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Week in Review: December 04 - December 11

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

• Anti-Capitalism v1.2.3: Don’t you hate video ads? We do too! Now you can block video ads so that you won’t be reminded about… whatever it is that’s going on in the world of capitalism.
• Go-To Dash v1.2.0: The new blog buttons were making a mess of everything! Guys, learn to clean up after yourselves. It’s a vital skill you’ll need as adults.
  
• One-Click Postage v4.1.10: Fixed the “Replace caption, not append” option so that it does exactly what it says on the tin, as well as fixed an issue with blog controls not working. Seriously, the mess on that one was so bad that it spilled onto other extensions!
  
• Outbox v0.9.8: Actually save messages when sending them from the dashboard or inbox.

New Features

• Find Inactives v0.3.0: Added an option to filter by blogs that haven’t been updated in a week.
• Pokés v0.4.1: Added a Pokémon counter so now you can figure out if you’ve really caught ‘em all. In addition, we fixed the yellow Floette sprite and some Pokémon display names.
  
• XCloud v1.1.0: If you ever wanted to bypass the 5 MB limit of uploading to XCloud, you can do it by importing and exporting locally. You’re welcome.

Changes in Review

• Find Inactives v0.3.1: Make it so that this extension doesn’t hang when the language isn’t English.
• Messaging Tweaks v1.5.0: If you don’t plan on sharing posts or just have a deep-seated fear/hatred of paper airplanes, you can hide it. I wonder if there’s a word for “fear of paper airplanes”?

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!

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blog controls

Hey all! You may or may not of noticed that tumblr is rolling out some backend changes to how the “in-blog controls” (the buttons at the top-right of blog.tumblr.com pages) work. This means that Go-To-Dash, One-Click Postage, Post Archiver and others have all been having a hard time working on post permalink pages.

We just released an update that fixes the two most popular, Go-To-Dash and One-Click Postage, and we’re working on the other extensions. 

Let us know if you have any questions! If you already have New XKit, you should be seeing the update within a few hours (or you can go to the “Other” panel in your preferences and click “Update All” to get it immediately). If you don’t already have New XKit, you can grab it from the Chrome store or here for Firefox.

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Week in Review: November 27 - December 04

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

• Auto Tagger v0.6.7: Auto tags no longer stack on top of each other when creating new posts that require a URL or an upload. We had to straighten out the tags and lecture them about safety. One of the tags could get hurt!
• Blacklist v2.7.7: Added a missing word so that XKit doesn’t sound like it’s talking too fast on a phone with really bad reception.
• Header Options v2.4.0: The developer who made this change would like to preface this fix with a message: “I want you all to know that I feel personally victimized by Tumblr’s coding decisions, and would like to apologize for the sins I have committed herein.” In other news, this extension now acts friendlier on mobile devices.
• Limit People v0.2.3: Don’t hide all posts in the side window. That would, like, totally make this totally useless. Totally.
• Old Sidebar v1.1.2: Some of our extensions are just really mean, aren’t they? We’ve prevented Old Sidebar from crushing the crushes grid on the Following page.
• Soft Refresh v0.5.5: Clicking on the Tumblr logo now performs a soft refresh again. A gentler refresh. The lightest, most delicate refresh.

New Features

• Messaging Tweaks v1.4.0: A couple of things happened. First, this extension now only runs on pages where the messaging button exists. Second, we’ve added the option to remove usernames from messages so that it won’t be so cluttered.
• Pokés v0.3.0: Catch Pokémon on your dashboard!!11!!!1! In addition, we made Cosplay Pikachu all female, made clicking notifications bring you to the Bulbapedia, and provided optional backgrounds for Pokémon for those you who use Tumblr with your own custom themes. And before you ask: yes, we’ve heard you asking for a way to rename Pokémon and battle other people. Don’t worry, we have lots in store for you!
  
