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Week in Review: July 14-21

First off, thank you to our 5000+ followers and the 400+ asks you have sent us! Your testing and feedback are invaluable and we love to hear from you, even if we can’t respond to all of you individually…yet (we have some really cool plans for xinbox).

Let’s recap what we’ve changed and fixed in the past 7 days.

July 21

• Fix One Click Reply (hopefully, it’s a little weird in Chrome)
• Move Tags on Sidebar above recommended blogs: Written by contributor bvtsang!
• Restore Auto Tagger and One Click Postage’s beautiful friendship
• Fix hiding of gif posts in Disable Gifs
• Fix most of the issues with unreadable sidebar text

July 20

• Fix Auto Tagger and the add_tag interface
• Update the icon for Brand Recognition ™
• Publish on the Chrome and Firefox app stores
• Add spacing between text in Tags on Sidebar: Written by bvtsang!
  
• Prettify sidebar styles

July 19

• Fix Classic Tags not showing up
• Create a reusable extension distribution tool
• Fix postarchive appending
• Improve Read More Now to handle “Keep reading” links
• Prettify sidebar, some JavaScript involved

July 18

• Add option to remove “trending” icon on post
• Had a life
  

July 17

• Report errors in Firefox’s XHR
• More sidebar nonsense
• Fix Audio Plus
• Implement memory-saving nonsense

July 16

• Fix CORS in Chrome
• Force https wherever possible
  
• Fix xkit_editor in Chrome

July 15

• Surprisingly, nothing
  

July 14

• Create Anti Capitalism extension
• Sort extension gallery
• Fix Firefox CORS
• Fix Timestamps

Somehow not bored? Check out the rest of the 171+ changes we’ve made here.

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blackjackkent asked:

Are you guys accepting pull requests/contributions from the general public and if so do you have any standards or requirements for how those are submitted? (Would love to get involved and help dig out some of the broken shit. :) )

Absolutely! There is nothing we love more than contributions! We don’t have a guide yet, but an example of a successful contribution is https://github.com/hobinjk/XKit/pull/8.

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datadrain-deactivated20180907 asked:

The bookmark text on the side-bar for each bookmarked post are dark colored. A dark, grey color color. #444444(68,68,68) It's clashing with the background and very hard to distinguish.

This should be fixed now.

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supernaturallynoble asked:

I know that you guys already have MORE than enough on your hands right now (THANK YOU!) but are there plans in the future to develop a new xkit type app? I'm guessing that doesn't fall into the open source category.

If you run Firefox on Android, XKit will work as-is if you use the desktop site. Otherwise, we don’t have plans to port over to mobile right now. You’re right in assuming that XKit mobile isn’t open source, so we can’t support that without writing an entirely new app.

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Anonymous asked:

idk about ur opinion on this but did you inform/ask atesh (xkit guy) about this whole thing...? im not trying to judge or anything but you know, even if he didnt reply

I did submit a pull request (offer to share our updated code) to him a couple days ago, which should have sent him an email. We got no response. If he does come back, he can accept our changes (or not, if he chooses) and update xkit.info and his version of XKit.

Since we have a ton more followers now, I’d like to reiterate that what we’re doing is an accepted practice in the world of open source, GPL-licensed software (which XKit is). We have more information on this in our FAQ.

Another question we’ve gotten is why not just change the name, and the answer to that is that if Atesh does come back, he won’t have to pick through our code to change it back.

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Anonymous asked:

the new post buttons header thing stays put if you uncheck 'scroll the new posts icon along with me' under tweaks

Thanks for the report! People with this problem, have you tried this?

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This is some very broken shit.

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This looks similar to another bug that started when someone clicked the “xkit installer” in the extension browser. Did you also click that? If not, could you tell us what your browser is and what extensions you’ve installed?

General PSA: don’t click the “xkit installer” in the extension browser. It’s an artifact of how we reimplemented extension downloads, and I’ll be asking the other developer about hiding it when they get online.

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Anonymous asked:

for the broken shit you know about, do you have plans to fix this shit or is it all unfixable?

We have plans to fix it. Also, the list isn’t in any particular order. The list is there so that people can check it before submitting an error report.

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Anonymous asked:

I hate being a bother, but I am a roleplayer that uses the old Xkit. Does your version have the some of the old Xkit extentions? Such as the tweaks, timestamps, reblog yourself? Is it possible to post a picture of what your version looks like? I hate being a bother my computer is just old and crappy and I am afraid that if I change something such as Xkit, something might break/stop working/etc. ; v ;

It looks almost exactly like the old XKit, and has all the old extensions. We’re just updating the old code.

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Anonymous asked:

The greyed out font mentioned earlier is present in the bookmarks extension. Also I want to say thank you for taking the time to getting xkit more up to date!

This has been fixed and should be available tomorrow when the other person gets online.