst update yet. i dont think you understand how important to my app usage the location of the search function was. I NEED it to be a separate tab from my dashboard. I NEED to switch back and forth flawlessly. and i am NEVER EVER going to watch a livestream on this website. EVER. nor will i ever film one. thats not what this app is for

Absolute rock bottom. In the recent wake of bad press following companies such as bethesda and blizzard, the folks over at Tumblr decided to try and out do them. The whole banning of NSFW content doesn’t even work. Sure you can’t search for it through the tumblr app, but you can still use google. Once you find a page, not all of the NSFW stuff is hidden. The bot in charge of flagging doesn’t know what the hell it’s doing. I tested a bunch of seemingly innocent pictures and about 80% of them went up for review. While some adult content slipped through unscathed. Eventually I kept getting errors within the app. I’m unaware if it’s just a shadow ban, or the faulty code. Making a brand new account seems to fix the problem though. Shady stuff. 0/5.

Most recent changes are bad. I don’t want other people’s posts on my feed. You din want something, I’ll go find it. Stop putting random posts on my feed.

Policy change for the worse. Tumblr has proven time and again that it doesn’t care about its userbase. We’re still using the site and we won’t stop using the site any time soon because there’s no alternative. But that’s what we’d have to do to hopefully force tumblr to change anything. And they still won’t do it because their policy change isn’t about family values or what the userbase allegedly wants. It’s about money.

Full of Nazi stuff. There’s so much Nazi stuff on this site that my daughter now thinks that Hitler was a God! But thank the Lord, they’re is no more sex stuff!!

still buggy. update as of september 13th - the app still times out every time i try to log on. this has been a problem since the crashing update and has still not been resolved despite the 2 newest updates. decidedly unimpressed

Watch anything. We should be able to view anything we want to like adult content it’s our life and shouldn’t have to suffer because other people are offended and if people don’t like looking at then ither walk away and don’t look at if you don’t want to it’s the samething with porn like what’s next that going get rid of porn like come people

Ban neo nazis and free the nipple. Stop whatever you’re trying (and failing) to do and listen. To. Your. Goddamn. Userbase ffs! Stop banning sexual content altogether and ban porn bots and neo nazis!!! Y’know the kind of thing that really has nothing to do on any website!

Image compression is unreal, most text is illegible. Many images posted are too pixelated to make out any details.

It sucks. 1. The ban was a stupid and useless idea, Porn bots are even worse then before. 2. Nazi’s are everywhere. 3. Tags aren’t working properly, either the wrong thing shows up or nothing at all. They are all sfw by the way. 4. Filtering is being buggy (some post with blocked tags are still visible while others with the same tag aren’t) Old post keep showing up on my dash instead of new stuff

upcoming changes fundamentally change app. I'm writing a review in concern of upcoming changes listed by staff. One of which, introducing collapsible reblog chains introduces much friction in the general user journey, that it'll for certain drive away a large portion of the current user base. Changes made to lessen the learning curve for new users shift tumblr away from a blog platform into a social media platform. I'm against these changes, including the new web dashboard UI. Please listen to your users, ditch the corporatespeak, because there are revenue streams available once a connection has been made. I don't want to lose the platform where I've fostered over a decade of my interests and have met some of my closest friends.

Not good anymore.. Tumblr was so awesome before. Even when the app had problems it was at least fun. But now that they censor everything it sucks.

Let people be themselves. You should bring back the nsfw posts it’s not fair to people who want to express themselves

Can't use anymore. It kept crashing so I deleted it so I could download it again to reset it. Got a message that the app is incompatible with my iPad. Can't download previous versions of app. Boo.

Tumblr Live. Tumblr Live is an abomination of a “feature”, and is a slap in the face to a userbase that largely values anonymity. Run by a third party that primarily deals with dating apps and camgirl sites, and rife with security issues. Sure you can “snooze” it every 7 days, but before you know it this thing will be back on your dash REPLACING the search button, and pushing pornbots to the top of your dash. Do better Tumblr.

cant view my own blog. love this app but i cant even view my own blog anymore because it “may contain sensitive content” i worked very hard on it and idc if others can see it but i should be able to especially if i’m 18+ :/

New policy is driving out Tumblr users. oh please...we understand child porn isn't appropriate, but it doesn't represent Tumblr users as a whole. Tumblr used to be a safe haven for nsfw artists, and now it's absolutely eating its own vomit out of a garbage can. If we don't make enough sounds, these greedy corporate people will never see us.

Ugh. Tumblr itself is awesome but this app constantly crashes and refuses to open and you have to delete and redownload to get anywhere

Awful changes GET RID OF TUMBLR LIVE. GET RID OF TUMBLR LIVE Removing chronological feed. Removing customization options. Search function still awful. Videos have awkward zoom ins when watched, and no pause button. It's actively trying to remove the features that make the app fun in favour of trying to be a far buggier tiktok or something. If I wanted tiktok or twitter I'd use those apps.

:/. Why would you have the option to snooze tumblr live for only SEVEN DAYS are you joking. Let us turn it completely off

Censorship.... Bring back the nudity!!

Fix this. Call me when Tumblr stops flagging well-intentioned bloggers and finally gets rid of the pr0nbots and nazis.

They’re determined to become twitter 2. I love Tumblr. Emphasis on /Tumblr/. I really do not want to be using a twitter clone. You have a great thing here. It’s intuitive and and unique. I hate how it is trying to distance itself from blog style posting, and every change it has tried to make in the past few months have been stupid and bad. We don’t want collapsed reblog chains, that’s not how tumblr works. We want to be able to see the original post, not the posters blog. We want the bigots gone (though, this is hard). And personally, most of all I want the site to stop targeting queer people as unsafe. Stop censoring us, o gracious “queerest site on the internet” or whatever you called yourself. Still, I love Tumblr. When it inevitable crashes and burns as a weak imitation of twt, I guess I’m moving to neocities.

Trash. I had over 17,000 followers for my adult content nsfw page until you removed all of that and basically made all my work and my entire blog null. There were nsfw features for a reason and shouldn’t have been viewed by anyone under 18+ anyways. Realize who your users were, mostly adults, and tumblr has been trash ever since. Bring back our nsfw content. You’re failing.

Gone downHill. I used to be on tumblr everyday because they aloud any and every sort on content on here and allowed people so share and express whatever they wanted. But now with this new crackdown on deleted explicit content, they’ve created a $#%* show of a site and it’s really taken away that wholehearted tumblr experience it used to have. Stop banning NSFW content and just crack down on porn bots and all those racist accounts

Won't stop crashing + update summaries are frustrating. Keeps crashing a few seconds after opening, making it unusable. The only way of fixing it is to redownload the app. This happens at least once a day, often more than that. This has not been fixed for several updates. Everytime there's an update, the update summary is some ridiculous text that tries to be witty or strange, but it's not. It's not cute. It's annoying because we have no idea what is being changed in the update, and, knowing Tumblr, it could be some app-breaking bug-riddled nonsense that isn't even worth downloading

Awful app layout. You know, the app was perfectly functional and easy to navigate before, but now Every Other Day the app layout changes for the worst. It is impossible to navigate the app or have a good time. Half of the new functions are useless to me but they’re being shoved in my face or taken away just to be reintroduced in a new impossible layout. Dude.

