Less Broken Than You Think
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We’ve received a number of reports that the Blacklist extension was not able to search post content after the advent of the New Design. We’ve released an update with Blacklist 2.7.6 which should resolve these issues and correctly register blocked words in posts again.
This update should roll out to all XKit users shortly, but if you’re impatient, you can manually update using the control in the “Other” tab in XKit preferences.
As always, feel free to let us know about any issues in our support chat or on Github.
We pushed an update for a bunch of extensions earlier, fixing the issues with AlreadyReblogged and PostBlock being broken due to a change in naming on Tumblr’s side (data-root-id -> data-root_id)
You can either wait for the extensions to update automatically or manually update under the Other tab in your XKit Control Panel!
Hey, all! This announcement is just to let you know that we’re aware of a bug with Editable Reblogs causing posts to disappear if an image is included using the “camera” button on a new line. This seems to once again be rooted in Tumblr’s rather brittle parsing strategy; we hope to have a fix ready by sometime tomorrow.
In the meantime, one workaround that seems to be effective is dragging and dropping images directly into the post.
Updates on this bug can be found at https://github.com/new-xkit/XKit/issues/523.
As always, feel free to contact us with any questions.
A week late, but here goes!
Upcoming Changes
thanks for sticking with us!
tumblr code is hard and frustrating and unfortunately neither of the people testing it tend to use the HTML editor by default. thanks for putting up with our flubs while we try to keep your posts sane <3
anyway, both the Rich Text and HTML editors are now in tip-top condition. make sure that you’re on Editable Reblogs 2.1.2. versions before that will not work properly.
you can update Editable Reblogs early (before it gets updated automatically by XKit) in the XKit menu.
as always, let us know if you have any issues: either in our support chat or on github.
We have gotten lots of reports that, even if you are using Rich Text as your default post editor, it still says Invalid Editor type.
The message looks like this
Worry not, as we are already working on a fix for this error, as well as the HTML reblog problems that cause it to happen in the first place.
Until the update is out we strongly advise that you disable Editable Reblogs
Editable Reblogs v2.1.0 has just been released. This should resolve the issues mentioned in our previous post regarding Tumblr parsing changes which rendered ER posts invisible on the dash because it did not recognize the text as representing reblogs.
This update should resolve issues for anyone using the Rich Text editor or HTML editor as their default. In other words it should no longer require any manual changes by the user and you should just be able to hit the post button as normal. As always, if you’re having problems come to our live chat or stop by our askbox or github issues page
After updating to the new extension, you can also fix your old posts. First, find the post on your posts page, then click the edit button. Finally, confirm that the post looks correct and press submit. The post should automatically update to display correctly. If it doesn’t, drop us a line.
Happy Tumbling!
(Side note, there’s a small catch to all of this: Those using the Markdown editor will currently have problems using Editable Reblogs for now, although we hope to resolve this soon. In the meantime, switch to using the Rich Text or HTML editor by default)
EDIT: Should be deployed now, sorry everyone. These changes can be found in version 2.1.0 of Editable Reblogs—make sure you’re on that version before reporting any issues.
okay we’re super sorry, but it looks like we pushed out HTML editor support before it was done, and we’re going to have to roll it back for now until we can get all the bugs worked out.
If you’re having problems such as your post content being replaced by “<p><br></p>” or other weirdness, please try switching your default editor.
As always, thanks for your patience while we try to sort this stuff out.
Editable Reblogs v2.1.0 has just been released. This should resolve the issues mentioned in our previous post regarding Tumblr parsing changes which rendered ER posts invisible on the dash because it did not recognize the text as representing reblogs.
This update should resolve issues for anyone using the Rich Text editor or HTML editor as their default. In other words it should no longer require any manual changes by the user and you should just be able to hit the post button as normal. As always, if you’re having problems come to our live chat or stop by our askbox or github issues page
After updating to the new extension, you can also fix your old posts. First, find the post on your posts page, then click the edit button. Finally, confirm that the post looks correct and press submit. The post should automatically update to display correctly. If it doesn’t, drop us a line.
Happy Tumbling!
(Side note, there’s a small catch to all of this: Those using the Markdown editor will currently have problems using Editable Reblogs for now, although we hope to resolve this soon. In the meantime, switch to using the Rich Text or HTML editor by default)
EDIT: Should be deployed now, sorry everyone. These changes can be found in version 2.1.0 of Editable Reblogs—make sure you’re on that version before reporting any issues.
It recently came to our attention that entire reblog sections of posts just disappear when viewed on the dash. We traced the issue back to tumblr changing their reblog chain detection yet once again and are currently working on adding a fix to Editable Reblogs to automatically clean this up.
In the meantime we have found a workaround for already affected posts:
Go to the HTML editor and to every link in the reblog chain add
class=‘tumblr_blog’
with SINGLE QUOTES.
Be sure to use single quotes (apostrophes), as Tumblr’s parsing will strip the class out if it has double quotes.
Again, we are working on an Editable Reblogs update shortly which will do this automatically.
Wow. We’re really bad at keeping this up. Hope to do it every Friday from now on.
