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If you’ve been active on tumblr lately, you may notice that they’ve started running a new type of ad in the right-hand sidebar unit. Specifically, there’s been an uptick in ads that auto-play loud audio, some of which are even un-mutable.

We’ve addressed this in Anti-Capitalism version 1.3.0, which adds a new option:

(small mea culpa: the naming here is slightly confusing. this will *always* remove the sidebar ad, even if it doesn’t happen to be one that plays audio, because we don’t have the ability to distinguish between them. the other difference is that it does it in a way that also takes care of the audio-visual component instead of just hiding the ad, like some adblockers have been doing)

(EDIT: yes, you’ll have to refresh the page after installing the extension/enabling the option. It sounds like this might also conflict with other ad-blockers, so let us know if you have any issues and/or try disabling other adblockers first and see if that fixes the problem)

let us know what you think! I’m probably going to be going to bed soon, but you can always reach us in our ask box, our support blog, or our live support chat. In general the dev team has less time to reply to asks nowadays because of both real-life obligations and the sheer quantity of asks we receive, so you’ll generally have a better time with the support chat, if you can catch one of us online. If nobody is online, you always can leave a message for us to read later. thanks for understanding!

(one last plug—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!)

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Just pushed an update to this that will now catch more ad types that were reported to us by the community. Thanks everyone! Make sure you update to Anti-Capitalism 1.3.1. You can do this by going to XKit > Other > Update All Extensions.

We also pushed an update to Vanilla Video that basically disables the extension—it was causing some severe problems with tumblr’s new “autoplay” code and basically causing non-ads to autoplay and then become invisible. fun. Anyway, if you have vanilla video installed, please make sure you’re on version 0.0.3.

As always, make sure to refresh your page (and any other tumblr tabs you might have open) after updating or installing XKit extensions. If you’re still running into issues, you might also want to try restarting your browser.

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intrusive audio ads

If you’ve been active on tumblr lately, you may notice that they’ve started running a new type of ad in the right-hand sidebar unit. Specifically, there’s been an uptick in ads that auto-play loud audio, some of which are even un-mutable.

We’ve addressed this in Anti-Capitalism version 1.3.0, which adds a new option:

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(small mea culpa: the naming here is slightly confusing. this will *always* remove the sidebar ad, even if it doesn’t happen to be one that plays audio, because we don’t have the ability to distinguish between them. the other difference is that it does it in a way that also takes care of the audio-visual component instead of just hiding the ad, like some adblockers have been doing)

(EDIT: yes, you’ll have to refresh the page after installing the extension/enabling the option. It sounds like this might also conflict with other ad-blockers, so let us know if you have any issues and/or try disabling other adblockers first and see if that fixes the problem)

EDIT 2: as of 7/26, conflicts with other extensions or ad blockers should no longer be an issue.

let us know what you think! I’m probably going to be going to bed soon, but you can always reach us in our ask box, our support blog, or our live support chat. In general the dev team has less time to reply to asks nowadays because of both real-life obligations and the sheer quantity of asks we receive, so you’ll generally have a better time with the support chat, if you can catch one of us online. If nobody is online, you always can leave a message for us to read later. thanks for understanding!

(one last plug—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!)

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Hey everyone! We just released a few fixes for Editable Reblogs (version 3.1.0), that allow us to more intelligently and gracefully handle some common error conditions. This includes fixing or detecting some of the more debilitating issues, and a new mechanism to help users report less common problems for us to track down. We’ve also programmed in a way for the extension to gracefully fall back on the native functionality in the event of an issue, which should help out a lot.

Rest assured that this is just the beginning of a much more substantial clean-up to make Editable Reblogs less finicky and more reliable. There are still some outstanding issues, including problems with more then one consecutive deactivated url in the same post, but luckily we can now detect and alert you to those issues ahead of time.

As always, our inbox and chat room are open. Happy blogging!

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On the matter of sidebars

You may have noticed that Tumblr has recently made a change that increases the width of the sidebar and, on some screens, pushes the posts further off-center. We have just released Tweaks version 5.3.0 which adds an option under the User Interface section to get it back to what it was (or at least getting as close as possible). You will get the update eventually, but you can force an update through the “Other” tab of your XKit control panel.

As always, you can get in touch with us by sending an ask to @new-xkit-support or @new-xkit-discussion or visiting our live support chat. If no one responds in the live chat, it means the developers are currently busy/away/sleeping! Just wait a bit and someone will get back to you!

