#how to xkit

[spartanlocke]

every time i say tumblr staff (and tumblr itself let's be real) made social media worse by never punishing harassment, allowing people to get comfortable pushing cancel and callout culture so they could harass and dehumanize anyone (especially minorities) they want without ever having to worry about consequences, an attitude they brought with them to other websites like tiktok and twitter after the 2018 porn ban....

This is what I'm talking about. tumblr staff doesn't give a shit if you're stalked and harassed, but if you're a trans woman posting selfies? instant ban.

tumblr staff has NEVER done anything to protect its users, but now they're actively participating in doing the harm.

[r0selace]

I see you cry a lot, can I walk you home?

[beneathsilverstars]

[cosmokyrin]

Aren't you somethin' to admire? 'Cause your shine is somethin' like a mirror And I can't help but notice You reflect in this heart of mine (x)

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well inspiration happened sORRY NOT SORRY-

[tonbane]

OOT COLLEGE AU

The follow up to this [small comic] :) Gan isn't just a sports guy, he's studying Chemistry like Zelda and if he's not your classmate you'd never believe he has a nerdy side :3. Also he's the kind of guy who's absolutely adorable yet doesn't believe it when Link calls him cute. I still need to make character sheets don't mind me 🚶‍♀️

Reblog to gently cradle him face 🔄

[friend-crow]

Oh god, where has my Post Block gone? 😨

[robinniko]

If you would like, feel free to put why you prefer using mobile or desktop!

[prayingforlove]

Hide Tumblr Live

It looks like tumblr live was recently released outside the US so for anyone who doesn't want to deal with "snoozing" it every 7 days, you can permanently hide it from your dashboard with the Xkit Rewritten browser extension!

If you're not already using it, I highly suggest adding this as it makes the tumblr experience infinitely better and more customizable.

Mobile users I'm sorry, I've had updates turned off forever and never got the live update so you may still have to snooze it if live shows up there too. My condolences.

[sonofsaviors]

@all-that-is-gold-is-now-gone

Dwight glanced over at Logan as he inched closer. It was odd, looking at the young man, he was so much like Negan and at the same time, nothing like him. Negan although grown would never have the understanding, the depth that Logan was already showing. Negan would never want to do better. He liked power, he would drown in it. But something told Dwight that Logan wouldn't. If the boy ever stood to inherit the power of his father, he would not drown in it. Or be consumed by it. At least Dwight hoped not, he would do what he could to never let that happen. Perhaps Dwight had become too attached to Logan. A child that wasn't his own. Logan wasn't his kid, his little brother, or anything like that. And yet, Dwight felt protective of him. Willing to take the brunt of whatever Negan had to offer to keep Logan safe. Just like Sherry...His wife flashed in his mind and he quickly banished the picture. He turned his head back to Logan as the young boy inched a bit closer, without missing a further beat Dwight pulled Logan into a hug, a real hug, not some half-assed bullshit some would do with a half hug and a clap on the back. Dwight actually hugged Logan, knowing he could probably use it. A chuckle left his lips as he pulled away, "Well Yoda does have some pretty good advice." Dwight smirked gently in amusement before he got quiet after a moment once Logan said he knew he was trying as well. "Yeah..." Dwight nodded slowly and looked at the ground, "yeah I am." He was trying, but his demons were bigger than him...bigger than most. His demons were Negan-shaped and colored. His others were Sherry...but she more so existed like a ghost.

Logan immediately melted into the hug, appreciating that Dwight hadn't outright rejected him. Not that he had really expected it. While Dwight could be a survivor in all definitions of the word, he had never been anything but kind to Logan.

"I'm sorry."

The young Savior murmured, squeezing Dwight a bit tighter.

"I'm sorry Dad hurt you and Sherry. I just... I'm sorry."

[godsfavoritescientist]

Sounds legit to me! Someone should give this guy absolute power

[thebraxiatelcollection]

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[sadcena]

How to Download Audio Posts on Tumblr Mobile (2024) Android

Post in video X

Things you'll need: FireFox, Xkit Rewritten extension, and an Android Device

Link to my other tutorial: How to Download Videos on Tumblr Mobile X

Step by Step guide under the cut

Find an audio post

Scroll down and click on the share button (the arrow button)

Click on the FireFox icon (if it's not there click on the 'Other' icon and scroll until you see the Firefox icon)

Firefox will open the audio post in your browser

Click on the kabab menu in the upper right hand corner( 3 vertical dots)

Click on 'Add-ons'

Go to the top of the menu and click 'Add-ons Manager'

Scroll to the bottom of the menu and click 'Find more Add-ons'

It'll take you to a Firefox extension webpage

Type 'Xkit' in the search bar above

Click on Xkit Rewritten

Click add to Firefox

A popup will appear. Click add

*optional: click add to private browsing ( for convenience)

