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Server outage and XKit reset popup

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.

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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

• AccessKit v1.1.8: The OpenDyslexic font used to load from the old XKit servers, but gets blocked because of permissions or something. Which is really weird! Now it gets loaded from a super-fast and stable source so that you can get the font you need to read the stuff you want.
  
• Editable Reblogs v3.0.3: Editable Reblogs has been misbehaving recently. We’ve taken it upon ourselves to make sure that your read mores are actually read mores and not horizontal lines, that Editable Reblogs doesn’t flail its arms wildly when it encounters images, that click handler madness doesn’t happen, and that we perform the same logic on links that we do on asks instead of crapping out. Believe me, there’s more disciplining on the way.
• Reblog Display Options v1.1.4: Hotfixes! Hotfixes! Get them right here! Fixed a couple of display issues, like titles on broken posts.
• XKit Updates v2.0.2: Extension. Extensions. Person. People. Goose. Geese. Ox. Oxen. Plankter. Plankton? English is weird, man.
  

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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Messaging Tweaks: Enhance your IM experience

This brand new extension is for all the people that have gotten the new IM update for Tumblr! Useful tweaks to enhance your way of chatting with people!

Change chat bubble color, align your messages to the right, minimize the chat, or replace the background color of the chat with a color of your choice! Anything is game!

You absolutely don’t want to see any kind of messaging? This has a tweak to remove the chat bubble out of your sight and out of your mind! (+a small easter egg tweak)

More information about functionality after the read more!

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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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Week in Review: October 16 - October 23

Extensions

• Mirror Button
  • v1.0.1: Mirror Button: add tooltip (646)
• Drafts+
  • v0.2.3: Drafts+: Remove duplicated mass delete buttons (555)
• Vanilla Videos
  • v0.0.2: Add Vanilla Video icon (647)
• XInbox
  • v1.9.4: Fix XInbox ask deletion in Mass Edit Mode (659)
• Tweaks
  • v5.0.2: Fix recommended badges showing up again (656)
• Edible Reblogs
  • v1.0.3: [edible_reblogs] I’m sorry. (651)

Upcoming changes

• 304: added color coding to xinbox (second verse same as the first)
• 360: Fix Read More Now handling of recursion
• 409: Adding old sidebar extension
• 471: Super Markdown Editor extension - adds live previews and upload buttons to Markdown post editor
• 494: GM_listValues works as expected, xkit_storage updates when values are deleted
• 541: Fix Classic Search implementation and running on blog pages
• 548: Allow storage of settings other than strings
• 554: Make Paperboy functional and usable again
• 573: xkit_preferences sanitization and cleanup
• 582: fix One-Click Postage to work on pop out video player and Tumblr radar
• 584: Editable Reblogs: don’t interfere with One-Click Reply
• 601: Fix OCP replacing typed tags with Autotagger tags after closing and reopening the popup
• 603: Bring PostArchive to 1.0.0
• 604: Add option to hide recommended posts on the Optica theme
• 605: Editable reblogs manual posts
• 616: Autoscroll layout fix and added option
• 650: Blockquoted captions display properly in ER and RDO
• 652: Replace XKit.Console calls with console.log. Fixes #483
• 658: Add Tweaks option to use old photo layout margins

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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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4 Weeks in Review: September 19 - October 16

…we’re really bad at doing this on time huh. A lot of us are super busy with real-life issues, so pardon the length of the review queue!

