Replies do not show up in the activity feed anymore

[nightpool]

@marcustyphoon mentioned to me that the activity feed changed how it handled replies recently, and it seems like as a side-effect of that replies no longer show up in the public API at all:

curl 'https://api.tumblr.com/v2/blog/nightpool.tumblr.com/notifications' \
  -H 'accept: application/json' \
  -H 'authorization: Bearer [redacted]' \

> GET /v2/blog/nightpool.tumblr.com/notifications HTTP/2
> Host: api.tumblr.com
> User-Agent: curl/8.4.0
> accept: application/json
> authorization: Bearer [redacted]
> 
< HTTP/2 200 
< server: nginx
< date: Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:35:15 GMT
< content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
< content-length: 35819
< vary: Accept-Encoding
< vary: Accept-Encoding
< x-rid: 844d4a776d630d37ae3552b386eec98a
< p3p: CP="Tumblr's privacy policy is available here: https://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/privacy"
< expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT
< pragma: no-cache
< cache-control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
< x-ua-compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1
< strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; preload
< alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400
< 

{
  "meta": {
    "status": 200,
    "msg": "OK"
  },
  "response": {
    "notifications": [
      {
        "type": "like",
        "timestamp": 1733443394,
        "before": 1733443394,
        "unread": false,
        "target_post_id": "769069007146991616",
        "target_post_summary": "memeiversaries: December 5th is the Feast Day of...",
        "target_tumblelog_name": "nightpool",
        "target_tumblelog_uuid": "t:CVEqXVtH4qit2A7hVNy5DA",
        "from_tumblelog_name": "titaniumelemental",
        "from_tumblelog_uuid": "t:OyMT5xnxc2j2j5r22T_zGA",
        "from_tumblelog_is_adult": false,
        "followed": false,
        "target_root_post_id": "154077623082",
        "private_channel": false,
        "target_post_type": "photo",
        "post_type": "photo",
        "media_url": "https://64.media.tumblr.com/13de9901c2f1abde08b89dd48ccfa12e/tumblr_o38ewnYUQt1u5xxmto1_75sq.jpg",
        "media_url_large": "https://64.media.tumblr.com/13de9901c2f1abde08b89dd48ccfa12e/tumblr_o38ewnYUQt1u5xxmto1_75sq.jpg",
        "reblog_key": "egm2s0wS",
        "muted": false,
        "can_mute": true,
        "id": "769071141304320000"
      },
      {
        "type": "reblog_naked",
        "timestamp": 1733442006,
        "before": 1733442006,
        "unread": false,
        "target_post_id": "769069007146991616",
        "target_post_summary": "memeiversaries: December 5th is the Feast Day of...",
        "target_tumblelog_name": "nightpool",
        "target_tumblelog_uuid": "t:CVEqXVtH4qit2A7hVNy5DA",
        "from_tumblelog_name": "jenlog",
        "from_tumblelog_uuid": "t:y9MHKN5DR_l9nP6ZRM3FOQ",
        "from_tumblelog_is_adult": false,
        "followed": false,
        "target_root_post_id": "154077623082",
        "private_channel": false,
        "target_post_type": "photo",
        "post_type": "photo",
        "media_url": "https://64.media.tumblr.com/13de9901c2f1abde08b89dd48ccfa12e/tumblr_o38ewnYUQt1u5xxmto1_75sq.jpg",
        "media_url_large": "https://64.media.tumblr.com/13de9901c2f1abde08b89dd48ccfa12e/tumblr_o38ewnYUQt1u5xxmto1_75sq.jpg",
        "reblog_key": "egm2s0wS",
        "muted": false,
        "can_mute": true,
        "post_id": "769069685697314816",
        "post_tags": [],
        "id": "769069685745565697"
      },
      {
        "type": "reblog",
        "timestamp": 1733441435,
        "before": 1733441435,
        "unread": false,
        "target_post_id": "769069007146991616",
        "target_post_summary": "memeiversaries: December 5th is the Feast Day of...",
        "target_tumblelog_name": "nightpool",
        "target_tumblelog_uuid": "t:CVEqXVtH4qit2A7hVNy5DA",
        "from_tumblelog_name": "somahind",
        "from_tumblelog_uuid": "t:gki_QotjVvBy-v6VVHEeMQ",
        "from_tumblelog_is_adult": false,
        "followed": true,
        "target_root_post_id": "154077623082",
        "private_channel": false,
        "target_post_type": "photo",
        "post_type": "photo",
        "media_url": "https://64.media.tumblr.com/13de9901c2f1abde08b89dd48ccfa12e/tumblr_o38ewnYUQt1u5xxmto1_75sq.jpg",
        "media_url_large": "https://64.media.tumblr.com/13de9901c2f1abde08b89dd48ccfa12e/tumblr_o38ewnYUQt1u5xxmto1_75sq.jpg",
        "reblog_key": "egm2s0wS",
        "muted": false,
        "can_mute": true,
        "post_id": "769069087073665024",
        "added_text": "",
        "post_tags": [
          "ten years of three names in one comment"
        ],
        "id": "769069087184846848"
      },
 ...

whoops!

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

In addition, threaded replies don't get sent in the Discord webhook for "Send new received mentions in posts and replies to Discord". Only further down a reply thread, when it starts automatically @username-ing at the top of a comment, do they come through as a "New mention received in a reply on this post".

[cyle]

thanks for the report! we're rolling out a new API spec for activity items internally (not yet ready for public), and that probably caused it to break. we've ticketed this internally for a fix. there shouldn't have been any disruption for third party clients, sorry about that!

[nikitiuk0]

Hm, I can't reproduce this on my end. I used OAuth1 via postman instead of OAuth2 for simplicity, but I don't think it matters how the request is authenticated.

curl --location 'https://api.tumblr.com/v2/blog/testtest1321.tumblr.com/notifications?oauth_consumer_key=..&oauth_token=...&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_timestamp=..&oauth_nonce=..&oauth_version=1.0&oauth_signature=..'

{
    "meta": {
        "status": 200,
        "msg": "OK"
    },
    "response": {
        "notifications": [
            {
                "type": "reply",
                "timestamp": 1733815684,
                "before": 1733815684,
                "unread": false,
                "target_post_id": "769461483149115392",
                "target_post_summary": "test post",
                "target_tumblelog_name": "testtest1321",
                "target_tumblelog_uuid": "t:AGF4tcUnbYHDSWSWKyYbFg",
                "from_tumblelog_name": "testest1123",
                "from_tumblelog_uuid": "t:QAKqeCiOiHNWAaMcg6c6rA",
                "from_tumblelog_is_adult": false,
                "followed": false,
                "target_root_post_id": null,
                "private_channel": false,
                "target_post_type": "regular",
                "post_type": "text",
                "reblog_key": "Q5NgPSPY",
                "muted": false,
                "can_mute": true,
                "reply_text": "@testtest1321 hi",
                "diff_to_previous": "@testtest1321 hi",
                "id": "769461515124457472"
            }
        ],
        "_links": {
            "next": {
                "href": "/v2/blog/testtest1321.tumblr.com/notifications?before=1733815684",
                "method": "GET",
                "query_params": {
                    "before": "1733815684"
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

[nikitiuk0]

Update: looks like the issue only affects threaded replies which are not being returned from the API, but if you are the post author you should still receive a normal reply notification from the API. We are looking into how to fix this

[nikitiuk0]

We have fixed the issue, you should now start seeing reply_to_comment notifications from the API for threaded replies