Xkit - Tumblr Posts
not me realizing that with tumblr moving the icons to the side, it eliminates xkit, which was situated at the top. what a scumbag move
RIP old blue and our free will
...and they didn’t even bother to check the grammar.
I feel like I've become unstoppable ever since i got google chrome & xkit. Reblogging and adding a fucking novel in the tags is just way too easy now and I WILL NEVER STOP.
The New Tumblr Update (Jan 28)
There is apparently a new update from Tumblr. An update that brings a brand new text editor, among other small tweaks. Unfortunately, none of my test accounts received the update yet, so I don’t know much about it.
From the message I’ve been getting, I know that it breaks the QuickTags functionality, One-Click Reply extension and and some other Post Editor tweaks.
I’ve also been receiving messages about XKit Mobile quickly logging users off right after logging in.
Unfortunately, since I don’t have the update yet, there is absolutely nothing I can do about this for now.
As soon as I receive the update, I’ll do my best fix the extensions that were affected by this change and the XKit Mobile app as soon as possible.
Thank you for your patience and support.
Been noticing this myself. I dunno what can possibly be done about it, though. He’s just went completely silent and it’s been a month.
so I’m kinda concerned for the xkit guy?? he hasn’t posted an update to xkit since january and his personal blog has been dead since november is he okay?? should we be concerned?? miss you xkit guy
The current XKit/Tumblr/Mobile problem...
I’ve been experiencing this only on Firefox, and it seems okay on Chrome, but I wanted to address this with people that are having the ‘constant loading’ problem, seen here and here. *There will be a tl;dr at the bottom of each major section of this post fer easier reading.
Fer those of you that don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s the short and skinny:
Some people have tried to edit posts/drafts on sideblogs and are stuck with this constant, obnoxious load screen that never ends.
Here’s what I’ve noticed:
It’s not technically XKit because disabling XKit... the loading was still there.
It’s not Userstyles
It is FIREFOX and their new update; at least on PC.
I’m 100% unsure about Chrome/Mobile
Part 1:
This image has been haunting me since the last Firefox update, and I haven’t been able to stop it, until now.
There are a couple problems I’ve seen, and I’ll tell you now what I’ve experienced, so that you can avoid it (if not escape it entirely like I have).
The update fer Firefox hit that caused XKit to do something else fer me that was really annoying. As I run several side blogs, I practically require the quick queue/post/draft buttons that people use on the dashboard, but when I would do that, fer some ungodly reason, they would only go to my main blog queue/post/draft. Which was a serious problem.
I responded to that by rolling back to the last Firefox version, aka 35.0.1, and that one was the one that, while I queue/post/draft perfectly fine, I get stuck with the loading screen.
Both options sucked.
Tl;dr:
Here’s what I was experiencing:
Firefox 35.0.1 - Constant loading screen when editing posts/drafts.
Firefox 36.0.4 - Queue/Post/Draft kept going to my main blog instead of side blogs I assigned them to.
Part 2:
Since I was still stuck with this a month later, and the XKit guy hasn’t updated at all (or had even posted in a month) I decided to see what would happen, once more, when I jumped back to 36.0.4.
I updated, queued and drafted a few things just to test the waters and the same thing happened, as expected; they kept ending up in my main blog queue/drafts respectively and not on my side blogs where they were SUPPOSED to go.
So since I definitely couldn’t deal with that crap, I went back to 35.0.1, and considered the alternative others have been talking about.
But low and behold... the loading has stopped.
I have no clue why, as it is the same old version I was using before, but I’ve tested it numerous times and it still seems like all is well. Both problems have gone away, and I have no clue why.
Tl;dr:
I tried update Firefox and it was still broke, then reverted and somehow unknowingly, things are all fixed.
Part 3:
I don’t know why it werks now, it’s likely something will break or it’ll stop, but it’s werking so far fer, me so I’m gonna offer you the two options (keep in mind that these are likely temporary, and might not werk at all fer you):
What I did (a possible cure? Until the next update at least)
This might not werk at all fer you, but it also... might. So it’s werth a shot, right?
