Once again, it was Hack Day at Tumblr, our favorite excuse to pause the roadmap for a moment and build something weird, useful, or ideally both. Here is a sneak peek of what the team built.Unified Inbox@ex, @kostastsi4 and @alexjf worked on making Asks and Submissions easier to find in the apps, moving your Inbox (currently buried in blog settings) to a tab in the Activity screen, where all your other incoming communication lives.Gifs in repliesIn @elt’s opinion, replies could use some spicing up. So he spent Hack Day adding GIF support to replies. Neat! Fun fact: reply threads themselves…
Hack days are when our team gets to step away from the regular roadmap and work on whatever ideas they so desire. Here’s a taste of what came out of it:Advanced SearchWe added advanced search operators in a previous Hack Day. This time, @lesianlen added an exclusion operator to exclude posts that contain a specific word, phrase, or tag. @ex and @blowery helped out to add a spiffy modal that shows exactly how you can use all available advanced search operators. Search in CommunitiesSpeaking of search, @lesianlen also worked on adding search within individual Communities to find posts and…
Once again it was Hack Day at Tumblr! You’ve probably seen one of these posts before. A couple of times per year we slow down our normal work and spend a day working on scratching a personal itch or features we want as user and see how far we can get with our hacks. One thing from the last Hack Week in January made it out: new default blog avatars!Here are some of the projects that got built for our most recent Hack Day in September. Some of these things you may also end up seeing on the site… and one of them isn’t included here because it’ll likely be a fun Halloween surprise. 👻Advanced…
Once again it was Hack Week (more than just a day!) at Tumblr! This is getting repetitive in the best way. A couple of times per year we slow down our normal work and spend a week working on scratching a personal itch or features we want as user and see how far we can get with our hacks. One thing from the last Hack Week in September made it all the way to a new experiment out to some testers: Tumblr Patio!Here are some of the projects that got built for our most recent Hack Week in January. Some of these things you may also end up seeing on the site…Spoiler text, spoiler blocks, and centered…
Once again it was Hack Week (more than just a day!) at Tumblr! A couple of times per year we slow down our normal work and spend a week working on scratching a personal itch or features we want as user and see how far we can get with our hacks. One thing from the last Hack Day in March made it all the way to production: redesigning how direct messaging looks on Tumblr! Pretty cool!Here are some of the projects that got made for this most recent Hack Week in September. Some of these things you may also end up seeing on the site…Tumblr PatioMaybe this will look familiar to you, but we love this…
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