#accepting my role as the beta editor gal.

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FIXES FOR THE TRIM REBLOGS "ORIGINAL POST MADE IN LEGACY EDITOR" GLITCH

If you are using the beta editor to cut a post that was originally made in the legacy editor, you will get a warning telling you that trim reblogs may not work correctly. Using trim reblogs on the post will appear to work as intended, but refreshing your drafts or posting the thread will show that your latest reply has been bizarrely duplicated.

Before, I thought the only reliable method of fixing this was to move the thread to a fresh post. But through experimentation, I've since learned that there are not one but two easy fixes for this!

Option 1 — use trim reblogs in your drafts before writing any of your reply

Option 2 — use trim reblogs in your drafts, refresh your drafts, and remove the duplicate using Tumblr's built-in delete reblogs feature

I personally think it's best to just get into the habit of using trim reblogs before writing anything, but both options are pretty easy to manage. I will go over both under the cut.

Disclaimer! Both of these fixes worked for me in my testing, but since this a fairly new problem, I may not be aware of every situation. Please let me know if these don't work for you so I can look into it and update this post accordingly.

Option 1

The first option (which I find much easier) is to simply trim before writing your reply. Save the post to your drafts without adding anything to it.

Use trim reblogs as intended. You'll still get the warning -- continue past it and select only the first trail item (the oldest reply) to remove.

You'll be left with just your partner's previous reply, like this.

Now you can edit the post to add your reply.

Refreshing the page or posting the draft will not bring back the duplicated reply.

Option 2

The second option, which requires a little more work, is to use trim reblogs, then use Tumblr's built in feature to remove additional reblogs. This was actually suggested to me by an anon a while back, but I didn't get around to testing it until now -- I can confirm it works!

This option is for when your reply has already been written and the post is saved in your drafts.

Use trim reblogs as usual -- again, you'll get the warning. Just continue past it and remove the oldest reblog trail.

The post will look normal in your drafts.

But if you refresh your drafts, or post the reply, you'll see that your reply has been duplicated.

At this point, click to edit the post. Hovering over the first of your duplicated replies will bring up a red X -- this is Tumblr's built-in feature to remove reblogs from a post.

Click that red X to get rid of the first duplicated reply. You'll know it worked if it says "put reblogs back."

And save your draft again.

The duplicated reply will be gone, and posting shouldn't cause any problems.