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!
We’ve been working on New XKit for awhile. If we look back, we can see all the progress we’ve made: currently the Chrome Web Store reports that there are 300,000 users of New XKit, the Firefox Addon Store reported a healthy number of users before we were taken down, and we having a working Safari build. Needless to say, New XKit is a very stable project.
Now we’re in a position to do something we’ve never done before: host a Town Hall! It’s a meeting where we discuss the New XKit organization, report on the state of this extension, and field any questions you may have. We’re doing this so we can plan our project goals as well as bring visibility to the issues that affect New XKit overall.
The Town Hall will be held this Saturday, 1/16 at 2 PM Pacific/5 PM Eastern/10 PM UTC on our unofficial Discord server. Before you ask, you don’t need to register for an account, and Discord clients are available for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android. It’s also available from the web.
Near the end of the Town Hall, we will open up for a Q&A session. Please note that the chat will be moderated; we intend to listen to and answer questions one at a time, not all at once. Furthermore, please do not ask questions about specific problems or bugs you are experiencing. Those questions should be sent to @new-xkit-support or our live chat.
And if you’re feeling eager and can’t wait until Saturday, you can hop in right now and say hi! We don’t bite, promise.
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Happy New Year! Here’s the first set of updates for this year.
Bug Fixes
New Features
Changes in Review
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!
Before we get to the week in review, we’d like to remind you that FixMyPosts is not an official New XKit extension. Please refer all bug reports to its developer, thetimeisneveright. There have been a lot of people having problems with posts lacking formatting, posts being all in a line, posts having weird blockquotes, and posts having text content disappearing. All of these issues have been known to be caused by FixMyPosts! If you have FixMyPosts installed, try using Reblog Display Options instead—RDO is an official New XKit extension that, in its “nested” format, restores the formatting of your dashboard, and is supported by the New XKit Team.
If you’re having any of the above issues, please check to see if you may have FixMyPosts installed first. Thanks!
Bug Fixes
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!
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
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!
Today we are releasing Editable Reblogs 3.0.4. This update to the ER extension contains a number of major fixes, including:
We’d also like to apologize again for any confusion around the interface changes in the previous version of ER. Our solution for editable reblogs at this point basically bypasses Tumblr’s interface completely and adds our own in order to solve some major bugs we were encountering; the three-button interface was always meant to be temporary in order to get those bug fixes out the door fast, but we underestimated how much of an impact that would have on many people’s Tumblr use, so we’re glad to be able to restore the dropdown to you!
(Some of you told us you liked the three buttons, and we’ve heard you too! If there’s enough support they might come back as a tweak. :) )
In the same vein, this has also been a catalyst for us to start thinking about a better approach to beta testing big extensions like this before releasing them to everyone, so keep an eye out for that hopefully coming soon.
Thanks to everyone for their patience and bug reports; as always, you can continue to 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!
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!
Some of you may have seen a recent error saying that the XKit servers can’t be reached. If you see this error, please do not reset XKit. Nothing is wrong with it.
We’ve determined the actual issue to be page load failures on Github. While this is happening, please be aware that updating extensions and viewing the extension gallery might be broken.
Unfortunately we cannot give an ETA on when the services will be restored, but knowing Github’s reputation for being a solid service it should be fixed soon!
In the meantime, please be patient.
If you have any burning questions, don’t hesitate to send questions to @new-xkit-support or @new-xkit-discussion. If live chatting is your thing, you can also visit our chat room.
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
Changes in Review
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.
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