Recent problems. Normally, I love tumblr, but I love the community, NOT the app. Tumblr live is obnoxious, and despite never using it I cant get rid of it, the new layout on desktop (off topic, I know, but they aint gonna listen otherwise) looks awful. Theres ads that can be a risk for epileptic folks that cant be turned off, and the ability to see a reblog by clicking/pressing on the blogger was removed. Fix the app and I, and many others, will change our reviews to 5 stars.

New unrelated posts in your home feed! 😡. The recent update causing recommendations to take up a whole post is the worst change they could ever make. Recently I am having to deleting all on unrelated posts one by one just to get to the bloggers that I go on the app in the first place. This is causing me to waste data and pointlessly used battery life on my phone. Change it back Tumblr. I liked it better when it was a small recommendations sliding bar. Because let’s be honest half the time your recommendations are way off from the content that I am looking for. Change it back before I get too frustrated and stop using your service altogether. You need viewership to get ad revenue after all.

Weak sauce. Stupid new changes make the service useless. They are removing nsfw works but with it comes the issue of adding a flagging system that is unable to operate properly causing supposedly acceptable works to be removed. There stalks have tanked and the value in the site has ended abruptly.

Awful Update. I have used tumblr since 2009, and it has become clear that its staff do not have their users best interests in mind. Remove the racists, the homophobia, the child pornography. But removing consensual, safe, personal adult content is absolutely ridiculous, it benefits no one. Bots with all kinds of crazy links are still allowed to post, censorship free. And to censor simply “women’s chests” is nuts. As a society we will never normalize all chests until things like this stop happening. Staff is targeting the wrong groups/people, no one asked for this.

Moderating is important. Get rid of pornbots and neo-nazis. Leave us adults to decide whether or not we want to see NSFW content on our dash. Fire your devs and start a new team from scratch. Honestly I expect better from a large company like yahoo.

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Borderline Unusable. After the most recent "best stuff first" update the app functionality has plummeted. As others have mentioned, no matter how good my internet connection is and even when my other apps are loading just fine, Tumblr can't seem to load anywhere near the pace that it used to. On top of that, I'm constantly having an issue where as I scroll it'll suddenly freeze. Waiting a few seconds for it to catch up again is fine but I've waited upwards of a minute before. Again, the app has always had glitches and I've put up with it for the most part but these issues make the app incredibly frustrating to use. Also, it's great that they included a switch for you to turn the "best stuff first" off so you can scroll chronologically. What's not great is that the button doesn't actually work. Any time I refresh my dash it goes back to the algorithmic organization, and the only way to get it to be chrono again is to close out of the app completely. There's so many more glitches: User's icons switching, notification alert not going away, can only view the first nine of the top ten trending topics, clicking on someone's chat sometimes takes me to someone else's chat, etc etc I could go on. Staff, some glitches are to be expected. Whatever. But this app is becoming borderline unusable.

Going downhill. I’ve been using tumblr in its app form since late 2013. I enjoyed it for much of that time despite its faults and occasional updates that caused crashes because it remained either mostly functional or was just amusing in the brief absurdity. It was always a joke that each new update brought a new way the app and overall site would break for a few days. However, that has changed. Tumblr live was really the start of it for me. Not being able to fully opt out is a dumb decision. I’m not any more likely to use the feature if you remind me it exists and I need to go turn it off again. The changes to the image viewer have also been to the detriment of user experience. I can’t double tap images to zoom when in full screen anymore. That just lakes the post. The zoom function that replaced double tapping in full screen is also inconsistent in its functionality since sometimes it will take me to other parts of the image. All of the changes being made to the site and app to try to make it more marketable are failing to realize which features people want and need for an enjoyable user experience. If it weren’t for the user community and the mutuals I’ve had for the last decade, I’d consider quitting the site.

Unnecessary Changes. I’ve been on tumblr for a long time, and seen a lot of changes, but these recent decisions are unnecessary and frustrating. Forcing new blogs to default on a ‘for you page’? Tumblr is one of the few social medias that doesn’t push posts algorithmically based on interactions, and that’s a main reason I continue to use it. Moving the post button off the tool bar at the bottom is useless and frustrating; I want to have access to it no matter what page I’m on. Not to mention it was bumped off the bar so that they could add a tumblr live button! The ‘time out’ option for Live is appreciated, but not enough. It should be a permanent removal. If I wanted tiktok, I’d download tiktok. Also, the tag button being removed in favor of the mature content switch or whatever it is; frustrating and unneeded. And finally, the bot problem. It’s so frustrating to be bombarded constantly by bots, but the biggest irony is that they’re all porn bots, despite real people’s posts and art get reported and removed for much less. Tumblr was never perfect obviously, but these new changes are unnecessary and baffling, and sometimes explicitly placed to exploit our muscle memory to force us to click on new features. Very hopeful staff will listen to complaints.

A true believer in the Tumblr algorithm. Since the first time I tried Tumblr in 2017, I was impressed fell in love and was a daily resident in their realm, making it the most visited site, I endeavored upon. I am a third generation, upholstery craftsman, who appreciates all the artists out there who contribute there work or their art to display on your website, it’s truly inspiring to see from a broader perspective that I’m not in the dying industry. That was the upholstery business but now have ideas and visuals that I can use in my day-to-day business to spread the love of the art. Thank you Tumblr even though you have shut me down three times and I’ve had to create new email addresses three times to stay involved with the love affair we have. I have forgiven you for your standards. I think I’ve learned now how to stay clear of your terminations. Thank you Tumblr for making every day just a little more special because I know that I can count on you to find me something even more inspiring. Keep up the good work. Chris Key.

Recent changes making me want to leave. I love this site and have used it and the app for literal years. But recent changes are making me want to leave because they are changing the everyday experience in a negative way. They recently changed the search function and replaced it with an algorithmic video feature that is not useful at all. Thankfully you can temporarily replace the video feature with the search feature but you have to opt in to do this, “snoozing” the video feature and you have to constantly choose to do this as the snooze only lasts 7 days. It feels like Tumblr is attempting to become like Tik Tok but I don’t use Tumblr for that. I use Tumblr because it’s Tumblr and you can search for tags you want to search for, no matter how broken the tag system may be. Also they just replaced your home profile button with a merch store button forcing you to go a long and circuitous route to find your way to your profile now. It’s irritating and I wish it were back to the way it was. I may have to pass on using this app now, which is a shame because there’s nothing else out there that’s like it.

Never should have been put back. No app that contained any amount childporn should never be put back up for download. Blocking all “adult” content does not actually solve anything. Tumblr was slacking big time in keeping their users safe and keeping pedophiles and other disgusting people off of their site for years. I have had tumblr for 7 years and have used it about everyday because I love pictures, but no other site that I’ve ever been on can you accidentally run into illegal porn or dead bodies without having to search for it. We have been asking for years that tumblr’s age of use be moved up to 18+ because of the literally mentally damaging images you can accidentally see. not even mentioning that tumblr does nothing when someone under the age of use is on the site and refuse to delete them even though they are breaking the terms of service. banning adult content isn’t keeping the minors on the site safe because they have already been exposed to this stuff since tumblr has never cared enough to properly filter things and remove abusive and illegal content. Tumblr is not and has never been a safe or family friendly site. I was really hoping apple wouldn’t put tumblr back up and I’m honestly disappointed in the morals of both corporations but then again they’re corporations and don’t listen to what their user want so I’m not exactly shocked.

