Tumblr Comes Through
December 4th, 2008Shortly after I blogged about the shortcomings of Tumblr’s API, Marco Arment of Tumblr commented on the post and expressed his sincere desire to set things right.
We got to chatting almost immediately, and the results were stunning. Marco made a round of changes in Tumblr as I experimented with the new features via MarsEdit. In the end, Marco was able to fix all of the critical shortcomings in the blog service’s interface, and added some additional goodies to boot.
Today, Marco made the revisions public, as announced on the Tumblr staff blog. I’m sure I’ll find suggestions and requests to pass along in the future, but the Tumblr API is now capable of providing a great user experience from desktop applications such as MarsEdit.
Which begs the question, when will MarsEdit be taking advantage of these new frills? I am making it a priority to release an update to MarsEdit as soon as possible with basic text entry support for Tumblr. I adjusted my feature planning a bit because I know how excited Tumblr users are to get their hands on something soon.
I expect MarsEdit 2.3 to feature this initial Tumblr support, and I’ll be working to get that released as soon as possible.
December 4th, 2008 at 6:32 am
This is great news, Daniel, and I look forward to Tumbling with MarsEdit! Thanks for this.
December 4th, 2008 at 10:20 am
This is the one thing I’ve been waiting to buy MarsEdit for (well, when there’s Tumblr picture posting)! Yahoo!
December 4th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
I am a MarsEdit user and was one of the ones to request Tumblr support. Many things to Daniel Jalkut for his persistence on this and to Marco Arment and the Tumblr team for adding the crucial API support.
I, for one, had asked that MarsEdit simply get text posting support to begin with.
Here is how key MarsEdit is to me as a blogger… I am part of a couple group blogs as well as having my own personal blog. It took a little while for me to realize but this is the reality: Those blogs that I can post on using MarsEdit gets posts from me, those that I can’t post on with MarsEdit pretty much don’t.
December 4th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Finally! Awesome! Really looking forward to this… :)
December 5th, 2008 at 10:55 am
It’s ironic. On Tuesday, December 2, I began migrating my Tumblr blog over to a WordPress blog, mainly because of my need for MarsEdit support. I’ll probably continue the move, but I wish Tumblr well, and hope my feedback to them was helpful in their decision to support the APIs MarsEdit needs. Of course I’ll use MarsEdit more than ever, now that it works with all my blogs!
(All your blogs are belong to MarsEdit:-)
December 6th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Looking forward to the new version. I play with my tumblelog on and off and having MarsEdit support helps even as I try find a place for my tumblelog in the overall scheme of things.
December 8th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Is there online documentation on the updated API available?
December 8th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
kristof: the main Tumblr API documentation page is up to date with the new API changes:
http://www.tumblr.com/docs/api
December 19th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Is there any release information about MarsEdit 2.3? I know usually there isn’t much information until the release but I was wondering if there is any timeframe for the release. Thank you.
December 21st, 2008 at 3:43 am
Hi John – I don’t have a specific time frame to share. Actually, the development of 2.3 is representative of the exact reason I’m usually hesitant to share publicly the plans I have. I have made a lot of progress with Tumblr support, but in a private beta testing phase some users noticed some serious shortcomings that I’d like to address before I release it publicly.
So … the answer is … as soon as I can. :) I’m still planning to include Tumblr support in 2.3, so you can probably imagine that it won’t be TERRIBLY long.
Daniel
January 6th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
Great news! Looking forward to tumblr support in MarsEdit. Kudos to you and Marco for turning what could have been a bad thing into a good thing.