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Week in Review: November 27 - December 04

The holidays are steadily approaching, so we’d like to raise some hype by providing you the latest in bug fixes and features.

Bug Fixes

  • Auto Tagger v0.6.7: Auto tags no longer stack on top of each other when creating new posts that require a URL or an upload. We had to straighten out the tags and lecture them about safety. One of the tags could get hurt!
  • Blacklist v2.7.7: Added a missing word so that XKit doesn’t sound like it’s talking too fast on a phone with really bad reception.
  • Header Options v2.4.0: The developer who made this change would like to preface this fix with a message: “I want you all to know that I feel personally victimized by Tumblr’s coding decisions, and would like to apologize for the sins I have committed herein.” In other news, this extension now acts friendlier on mobile devices.
  • Limit People v0.2.3: Don’t hide all posts in the side window. That would, like, totally make this totally useless. Totally.
  • Old Sidebar v1.1.2: Some of our extensions are just really mean, aren’t they? We’ve prevented Old Sidebar from crushing the crushes grid on the Following page.
  • Soft Refresh v0.5.5: Clicking on the Tumblr logo now performs a soft refresh again. A gentler refresh. The lightest, most delicate refresh.

New Features

Changes in Review

That’s it for this week! 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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Blank comboboxes in Firefox fixed!

A lot of you that use Firefox have reported weird behavior regarding the comboboxes of the XKit Control Panel lately, specifically them being blank but options can still be selected and change.

With the update of the internal XKit Preferences extension to 6.0.3, this should be fixed! Either wait for the update or force an update under XKit Control Panel > Other > Update All > Update all my extensions

As always, if you got any trouble, either send us an ask, or join our live support chat or if you have a github account, our gitter 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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small psa

not a huge deal, but we were taken off from the firefox store for a little bit as we continue to try to work through the signing issues and changes coming down the pipe in future firefox versions.

shouldn’t impact you guys at all, but if you/someone you know doesn’t have xkit installed and is looking to install it on firefox, they’ll need to grab the raw xpi files from github. we’ve updated the links in our headers accordingly.

hopefully we’ll get approved by mozilla and back into the store within the next few weeks—this was mainly a technical/procedural issue as far as i’m aware.

as always, let us know if you have any questions!

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Week in Review: November 06 - November 13

I know it’s Friday the 13th and all, but I promise you this review won’t have any bad news! (Unless you have a different interpretation of “bad news”, in which case I don’t think there’s anything we can do about that.)

Bug Fixes

New Features

  • Messaging Tweaks v1.1.0: As it says on the tin, this provides a variety of tweaks to your messaging experience! You can hide the chat bubbles completely, move your own messages to the right, minimize the chat by clicking on the title, and change the colors to customize your chat to perfection. Now featuring Tumbley the Tumblr! Speaking of which, we don’t have a mascot yet…
  • Tweaks v5.1.0: Do you remember when the photo dimensions used to be 500/245/160px? We brought that back for old times’ sake.

Changes in Review

  • Editable Reblogs v3.0.4: We’ve heard you loud and clear, so we’re restoring the dropdown buttons so you can schedule your posts. We knew we were releasing something a little broken while we worked on some better stuff, but we underestimated how big of an impact this would have, so we apologize. For the future, we’re considering a beta release channel so you can test the latest and greatest XKit extensions and we can get a wider opinion on upcoming changes.
  • Messaging Tweaks v1.2.0: Chat notifications! Sound notifications! Desktop notifications! Notificationtarianism!
  • Tag Tracking+ v1.6.3: If you ever wanted to have the tag counts and the [new] indicator back in the search bar, this fix has ‘em. This also restores the maximum new posts per tag to 10.
  • XWidgets v0.3.1: Tumblr be hidin’ our stuff behind the header! Rude.

That’s it for this week! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to join our live support chat or send an ask to @new-xkit-support or @new-xkit-discussion.

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replies

just a quick heads-up: according to some screenshots that are being passed around, the new messaging system is not a replacement for replies and updated replies are yet to be rolled out

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(h/t @ask-sans (also calicomeowth))

we at new-xkit-extension can’t confirm the authenticity of this information, but seems consistent with the announcement and what staff has said about the update (that it was more a replacement for fanmail then replies)

more faqs/troubleshooting issues under the cut:

Keep reading

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Editable Reblogs and the Three Buttons

You may have noticed that the dropdown save button was replaced with three separate, clunky buttons. Initially when we wrote our fixes to Editable Reblogs, we needed to override Tumblr’s code with our own. But when reusing Tumblr’s save button proved difficult, we decided to remove the button entirely and add our own three buttons.

For the time being, if you need to access post scheduling and private posting, you can temporarily disable Editable Reblogs.

We’re not happy with this solution either. Rest assured, we’ll be taking a second look at making this work with the original dropdown button.

Side note: the XER-SR error should be fixed with Editable Reblogs 3.0.1.

If you’re seeing problems not mentioned here, or have other thoughts about ER, feel free as always to stop into our support chat room or drop us an ask.

love,

new xkit team

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2 Weeks in Review: October 23 - November 06

We’re trying out something new with these Weeks in Review and are still working out the kinks in the formatting. Please bear with us.

