More URL niceness
- We’ve added an advanced option to give an individual post a custom URL.
If you don’t want Tumblr automatically adding a summary to your permalink URLs, you can now disable the option “Use descriptive URLs” on your Customize page.
(Disqus users: Please do not adjust this setting just yet.)
We’re also beginning to test an even nicer (!) URL format, inspired by the smart smart people at Vimeo. We’re hoping to drop the “/post/” label, and simply link to “http://www.davidslog.com/1029”. What do you think? You can check it out on Marco’s tumblelog.
Custom URLs!!! Nice. I’m happy to see Tumblr maturing so nicely as the nuts and bolts of it all just keep on evolving.
And by our, I mean mine and Tumblr’s (awww). Yes, not that anyone cares, but today indeed marks the 1 year anniversary of my becoming a Tumblr-ing enthusiast. Reading back on my first post ever, I expressed both curiosity and apprehension towards this new venture, considering the mixed feelings I’ve always had about weblogging. Then I came across a different kind of blogging: tumblelogging. I remember back then (in my day) there were about 4 000 tumblelogs. Fast forward a year later and the community has grown into the hundreds of thousands (count them yourself on the Google map…no wait, don’t). And after about 500 posts, I must say that it’s been much more fun than I had anticipated.
So whatever it is you want to call this Tumblr thingy: micro/mini blogging, virtual scrapbooking, a direct stream of consciousness, etc., it definitely feels like the best, most efficient and most user friendly way to express yourself online through an array of different mediums. I know I sound like a commercial for Tumblr, but the truth is that nothing out there in the blogosphere is more fresh, cutting edge and just plain easy on the eyes than your very own tumblelog (get yours now with 3 easy payments of nothing). So thanks for coming along on the ride and here’s to another year of posts and posts and posts and posts…
Magic Juan
After 10 months of expressing myself through Tumblr, I’ve realized that I love using Tumblr and I love tumblelogging. This particular article perfectly explains exactly why that is.
Tumblr 3.0 is here in a big way. I’m loving all the upgrades so far (the archive display, in particular).