1. 1

   Create your account

   Head to Sign up with an email, a username, and a password. Your username becomes your blog address, so pick one you like — it is what people see.

2. 2

   Confirm you are 18+

   Torrid is an adult site. The age gate appears once per device before you can browse.

3. 3

   Verify your email

   We send a verification link when you register. Until you click it some features stay locked. Lost it? Use Forgot password to trigger a fresh mail.

4. 4

   Set up your blog

   In Settings add a title, description, and avatar under Profile, then pick colours and a font under Theme.

5. 5

   Make something

   Hit + Post in the top bar, or read Making posts first.

Press + Post anywhere in the app to open the editor. Pick a type first — it changes which fields you get.

T — Text

A title and a body. The everyday post.

🖼 Photo

Upload an image with a caption. You can rotate it before posting.

❝ Quote

A quote plus its source.

🔗 Link

A URL with a title and description.

💬 Chat

Back-and-forth dialogue lines.

♪ Audio

An audio file with a title.

▶ Video

A video with a caption.

Text bodies and photo or video captions come with a formatting bar: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, links, bulleted and numbered lists, and quotes. Tx clears the formatting off whatever you have selected.

• •Links — select the words you want to link, press 🔗 (or Ctrl/⌘ + K), and type the address. With nothing selected, the address goes in as the link itself. Leave off the https:// if you like — example.com/page works.
• •Shortcuts — Ctrl/⌘ + B, I and U for bold, italic and underline. Enter starts a new paragraph, Shift + Enter a new line inside the same one.
• •Pasting — text pasted from elsewhere keeps its bold, links and lists, and drops the other site's fonts and colours so it still reads as yours.

Before you publish, three controls are worth knowing:

• •Content warning — a short label shown in place of the post until a reader clicks through.
• •Mutuals only — restricts the post to blogs you and they follow each other. See Privacy & safety.
• •Tags — how people find you. Tags drive Search and Discover, so use real words.

You do not have to publish straight away. Every post can be saved as a draft, added to your queue, or scheduled for a specific time — see Drafts, queue & scheduling.

Accepted files

jpg, jpeg, png, gif, webp, mp4, webm, mp3, m4a

Maximum size

100 MB per file

Home

Posts from every blog you follow, newest first. Pull down on mobile to refresh.

Discover

A masonry wall of posts from blogs you do not follow yet, weighted towards tags you already like. Like a few things and it sharpens up fast.

Search

Free-text search across post content and tags.

Tag pages

Click any tag to see everything posted under it.

• •Like — a quiet thumbs-up. Likes also teach Discover what to show you.
• •Reblog — puts the post on your own blog. Choose plain Reblog, Reblog with edit to add your own commentary, or send it straight to your queue.
• •Reply — threaded comments that stay on the original post. Replies can be liked too.

Open the notes on any post to see its full history — every like, reblog, and threaded reply in one modal.

Reblogs keep the trail intact, so you can always follow a post back to whoever posted it first.

• •Follow or unfollow from any blog page, and manage everyone you follow in Settings → Following.
• •Your public blog lives at torrid.blog/yourname, with your own colours and font from Settings → Theme.
• •Tap the followers count on your blog to see who follows you — and to remove a follower if you need to.
• •Mutuals are blogs where you follow each other. They are the audience for mutuals-only posts.

Asks are public questions. Send one from any blog page, signed or anonymous. Answering turns the ask into a post on your own blog.

Your unanswered asks collect in Asks, where you can answer inline. Turn asks (and anonymous asks) on or off in Settings → Asks.

Messages are private, one-to-one, and support image attachments. Find them in Messages.

Notifications arrive in real time — new likes, reblogs, replies, follows, asks, and messages all land there, and the top bar badges update as they come in.

Everything you have not published yet lives in Drafts, split across three tabs.

Drafts

Saved but unpublished. No timer — publish whenever you like.

Queue

A stack that drips out automatically at a rate you choose.

Scheduled

Posts with a specific date and time set for publication.

Setting up your queue:

1. 1

   Add posts to the queue

   In the editor choose Add to queue instead of publishing, or use Reblog to queue on someone else's post.

2. 2

   Open the Queue tab

   Go to Drafts → Queue to see everything waiting.

3. 3

   Pick a rate

   Set how many posts per day should go out. Torrid spreads them through the day for you.

4. 4

   Reorder or shuffle

   Move posts up and down by hand, or shuffle the whole queue for a random order.

5. 5

   Pause when you need to

   Pausing holds everything in place without losing your order. Unpause to resume.

Bulk upload takes many files at once and makes a post from each — ideal for a photoset backlog or an archive you exported from somewhere else.

1. 1

   Open the uploader

   Go to /upload.

2. 2

   Add your files

   Drag them onto the drop zone, or click to browse. Images, video, and audio are all accepted.

3. 3

   Set shared tags

   Comma-separated, applied to every post in the batch. You can always edit individual posts afterwards.

