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editable reblogs & images

Hey everyone! We accidentally pushed an update to Editable Reblogs this afternoon (2017-1-11) to fix a long-standing bug with video embeds. Unfortunately, it had a severe bug that had the potential to break the extension when a post has an image in it.

This bug has been fixed in ER version 3.3.3. If you’re encountering this issue, where you can’t save or reblog a post with an image in it, you can upgrade Editable Reblogs from the XKit Preferences page:

We’re sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused anyone! As always, thank you for your patience! Feel free to let us know if you have any comments or questions by stopping by our support chat room (if it seems quiet, leave a message and we’ll see it later), sending a message to @new-xkit-support, or opening an issue in our Github issue tracker.

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current NotificationBlock problems

As some of you have already noticed, as of last week, 2016-12-08, the NotificationBlock extension (version 1.3.3) for New XKit is currently not correctly blocking reblogs on the activity page. Tumblr has changed the structure of how reblog notifications are displayed on that page and we haven’t yet been able to implement a workaround for that change. However, we’re still working on a potential update and will hopefully have more information soon. Likes are still blocked correctly, and notifications on the Dashboard are also still being blocked correctly.

Thanks for your patience! As always, feel free to let us know if you have any comments or questions by stopping by our support chat room (if it seems quiet, leave a message and we’ll see it later), sending a message to @new-xkit-support, or opening an issue in our Github issue tracker.

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Editable Reblogs Update: Opt-In Control

Today we released a small update to Editable Reblogs in an attempt to control its effect on the dashboard; we’ve noticed in seeing people use the extension that though it has a significant use case, there are also plenty of situations in which it might not be needed, and in those cases (with the new update) it is damaging the appearance of the post for no reason.

Thus, we have added a trigger on the post window that allows users to opt into the Editable Reblogs Effect (i.e. converting the post to blockquotes) on a post-by-post basis rather than wholesale whenever the extension is enabled:

It’s our hope that this will reduce the amount of unnecessary corruption to the default Tumblr blog structure and make it easier to avoid any broken posts on the dash.

Obviously, we hope that this doesn’t have to be a long term solution, and that we can work out a better way to get back to non-intrusively editing posts without corrupting the reblog structure, but we hope that this strikes a good compromise in the meantime.

As always, feel free to let us know if you have any comments, questions, or encounter any bugs. There’s usually someone available in our support chat room (if not, we’re probably sleeping or carousing wildly so leave a message and we’ll see it later); you can also send a message to @new-xkit-support or open an issue in our Github issue tracker.

Happy blogging!

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Editable Reblogs Update 3.2.0

Many of you have noticed that Editable Reblogs has been having significant difficulties lately as a result of changes to Tumblr’s server-side code. Unfortunately, these changes have rendered ER’s current method of “imitating” Tumblr’s reblog structure impossible.

We have updated Editable Reblogs to 3.2.0 to restore functionality to some degree. However, as a result of these changes, ER at the moment can no longer exactly replicate the reblog structure on the dash; posts made using this update will render all posts in the reblog chain as a single blockquoted post instead of a series of them. 

The XKit team is still actively working to find a way to make Editable Reblogs produce fully formatted posts; however, this interim measure should remove the issue of post content disappearing. The extension can, of course, be disabled at any time through the XKit preferences panel.

Thank you for your patience while we performed this update. As always, if you’re having any problems with New XKit, you can always stop by our support chat room and chat with the developers! There is generally someone there a lot of the time, but you might need to wait for a bit or come back later if no one responds. Other ways you can get in contact with the New Xkit team include sending an ask or submission to @new-xkit-support or by opening an issue on our Github issue tracker.

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Editable Reblogs Bug Currently Being Investigated

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Hello, everyone! We’re currently aware of an issue affecting users of Editable Reblogs (as of 2016-09-20) which is preventing the extension from working correctly, due to a change in how Tumblr handles submitted posts. We’re looking into possible resolutions for the situation and will post a further update when we have more information. Right now we recommend you disable Editable Reblogs until we can get the situation under control, otherwise Tumblr might accidentally corrupt your post.

As always, our inbox and chat room are open for those with support issues. Thanks!

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This should be fixed now! This problem was fixed in Editable Reblogs version 3.1.1 as of Tuesday, 09/20. This might be a problem on-and-off for the next few days as we adjust to new Tumblr changes—we’ll keep you all up to date if ER breaks again.

If you’re not on 3.1.1 yet, you can go to XKit > Other > “Update all of my extensions” to get the new version!

As always, let us know if you have any issues!

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Editable Reblogs Bug Currently Being Investigated

Hello, everyone! We’re currently aware of an issue affecting users of Editable Reblogs (as of 2016-09-20) which is preventing the extension from working correctly, due to a change in how Tumblr handles submitted posts. We’re looking into possible resolutions for the situation and will post a further update when we have more information. Right now we recommend you disable Editable Reblogs until we can get the situation under control, otherwise Tumblr might accidentally corrupt your post.

As always, our inbox and chat room are open for those with support issues. Thanks!