Staff Need to Fix Problems. Tumblr has been my go to social media for years. It’s got great content, a solid community, and a platform like no other. Unfortunately, however, every time there seems to be a problem with the software or people breaking community guidelines-staff again and again fail to address it in a way that is effective. An example of this is the newest update. For a while there had been issues with tumblr allowing child p0rnography, and there were countless “porn bots” (fake tumbler accounts trying to sell porn and spread virtual viruses, etc.). To fix this problem it was decided at all nudity and specifically female nudity will be banned. This is a big issue for veteran users, as they wanted the illegal and annoying porn targeted. Tumblr is one of the only platforms that allow female and male nipples to be shown without being flagged as in appropriate-something that was important to many of its activist users who believe that female nudity shown should be help to the same standards as appropriate male nudity (if guys can post photos shirtless, why can’t girls?). The new changes have been very disappointing, and rating this app low is the only protest that the staff of tumblr will care about since it is in the public eye. I hope our voices are heard, and the platform we all love is properly taken care of.

every update is worrrse. I love tumblr. I love the chaotic, fandom based posts and the community of people who just love things! But. Every update has been highly irritating. Back when they added replies to posts, they introduced a way for users to fight and be generally horrible, which is the whole reason i have never been a fan of twitter. But hey, I’ll just ignore that! It’s out of the way. Then this whole business with tumblr live struck - which, according to multiple polls on tumblr (which is yet another introduction to arguments on tumblr, but can be fun sometimes) nobody on the app uses. Fine, I’ll take the time to switch it off every week, i’m never going to use it. Annoying i have to keep turning it off though. Now we have tumblr trying to profit of internet jokes that other people on tumblr made with merch. Expensive merch. Which whatever, sure im not gonna buy it. But for goodness sake give us back the button to have easy access to our own profile… just add another button if you want the merch store there so badly. Tumblr was perfect the way it was! i understand these are business growth decisions, but at this rate you’re bound to lose more users than gain.

Censorship. I just deleted this app. My negative review is not for the makers or creators of Tumblr but more for Apple. Here me out. As a mother I want to protect my children. It is my responsibility to do so and not Apple or social medias responsibility. I agree somethings need not be posted or taken done. However, there is a better solution. There is ridiculous list of banned hashtags and photos. Really Apple, you banned #suicide prevention or any assault prevention hastags. So any prevention or education of sexual assault, assault or suicide can’t be posted. There banned hashtag list is a little ridiculous. #girl is banned, but #boy is not. #girlfriend is banned, but #boyfriend is not. #arm, #armpit #myface #mygif #mygifs #mylife #myphotos #mypost #mystuff #myvideo #tonythetiger is banned? Why? The list goes on and on. My suggestion is to have age verification. How hard is that? Over 18 years of age can see what they want. Since nudity is not permanent. And let the 18year olds and over to choose to look at sensitive material. It is our choice not yours. To the panel of Apple employees that wrote this censorship, do you really think this is going to stop people from going on Tumblr and looking at sensitive material? Let me tell you. It won’t. They will look from there browser. All you did was have people delete their app.

New Changes. I am an avid tumblr user and for a very long time I have firmly believed it was the best social media option especially considering the current landscape . Unfortunately new changes they have made are making the experience especially on the app much worse. Tumblr used to run pretty much without an algorithm which I liked . You only saw blogs you followed and they had a separate section that was a more typical “for you” page that was based off your likes and what you interact with. They changed it so that the “for you” page is the default for new users and although I have been using the site for years my dash was ALL recommended. I had to go into my settings to change it and there was no clear way to do so. Also the ability to not mute tumblr live permanently which is a totally useless feature that to my knowledge absolutely no one uses or likes. And of course there is still a ban on NSFW art and content and “female presenting nipples”. Honestly I feel at this point tumblr is no longer a better option to other social media sites. I do believe the site can recover as they have built a lot of good will with their users over the past two years . But only if they listen to the people actually using their site .

There are a LOT of issues with this app. I love the people and the posts on tumblr, I truly do. but there are so many drawbacks I wouldn’t expect from a social media platform. Tumblr staff seems to have bizarre priorities, using all their power to push a live video feature no one likes while racism and transphobia is allowed to thrive. Completely clothed pictures of trans women are labeled “mature content,” and bots will follow you every single day. Clicking on a previous reblog doesn’t let you go back through the reblog chain anymore, a really nice and intuitive feature. And this has been a problem for a long long time, but the video player doesn’t work well on mobile and the app experiences a ton of slowdown and lag as you try to scroll. Polls were a good addition, but every substantive update since then has just made the app worse. Why not add more visibility options, letting blogs be private or posts only appear for mutuals? Why not let users actually disable tumblr live instead of snoozing it over and over? Why not moderate your platform so the “queerest place on the internet” isn’t full of transphobia and racism? Tumblr offers such a distinct flavor from other social media, and I use it a lot because of that, but it’s changes and failures of moderation have not been looking good.

new update makes using app on mobile insufferable. First thing I'll note is the porn bots. I still get ~3 following me each day, which is annoying. Then my main issue, which is the new update where the account tab has been switched with the Tumblrmart tab. I'm a relatively new Tumblr user and I've loved creating on the app for the past year. I've relied heavily on the profile tab to access my drafts, and it's where I spend most of my time on the app. This new update makes it really inconvenient to do that. I'll also say that from my experience with a seperate app that switched out creator-tool adjacent tabs for reels and a shopping tab, I don't anticipate being able to use Tumblr for a long time if this continues. I use Tumblr for writing, for art, and for keeping up with communities I love. If you're going to introduce new features, introduce features that let your users do that better. If the problem is that Tumblr needs more money, put in more ads or add benefits like extra fancy polls for the verification feature. Taking away my ability to use the app the way I want to isn't gonna get me to give Tumblr any money.

Weird changes, new users beware!. Tumblr was my first social media, and its been pretty good for awhile. Keeping its classic blog layout and not making any of the awful changes other platforms have been making has kept its head above water. However, with the collapse of the internet weve had an influx of users and theres been some really weird stuff happening. for instance we got this feature called tumblr live thats really hard to turn off, its terrible! Tumblr is a blog platform not a video platform, stay in your own lane tumblr!!! Also theres now a “for you” page, what the heck??????!!!!!!! I want a chronological dash that shows me my followers posts so that I can create my own expierence, I dont want a willy-nilly algorithm no matter how “personalized”!! Also apparently they’re looking to change it even more??? HUH??? WHY!!! For any new users looking to come to tumblr because your ship is sinking, DONT! Tumblr is going down hill too, they keep trying to turn into other platforms instead of being orginal. Tumblr staff if you’re seeing this please stop changing our beloved website, you’re killing the native plants and its about to be a wasteland!! When I found tumblr I was excited to tell my family and friends about it, but why bother if you’re just making twitter 2.0? Stop the madness!! Bring back old tumblr!!!

