Tumblr Update Info For Gifmakers/Content Creators
I haven’t seen anyone make a post about this, so I figured I’d do it, as I’ve noticed a few things regarding the new update that will be helpful for gifmakers to be aware of.
Tags after the first five show up in the tumblr.com/tagged/ pages (on posts made after the update was adopted–older posts do not seem to reflect this).
I do not know how many tags out it works for (I know it at least goes out to 20)
Please don’t abuse this by tagging non-related things in order to get notes. (If you run a fandom blog, consider blacklisting users who spam tag to discourage the behavior if it starts to crop up.)
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You can now post MORE than 3 posts in a certain amount of time to a tag without your earlier posts disappearing.
I did have an instance where for a time one post wouldn’t appear in one of the tags I used, but did appear in all the others, then eventually appeared in the tag in question after some time. I would recommend not posting in quick succession to avoid the algorithm thinking it is spam, but I do not know if this was a glitch in my case, or something that others may experience.
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Much like previous Tumblr updates regarding the tumblr.com/search/ pages, links are now limited on tumblr.com/tagged/ pages as well.
Linking within tumblr works if you link directly to a blog or a post, but linking a tag of a blog [ETA: or a custom page (navigation, icons, resource page etc)] causes the post to not show up
Outside links seem to be limited to certain sites (Instagram and Youtube allow your post to show up, while twitter does not. I do not know about other sites.) (ETA: AO3, Google Drive, & DeviantArt do seem to work, but MEGA, MediaFire, & other resource uploading sites may not work.)
ETA: pre-update posts are affected by this as well, so if you want some of your old work to show up if it has an unallowable link, you’ll have to unlink it.
ETA: putting other links in the source (three dots in top right of new posts) should work just fine as well
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Some gifs may cause your post to not show up in the search, the tags, or the dashboard. I cannot say for certain what the criteria for this shadow-ban is, but the few times it has happened to me they have been gifs with gore/body horror (within the context of violence on a TV show)
As for a solution to this, making the image B&W or limiting the frames showcasing the graphic image might allow it to bypass the shadow-ban.
I’ve also taken to using a not followed by anyone blog to upload and post the gifs to a not tracked tag to make sure the gifs will post if I suspect the one may possibly be shadow-banned.
I’ll add more if I come across anything else that may be useful for fandom/gifmakers.