Another idea: Communities on Tumblr

For a while now folks have asked us for better ways to connect with other people who share similar interests. We’re listening, and at Labs we’ve been looking into fulfilling that need, Tumblr style.

Introducing Communities, a new place to connect with others on Tumblr:

Here in Labs, we’re working on big ideas that could transform how Tumblr is used, while keeping that Tumblr vibe alive. You can see one of those ideas above. We’re calling it “Communities”, a new dedicated space on Tumblr for people to share and discuss all the content they love. Communities can cover topics like your favorite show, artist, movie, video game, your school, your board game group, friend group, big or small, whatever you want.

Each Community has their own semi-private safer space away from the regular dashboard where you can interact with other Tumblr users who share the same interests and passions as you. There are moderators and members (you!), rules, and privacy settings. Each community has its own feed of posts from members, separate from your Following and For You feeds. Interactions within community spaces stay there and replies will work more like a traditional comment section. Folks will be able to reblog posts into a community, but not out — at least not yet.

We’re very excited for you to try it, and help define the best path forward. What we have is a prototype to help us validate the idea, but there’s still plenty of questions that need answering. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be reaching out to people across Tumblr, and the internet at large, to try our prototype. Based on the feedback we get, we’ll iterate on the idea to see what resonates best with all of you on Tumblr.

If this sounds interesting, please like, reblog, or reply to this post, and we’ll invite you to beta test this feature when we roll it out to a wider Tumblr audience, as a little perk for following the Labs blog.

Stay tuned for more!

#staff #tumblr staff #tumblr updates #tumblr labs #tumblr communities #communities #fandom #(Low SHRIEKS Into Void...)#(oK ON ONE HAND)#(I WAS Ready To Flip Things Into The Sun because wow sudden Tumblr updates I was Not expecting this is kind of out of nowhere???)#(oN THE OTHER HAND)#('INTERACTIONS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY SPACE STAY THERE')#(BECAUSE OK)#(I was about to think this would Not Go Well in Many Spaces)#(but IF Reblogging OUT cant happen)#(That essentially IS like a Friends locked Livejournal community)#(Just not Technically as private but CLOSE)#(THIS COULD BE GOOD)#(THIS IS What Tumblr SHOULD HAVE for main blogs TOO BESIDES JUST the {Wholly} 'PRIVATE BLOG' feature BUT)#(IF THIS IS SUCCESSFUL.....)#(AND posts DONT '''break Containment''' nearly as often..... {I still remember when that kind of phrasing didnt even EXIST but})#(Hi I am Interested)#(Not necessarily as RUNNING one but like contributing to others)#really wish i could use my main blog like a friends locked LJ blog again {Where People ARE} but HOPEFULLY that could someday be Next????#would be great if tumblr could fix video player issues too as well as uploading anything longer than 40~ seconds with the new uploader #because it still glitches on me a lot and I WOULD post videos like this TO communities but WE NEED IT WORKING WELL TUMBLR--#(I agree with some other comments Ive seen that it HIGHLY depends on mods around&how well they can actually moderate but)#(back when I was in comms on LJ+DW I was able to communicate&post fanworks to {most of} those FINE so y EAH THIS.. COULD BE GOOD)#im also really tired of people stealing my gifs to repost and This would instead KEEP THEM IN those comms PART of time #(Mainly I was really unnerved by many accessibility features being taken away but like THIS IS how Tumblr SHOULD BE Making stuff accessible