#Notifications

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[wip]

Posts are too popular? Worry not. Consider your notifications covered.

Sound familiar?

Broken the internet with a post? We love that for you. What we love a little less is the barrage of likes and reblogs you have probably received. This can be a little intense. A bit much. Stressful, even. And unnecessarily so. 

If your post has gone stratospheric, but you don’t want to completely mute notifications for it, we are working on something that might just help. We are experimenting with grouping your push notifications from anyone you don’t follow into neat, occasional summaries. This will roll out to a small number of you, first as an A/B test, for a limited time.

Why are we doing this?

We hope to steady, streamline, and calm your Tumblr experience when you’re grappling with overwhelming notifications from a popular post or reblog. The goal here is to reduce overload so you can receive the notifications you care about the most—while keeping up to speed with everything else.

In July, you may remember that we turned on post-level muting on the web. We also extended muting to affect your activity feed, as well as your push notifications. This feature is the next step in managing notification overload—one that will make your devices a little more peaceful and, hopefully, work a little more proactively against the problem.

Before and after:

Feedback?

We’re all ears. Let us know what you think in the replies—we would love to hear from you. And we will be back in touch with updates on this test in the near future. 

[yourenumber1]

My very most favourite notification

💋🥰❤️

[sirdarwin]

[i-like-media]

Being a specific Classic Who Doctor fan on this website is so funny because whenever you make a post about him your will notifications look like this:

rosetylerspuccabag [Following👤] Reblogged your post | #I want to get my testosterone directly from him and no one else

amnesiacdoctorkinnie Liked your post

jamieplaystherecordertoo [Mutuals👥] Reblogged your post | #AAAAGRRRGRRGRGRAAAARGAGRGRRRRAG #BITING CLAWING BITING BITING BITING/pos #dw #second doctor #jamie mccrimmon

whatishappenning456 Liked your post

twojamiezoegangforever [Mutuals👥] Liked your post

twojamiezoegangforever [Mutuals👥] Reblogged your post | #he's such a babygirl #dw #I need to wrap my cell membrane around him and consume him this way

the-eleventh-hour Liked your post

doctordiscosbignaturals [Mutuals👥] Liked your post

doctordiscosbignaturals [Mutuals👥] Reblogged your post | #I would do unspeakable things to him

mediajorker Liked your post

2blowsmyflute [Following👤] Liked your post

2blowsmyflute [Following👤] Reblogged your post | #im gonna headcanon based on this clip the doctor has three balls

[lavarend]

Alright tumblr. Place your bets. (keep in mind this is after checking my notifs several times today already.)

[lafemani]

me removing the notification while showing a video to my mum

[sharklovespink]

Heyy guyysss (*´∀`)♪

Quick note for the next few weeks!

I have fall break! So my posts will be coming a little slower :3

HE IS SO ME (● ˃̶͈̀ロ˂̶͈́)੭ꠥ⁾⁾

[yourlovelyspace]

Or am I the only one? 💝

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[silliestrami]

i just wanted to check tumblr..

WHAT IS THIS MADNESS?… WHY DID I HAVE 99+ NOTIFICATIONS FOR THIS DRAWING?… CALM DOWN ITS JUST A SILLY DRAWING I MADE..

[wip]

hey, it is very time consuming to look at notifications and have to click into so many of the text post ones because there's no detail at all for what it actually says most of the time.

what decides whether a text post has some of its text shown in the notification tab? why do other posts exclude any preview text altogether? are there plans to change this?

personally, I would love an optional toggle that gives me more verbose notifications. i want to know what text posts people are interacting with, without having to open literally every single one to find out! I don't care if it would look a bit cluttered, i 100% would rather be able to tell exactly what post every notification is for at just a glance.

Answer: Hello there @cinna-bunnie!

Great question. We try to summarize posts for notifications in a variety of ways, but we have limited space in the current notifications space, so we try to optimize it as best as we can. There is always room for improvement, though, so if you find specific posts that seem like they are missing a text summary that should be there, please feel free to send them to us in a Support ticket, and we’ll take a look! There may be a bug here we can fix.

It is unlikely that we’ll make our notifications longer or more verbose, even as a toggle, because we’d have to store even more redundant data in the notification. Ultimately, we want activity and notifications to be quick and easy to parse through, which typically means small and concise.

Thanks for getting in touch, and keep ’em coming, folks!

[ice-and-fires-blog]

Is to much..

In the past few weeks, Netflix and Wednesday have given us not one or two, but so many things to talk about... I'm not mad.

Bt trying to keep up is really hard, especially when I'm working, my notifications are going crazy, and trying to check my notifications as well as trying to do my actual job, Lord, is getting out of hand!

[thelittleruby]

if you spam my notifs. what’s going on?

what you trying to do huh?

you trying to kiss me? is that what you want?

you think you’re so hot and want me to pay attention to you?

okay, hi :3

[yago-undertale]

OMG I REACH 80 FOLLOWERS PAST NIGHT (and a trully spam of likes who made me blush fr)

I wanna say thanks for @anetdummy and @iittleperson who did me reach the 80 followers heh

(who its now 84-)

and broke my notifs with that spam of likes heehe

Pay attention in ur inboxes hehe

Soon u guys will receive something