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Hello, all! Brand new feature update coming your way!
We’ve had some requests for the addition of an easy way to unfollow users who are highlighted by Find Inactives as having been inactive for a long period of time. With Find Inactives 0.4.0 this is now made a lot easier; each inactive blog will have an unfollow button next to it for quick clicks to remove them from your following list!
Hello, XKit users! A number of you have reported recent issues in Editable Reblogs and One-Click Postage preventing you from using those extensions in Firefox. We have just released a fix for these errors, so if you update your XKit extensions (Other tab in the XKit control panel, click “Update All My Extensions”), the issue should be resolved.
Thanks for your patience and to everyone who reported the issue! As always, feel free to send us an ask or leave a message in our support chat if you need any assistance!
Thanks for your patience, everyone! We’ve just released Editable Reblogs 3.3.7; updating to the most recent version of the extension should restore the ability to post without freezing your browser and will prevent the double posting issue some people were encountering earlier in the day.
As usual, 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.
Hey, all! A bug has just cropped up in the way Editable Reblogs interacts with Tumblr code, causing the page to freeze when you attempt to reblog with the extension enabled. We’re working on a fix right now, but disabling Editable Reblogs should allow you to post normally in the meantime.
Thanks for your understanding and patience. Feel free to stop by our support chat with any questions or issues!
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.
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.
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.
Short answer: Everything is completely fine. All extensions are intact and the problem should fix itself soon.
Long story: Unfortunately, Github is affected by a massive DDoS attack right now and connections to it are intermittently failing. Since we use Github to host our update data and XKit may not be able to connect to it, this could temporarily affect the ability to download new extensions from the gallery or update existing ones. As soon as the DDoS attack stops and Github resumes its normal operation, XKit will work as usual once more.
As always, our inbox and chat room are open for those with support issues. Thanks!
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!
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!