Go here, scroll halfway down until you see this:
I still want to downgrade — where can I get the previous version?
It’s large, so you can’t miss it.
There will be a set of bullets under that headline and you want to make sure that the first one says: Firefox 34.0.5, and not a different version. Alternatively just click the link I just provided you and it should werk.
Download it, close Firefox completely, install the old version and allow it to reopen Firefox. Check both problems I’ve mentioned in this post and if it’s fixed, it’s fixed.
If not, I advise you to install the newer version and then revert back to the old version once more. To do this simply click Help > About Firefox, there should be the option to update there.
And to go back, well, you’ve already done this once before, just repeat those steps.
I had to revert back TWICE myself, and now it werks fer me, so I dunno if trying it once or twice is the trick. /shrug
Like I said, this may not werk fer everyone, it may not last long, but it werked fer me, and... well, I wanted to offer my option just in case it saves you a lot of frustration.
What others do (a kinda werk around, fer now, in hopes that the XKit guy returns)
First of all, this method doesn’t make it so that you can edit drafts at all. All yer drafts can’t be edited with this method. It only werks on editing things that are posted.
To edit drafts, my only alternative fer that has been to open them on my page, copy, and paste them into a new post entirely, edit that and then post immediately. Making drafts to edit later doesn’t werk at all with this method, but MY werk around made it so that I could actually edit them; fer that, scroll up to the section above this.
Aside from drafts, if you only want to edit posts that are already up, just do the following...
Go to XKit and Install ‘Go-to-Dash’ if you haven’t already.
Go to the post on yer blog that you want to edit and click this button:
Just as before, if it werks, it werks. Others use this werk around and I’ve tried it, but now I don’t need it.
Good luck, everyone, I hope this post helped! If it did, feel free to reblog and share it.
If you have any questions just ask me.
The XKit guy updated XKit and now it's there again, it doesn’t seem to appear yet on the dashboard, just when yer on that blog/side blog’s page.
Okay, so the XKit guy isn’t posting on his blog, but he’s definitely around. My XKit just updated four things and now I can see the entire sidebar without having to click anything. YAY! He hasn’t abandoned us!
everyone reblogging those XKIT GUY SAVE US I HOPE THE XKIT GUY FIXES THIS XDDDD posts can go fuck themselves bc we literally drove the man to a mental break by circulating an accusation of him of being a SEXUAL PREDATOR. with no fucking proof at all. not even a goddamn name.
the fact that he does this level of coding (read: FIX A BILLION DOLLAR WEBSITE) for absolutely free and only asks for meager donations and suggestions in return is astounding. but you all fucking take advantage of coders and programmers like it’s just slapping a keyboard when half of you can’t even install a script on your theme. i sent an ask with a problem and in 10 minutes he’d quietly updated both the extensions and now it’s perfect again.
all it took was an anonymous ask to ruin this man’s life and i am being 100% serious when i say i hope that infected sore of a person steps some fucking broken glass.
to the xkit guy, if you’re out there: we love you so much and thank you so much for all you do. i’m so sorry.
Speak fer yerself. I’m not looping myself in with the general haters here on Tumblr. I’ve always been supportive of the XKit guy.
Okay, so the XKit guy isn’t posting on his blog, but he’s definitely around. My XKit just updated four things and now I can see the entire sidebar without having to click anything. YAY! He hasn’t abandoned us!
About xkit guy and why he left us
Some of you may have noticed that xkit guy has not been active for a few months and while most of you still have functioning xkit extensions, you may have noticed that there have not been any new updates or have been experiencing glitches and xkit guy has not fixed it the way he normally does.