Click 'okay, got it'

Click on the Kebab menu again and go to Add-ons

Click on 'Add-on Manger'

Look for Xkit Rewritten and click on it

Click on settings

Scroll to the bottom of the menu

Enable 'Vanilla Audio' by pressing the switch

Back out of all the menus

Go back to the audio post

A new grey scrub bar will appear on the purple audio post bar

Long press on the grey scrub bar (the timestamp area is a good spot)

Click 'Save file to device '

Your device may ask you to complete the action using an app. Click on Firefox

Then you're done

You can rename the audio file you just downloaded in your file directory app. You can most likely find it under audio and in the downloads folder

I'm sorry if the tutorial sounds condescending. I just want to make it as clear as possible. Also I do understand that Xkit can be used for more than downloading audio posts. This is mainly for people who don't use desktop Tumblr

[alithographica]

No yeah this is a good design. This is functional. Redundant information that crowds 50% of the screen is really a cutting-edge choice I feel like I'm in a budget Matrix it's great

[brekkersource]

how to use beta + trim reblogs

so! we all know about beta editor by now. for better or for worse, a lot of us are using tumblr's new beta editor, and it's likely that everyone will have no choice but to use it soon. this unfortunately means a lot of us can't use the new xkit to trim our roleplay posts. there have been a lot of posts explaining this and the benefits of xkit rewritten; this one, this one, and this one especially helped me understand what's going on. however, a lot of people still seem to be floundering around in the dark so i wanted to make a tutorial that sums up everything i've learned from other tutorials as well as my own trial and error.

if you want a step by step guide to trimming reblogs (with screenshots) as well as a brief overview of beta editor's pros and cons, keep reading.

the first step, obviously, is to switch to beta editor and install xkit rewritten. the posts linked above explain how and why so i won't go into detail here. trim reblogs is the new version of edit reblogs, and it looks like this. one of the best features is that you can use it even after posting your reply, so if something glitches or you forget to trim, you still have a chance to fix it.

once you have them, there are two different ways i've seen people use xkit rewritten to trim their posts.

1. seperate reblogs

this is, in my opinion, the best and easiest way to go about this. mun 1 makes a post, mun 2 reblogs it, and then mun 1 uses xkit rewritten to trim their original post from the thread.

however, this only works if the original post was made in beta. if you try to trim a post that was made in legacy, you get get a warning, and if you go ahead with it, it's going to glitch somehow. in my testing, my reply duplicated! which is very annoying. and despite what the warning says, repeating the trim usually does not last—even if it seems like it does at first.

2. (probably) copy and paste

this is more visually reminsicent of editable reblogs from new xkit. there might be an easier way to do this that i don't know about—if so, please let me know. the name kind of explains it all; a mun will copy and paste their partner's reply, indent it, and write their own below. then, obviously, they'll have to trim all the past reblogs of the post. this is especially good for people who like doing pretty headers or editing their partner's url to look pretty, you know what i'm talking about.

there is a glitch i have run into on my own blog a few times that i was unable to duplicate, so i've just taken a screenshot of my own blog with most of the information blanked out. if only one person if using beta, trim reblogs will still sometimes glitch and duplicate. i trimmed my reblog multiple times but every time i reloaded, my duplicated reply was back. please, please communicate with your partners. i know it's annoying and awkward but it will save everyone so much frustration. especially if you're clinging to legacy, please let your partners know so they can adjust accordingly—or consider switching to beta, even if just for that thread.

but beta is not all bad i promise

i know how frustrating this all is (i fully refused to do drafts for a few days once beta really started kicking in and new xkit stopped working for me), but i am slowly coming around to it.

tags are editable now! i cannot explain the joy i experienced when i first realized this. no more typing up a long, rambling tag only to notice a typo as soon as you've hit return. you can edit tags at any point—even when going back and editing an old post! does this mean that i have accidentally started editing a tag when i meant to move it? yes but it's worth it.

making the text small is so much easier now. no more going into html or command+option+shift! instead, it's available as an option right in between the italic and link buttons when you highlight text.

you can now edit the size and type of text very easily! this did confuse me at first when i couldn't find the indent button, but it's now in a toggle list; if you click on the regular tab when text is highlighted, there are a ton of options including indent, chat, lucille (whatever that means), bigger/biggest, and more.

however, it's not all great. but it's tumblr, what did we expect.