Without further ado:

Bug Fixes

  • Alternative Timestamps v1.1.1: Long descriptions are boring! We’ve shortened the explanation so that you won’t have to spend as much time figuring out whether you want to install this extension. Oh, and we’ve added proper credit to the author of this extension.
  • Color Quotes v1.1.0: Color Quotes has been moved to Reblog Display Options. ‘nuff said.
  • Classic Search v1.0.4, v1.0.5: If you have a search bar on your blog and you want to do a search, it’ll now point you to the actual tag on Tumblr. Spiffy, huh?
  • Edible Reblogs v1.0.4: Unchecking the hell box in the settings will properly close the lid on Panera’s Pandora’s Box.
  • One-Click Postage v4.0.8: Auto Tagger used to be naughty and replaced your tags, but now it appends them. Bad Auto Tagger, bad. No treats for you.
  • Read Posts v0.2.2: Added proper credit to the author of this extension.
  • Shorten Posts v0.2.3: Don’t overlap with blog previews. That would be bad.
  • Tag Tracking+ v1.6.0, v1.6.1, v1.6.2: Clicking on the tags now brings you to the proper page, and the tracked tag counts are back. All’s right with the world.

New Features

  • Trick or Treat! We updated the XKit icon for Halloween! New XKit: now with 200% more spookiness! (Admittedly, Halloween is over and announcing this change now is a bit weird, but that’s what you get when you write these things afterward.)
  • No Recommended v2.2.0: If you want to hide recommended schmecommended posts on the Optica theme, now you can.
  • Old Sidebar v1.1.0: This is Estufar’s Sidebar Fix renamed and integrated into New XKit! Get the sidebar back. For good.
  • PostArchive v1.0.0: A ton of stuff happened here. Like, a lot. For example, we added a link to help import your archive from old XKit, allowed you to import directly from text files that you can drag and drop, added a fortune cookie thing that will tell which numbers to use for the lotter–what? What do you mean we didn’t do that?
  • Reblog Display Options v1.0.1, v1.1.0, v1.1.1, v1.1.2, v1.1.3: Good news: Tumblr’s HTML makes slightly more sense now! Bad news: it broke Reblog Display Options. Good news: we’ve fixed Reblog Display Options! More good news: we’ve moved Color Quotes to Reblog Display Options! Bad news: if you were looking forward to bad news, there isn’t any more.
  • Tweaks v5.0.3: We added an option to restore borders to asks. Now you can be cool and edgy again!

Changes in Review

  • Editable Reblogs v3.0.0: We expect this change to fix a majority of the problems you guys are having. Right now, we’re tidying up and putting on the finishing touches. The New XKit developers do their best now and are preparing. Please wait warmly until it is ready!

That’s it for this week! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to join our live support chat or send an ask to @new-xkit-support or @new-xkit-discussion.

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tumblr bug alert

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posting this here because we’ve been getting a lot of asks about it.

Tumblr currently has a bug that causes some posts to entirely disappear. This happens when you reblog a post that has captions, and remove the captions and add your own. If your posts meets all of these criteria it will show up blank.

blank posts look like this

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Looks like this is getting fixed! Thanks to the tumblr devs for the quick turnaround on this.

If you’re still seeing posts disappearing like this, then you should come in to new xkit chat and let us know! it might be a caching thing/delayed rollout, or it might be a problem with your Editable Reblogs. 

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tumblr bug alert

posting this here because we’ve been getting a lot of asks about it.

Tumblr currently has a bug that causes some posts to entirely disappear. This happens when you reblog a post that has captions, and remove the captions and add your own. If your posts meets all of these criteria it will show up blank.

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blank posts look like this

This doesn’t have anything to do with XKit and has been reproduced without XKit installed at all. We’ve reported this bug to support​, so it will probably be fixed shortly (read: a few days).

just to be clear, this happens whenever a post:

  • is a reblog
  • didn’t have a caption, or every caption was removed (for example on photo posts that didn’t have captions, or where people clicked the red x to remove captions)
  • has contributed content (tumblr-speak for “stuff you wrote when reblogging it”, rather then “stuff other people wrote”)

if your post matches these three criteria, it will be eaten. This also happens to photosets. If you’re reblogging a photoset that doesn’t have a caption, and add a caption, then your caption won’t show up on the dashboard.

EDIT: as @wrestlerpeeta pointed out in the tags, this also happens with reblogged asks with additional comments. Just a note, this only happens the first time you reblog something with a comment. If it already has a comment (even if you can’t see it on your dashboard) reblogging it again from that reblog should clear things up.

stay safe out there!

love,

new xkit team

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Disregard the last post about the survey, it was posted accidentally.

EDIT: to be clear, a survey was published prematurely and we’re not looking for responses just yet. We hope to release a survey soon, but this one had a few kinks that we want to work out first. Sorry about any confusion!

If you reblogged the old survey, it would be great if you could delete it, to avoid any confusion. Thank you!

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