We know that the dashboard update isn’t liked by everyone. We’re currently working on an extension that allows various changes to how reblogs are shown, including but not limited to decreasing the margin in replies and going back to the “old” blockquote look. When this will be released is unknown (we’re working hard on it), so wait comfortably with the idea of a fix coming soon™.
We have located a solution for those people who have the Editable Reblogs extension installed on New XKit on Firefox, but were having trouble updating it from 1.0.9 to 2.0.0 (now 2.0.1).
It is likely, if you were encountering this problem, that you are running on one of the 7.6.x versions of New XKit, and Firefox has not auto-updated you to 7.7.0 because the extension is unsigned (we’re working on this but it’s a separate issue).
Note: If you are on 7.5.x or below, you are on the old XKit which we do not support, and need to uninstall it completely and install the extension from the link below instead.
What you will need to do is manually update to 7.7.0 by going to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-xkit/ and clicking “Add To Firefox” – this will install 7.7.0 over your existing copy of New XKit and will maintain all your existing settings. After it is installed, you may need to close and reopen your browser to get XKit to work again.
Once you’re on 7.7.0 of the main New XKit extension, open your XKit control panel, navigate to the Editable Reblogs control panel, click Update, and confirm that you have updated to version 2.0.1!
We are still looking into why Editable Reblogs isn’t updating for some Firefox users. However, in response to a few other Firefox issues we have been fielding in our support chat, we would like to issue a reminder to anyone who is having issues with running XKit on Firefox:
Be sure you are not using Private Browsing. New-Xkit is not submitted to Firefox’s app store in a way which allows this and will only work in non-private mode, regardless of how old XKit worked.
As always, feel free to contact us with any questions. Thanks!
Just as a heads-up – we are experiencing reports of people having trouble force-updating to the most recent version of Editable Reblogs (and possibly other extensions) in Firefox. We’re still trying to nail down what would cause this and will hopefully have a fix soon.
To be clear: if you have version 2.0.0 or newer, you’re fine. This is for people who are still stuck on 1.0.9. If you’re not sure, try updating all of your extensions from the XKit Menu (under “Other”) before doing anything else—you just may not have gotten the update yet.
In the meantime – updating definitely works on Chrome, and some people have had luck with a full uninstall and reinstall of XKit from their browsers to bring things up to date. (You can find a guide for saving your settings to XCloud at http://new-xkit-extension.tumblr.com/post/126630096169/how-the-fuck-do-i-use-xcloud-a-troubleshooting).
We will update further on this situation when we know more.
Thanks!
(Additionally, if you are on 2.0.0., please make sure that you uninstall the temporary greasemonkey script that was floating around—I have no idea how they’re going to interact)
In response to Tumblr’s formatting updates, we have made some modifications to EditableReblogs to allow continued editing of content above your additions to a post.
PLEASE NOTE!!! This extension does NOT modify how posts appear on the dash. They will still appear in the new layout; this change only affects what you can do with previous posts in the editor. We will probably be adding a separate feature to change how posts display on the dash, if desired, but that is beyond the scope of this update.
As always, we will be standing vigilant for any further developments on how this update works in the coming days. Feel free to bring questions or comments to our support chat, support blog askbox, or GitHub issues list.
Hey everyone. In case you haven’t seen yet, today Tumblr announced major changes to how reblogging will look and work.
This is obviously a very fundamental change, and although details are obviously very scarce right now, its almost guaranteed that Editable Reblogs in its current form will stop working. Most likely, Tumblr will have changed their code enough to make editing reblogs impossible to do.
And while we can’t say anything for certain before we see what the new code is going to look like, we’ll probably be able to make an extension that hides old reblogs in long chains on your dashboard, and it’s less likely but still possible that we’ll be able to make an extension that restores an old “look” to reblogs.
Unfortunately, unlike Editable Reblogs, neither of these (possible) extensions will be able to change anything for people viewing your blog that don’t have XKit installed. In the worst case scenario, that’s all we’ll be able to do. However we’ll definitely investigate every avenue possible in trying to help you curate your own blog content—something Tumblr seems to have forgotten in their push to “modernize” how reblogs work.
We raised the $100 needed to put ourselves on the Safari Appstore! We need to load everything up and potentially rewrite some stuff to get it working, but once we do we’ll make the announcement here. A big THANK YOU to everyone who donated!
Quick Tags and other extensions that edit your own posts should be fixed by XKit Patches version 4.0.5.
Whoops, we forgot to do this on Monday. Anyway, here are the changes that have been made in the last 10 days.
Also, don’t forget that you can help us develop a Safari addon! Developing and publishing for Macs costs money, and that’s why we need your donations. Click here to support us!
We just updated XKit to have very minimal functionality on Tumblr’s mobile site. This means that Firefox for Android users (and hopefully Safari for iOS users once we get that funded) can add XKit extensions and use a couple features.
Word of warning: the extension browser is still formatted for desktop and therefore a pain in the ass to use. It should be painful but functional, at least until we redesign it for mobile. Consider this a very early Beta until the dust settles.
Features we know work:
Features we know don’t work:
Everything else you may want to try comes under a common sense disclamer. We haven’t removed the option to install things that don’t work yet, so don’t download Tags on Sidebar and expect things to work on mobile where the sidebar isn’t even a thing. Things that cause horrible breakage should be reported to new-xkit-support.