the most frustrating thing for me personally is that you can no longer copy and past an image link into your reply, or else the image url will be tagged on underneath it. it looks funky and isn't great if you don't want to download a million gifs. while i've just been downloading/dragging the gifs i want to use to desktop and uploading them to my reply, it's annoying to have to clean up my desktop and empty my computer's trash so i'm not wasting storage space. additionally, this does not work if the gifset is in a post rather than a page; the only option there is to copy and paste and simply put up with the image url. clicking "add image" and then pasting the image or dragging the gif from the page/post's tab into the tumblr tab and onto your reply still results in a url. if anyone has figured out a workaround for any of this please let me know; otherwise, i think we should all just agree to ignore the url if it shows up. update: thank you sm to anon for informing me of @rpclefairy's roleplay formatter! if you put the gif in their formatter, copy the source, and paste that into the post when it's in html mode, not rich text mode, the link is gone! and thanks to tumblr realizing this was annoying, if you click the little link icon that appears when you hover over an image, delete the url, and hit done so it saves, the url will be gone!

formatting is......weird now. if you make your paragraph text small and then decide to add another sentence, the new text won't be small. you'll have to edit it again. text that has been formatted (small, italic, bold, etc) will be highlighted in a very strange way when the cursor is in the formatted section. as far as i've been able to figure out, even after poking around a bit in the html, there's no way to change any of this. not to sound like a broken record here, but if you've found a way to change any of this, please let me know. otherwise i think we just have to put up with this bullshit.

there's always a chance that these things will be fixed; it is still just a beta system after all. for now, i think the best thing the community can do is communicate with partners, ask questions, and just accept that there's gonna be some weird shit going on and we're all doing our best.

if any of this changes i will update this post, but in the meantime, pls share if this helped or you want to share the word. and for the last time, if i've gotten anything wrong, just let me know and i'll update.

[rekishi-aka]

XKit on mobile and ad free tumblr experience

So with Google making adblocking basically impossible soon and Youtube also being a pita with the adblocking on Chrome and also me seeing so much griping around the tumblr app, I wanted to show everyone how to get an XKit enhanced, ad-free experience on mobile.

This works as of December 2023.

Please note that this tutorial is for Android, as I don't use iOS, I'm not sure how it would work there. Although I'm sure some trial and error will help. 

This will only work with Firefox Nightly or Firefox Beta. I'm personally using Firefox Nightly, but it really doesn't matter that much. 

Go to "Settings" and scroll down to "About Firefox Nightly". Tap on the logo 5 times in order to enable debug mode. A popup will tell you that debug mode is enabled.

When you go back to "Settings", a new item will have appeared, "Custom Add-Ons Collection". You want to open that. Then you type in 18195107 for the collection and name is "tumblr" or something similar.

Note: This is my collection. You can make your own collection very easily! I've just done this for my own convenience regarding wanting to have all the add ons I'm usually using in one place for mobile. Go wild with whatever you want to add here.

This collection contains:

µBlock Origin

XKit Rewritten

Tampermonkey

The app will be restarted automatically.

Now you can go to the add ons section of Firefox and enable the apps that you want.

Done!

Under the cut I'm showing what I filter for µBlock Origin, how to export XKit Settings from desktop to mobile. I'll talk about Tampermonkey in another post.

XKit Settings export

If you don't want to enable all your XKit stuff again on mobile, it's very easy to export from desktop. Go to your XKit Settings, then Backup and either download it or copy it all and paste it into a draft email or whatever:

Then pick the Import function on your mobile browser and paste it there. Done! So easy! No more ads, quick reblog enabled, and all your other settings there!

µBlock Origin Filters

For mobile, I don't usually use the dashboard unfucker, because the new tumblr layout doesn't annoy me that much....except for tumblr Mart etc. (tumblr Live gets taken care of by XKit, thankfully) So to get rid of those go to your µBlock Origin Dashboard -> My Filters

Enter:

! 2023-12-14 tumblr.com - Navigation ! Hide "Explore" menu item tumblr.com##li:matches-attr("title"="Explore") ! Hide Live menu item tumblr.com##li:matches-attr("title"="Live") ! Hide TumblrMart menu item tumblr.com##li:matches-attr("title"="TumblrMart") ! Hide "Get a domain" menu item tumblr.com##li:matches-attr("title"="Get a domain") ! Hide "Go Ad-Free" menu item tumblr.com##li:matches-attr("title"="Go Ad-Free")

If you want to hide blocked posts (XKit does this as well, so it's unnecessary, but just in case):

!hide blocked posts tumblr.com##article:has(.W0ros)

I mostly use the built in filter lists:

As well as the Bypass Paywall Filters list (you import this at the bottom of this tab): https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters

And yeah, that's it! Much better experience than the mobile app. I only use that to track notifications, really, but for browsing I use the browser only. This is partially to avoid triggers, because this way I don't even have to see the ominous "This post was filtered because it contains X trigger, we just re-traumatized you, you're welcome!" message tumblr is so fond of when filtering posts.

[valflame]

rising from the grave is anyone still around even