4. 4

   Choose where they land

   Publish immediately, save as drafts, or add to your queue. For a big batch, the queue is kinder to your followers than posting all at once.

5. 5

   Add a content warning if needed

   Optional, and applied to the whole batch.

The importer copies your Tumblr blog into Torrid: images are pulled into Torrid's own storage (so they keep working even if the originals disappear), tags come with them, and posts keep their original dates. It runs in the background — start it and walk away.

Step 1 — get a Tumblr API key. The importer reads your blog through Tumblr's public API, which needs a key of your own. It is free and takes a minute.

1. 1

   Open Tumblr's application page

   Go to tumblr.com/oauth/apps and click Register application.

2. 2

   Fill in the form

   Name, website, and callback URL can be anything — none of it is used. https://torrid.blog works fine for the URL fields.

3. 3

   Copy your OAuth Consumer Key

   That is the long string you need. Ignore the secret — the importer never asks for it.

Step 2 — start the import.

1. 1

   Open the importer

   Go to Settings → Import from Tumblr.

2. 2

   Enter your blog name

   Just the name — for yourblog.tumblr.com, type yourblog.

3. 3

   Paste your OAuth Consumer Key

   The key from step 1.

4. 4

   Choose your options

   The four toggles are explained below. The defaults suit most people.

5. 5

   Press Start import

   A progress bar shows posts done and images copied. You can close the tab — it keeps running.

The four options:

Include reblogs

Off by default, so you get only your original posts. Turn it on to bring across things you reblogged too — this can multiply the size of the import considerably.

Publish posts with images

On by default. Image posts go live immediately; text-only posts arrive as drafts so you can review them first.

Mark as sensitive

On by default. Flags imported posts NSFW and adds a “sensitive” tag. Leave it on unless you are certain the whole blog is safe for work — it is far easier to unflag later than to un-post.

Keep original dates

On by default, so your archive slots into the timeline where it belongs instead of dumping years of posts onto your followers' dashboards at once.

While it runs. Progress updates every few seconds with a post count and an image count. Press Cancel at any point to stop — posts already imported stay put, so cancelling is safe. Large blogs take a while; the importer is deliberately rate-limited so it never slows the rest of Torrid down.

If it fails. The status turns to failed with a message. The usual causes are a mistyped blog name, a key that was copied incompletely, or a private/password-protected Tumblr blog — the public API cannot read those. Fix the detail and start again; already-imported posts are not duplicated.

Torrid is an adult platform and NSFW work is welcome — the rule is simply that it gets tagged so people can choose.

• •Sensitive posts are blurred until you opt in. The first time you meet one, Torrid asks whether you want to see sensitive content at all.
• •Content warnings are different: a short label you write yourself, hiding the post behind a click for anyone who has not opted in.

Both are controlled in Settings → Privacy:

Show sensitive content

Stops NSFW-tagged posts being blurred.

Reveal content warnings

Shows posts behind a content warning without clicking through.

Mutuals-only posts. Tick Mutuals only in the editor and the post is visible only to blogs you and they follow each other. Everyone else will not see it at all.

Three levels of not-seeing-someone, all managed in Settings → Privacy:

Snooze

Temporarily hides a blog from your feeds. Nothing is lost and they are never told.

Mute

Hides their posts indefinitely while you stay connected. Quiet and reversible.

Block

Cuts the connection in both directions — the strongest option.

Muting tags works the same way for subjects rather than people. Mute a tag in Settings → Tags and posts carrying it drop out of Discover.

Reporting. Every post has a report button, and blog pages have one too. Reports go to the moderation queue with whatever context you add. Use it for anything that breaks the rules rather than merely annoys you — blocking is the better tool for the latter.

Profile

Blog title, description, and avatar.

Theme

Colours and font for your public blog page.

Password

Change your password.

Asks

Turn asks on or off, and allow or refuse anonymous ones.

Following

Everyone you follow, with quick unfollow.

Privacy

Sensitive content, content warnings, and your blocked, muted, and snoozed lists.

Tags

Mute or boost tags to shape Discover.

Forgotten your password? Request a reset from Forgot password. The link is valid for one hour.

Why is my Discover feed so random?

It has nothing to go on until you like some posts. Like a handful of things you genuinely enjoy and it settles down quickly.

Can I change my username?

Your username is your blog address, so it is fixed once you register. Your display title, description, and avatar can all be changed freely in Profile.

Where did my imported text posts go?

Unless you turned off Publish posts with images, text-only imports arrive as drafts on purpose so you can review them. Look in Drafts.

My queue is not posting.

Check it is not paused, and that posts-per-day is above zero, in Drafts → Queue.

Can I delete a post after publishing?

Yes — use the delete button on your own post. It comes off your blog straight away, so check twice before you confirm.

An image is not loading.

Refresh first, as it is usually transient. If it persists, report the post so an admin can look at the stored file.

Does Torrid cost anything?

No. It is run by one person and paid for out of pocket — the coffee link in the menu is the whole business model.