Tumblr has banned the words Girl, Me, and Mine for being “Explicit or Suggestive Content”. As the title says, tumblr staff has for some unholy reason decided to vastly expand their list of banned content and tags. Now, to be fair, the tag system was already nonfunctional. But the active ban on tags of COMMON WORDS is absolutely bananas. It bans things tagged with racism, sexism, gender, and stops these things from showing up on people’s dashboards. By extension, they have also completely nullified their tag-blocking abilities by making it impossible for people to block content they don’t wish to see because now people just won’t tag it! They claim it is to do with compliance with Apple IOS terms. Maybe that’s true. If so, hey Apple, you can eat me. But honestly? It’s because they are trying to make tumblr marketable, to attract advertisers, completely ignoring the fact that the user base of this site actively and willfully fights off any form of monetization. Post plus lasted less than 24 hours. But at this rate, tumblr is actually going to finally die like most of the internet already thinks it is, because they’re going to ban every user for speaking in the first person. So have a 1 star review!!! See how your advertisers like that you useless sacks of [banned language]

Poorly Managed, Updates Nobody Asked For. To preface this review, I’ve been using Tumblr for more than 10 years at this point. It’s always had its share of issues, but it provides a unique social media experience that has only become rarer as places like Twitter have slowly been driven into the ground. All of that said, the state of Tumblr’s app and management in 2023 is possibly the worst it’s ever been. The app itself runs like garbage, getting my phone extremely hot after 10-15 minutes of continued usage and draining my battery beyond what makes sense. There are pervasive advertisements, many of which have disruptive elements or flashing content that could hurt photosensitive users and all of which have a negative impact on the app’s performance. The asinine new “Tumblr Live” feature (that nobody asked for or uses) used to be a toggle-able feature, but now it’s placed literally front and center, and there’s no way to get rid of it, despite a setting that seems like it SHOULD remove it from the dashboard. And all of this is to say nothing about the rampant issues with hate speech and bigoted content being allowed on the platform while LGBTQ+ users find their content unfairly targeted and censored for being NSFW, even when it’s perfectly chaste. For a site that loves to tout itself as the gayest place on the internet, that’s a pretty bad look.

Banned words. Funnily enough, apple is out of touch and have no idea how to handle tumblr. This censorship is now beyond p*rn. You have banned the words that people describe the struggles they face in everyday life. You have banned words that make sense that correspond with Tumblr inner works such as #submission that is a automatic tag in the submission tab on peoples blogs. You not only banned things that were strange but also things like #mine Which again, makes no sense? If you wish to keep people protected whatever, but give us a choice. Don’t force your weird censorship onto the users who is the majority are grown adults. I am a long time user been about 8 years. Not once have I ever been triggered or afflicted on this site. ( I don’t speak for everyone but) I think it’s safe to say this censorship on here is out of control. I’d be okay if we were given a choice but it seems that tumblr is going on a downward slope and eventually shut down if this is kept up. There is no longer a sense of self when you constrict someone’s identity and real world issues. I hope apple reconsiders this horrible move and PR movement of we want a “safer” internet that only really caters to white fragility and protecting horrible people like p*dos and abusers. Apple you are NOT helping.

Why the changes?. The tumblr app has always been a little finicky (routine crashes, lagging due to ads, unreliable at loading certain posts) but most of the new changes being made have exponentially made the problems worse. Videos and audio posts take inexcusable times to load (if they load at all), many videos play without audio and then clicking the button to turn on the audio makes the video freeze and never resume loading. One used to be able to use one finger to zoom in via double tapping, and now that instead leaves a like, and one has to pinch to zoom in, which is less convenient and less intuitive. There’s now talk of how new users are having a hard time using their tumblrs because it’s not a clone of every other site, and that’s always been the good thing about tumblr. If someone wants tiktok or Instagram etc, they will use those instead. Likewise, if tumblr users wanted any of that, they would go there instead. Every other site is imploding due to making unnecessary changes and ignoring the user base, and that’s what’s going to happen to tumblr at this rate. I’ve stuck around since ~2012 because of the way the site was, and all the recent changes (especially making zooming in photos more clunky) is the only thing that has ever made me want to use it less.

Unwanted changes disregard current userbase. from things like tumblr live being only able to be turned off temporarily for a few days, the inability now zoom into images, plans to collapse reblog threads, removal of the ability to quickly check a previous reblog’s tags, greater emphasis on algorithmic feeds, slow removal of custom themes, and poorly moderated advertising/poorly moderated blazed posts, it has become clear that much of the personality and charm that made tumblr an excellent place to build community has been eroded for the sake of a short term profit. the minor additions of features like the checkmarks or gif icons are insignificant compared to the major steps back in terms of website design. people appreciate tumblr for its community and “old internet” feel. as these features fade, there will be less keeping that user base interested in tumblr. as is, i would not recommend tumblr to anyone who wasn’t already using it, and i would especially not recommend tumblr mobile, as it lacks browser extensions that can make the experience bearable. i have already planned out which social media i will switch to should tumblr continue in its current direction. i encourage anyone not already attached to tumblr to look elsewhere. it really doesn’t have that much going for it anymore.

Love the App, But Timestamps/Dates for Posts?. I’ve used tumblr for over 8 years now and probably will use it for a long time to come! One thing that’s always bugged me though is that I can never see when a post has been posted or reblogged. This is kinda frustrating when trying to tell what blogs are active and which haven’t been active for upwards of a year. I’ve had multiple cases of blogs that I love becoming inactive while I was away from the site, and also cases where I see a blog that I like and I follow them, only for them to never post again because it turns out their most recent post/reblog was actually made a year ago and I just couldn’t tell because there wasn’t a time stamp for the post. It’s not a super pressing thing obviously, just something I’ve always wished were different! And if there actually is a way to see timestamps/dates for posts and I’ve just been overlooking it please let me know! (Also, this goes solely for the mobile app. I haven’t used the desktop site in probably years so I don’t remember if there’s a way to see dates on desktop or not.)

prioritize what your actual user base wants!. I never review apps, but I’m making an exception to respond to the changes that Tumblr has been gradually making to both the desktop and app versions of the site. Tumblr is trying to mimic other social media sites — Tumblr Live, collapsing reblogs, and prioritizing algorithmic feeds over a dashboard cultivated by the user — but the appeal to Tumblr for its users is that it is NOT like those social media sites. We’re not interested in Tumblr live. Reblogs with comments are historically a crucial feature of the site. I don’t want an algorithmic feed; when Tumblr integrated an algorithmic portion into my dashboard a few years ago that occasionally recommended posts I might like, I promptly muted it. Meanwhile there are plenty of problems with the app that your users ACTUALLY object to, such as the broken search function; I search for tags or specific posts on my blog that I KNOW are there, but the search feature often fails to show them. My dashboard on mobile refreshes so frequently as I’m scrolling that I find the app practically unusable and only scroll on my desktop, but I’m reluctant to update the app because every time I do, its features become WORSE. Please prioritize your users’ express needs.

Terrible update. Most recent update is abysmal, and it’s Apple’s fault! What happened? Posts on this app have a tagging system for both organization and discoverability, and staff has just banned innumerable innocuous words as tags, meaning for IOS users, these posts will be unviewable. Some of these are aimed at s*xual content, which was the idea (though that’s not one I can get behind either, not every social media needs to be appropriate for 10 year olds), but many others are completely inane and constitute simple user-aggression by being banned: such as “girl” and “long post”. Others still are actively sinister under the pretenses of banning hate speech. To ban the tags “antisemitism”, “racism”, and “transphobia” is not to dissuade hateful posting, but to silence discussion about this issues, which is something anyone can see. Tumblr devs are a bit inept, perhaps, but mostly they are just trying to comply with Apple in the face of THREATS to take their app of the App Store, which would lose them about 40% of their revenue and tank the company. This is a shameful move for Apple, using their power for censorship to silence users discussion social issues, destroying a sites usability for the sake of creating a sanitized, advertiser-friendly platform. This is a gross first step towards the future of the internet that Apple wants, and we should not sit by and let them Inact that.

Fix the UI (Updated). UPDATE: The profile tab is back where it belongs. I’ve also noticed fewer bots as of late, though there are definitely still way too many bots. The thing keeping this in the 4 star range is the fact that Tumblr Live is still replacing the search tab by default. You can snooze it and get the search button back, but only for 7 days at a time before you need to go back into your settings and snooze it again. This is overall just poor UI design IMO. On Tumblr you’re going to get far more use out of the search function than the live function, so naturally it should be more intuitive to locate. Original review: The app version’s UI has been steadily downgrading ever since the introduction of Tumblr Live. The app now has dedicated buttons on the bottom of the screen for Tumblr live and the Tumblr mart, which replaced the SIGNIFICANTLY more useful buttons that took you directly to the search and to view your own blog. Despite being much more useful features to have on hand, you can now only access search and your own blog from one specific place on only the timeline screen. Also, the bots are still rampant.

The staff who runs tumblr are idiots. The worst, most non-communicative staff I've seen for any site. They will ignore any and all problems with the site, unless it threatens their revenue, then they'll "fix" it with the laziest and most destructive possible solution. For example: instead of hiring actual moderators or making even slightly competent bots, to combat the issues with users who used tumblr to share cp, they decided instead to ban any and all NSFW content, causing adult content creators and artists to lose revenue, as many used the site for their work. Their bots targeted any posts that it thought had NSFW content, that actually ended up not being NSFW at all, and shadowbanning people who they didn't like. While this all was happening, nearly their entire user base revolted against their "Safer" Tumblr (even though after their banning spree, porn bots and nazi blogs are still rampant on the site), what did the staff do? Nothing. No change to the policy, no "lol jk", not even a single word addressing the problems people had with the policy or the thousands of creators it's screwing out of a job because they didn't feel like coming up with an actual solution. Just another cog in the internet censorship machine. (Also the app and website are filled to the brim with bugs that the staff will never fix it so just deal with it I guess)

Take off the safe mode!!!! 😡😡😡. I have been using the Tumblr app for over 2 years. I actually was a fan of the major update that happened because I believe it made everything much more organized. Unfortunately I absolutely despise the latest update that moved the safe search to the settings. What's the point?!? The icon in the major update that let you press on it to show unfiltered posts and pictures and not show those posts and pictures was perfect. It was on the side, so it was not in the way of anything and worked perfectly. So why in the world did you get rid of it!?!?! The reason why I'm so mad at this in the first place is because certain things don't show in "safe mode." For example, the search "soft beige", which is not an inappropriate search at all, doesn't let me see any pictures because of this "safe mode." And I can't see any of these pictures by going into setting anyway because for some reason I have to be 18?!?! So you're telling me a 17 year old (my age) can't see pictures of a color because of this safe mode feature?!?!? This wouldn't be a problem if that icon was back. If you don't want to lose users because I know A LOT of other people probably have the same concerns as me. Return safe mode the way it used to be, an icon that you could press. Sincerely, An ex-Tumblr user

becoming unusable. As they try to make this a more and more popular/attractive site they’re only making it more difficult to use. Today I scrolled for a solid minute and the only posts I saw were advertisements. Regularly the app forgets that I follow anyone and just shows me a screen saying I need to follow people; similarly, though I’ve been posting on my blog for ~7 years, it sometimes tells me I haven’t started posting anything. I have a pretty new phone, right, but scrolling my dashboard for about ten minutes makes it heat up in a way no other app ever has, and I’m not the only one with this problem. They’ll let cis women promote pictures of themselves in lingerie but any post mentioning being a trans women is liable to be marked as nsfw and taken down without recourse. Video player wont play unless I open it, close it, then open it again and there is no pause feature ??? Ads often take up your whole screen and you can’t scroll on the ad, only around it, so when they take up your whole screen it’s very frustrating. And since this is an app review I won’t even go into the mess that is recent changes to the desktop site, that would be a whole essay. I love Tumblr but it’s becoming harder and harder to use every day.

Uncaring staff. The staff of Tumblr have recently rolled out the censorship of any posts flagged as explicit. While this would be a great way to stop p*dophiliac content, n*zis, and anything else potentially harmful for other users, the system is broken and till this day (december 24th, 2018) continues to flag and censor posts that do not meet the nsfw requirement for being taken out of public viewing. Instead of content that could harm other users, the system-which is completely run by a simple bot not meant to handle this complicated of a task-instead flags posts that fit within the new guidelines. All over the site and app pictures, artwork, text posts, etc have been wrongly censored despite having saw content. Thousands of complaints have gone to staff about this issue, yet they have done nothing to help the user base on Tumblr. This has ended up hurting many people on the site. People now rely on websites to promote their online services-for example, an artist taking commissions to pay for bills-and have been receiving less and less exposure/traffic due to this flagging system hiding their content for others to see. Thousands of people have fled to other websites to find work due to their loss of the ability to rely on Tumblr as a means of exposure. Staff has done nothing to help us with the issues this new bot has been causing.

A frustrating app to use. I’ve been a tumblr user for years, both on desktop and with the app. In recent times I've found myself using the app much more frequently, but that may be changing. Since the beginning, the app has had an issue where it frequently refreshes itself if you switch between apps, which is maddening if you happened to be reading a particular post or enjoying a particular piece of content just to lose it and have to scroll miles back down to find it again. But another feature that is ruining the experience is the recommended blog posts. There is no option to disable this feature other than to individually ‘X’ out of each post as they appear. Between these posts and the ads (which are understandable, as it’s a free app), most of my dash feels cluttered with content I don’t want to see. If I were interested in these recommended blogs, I would seek out and follow them on my own. If there were a way to disable this feature then it wouldn’t be an issue, but unless that becomes an option in the near future, I anticipate my use of the app will slowly dwindle until I don’t use it at all. And because I rarely use the desktop website, I wonder how much longer before I just delete my account altogether.

A terribly coded and moderated cesspool of Nazis and racism. After being removed from the App Store for child pornography, tumblr staff has decided to moderate their platform for the first time by banning all nsfw content. However, “nsfw” content is automatically flagged with a terrible coded and ineffective bot that blocks anything from pictures of Garfield to posts made by the official staff themselves. Meanwhile, pornbots are still rampant on the site and staff has made no attempt to moderate hate speech and extremism despite YEARS of complaint. It is easier to find Nazis on tumblr than it is to find a picture of a black person. Tumblr doesn’t care or listen to their user base while actively promoting racism, extremism, and genocide. If somehow that still appeals to you, tumblr entirely fails to function as a social media app. There are no notifications when you receive messages, images rarely load on mobile (god forbid gifs), and even on a high-speed WiFi connection the embedded video player fails to load more than half the time. Random posts are incorrectly flagged and blocked for pornographic content, including posts from staff itself. Developers regularly put out buggy, nonfunctional updates, and without a doubt the app is in a less functional state than it was three years ago.

Going downhill fast. I’ve been using Tumblr for over a decade, and the site is becoming more and more unusable. It’s always been an in-joke that Tumblr likes to give updates that make the site worse, but it’s getting to a point that it just isn’t Tumblr anymore. While I understand that they need to make themselves profitable in any capacity, taking away the features that make the site what it is won’t help and will only drive the existing user base away. The search feature hasn’t worked in years, you can no longer zoom in on photos, they’re phasing out custom blog themes (which has always been an integral part of the experience!), they removed the ability to see the tags on a previous reblog, it’s becoming impossible to view any content without having an account, and more. The user base is voicing their opinions against these changes, including the fact that some of these changes make it less accessible. However, staff does not take any of the user base and what we want into account. Please, just listen to the user base. We’ve been telling you what will make the site better. Emulating other apps and websites is not going to bring people in and will only serve to drive away those who have been here for years.

Is Tumblr a Good App?. Once. Amidst all the screaming and can't evens it was a nice app. It did what it was supposed to do. You could run multiple blogs for different purposes and share things with your friends. Then they said they were "making tumblr a safe place for all audiences". Which it was as long as the artists and bloggers, the dedicated users who usually did, tagged their content to keep the roadstops clearly marked. Parental supervision belongs to the parents. Your image was already tarnished by the cesspool of thought-police and angry hormonal 16 year olds taking to the site to voice their displeasure with different opinions. But it still persisted because of a loyal fanbase that liked your product. Dumping it with indiscriminate bot bleach and mocking the very people who made you who you are today without addressing or scrubbing the real issues was the worst thing you could ever do regardless of how functional a product it is. A site isn't given worth based on how it was built or what the automated programs are said to do for the ones who made it. It is from the ones who visit, contribute, and actively use the site. I hope everyone stops using it period and reminds you all of what that meant. Yahoo wasted their money on you. I don't recommend this app based on the company's treatment of its users.

new features. while I love all of the original features and how much we can curate our own experiences on the app/site like blacklisting tags, customizing blogs, and the sheer amount of media we can upload to the site, the new updates rolling in are making this app more unusable than it originally was. there is NO NEED for an algorithm more than what we already have--small creators like myself have more fun with the tumblr algorithm than we do with social medias like instagram and twitter. tumblr's distinction from other medias is the reason why I came here: simple image views, freely customizable blogs, and a community that we can curate ourselves just by putting some effort into looking up subjects we like. the introductory account-making experience is guiding you to follow accounts based on your interests, so people should be able to find their people very quickly! This is a blogging platform bigger than most blogging platforms, and with a HUGE amount of community in it already; the implementation of new features in algorithms similar to those of tiktok, twitter, and instagram will only make tumblr harder to use for major parts of its userbase. love the app, don't want to see it meet the same downfalls as other social medias.

frustrating to use. For context, I've been on tumblr for over a decade, and I have mostly used the app version of the site for that time. After this latest update, I'm convinced to switch to desktop mode being my go-to. There is an overabundance of ads, many of which will redirect you to the app store if you so much as look at them. They've recently implemented the Tumblr Live feature (which is banned in some countries for privacy infringement), something no one asked for or wanted. Now they've made the app more tedious to use by making their store feature located where your account access point used to be. Not only that, but the account button (and the search if you don't "snooze" tumblr live) live on the dashboard; meaning you can no longer have concurrent places on your dashboard and your profile, further inconveniencing the user. They've also begun implementing a new image viewer where you can no longer ZOOM IN on an image. It's such a shame that tumblr is going in this direction. I understand that it's a dying platform and they need to generate revenue to keep the site up, but these are a few things that have either taken it too far, or just overall have made the app more frustrating to use than ever before.

If you keep adding algorithms I'm bailing. Been a long time users of Tumblr. One of the reasons I enjoy being here is because it was truly a unique website amongst social media garbage like facebook and twitter. The slow but persistent changes the company has made to attempt to make it like other social media websites is making it difficult to enjoy what tumblr used to offer. I'm sick of turning off tumblr live, I'm of the for you tab, and the further proposed changes are turning tumblr into a weaker website. I'm at the age now where I don't really need social media anymore and will likely delete my blogs once these changes are implemented. I'm not huge, but other users are threatening to leave too. This website could have been so healing to the people moving in from twitter and reddit, but instead you're trying to make it more palatable for the shareholders of those websites. It's those very same shareholders who made twitter and reddit unusable in the first place. If they come, I'm bailing. And it's very apparent, you're doing your damned best to make sure they do come. Very disappointing. People are sick of being treated like they're the product, this is a sentiment shared by many across tumblr, but your reading comprehension is as bad as ours, isn't it? Edit: AND LET'S NOT FORGET THE BOTS TRYING TO PHISH PEOPLE OF THEIR MONEY THAT KEEP POPPING UP!!!

Shareholders > users makes the app worse. One of the main reasons people use tumblr, if not the main reason, bar none, is the fact that it is not like other social media applications. Older web blog features, anonymity, a plethora of text based features. These are the things that make the app and the community what it is. Tumblr is slowly phasing out all of these things. They’ve introduced a third party live video feature that eats up storage on your phone, mines your data, and is illegal in most parts of the world. They’re making reblogs collapsed so you won’t see the conversation on the most on your main feed. They’ve made this terrible photo and video viewer that mimics tiktok so you can’t even zoom in on a photo. They’re making it so you have to sign in with your email to view anything on their website. These are all things they promise to shareholders will make them more money. Like most social apps that make these promises to shareholders, it is a lie. A lie they tell themselves and others. Tumblr is a place I love to be. But as things press on, the less I want to use it to talk to my friends or view content. Web 2.0 is dying unceremoniously. This used to feel like the last place you could genuinely connect . Sad to see where things have gone

What are you doing. I’ve been using tumblr for about 5 years now and with the new updates they’ve been implementing it nearly impossible to use. They’ve change the whole format of the mobile app replacing the post button with the live feature which maybe two percent of the people in tumblr use. It removes the anonymity of being on tumblr which is what attracted its users base in the first place. You can’t turn off the feature either. The new photo viewer makes it impossible to zoom in. Instead it scrolls through just the images in other post which is just annoying. You can’t view previous tags and post anymore. They are trying to make post collapsible so you can’t see reblogs. You have to be logged in to view anything in tumblr as well as send asks even while anonymous, and they are phasing out the ability to customize the look of your blog. They nearly took away chronological viewing of posts from blogs you follow, instead trying to replace it with an algorithm. The appeal of tumblr is that is it unique from other platforms because it allows you to customs and curate your experience with the app and with each update they staff is ruining this to comply with the standards of social media. This is an terrible idea that is only driving the user base away from the app and site.

Throwing bloatware at users with no choice to. Ive been on tumblr for over 10 years, and there have been some hiccups along the way app wise, but it always seemed like it was getring better with time. But as of the last year or so it only seems to be getting worse. The desktop version is clunky with unnecessary buttons, distractng from the app content. And the mobile app - which I mostly use - has started really annoy me for the first time. They took away the search icon and replaced it with ‘tumblr live’, something I have never used and have never seen anyone else use either. You used to be able to snooze it for 7 days (you should just be able to turn it off completely) but now there is no way to get rid of it taking up the search spot and having an annoying little red ‘new’ alert coming out of it, which is very distracting. I hate to give an app ive used for so long such a low score but im the closest ive ever been to deleting it and since the people making the website dont seem to listen to regular feedback maybe they will start caring if enough of us give it 1 star. Tumblr is best when it is clean, simple, and easily customizable. Heres hoping they can turn it around before everyone starts leaving again.

Awful, don't get it please. I've been using this stupid website for 6 years and got the app on my phone some years ago and it's been a pain ever since david karp left and the xkit guy was run off. audios were horrible video playing has generally been horrible. nothing ever loads in a timely fashion even when there's full wifi bars. sometimes when i quick reblog things on my dash, the silhouette of my blog will stay there while i scroll, once this starts there's no end. the silhouettes keep appearing until the stupid app crashes and then you can't use it until tomorrow, even if you restart your phone. stupid app, stupid web developers, shame on you for fixing things that don't need fixing and ignoring ALL of the numerous bugs you have. Edit: with the latest update it keeps freezing once u scroll through every 5 posts or so and if you leave the app it will freeze, if u decide you want to reopen the app and use it like any normal person would, TOO BAD it won't open, will freeze your phone, then crash. The only way I have seen to fix this problem is to uninstall the app and reinstall, every single time i would like to enjoy these stupid memes. Where's the xkit guy? does tumblr staff actually exist??? why is this so hard for yahoo to figure out?? We may never know

New updates are ruining it. Staff will not stop rolling out new features that not only take away the uniqueness of the platform but make it unusable. They are adding features similar to those of Twitter and Tiktok among others, but the appeal of this platform is that it's not either of those. Tumblr is my go to because it's Tumblr, not because it's a clone of twitter. Another appeal of Tumblr is the lack of an algorithm. While I am one of few users who scroll through the for you feed more then my following feed I would never want that to be my forced from page. I would also never want any of my following feed to be anything but chronological order, a thing I share with the vast majority of the community. Icons also keep moving around on mobile as well as whatever is TumblrLive. One point is its now difficult to post on mobile due to moving the write post button to an icon that only pops up on the main page rather then a button always visible at the bottom. Tumblr has built a platform that people have used for decades and yet the staff thinks thats not good enough. In the midst of other platforms such as Reddit and Twitter imploding Tumblr staff thinks they need to show off and make Tumblr more appealing to the masses when in reality what Tumblr has been is what people want.

As of yesterday.... I have a constant grey message box at the bottom saying “Hmm...try again?” And that I should log out and back in if it keeps happening. So I log out and back in, and it’ll work...until I leave the app and come back, the it happens again, and it’s a huge pain to have to keep logging back in. Stuff won’t really update while this message box is running. Also, the app is still eating my photo posts. Last time I tried was before this grey-box issue. Two days ago. Also, I do not like my activity notifications stacking. In particular, the reblog ones. I don’t mind the likes being stacked. But I liked clicking on individual reblog to look at tags. Some people communicate via tags. Granted, I could just visit the post itself, but that has become a pain now too - where I used to just be able to view everything I wanted from my activity section, now I have to jump out and hunt the post down through my profile. God forbid I’m not looking for an old post. To be honest, right now it’s hard to double check on feature with that grey message box saying I have to log out and back in constantly. Nothing refreshes. Edit: logging out and back in does nothing for me after all. App currently does nothing for me except show me pop-up notifications (clicking into then shows a “no-post-here” page).

Going Downhill. I use Tumblr the most out of any social media website because it is uniquely suited to my desires out of a social media site. Unfortunately, it seems the leadership has decided that those same features must be removed if the site is to be profitable. I don't know what to do at this point. I've sent countless amounts of feedback in polite and informative language to try and be helpful. It seems revenue has continued to decline in the meanwhile, and instead of looking towards fixing long standing issues with bots, search functionality, or uneven and impractical censorship of adult content, Tumblr has decided to make a series of UI changes across mobile and desktop to emulate the look of Twitter. If I wanted to use Twitter, I would be on Twitter. At this rate, I just might do so. At this rate, maybe I'll go back to writing emails to all my friends. What is the alternative? It's transparent how lacking in creativity the team is in addressing the issue of widening the userbase, and dumbfounding how little they think of leveraging the current userbase for their purposes. It is a social media site. Focus on the social part of it, perhaps, and stop alienating the meager handful of users you already have. Word of mouth will just mean the few recommenders you have at disposal with badmouth the product during a time of investment. Dissapointing.

Block list bug. I love Tumblr, flaws too, as it gives me something else in life to complain (justifiably so) about. However this review is more personal and seems counterintuitive but this is the issue: i have a rather extensive block list as a result of the never-ending bot-blogs bred on tumblr. I also have a violent, abusive, ex partner blocked whom I have worked tediously to completely disentangle & separate his existence and access to and from me and my life. For my safety and as a direct result of his violent, stalker & malicious tendencies, i check his blog every so often in order to ensure he’s still states away and to see if he is still making creepy posts about me. A couple days ago however i noticed my blocklist was cut down from at least 150 blogs to about 20, and it does not allow me to go to the blocked person’s blog. My ex’s blog is no longer showing up which scares me bc that is the way i safely keep my “distance” from him, while also still being aware of his life. I know it sounds creepy on my part but i still fear for my life and know he would bill me if given the chance. Please, i hope this review actually reached someone who can help do something about this glitch. Thank you.

Get rid of the pedos and the nazis instead of ruining the site. Via tumblrs new guidelines they’ve yet again screwed over their audience and sent thousands of their users scattered to the winds most of them going onto twitter instead of tumblr. You screwed up the site majorly by blindsiding and censoring the majority of tumblr. You let loose bots on the site that still haven’t been fixed. Allowed bigotry and racists to be allowed to roam free and haven’t done a thing about nazis that are still allowed to post genocidal rhetoric without shame. The main reason that tumblr was taken off of the App Store was because you being the staff of tumblr allowed pedophiles to run rampant and scar minors on the site, polluting the waters of every inch of almost every fan base. Instead of trying to react that problem rationally the staff of tumblr decided to ban all nsfw art on tumblr alienating a large portion of their users and striking down on sex workers who use this site to gain a following on a day that was supposed to represent a day against exactly this. I have been on this site for over 3+ years and have migrated to twitter with many of my followers and people who I follow because you people won’t get your crap together and start truly giving a crap about the people involve themselves on this app. Until you, meaning staff and higher ups, get your self straightened out- good riddance.

Staff Doesn’t Care About Users. I’ve been on Tumblr for over a decade now and this app was always pretty simple and functional. Now the changes introduced here are making it impossible to use. Some notable bad decisions: 1) They’ve changed how you view pics and videos on the app so that you have to jump through hoops to zoom in. 2) They've replaced the account button on the bottom navigation ribbon (which was very useful and helpful) with their merch store icon (which no one will ever use often enough for it to deserve to be there) and screwed up how to toggle between your account and your dashboard. 3) They’re trying to force this “tumblr live” video link to take over where the search button is in that ribbon as well, and you have to toggle it off every seven days. 4) Don’t get me started on the bots problem that they haven’t even touched or addressed. They rolled out checkmarks as a spoof on Twitter, then made them rainbow colors, but haven’t tried to fix the “adult” bot problem? This app used to be easy to use and a great experience. But now staff just doesn’t care. If they continue making this app unusable, I hope that they feel the consequences of their actions by how many people (some with paid subscriptions) will up and leave. We had something special. Say so long and farewell I guess.