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Recent XKit Updates: May 29

  • Soft Refresh
  • Blacklist
    • v2.9.0: Preserve links in Blacklist. Blacklist now reads the links in posts. For example, add goo.gl* to your filters to eradicate 90% of spam spam spam spam spam spammity spam! Many thanks to community contributor PalanteJon for their work in producing this update.
  • Hermes
    • v1.2.2: Fix performance issues and caption deletion. Hermes now unloads the images and media of each post once. It also does not delete each post’s caption. These provide 20% more speed per speed and 100% more caption per caption.
  • Profiler
    • v1.2.2: Fix parsing error in Profiler. Profiler now actually works instead of displaying an error. Knowledge is power, especially when that knowledge is about blogs.
  • One-Click Postage
  • Go-To-Dash
  • Retags
    • v1.0.6: Add a new API key. For a few hours, Retags was completely broken and everyone was seeing 401 errors everywhere. Normally we’d say blame Tumblr, but to be honest we have no idea why the old API key stopped working.
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quick note

Hey everybody! A few quick notes on behind the scenes stuff:

  • Old Sidebar (formerly estufar’s sidebar fix before it was contributed to New XKit proper) broke yesterday due to some code changes on Tumblr’s end. We’ve gotten it squared away now, so if you’re still seeing weird behavior with the account menu/sidebar, try “Updating All” in the Other tab of the XKit menu. Go give @estufar some props for the quick fix!
  • Seems like Tumblr is having some intermittent API availability issues today. Accordingly, some extensions that rely on tumblr API data may not work or may return errors. We’ve confirmed issues with Retags, Blog Tracker, and a few others. Nonetheless, if you see something, do make sure to come and report it! We’re a little behind on answering asks as most of the devs are currently inactive due to school/RL stuff, so the best way to report an issue is to hop in our support chat and leave a message. Even if we can’t respond right away (notifications for chat on our end can be a little laggy sometimes), we’ll definitely see the message eventually.

thanks for sticking with us! I know the past few months we’ve been pretty dead. Hopefully with summer starting we’ll all have more time to work on stuff :D

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Update on Retags Extension

The good news: Tumblr is bringing replies back. The bad news: they changed the design of the notes display, which broke the Retags extension. The XKit team is aware of this issue and working on a fix which should be out soon.

Additionally, some of you may have noticed that TagViewer and ReplyViewer have only been showing a small amount of tags/replies on some posts. We’re still investigating this problem, but it appears that when a post hits approximately 1,000 notes, the amount of replies or tags you can see drops off sharply. This doesn’t seem to be something we can fix immediately, or possibly at all, but we’ll keep looking into it. So far, this only affects posts that are about 2 months old or newer, but it’s possible that older and older posts will be affected as time goes on. We’ll make sure to let you know more as more information becomes available, and you can track the progress of this issue on github here: https://github.com/new-xkit/XKit/issues/1003

EDIT: its possible this may have also been an artifact of the replies changes, and preliminary testing (so far only one of our devs has the new update) suggests that this may not be an issue with the new notes popup.

Thanks for your patience; as always, you can get in touch with us by sending an ask to @new-xkit-support or @new-xkit-discussion or visiting our live support chat. If no one responds in the live chat, it means the developers are currently busy/away/sleeping! Just wait a bit and someone will get back to you!

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2016-01-16 Town Hall Summary

If you were waiting for the summary of our Town Hall, here it is! Apologies for the timing, but as they say: better late than never!

As always, you can get in touch with us by sending an ask to @new-xkit-support or @new-xkit-discussion or visiting our live support chat. If no one responds in the live chat, it means the developers are currently busy/away/sleeping! Just wait a bit and someone will get back to you!

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(2016-02-03) One-Click-Postage only showing 5 blogs

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A lot of you probably already noticed that One-Click-Postage is only showing 5 blogs in the drop down. Rest assured, we know about it and are actively trying to fix it!

Tumblr changed something in the backend which broke our blog detection, but our team is actively trying to find a new, reliable way to detect the blogs and we’ll update XKit as soon as we can!

We’ll let you guys know when it’s fixed, but it should only be a little bit longer.

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Should be fixed now! The update is in XKit Patches version 6.2.2. You can wait for XKit to update automatically, or get the new update by going to XKit > Other > Update All > Update all of my extensions.

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