#blog view

Hey there,

We’ve got news. We’re introducing a new blog view experience for bluespace (dashboard, search, and explore) on web, and we’ll be rolling it out to you soon. You may have seen a sneak peek of it on @changes last week.

What’s changing, exactly?

Before, when you clicked on a blog in your dashboard, explore, or search, it opened up this drawer on the right-hand side of your screen. This didn’t work very well for smaller or wider screens, or indeed on mobile browsers:

With the new viewing experience, blogs will now unfurl in the center of your screen—giving you more space to scroll through their content (while still keeping your scroll position on the dashboard as before):

Why have we done this? What does this mean?

• These changes address a common complaint: the current sidebar blog view doesn’t utilize the overall space very well. It’s 2022, after all; screens are bigger these days.
• If you have asks open, the ask button (with its customized text, if you’ve customized it) will appear directly in your header, instead of hidden in a menu as it was before.
• Extending the width of this blog view affords us the ability to add more stuff, like a sidebar—and maybe some more customizable elements!
• Might this galvanize you to change things up and update your default blog appearance for something custom? Perhaps. After all, a bold, vibrant, and creative Tumblr is a Tumblr at its best.

What about your blog’s current customized appearance, you ask?

Don’t worry—we understand the time and love you invest in your blogs, and this change does not impact any custom blog themes. This change simply improves how your blog will appear when others view it from the dashboard, search, or explore.

Questions? Drop us a line on @wiporSupport, and keep an eye out for more changes on @changes.