My xkit has actually stopped working a few weeks ago and default tumblr has been a hideous and extremely inconvenient place ever since. I was talking to chimis-changa about it and we were joking about how xkit guy was like a superhero and tumblr staff are the…questionable characters that cause trouble for him. chimis-changa decided to investigate, he found out why xkit guy has not been active and it freaking sucks.
xkit guy (his real name is Atesh) has been good to us. He made dozens of really useful extensions that made our tumblr lives easier, he has diligently kept track of all the inconvenient tumblr updates and actually took time off from his paying day job and spent hours trying to fix everything because people were calling for xkit guy to save them from terrible design choices and he always tried to deliver.
and then someone sent a message to The Abusers and Predators on Tumblr page about something that he allegedly said to them, but they had no proof. The Abusers and Predators blog then made a post asking people who may have been harassed by Atesh to come forward but no one did. And because this website is full of self righteous assholes who always jump to conclusions without waiting for actual legit proof or even take the goddamn time to read everything carefully, they decided to go ahead and send Atesh a ton of abusive and cruel hate mail even on his personal blogs.
The Abusers and Predators blog has posted this post explaining that they were not accusing him and that they were only asking for people to come forward if they had similar experiences.
Apparently, because of the enormous amount of abuse he was getting, Atesh decided to leave tumblr. His last message was:
Congratulations to every person that sent him abuse. You have driven someone who was innocent, that spent hours of his time, time that he could have spent at work earning money, trying to help you. We don’t even know if this has made him suicidal but it might have, and that is not fucking okay.
Personally, I want to make it up to this guy. He has not deactivated his blogs yet so I am going to try to send him as many kind “thank you”s and as many “i am so sorry people are assholes” as i possibly can. If you would like to do the same, the links to his blogs are down below. Maybe we can drown out all the terrible messages he got. Maybe he will decide to log in someday and see that we appreciate all the hard work he did for us.
Please remember that there was no proof he did anything and he was never given a chance to defend himself. Don’t be a dickhead. How would you feel if you were accused of something like this when you didn’t do it?
please help me make it up to him:
This is one of his personal blogs (warning: nsfw)
And this is the other (this one is not nsfw)
Bring back Tumblr’s sidebar
I made an XKit extension! You can get your sidebar back now. Find out how to install it right here. It also works really well with my user style.
XKIT: IT’S HAPPENING
We have a mostly stable new XKit release for Firefox and Chrome! Available here. Uninstall your old XKit (if you haven’t already) before trying our new version.
Firefox users: Make sure you have the newest version of Firefox. Click the .xpi file. Firefox will ask you to confirm the installation. Get it here.
Chrome users: Download the .crx file, then drag the file into Chrome. Get it here.
We haven’t been able to test every aspect of every extension yet, so if you find a bug, please send it in to this blog or leave an issue on github, along with which browser you are using.
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!
Keep reading
Hey guys, we’ve been made aware through various channels that about two weeks ago Mozilla changed their policies on Extension Signing—something that we were never notified about, even given that we had reviews open at the time—and we were able to get our extension signed without re-writing it, contrary to what we had been told earlier by Mozilla volunteers.
Anyway, without further ado, we’re proud to present a version of New XKit that works with Firefox 43! Nothing else has changed, it’s literally exactly the same extension you have installed, but working. You’ll still have to download it directly from our github for now because Mozilla won’t show it on their store, but that’s a minor inconvenience in the long run, and we’re working on addressing it.
Anyway, let us know if you have any questions! And as always, if you got any trouble with XKit, you are welcome to join our support chat room. (hosted on gitter, if you want to join with a github account)
Don’t like the new dark blue? We’ve got you covered.
This is a short-term fix that essentially undoes the new dashboard update (except on settings pages, sorry), including for any themes or userstyles you use. Grab Old Blue from the gallery today and fling yourself back in time to a more comfortable yesterday.
Declutter Tumblr
The new layout it a whole mess. Thankfully Xkit can already help with a bunch of this! I'm sure it'll give more options soon.
Vanilla Tumblr: (I have marked in red what can be removed. The tabs can be set not to stick, so you will really only see them at the top of your dash. Empty box on the left for hidden notifications and shop sparkle, i just didn't have any. I'm EU so no Live for me).
Xkit Rewritten Tumblr:
The settings I use:
