Updating Tumblr on the Web
We posted an update about this back in April, and now as of July 1st, it’s really, really here, for everyone: the old dashboard has been replaced with our brand new web experience on desktop. This has been a very long time in the making, and the primary reason behind it is to make the desktop web experience of Tumblr easier to maintain and build on top of.
We’re continuing to improve the experience of using Tumblr on the web with some new features, some of which were formerly a part of XKit and other third party extensions:
- Color Palettes are now available to change the whole look of the site, just use the “Change Palette” option by clicking on the silhouette icon at the top right.
- Viewing tags used in reblogs is now available in the notes view on every post.
- You can now filter posts by their text content, not just by tags.
- Timestamps are available by hovering over the “fold” at the top right of any post, or now also available by clicking on the meatballs menu at the top right of any post. There are a lot of new options in there, too!
- The dashboard now soft refreshes by default, so you don’t have to press that browser button to see the latest content.
- Audio in audio posts can now “pop out” so you can see it while you scroll your dashboard.
- There’s now a CSS map, API access helper, and more, available to third party extension developers. Keep an eye on this repository!
One piece of feedback we heard a lot was allowing pagination by changing the URL of the dashboard, and that’s something we plan to support. Thank you again for all of the insightful feedback about the new web experience, keep it coming!
Heads up! If you have endless scrolling disabled on desktop, you should now see the URL update on your likes page, drafts page, and dashboard, as you paginate.
(via unwrapping)
