Answer: Hello, @fandomsareforlife!

Thanks for noticing! We can tell you this is just a little experiment we are working on. We’re trying to see if people seeking Communities is more useful than people seeking other individuals—you’ll find any updates over at @changes.

There are a lot of things coming for Communities. It is now in a kind of open beta with tens of thousands of participants, and we’ve been sharing roadmap updates and more in the Feedback community, for example—don’t miss it! You can find out more about this at the Help Center right here.

We hope you enjoy Communities. Thanks for your question! Keep ’em coming, folks.

Answer: Hey, @vintageweddingdresses!

As it happens, we’ve had just the same idea on this one. Great minds, and all that.

We are on the same page about categories, as you describe them here, and we want to do basically that. Same deal. Same energy. Stay tuned—with a bit of luck, it’s coming soon!

Communities is now in a kind of open beta with many tens of thousands of participants. You can find out more at the Help Center right here.

Thanks for your question! Keep 'em coming, people.

Answer: Hey there, @lunaeclipse1057-ao3!

First of all, we don’t have any real definition for being “done” with Communities! There is a long, long way to go, so we’ve been thinking in terms of milestones and releases.

We had a limited alpha release with only dozens of participants and then a closed beta with hundreds of participants—and we’re now in a kind of open beta with many tens of thousands of participants. We are still working to open the floodgates one bit at a time and get hundreds of thousands of participants.

But there are many millions of people on Tumblr. So you could say that we will consider the Communities feature released in a more official fashion, no longer “beta”, when we’ve built everything out in the native mobile apps.

There are a lot of things coming for Communities. We’ve been sharing roadmap updates and more in the Communities Feedback community, for example—the latest is here! Don’t miss it.

Thanks for your question! We are glad for your interest in Communities—we hope you like it.

Answer: Hey there, @yppngmtt!

As luck would have it, we have been experimenting with an idea just like this—which we call Collections!

We had it available as an experiment for a little while and learned a lot. Right now, it’s on the back burner as we work on Communities. But do stay tuned for more info, as we very much intend to return to this someday. And hopefully sooner rather than later.

Thanks for your question—and keep ’em coming, people.

Answer: Hi, @richardmurrayhumblr!

A great question! The short answer is that we have, as luck would have it, started opening Communities to the API. Find out more right here via @changes.

The longer answer is an even more emphatic yes—we hope to open it up as much as it can be supported. Public communities technically already have an RSS feed (because they’re shared blogs behind the scenes) but we just don’t have a friendly URL for them yet. Regarding sharing to Twitter and Facebook, we had to remove those integrations some time ago. For Discord, we are planning on using a similar set of features, like our existing Discord integration for communities.

Thanks for getting in touch here. Keep the questions coming!

Answer: Hi @darkswagamerpiratecowboyclown!

Thanks for getting in touch. The short answer is yes: we are currently testing it internally.

You can find a wealth of information here in this little preview of Communities discovery. We’ve heard loud and clear that folks want a way for other people on Tumblr to discover your communities, and we’re working on a new search results page to do exactly that.

It was lightly leaked in the Admin Zone community for admins when announcing free-to-join communities:

Updating your community to free-to-join will make it appear higher up in the discovery features we’re building! This is the best way to get your community discovered.

We hope this is good news. Plenty more to come on this, folks.

Answer: Hi, @brandycranby!

Thank you for your question here, we wonder if this might be a bug.

We will assume here that the nav bar refers to the bottom bar on the native apps. We have confirmed that Communities do not appear in the nav bar on web unless you’re part of one.

If you, or anyone else, see the Communities icon in the bottom bar, without being a member of a community, please contact Support.

Keep the questions coming, folks.

Answer: Hello there @who-needs-sleep7!

All good questions. Let us address them one at a time.

No.

Not likely. We could introduce a tab on your blog that only you can see, like Likes and Following. But we should add here that it’s unlikely we’ll add something to the community feed itself.

However, we are going to be adding your posts from your communities to your blog backup—so you could get a list of them that way.

Yes, you can do this today if you’re on web or in the latest Android app, and it’ll be coming to iOS soon—make sure you’ve updated your app!

We are working on allowing sideblogs to be invited to a community. Only one of your blogs will be able to be a member of a community at a time, however.