Poor Ad Integration. Some problems I have with the ad integration in order of priority: 1) Some ads auto play with sound while my phone is muted. There is no way to mute them permanently or have them not auto play, or have them follow the volume settings of my phone. Isn’t this against the rules? 2) Sometimes I can’t scroll past the ads. The ads which are made to look like part of the background of the app rather than a blog post will sometimes take up my whole phone screen, and yet I can’t grab them to scroll past. I have to grab a surround post in order to scroll up or down. Sometimes this isn’t possible. 3) Due to multiple methods of ad integration, it seems like 25-50% of my dash is ads. This may not really be the post count, but if we measure it by screen space, the large ads take up more of my scrolling environment than many other short text posts. In addition, ads can double up by having “background” type ads, “post” type ads (which are not significantly visually different from real posts to distinguish themselves from content), and… Tumblr Blaze posts that shouldn’t show up based on my presence to view only blogs I follow on my dash. I feel like I hardly see any of my feed any more. I mean, come on.

I don’t understand why. I downloaded it for certain reasons, my friend does a lot of art on there. He sells it and show off his skills. So reason I made an account last year(a few months ago, it’s January so like around six or 4 months ago), first time ever making an account. I ended up deleting it because I never really got on it, I was busy and it was taking up room. So I tried creating a new account today said my email was in use, fine use another I have like six. All of them were in use! I’ve NEVER had it before until literally a few months ago(“last year”)! So when I try to SIGN IN it say NO ACCOUNT WITH THIS EMAIL!!! What the hell is going on?? I do not understand??? I just wanted to look at peoples art and an article that was on twitter😭😭😭 I’m so confused it keeps doing this I deleted it again and I’m gonna try to reinstall this is not what I was hoping for. I’m sorry I’m having issues trying to sign in. Also it does nothing when I say I forgot password, it just takes me back to the sign in screen when I click the email it sends me. Then once again says my email has no account on there.I kinda don’t wanna keep doing this...it’s almost 12am 😞 but at least my only job is to clean the house while my fiancé goes to work at 8 am tomorrow soon to be today🥺😅

so a few things. i didn't write a review when you added the useless tumblr live feature that everyone hates and we have to mute once a week OR when you made the video player basically unusable OR when you changed the image lightbox to limit accessibility and make it like one thousand billion times more annoying OR when you took away the ability to look at prev tags (huge part of the ecosystem) on desktop OR when the ads started playing out loud no matter what and glitched out to cover half the screen but now i'm literally just TRYING TO MAKE A NEW POST and the little pencil button you moved to the bottom right corner for whatever reason just straight up isn't working <3 which somehow is worse than when i was just trying to scroll my dash and accidentally hit it bc it was in my thumbs muscle memory path so it would open the interface to make a new post. like it's insane how much worse this app has gotten in such a short window of time tumblr is LITERALLY never going to be the Next Big Thing that opportunity passed like a decade ago so it would be great if you would listen to the people that are already here using this platform instead of trying to become a worse version of other apps that already exist ❤️

actively hostile towards users. using the app is a nightmare. I had to stop updating months ago after they rolled out tumblr live, which nobody uses except for scammers/bots. for a few months we at least had the option to snooze it for 7 days, but I can't do that anymore. I can't zoom in on pictures anymore, I can't look at reblog chains anymore (instead I get taken to the prev reblogger's blog), the new video player is insanely annoying and almost impossible to do anything with (pausing, playing, unmuting, exiting the video — good luck trying to do any of it), a ton of ads I scroll past open up without me ever clicking on them, there are so many more ads than there used to be and they can take up the whole screen or more, I can't listen to music while I'm using the app anymore because it stops at random, I get followed by way more bots than I do real people, and tumblr refuses to actually do anything about all of the transphobes and other types of hateful people that severely harass minorities (aka the majority of tumblr users). nobody already using tumblr likes these changes, and there is no way these changes are attracting new users. nobody is coming here for a twitter/tiktok/instagram clone, not even old twitter/tiktok/instagram users. literally everyone hates it. i'm so close to just deleting the app for good.

obnoxiously laggy, borderline unusable. let me start by saying i’ve used tumblr for several years. i’ve used the app since it came out. the current state the app is in is miserable. if you scroll for too long (which the app encourages through the endless scrolling page) the app will lag, crash, stop loading images or video, it’s so bad that if i try to type when it’s lagging my KEYBOARD crashes. the keyboard on my screen crashes and disappears. no other application does this. ads are served endlessly, and they play offscreen. most videos or gifs are supposed to load when they scroll offscreen but they don’t. the reason i know this is because i’ll scroll past one video to another and the second video will stop moving while the one that is mostly offscreen continues to play or starts moving. don’t get me wrong, i should definitely use this app less, and i plan on doing so, but the state of it now is so bad. my phone gets HOT to the touch when i use it. i have an iphone 11 pro which isn’t the newest phone on the block sure but it’s no so terrible it can’t run apps efficiently. and i promise the main issue is the ads. they’re poorly optimized and they play and move offscreen. as i’m typing this my phone is still hot from the last time i opened tumblr. i should just uninstall.

Horrible Management. This website does not care about its userbase—only its own image. When the website gives examples of allowed content that could be viewed as explicit (such as breastfeeding women, ladies protesting while topless, and surgery images), it flagged the examples on the staff’s own posts on the matter. Preferring to flag first and then examine later, as sort of ‘guilty until proven innocent’ policy on adult content. At one point, you could bypass the bots searching for adult content from pornbots by tagging your posts with #sfw, and the pornbots swiftly took to doing so to avoid getting taken down. They briefly censored some of the minor tags with adult content but I have other, more popular tags, avoid being locked away from view even when those tags had way more pornographic content to sfw content than the censored tags. Everything I have said so far is factual, and I have seen it happen. I am not exaggerating or lying. They’ll keep actual adults from seeing adult content (While the concern for children bypassing those restrictions is valid, outright keeping anyone from seeing adult content is ridiculous) and censor nsfw accounts but they won’t ban obvious white nationalists hurling slurs around or ban harassing stalkers even when presented with multiple points of evidence of said harassment and stalking.

Almost perfect. Despite me not being able to vote on poles (this might be a timed thing I’m not sure) It’s almost perfect. The one thing that isn’t good, it’s all the Normie‘s that are now coming. They’re going to mess up the flow of Tumblr. It’s a chaos space for chaos gremlins, yeah you can post about your life but it’s gonna be boring, Tumblr is crazy you get to meet you there. I’m glad I haven’t seen a Normie yet, i’ve had the app for months but only just today made my account which is very weird and confuses me on why I didn’t make it sooner. The One saving grace I have from being a Normie is that prior to Elon musk buying Twitter, for a good amount of time when I viewed the Tumblr it was just through the website without an account so I could barely do anything. Other than that it was through videos by OzMedia, Emkay, & Kalbus that I got to see what Tumblr was like. And from those videos I learned that it is the place I belong Edit: regarding the most recent update, I think there’s a bug going on with it because I can’t access my notifications right now. (this also might be the first time anyone sees this review because I swore I posted this review earlier last year, so there are definitely things that are out of date)