TUMBLR JUST KILLED LINKS

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Yes, you read it right.

As of today, November 17, 2018, any post with links, any links, even to other tumblr posts, just don’t show up anymore in tumblr’s search engine.

I just found out about it, after I posted a fic with a link to my masterlist and it got little to no notes (it shuldn’t). I was right – the moment I deleted the links, my post magically appeared in the search again. Wow.

Please spread the word to warn the others.

i don’t…..know if this is true. OP doesn’t elaborate too much so i’m not sure exactly what’s happening but anyway…

 i never use the “search” feature because in general i find it clunky so i can’t really speak to that, but posts with links in them do appear to show up if you search for TAGS. (as in /tagged/[your tag here]).

i’ve been posting gifsets with links in them all day and they all show up under the tags i tagged them with, so….if they’re not showing up under SEARCH that maybe sucks but people can still see them if they’re checking tags.

or maybe this was just a bug that happened earlier today but yeah.

“OP didn’t elaborate” because I was sleeping.

Second, just like every glitch, this one may not affect everyone the same way. I used text posts 99% of the time. I also included links to my other tumblr posts in them – and then yesterday evening I noticed that my posts don’t show up when I searched for them through the tags.

But when I removed the links, my posts could be found again. I’m currently waiting for staff to reply to my message – before that happens I don’t have any new info.

UPDATE November 18th: looks like this may be just a glitch, but so far, staff didn’t reply to my mesage, so i don’t know much.

I’ve also noticed that the majority of people is experiencing the same problem as me but there are still people unaffected. I don’t know how this glitch works. Everyone must go check it for themselves – just create a post with a link to another one of your posts, tag it, and then try to find it through the tags.

UPDATE: I don’t know how much simpler I can make this: yes, the external links have been a problem for a long time.

But right now, I’m talking about the INTERNAL LINKS. I mean the links to other tumblr posts. I’ve already said this in the second sentence of my original post.

EDIT: And yes, just as every glitch, it does not affect everyone. You may not be affected, but from what I can see, the majority of people experience this glitch.

UPDATE FROM STAFF:

I guess it means thay acknowledged the bug. We’ll see if they can fix this.

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LAST UPDATE: I’ve just checked, and it looks like some of the posts with internal links can be found again. Idk if the staff will work on this glitch any further, but at least some of the issues are fixed now.