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github.com

New XKit Signed Release

For Firefox 43 and above

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Without further ado, we’re proud to present a version of New XKit that works with Firefox 43! Nothing else has changed, it’s literally exactly the same extension you have installed, but working. You’ll still have to download it directly from our github for now because Mozilla won’t show it on their store, but that’s a minor inconvenience in the long run, and we’re working on addressing it.

Anyway, let us know if you have any questions! And as always, if you run into any trouble with New XKit, swing by our support chat room so the devs can help you out!

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Hey everybody! It looks like Mozilla released an update today that disabled unsigned addons completely, so if you didn’t update New XKit back in December when we first released the signed version, make sure to do so now!

To check if you need to update, go to about:addons, or press ctrl-shift-A. Look for New XKit’s entry, and if you see a warning message about the extension being “unsigned”, then you need to update it immediately.

download the signed .xpi for firefox here

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Reblogging this post again because it seems like a lot of people got auto-updated today.

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Week in Review: August 12 - August 19

Hey everyone! nothing really big this week, but we fixed a few long-standing bugs so I wanted to keep you all updated

XKit Patches v6.4.2:

• We fixed the lingering bug that broke uploading videos for a while. This was caused by fallout from the auto-playing video/audio disaster, but due to real life concerns it took a little bit before we had enough time to figure out what was going on (pull request #1136)

Anti-Capitalism v1.4.0

• We added a new option to hide the “Watch on Yahoo View” links that have started showing up recently. (pull request #1135)
  

Show Picture Size v1.0.3

• Fixed a bug which causes stacking of picture size labels in the upper right corner for photo-sets, and another so that we now only hide the label for the currently hovered photo instead of all labels in a photo-set post (pull request #1123)
  

[new!!] Vanilla Audio v0.2.0

• Thanks to contributor @akunohomu, we now have an extension that supplements the standard tumblr audio player with a less buggy one. This is a complement to our existing Vanilla Videos extension, but is also much more useful individually given the unreliability of tumblr’s default audio player. Go grab it from the xkit gallery!
  

That’s all for this week! And as always, if you’re having any problems with New XKit, you can always stop by our helpful support chat room and chat with the developers! There is generally someone there a lot of the time, but you might need to wait for a bit or come back later if no-one responds. Other ways you can get in contact with the new xkit team include sending an ask or submission to @new-xkit-support or by opening an issue on our github

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invisible audio: the final reckoning

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hey everyone! as of tonight we’ve pushed an update that should fix autoplaying audio/video in all of the situations that it occurs, whether triggered by Anti-Capitalism, Blacklist, or another third-party tool. thanks for sticking with us while we trudge waist deep together through the mire of code that comprises Tumblr. trust me—this was truly a sticky bug to unravel.

This update is part of XKit Patches version 6.4.0. You can update XKit Patches using the “Update All” button:

get at us with your feedback! we’re real humans with schedules and sleep cycles and occasionally jobs and stuff, but you can generally reach us in our ask box, our support blog, or our live support chat room. If nobody is online, you always can leave a message for us to read later.

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Just a reminder because these posts are spreading farther then our usual audience: We’re a team of developers that run and maintain the New XKit project, a fork of XKit that was started after the original was abandoned in late 2014. New XKit is on version 7.7.1 (chrome, opera), 7.7.3 (firefox), or 7.7.2 (safari). Anything earlier then 7.6.x is old/original XKit, and you’ll need to disable it to install New XKit. (You can migrate your settings, but it’s a little involved—disable for now, and come ask us about it later)

some quick links for those of you who might not have New XKit already:

• Download for Chrome
  
• Download for Firefox
• Instructions for Opera
• Download for Safari

(quick plug again—If you’re interested in helping us run New XKit, for example by contributing code, answering asks or helping other users with questions + problems, come stop by and introduce yourself! we don’t bite, we promise!)

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invisible audio: the final reckoning

hey everyone! as of tonight we’ve pushed an update that should fix autoplaying audio/video in all of the situations that it occurs, whether triggered by Anti-Capitalism, Blacklist, or another third-party tool. thanks for sticking with us while we trudge waist deep together through the mire of code that comprises Tumblr. trust me—this was truly a sticky bug to unravel.

This update is part of XKit Patches version 6.4.0. You can update XKit Patches using the “Update All” button:

get at us with your feedback! we’re real humans with schedules and sleep cycles and occasionally jobs and stuff, but you can generally reach us in our ask box, our support blog, or our live support chat room. If nobody is online, you always can leave a message for us to read later.

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Just a reminder because these posts are spreading farther then our usual audience: We’re a team of developers that run and maintain the New XKit project, a fork of XKit that was started after the original was abandoned in late 2014. New XKit is on version 7.7.1 (chrome, opera), 7.7.3 (firefox), or 7.7.2 (safari). Anything earlier then 7.6.x is old/original XKit, and you’ll need to disable it to install New XKit. (You can migrate your settings, but it’s a little involved—disable for now, and come ask us about it later)

some quick links for those of you who might not have New XKit already:

• Download for Chrome
  
• Download for Firefox
• Instructions for Opera
• Download for Safari

(quick plug again—If you’re interested in helping us run New XKit, for example by answering asks or helping other users with questions + problems, come stop by and introduce yourself! we don’t bite, we promise!)