reblog changes

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.