Tumblr Update Info For Gifmakers/Content Creators
I havenât seen anyone make a post about this, so I figured Iâd do it, as Iâve 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 adaptedâolder 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 donât 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 wouldnât 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 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: 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.
Iâve also taken to using a not followed by anyone 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.
Iâll add more if I come across anything else that may be useful for fandom/gifmakers.
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