staff:

We just rolled out some enhancements to the Dashboard!

Tumblr released a new version of some of the behinds the scenes functionality of the service, with this enigmatic collection of images.

But I found out by not being able to figure out how to get at my ‘customize blog’ capabilities.

‘Customize’ still appears on the blog main page if you are logged in, but only on the main blog of your account. As before, if you are logged in and looking at  the main page of a secondary blog — like worktalk.ly, in my case — the customize option is still not shown.

But today, I wanted to update the ‘what’s hot’ list on stoweboyd.com, so I went to the dash board and — no customize blog options. 

What I see now is a new dashboard, where there is a selector to pick which blog you are looking at:

Here you see that I am looking at information relative to stoweboyd.com, including the blog stats.

If I want to mess with the blog’s setting I can select the gear icon at the top, and I see this:

And you can see that ‘customize’ is a box midway down the panel. Once you click that you are back to the same old customize screen for the blog.

I wondered if their Help had kept up with this change, and, as usual, it hasn’t. So if anyone confronted with this reworking of the user experience hoped to get guidance as to where the damn ‘customize’ button had gotten to from Help, they would have found bupkis about it.

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