Finally, we can say that unfortunately there are no updates on Collections as yet—but stay tuned.

Thanks for your questions. Keep ’em coming!

Answer: Hey there, @maplerosekisses!

Your content filters should still work, yes. If they don’t, however, it’s a bug—so please let us know!

Right now, the only thing that doesn’t work the same as everywhere else if you’re a community admin or mod is blocking other users. This means that if you’re an admin or mod, you’ll still see posts and comments inside the community from people you’ve blocked—so you can moderate them. Otherwise, the filter overlays for content and tags should work exactly as you would otherwise expect.

Anything that doesn’t will probably require our attention. So file a bug report or get in touch with Support.

Thanks for your question, and have a good day!

Answer: Hi, @alessandriana!

Good news for you, here. Not only is it on the table, it’s already launched in the latest version of the Android app if you have it! It’s also coming soon to the iOS app, too. We agree—it’s extremely important. So we hope this comes as welcome news.

Thanks for your question, and keep ’em coming.

Answer: Hey, @fangirlghost-19!

You will be notified via push notification and an activity item when your community is approved. We are still processing some of them—apologies for the wait!

The reasons are purely technical, unfortunately. We want to do a lot more with secondary blogs, such as letting them send asks—we just haven’t had the time to do it. We have gotten some things done, like being able to reply as a secondary blog.

The good news is there is more to come, eventually! We have made note of your question and will have updates via the usual channels as soon as there is news to share.

Thanks for getting in touch, and have a lovely day.

Answer: Hey there @indeedjaffa!

A little answer and then a long answer. The little: Eventually, maybe!

The long: This is something we had some early ideas about, being able to follow a public community like it’s a blog (technically, it actually is a blog under the hood). To start, however, we want to focus on the experience of joining and sharing the space. We think those pieces are much more powerful than simply being able to follow a community, which you could do via a group blog today.

However, it could be an eventuality—so watch this space on this one, and you will know where to find updates should anything change on this. Thanks for your question!

Answer: Hi, @richardmurrayhumblr!

This is pretty unlikely right now.

We actually had a group chat feature a few years ago, and it didn’t work out. It doesn’t quite match what we’re trying to accomplish with Communities. It is also something we included in our first survey about what we should build next for Communities—and it didn’t score very highly.

That being said, it may make more sense to revisit this once more of the feature is built out and more people are using it. We want to create more ways to subdivide large communities, and a chat-like piece could eventually make a lot of sense.

Thanks for your question here, and watch this space.

Answer: Hi, @riverwithoutbanks!

We have good news for you. Maybe even the very best of news.

Thankfully, literally *all of those things* are on the roadmap! Every last one! So that includes muting notifications, adding admins, and joining with sideblogs—which will probably come sooner than the others. But we want to do all of what you’ve outlined above. Great minds, and all that.

Keep your eyes peeled as and when they arrive. We hope it will all be sooner rather than later, and you’ll be the first to know via the usual channels here at @wip and @changes.

Thanks for your question, and keep ’em coming.

Answer: Hello, @maplerosekisses!

There is a new “Communities” tab that gets added to the nav bar in the apps, once you’re invited to a community. Right now, however, we are intentionally limiting how many people have it because we’re still actively building it, and it’s not ready for everyone to have it yet.

It will be there for everyone someday soon, though. And we like to think this won’t be too long, which includes the mobile app too, we are glad to say. Once it is, you will be the first to know.

Thanks for your question, and keep them coming—we can’t wait to let Communities into the world!

Answer: Hello, @alexafaie!

Thanks for raising this with us—it’s a good point.

We are glad to say that we are currently working on improving that list and have recently updated it to prioritize showing your recently-followed blogs. We hope this comes as good news!

Thanks for the feedback, and have a lovely day. Keep the Communities questions coming, folks.

Answer: Hey there, @distantsobbingnoises!

We are so glad you asked. Feel clunky and discouraged no more, and hear us when we respond with a loud and proud: positive, affirmative, si, ja, oui, and yes, it's coming!

A way to request to join communities is on its way, and once we have more to share—which won’t be too long—you will be the first to know. Keep those eyes peeled, people.

Thanks for your questions. Keep ’em coming!