Upcoming changes
We know that the dashboard update isn’t liked by everyone. We’re currently working on an extension that allows various changes to how reblogs are shown, including but not limited to decreasing the margin in replies and going back to the “old” blockquote look. When this will be released is unknown (we’re working hard on it), so wait comfortably with the idea of a fix coming soon™.
Now with link to track this feature: https://github.com/new-xkit/XKit/pull/446
We know that the dashboard update isn’t liked by everyone. We’re currently working on an extension that allows various changes to how reblogs are shown, including but not limited to decreasing the margin in replies and going back to the “old” blockquote look. When this will be released is unknown (we’re working hard on it), so wait comfortably with the idea of a fix coming soon™.
We have located a solution for those people who have the Editable Reblogs extension installed on New XKit on Firefox, but were having trouble updating it from 1.0.9 to 2.0.0 (now 2.0.1).
It is likely, if you were encountering this problem, that you are running on one of the 7.6.x versions of New XKit, and Firefox has not auto-updated you to 7.7.0 because the extension is unsigned (we’re working on this but it’s a separate issue).
Note: If you are on 7.5.x or below, you are on the old XKit which we do not support, and need to uninstall it completely and install the extension from the link below instead.
What you will need to do is manually update to 7.7.0 by going to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-xkit/ and clicking “Add To Firefox” – this will install 7.7.0 over your existing copy of New XKit and will maintain all your existing settings. After it is installed, you may need to close and reopen your browser to get XKit to work again.
Once you’re on 7.7.0 of the main New XKit extension, open your XKit control panel, navigate to the Editable Reblogs control panel, click Update, and confirm that you have updated to version 2.0.1!
We are still looking into why Editable Reblogs isn’t updating for some Firefox users. However, in response to a few other Firefox issues we have been fielding in our support chat, we would like to issue a reminder to anyone who is having issues with running XKit on Firefox:
Be sure you are not using Private Browsing. New-Xkit is not submitted to Firefox’s app store in a way which allows this and will only work in non-private mode, regardless of how old XKit worked.
As always, feel free to contact us with any questions. Thanks!
We do not have any control over the XKit App so we can’t tell
Yes, that’s how it works. Disabling the old xkit suffices as well
Just as a heads-up – we are experiencing reports of people having trouble force-updating to the most recent version of Editable Reblogs (and possibly other extensions) in Firefox. We’re still trying to nail down what would cause this and will hopefully have a fix soon.
To be clear: if you have version 2.0.0 or newer, you’re fine. This is for people who are still stuck on 1.0.9. If you’re not sure, try updating all of your extensions from the XKit Menu (under “Other”) before doing anything else—you just may not have gotten the update yet.
In the meantime – updating definitely works on Chrome, and some people have had luck with a full uninstall and reinstall of XKit from their browsers to bring things up to date. (You can find a guide for saving your settings to XCloud at http://new-xkit-extension.tumblr.com/post/126630096169/how-the-fuck-do-i-use-xcloud-a-troubleshooting).
We will update further on this situation when we know more.
Thanks!
(Additionally, if you are on 2.0.0., please make sure that you uninstall the temporary greasemonkey script that was floating around—I have no idea how they’re going to interact)
In response to Tumblr’s formatting updates, we have made some modifications to EditableReblogs to allow continued editing of content above your additions to a post.
PLEASE NOTE!!! This extension does NOT modify how posts appear on the dash. They will still appear in the new layout; this change only affects what you can do with previous posts in the editor. We will probably be adding a separate feature to change how posts display on the dash, if desired, but that is beyond the scope of this update.
As always, we will be standing vigilant for any further developments on how this update works in the coming days. Feel free to bring questions or comments to our support chat, support blog askbox, or GitHub issues list.
We more or less do, but we haven’t pushed the update yet because
1.) We are still talking about some internal reorganization
and more importantly
2.) Only a few of us have actually gotten the new tumblr update, so we cannot review the extension until the others have the update as well. And we do not publish un-reviewed extensions
We promise that, as soon as we have the extension ready to download, we will make a post on this blog telling you people
Hey everyone. In case you haven’t seen yet, today Tumblr announced major changes to how reblogging will look and work.
This is obviously a very fundamental change, and although details are obviously very scarce right now, its almost guaranteed that Editable Reblogs in its current form will stop working. Most likely, Tumblr will have changed their code enough to make editing reblogs impossible to do.
And while we can’t say anything for certain before we see what the new code is going to look like, we’ll probably be able to make an extension that hides old reblogs in long chains on your dashboard, and it’s less likely but still possible that we’ll be able to make an extension that restores an old “look” to reblogs.
Unfortunately, unlike Editable Reblogs, neither of these (possible) extensions will be able to change anything for people viewing your blog that don’t have XKit installed. In the worst case scenario, that’s all we’ll be able to do. However we’ll definitely investigate every avenue possible in trying to help you curate your own blog content—something Tumblr seems to have forgotten in their push to “modernize” how reblogs work.
We currently do not plan to work on an app just yet. First we want to get Browser XKit back into order, then we can see about mobile
EDIT: Just to be clear, we started out by working off the open source code of XKit, which was only available for the browser extensions. Any possible mobile app would have to start completely from scratch, and none of us are app developers. So its not very likely any time in the near future.