• Reblog Display Options v1.3.0: We heard you guys liked options, so we added two new ones: a reverse rainbow scheme and alternating backgrounds, which will lightly highlight reblogs in alternating gray and new comments in blue.

Changes in Review

• Messaging Tweaks v1.4.1: Gotta make sure that :+1: emoji works properly.
• Editable Reblogs v3.0.5: There are two incoming fixes. The first restores the green reblog symbol and the second redirects you back to the blog page you reblogged from.

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!

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What is this?!
Where did this come from?

And more importantly….
CAN I CATCH IT?

The answer to that is YES!

The New XKit Team proudly presents: Pokés.

Browse your dash, find and collect these little cuties by clicking on them!

Want to see your hardly earned Pokémon? Go to your XKit Control Panel and check Pokés’ settings page!

I won’t ask you if you’re a boy or a girl, but I will go and tell you: Gotta catch ‘em all! Be the first to finish the pokédex! (And don’t forget to show us once you managed to capture them all!)

We have a lot planned for this extension, so be hype!

And like always, if you got any problems, don’t hesitate to either join our live support chat or with a github account our gitter chat!

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2 Weeks in Review: 13 November - 27 November

Extensions

• Tag Tracking+
  • v1.6.3: More tracked tag fixes (712)
• Editable Reblogs
  • v3.0.3: Used the same logic on links that we do on asks instead of aborting (763)
  • v3.0.4: Restored the save button dropdown options (751)
• XWidgets
  • v0.3.1: Fixed XWidgets Opener being hidden behind Header (761)
• PostBlock
  • v0.2.5: Fixed a minor typo (782)
• Tweaks
  • v5.2.0: Made the Dashboard respond to changes in window size (785)
• Header Options
  • v2.3.2: Changed the fixed-width header option to scale if the browser window is smaller than the original fixed-width setting, so no horizontal scrolling (797)
• Messaging Tweaks
  • v1.2.0: Added notifications for messages (759)
  • v1.3.0: We added Emoji support if you type something like :beer: (encased in colons), because the internet is srs bsns (798)
• XKit Preferences
  • v6.0.3: Fixed blank dropdown options in Firefox (792)

Upcoming changes

• 669: Give the post editor plain-text tag editor like in One Click Postage, because no one likes having to delete an entire tag to fix a typo
• 696: A fix to allow you to unfollow inactive blogs all at once
• 745: Stop Blacklist from screwing up links.
• 793: Add mobile options & compatibility to Header Options, including an option for a scrolling header.

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Messaging Tweaks 1.3 Update

We extended Messaging Tweak’s functionality again and totally forgot to announce it!

Lots of people have been asking for it, so today we are giving you a bunch of notification options! Don’t miss your IM messages ever again!

You can now have a sound play every time your partner sends you a message, make the text in your tab change or even have Desktop Notifications if you’re not in the proper tab!

Additionally, we bring you emojis now! You can use every emoji from http://www.emoji-cheat-sheet.com/ (+an easter egg one, let’s see if you can find it!), so go wild!

And as always, if you got any trouble, you can always hit us up on our live support chat, or if you have a github account you can also visit our support gitter chat!

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Blank comboboxes in Firefox fixed!

A lot of you that use Firefox have reported weird behavior regarding the comboboxes of the XKit Control Panel lately, specifically them being blank but options can still be selected and change.

With the update of the internal XKit Preferences extension to 6.0.3, this should be fixed! Either wait for the update or force an update under XKit Control Panel > Other > Update All > Update all my extensions

As always, if you got any trouble, either send us an ask, or join our live support chat or if you have a github account, our gitter 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!

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Editable Reblogs 3.0.4 – return of the dropdown button and other matters

Today we are releasing Editable Reblogs 3.0.4. This update to the ER extension contains a number of major fixes, including:

• Restoring the dropdown post button (including post scheduling and private posting)
  
• Fixing a bug which was causing the wrong date to be attached to edited posts.
  

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!

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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!