• Anti-Capitalism
  • v1.2.0: Add option to hide sponsored posts
  • v1.2.1: Fix destroy oversight in previous PR
  • v1.2.2: Remove new remnant-unit-container ads that start popping up
• Blacklist
  • v2.7.6: Fixing blacklists’s ability to read posts in reblog tree
• Disable Gifs
  • v0.3.1: Use new root_id attribute for extensions
• Drafts+
  • v0.2.2: Fixes CSS issues on mass delete buttons
• Edible Reblogs
  • v1.0.1: Fix Edible Reblogs display issues
  • v1.0.2: Fix edible reblogs making bread appear behind notifications
• Editable Reblogs
  • v2.1.3: Stop using the richtext editor readmore <hr> when pasting to HTML editor with Editable Reblogs
• Enhanced Queue
  • v2.0.3: Fixes clash between Shorten Posts and Enhanced Queue’s Shrink Posts
  • v2.0.4: Fix Enhanced Queue breaking all over the place
  • v2.0.5: Fixes erroneous shrink posts error when shorten posts not installed
• Mirror Button
  • v1.0.0: Create extension Mirror Button
• NotificationBlock
  • v1.3.3: Use new root_id attribute for extensions
• One-Click Postage
  • v4.0.7: Use new root_id attribute for extensions
• Post Archiver
  • v0.5.5: Use new root_id attribute for extensions
  • v0.5.6: Fix double apostrophe in Post Archiver dialogue
• PostBlock
  • v0.2.3: Use new root_id attribute for extensions
  • v0.2.4: Stop PostBlock from appearing to block all results on search page
• Reblog Display Options
  • v1.0.0: Better Reblogs - reblogs layout extension
• ReplyViewer
  • v0.2.7: Replyviewer and Tagviewer View On Dash Support & Sideview fix
• Retags
  • v1.0.2: Make retags recognize mobile replies
• TagViewer
  • v0.4.1: Replyviewer and Tagviewer View On Dash Support & Sideview fix
• Themes
  • v0.1.3: Fix all themes
  • Restore missing object key to Themes builder
  • Fix background not loading in Orange Wall and Text themes
  • Created Blur Theme
  • fix post avatar background issues
• Tweaks
  • v4.1.0: Add bigger small text tweak
  • v5.0.0: Anti-Capitalism: Add option to hide sponsored posts (option was moved out of this extension)
  • v5.0.1: Fix ‘Always Show Scroll to Top’ in Tweaks
• User Menus+
  • Fix classic User Menu’s in-dashboard asks
• View On Dash
  • v0.7.4: Use new root_id attribute for extensions
  • v0.7.5: Replyviewer and Tagviewer
• XInbox
  • v1.9.3: Fix Reply to answer not opening ask form
• XKit Patches
  • v5.3.2: Use new root_id attribute for extensions
  • v5.3.3: Fixing error when editing chat posts with editable reblogs enabled
  • v5.3.4: Fixing the chat field checking logic so it doesn’t hijack get_content_html for the HTML editor
  • v5.3.5: Only trim tags if first character is “#”
  • v5.4.0: Add post_type property to XKit.interface.post_window
  • v5.4.1: Replyviewer and Tagviewer View On Dash Support & Sideview fix
• XKit Preferences
  • v5.1.0: Xkit preferences shows installed extensions in gallery
  • v5.1.1: Remove Safari Warning
  • v5.1.2: Fix showing Welcome bubble anywhere but on the dashboard
  • v5.1.3: Change default preferences icon to the retina icon
• XKit Core
  • Fix conflict check logic
  • Bump framework version number
• Safari
  • Add beta support of Safari
  • Implement Safari build tasks
  • fix JSHint “object['property’] better written in dot notation” warning in Safari global.js
  • Further Safari Fixes

Upcoming Changes

• XCloud (292)
• Color-coding XInbox (304)
• A fix for multiple “Keep Reading”-links on a post opening all at once (360)
• Integrating Estufar’s Sidebar Fix into official New XKit (409)
• A new extension adding live previews to the Markdown editor (471)
• A fix for empty full configuration exports on Chrome and Opera with Retags (494)
• Allow saving of JSON Stringified Extension Object (513)
• Fix Classic Search implementation and running on blog pages (541)
• Allow storage of settings other than strings (548)
• Make Paperboy functional and usable again (554)
• Drafts+: Remove duplicated mass delete buttons (555)
• xit_preferences sanitization and cleanup (573)
• fix One-Click Postage to work on pop out video player and Tumblr radar (582)
• Editable Reblogs: don’t interfere with One-Click Reply (584)
• Automatic Extension Dist rebuilding (593)
• Fix OCP replacing typed tags with Autotagger tags after closing and reopening the popup (601)
• Bring PostArchive to 1.0.0 (603)
• Add option to hide recommended posts on the Optica theme (604)
• Editable reblogs manual posts (605)
• Autoscroll layout fix and added option (616)

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It is finally time, the extension a lot of you guys have waited for is here!

Reblog Display Options allows the customization of of reblog chains on your dashboard, for example removing the icons, the usernames or minimizing spacing between text and name. It also allows you to change back your dashboard to the old style of blockquotes, if you so desire.

NOTE: You may have to refresh the page after changing options in this extension. Make sure you have removed all other dashboard modification scripts before using the extension.

It should be available in your extension gallery by now, so go grab it from there!

Under the read more you can see a few examples of the extension.

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New XKit 7.7.1 Release (Firefox Users Must Manually Upgrade) – Solves “Can’t Connect To Server” Popup Issue

We have a fix for the “Can’t Connect to Server” popup issue!

In order to completely disconnect from the now-expired Old XKit servers, we have released an update to the core XKit code, making this New XKit 7.7.1!

Chrome Users: You don’t have to do anything! The Chrome store should automatically update you to 7.7.1, although you can use these instructions to manually force your extensions to update.

Firefox Users: Due to our extension being unsigned by the Firefox store (we’re in the signing queue but haven’t been processed yet) you will have to manually update your extension rather than getting an automatic update. You can do this by visiting http://new-xkit-extension.tumblr.com/firefox and clicking the “Add to Firefox” button; the updated core code will install over the old core code, without changing any of your XKit extension data.

If you have XKit version 7.5.x or below: You have old XKit! Visit http://new-xkit-extension.tumblr.com/chrome or http://new-xkit-extension.tumblr.com/firefox to install New XKit instead (and be sure to uninstall the old version to prevent conflicts).

If you have any questions or encounter any issues, feel free to let us know in our support chat or bug list.