#is that tumblr desktop or is that xkit i dont know

[cpunkbubby]

When we hear the bell we all know were going to hhheeAAAALLLLLLLAHHHHHHHHHH

[the-kipsabian]

tumblr stop hiding blogs i follow on my dash challenge

//unfollowing and refollowing does not help the issue lol and neither does logging out and logging back in :)

i sent a ticket to tumblr about this but idk how much that'll do but. we'll see. its just been like a week now and its infuriating i just wanna see my friends :(

[aropride]

how to install dashboard unfucker (for desktop)

hi i use desktop and i use the dashboard unfucker extension by dragongirlsnout and you should too because it's awesome. i don't know much about computers so it was intimidating to set up but ended up being really easy.

but first:

what is dashboard unfucker?

dashboard unfucker is an extention that makes being on tumblr bearable again.

(ID: 2 screenshots of tumblr with urls/posts etc censored. the first is with the new layout, with labels on the left, the ad-free button, "check out these blogs," "explore all of tumblr," the radar, and no easy way to access your own blog. the second is with the extension enabled, the left hand side of the screen is empty, posts are wider, navigation icons are back at the top right, and the only thing on the right-hand side of the dash is the dashbaord unfucker and limit checker and tag replacer from xkit. end ID)

i got it for layout changes like these- the first is cramped and ugly and i feel like i'm on twitter. the second is warm and comfy and i can make my posts wider (i dont like all the empty space). (limit checker, tag replacer, and post color were done on xkit and palettes respectively, not unfucker, btw)

with the dashboard unfucker you can:

hide the following/blog subs/for you etc tabs

get rid of the changes/staff picks/etc carousel

hide recommended blogs and tags

add profile pics back to posts

hide the radar

hide the explore page

hide tumblr shop

hide user badges

highlight bots in ur activity feed

show who follows u in the activity feed

make posts wider/slimmer and move the dash posts position to the left/right

revert messages design (and make the messages box bigger)

revert activity feed to the old design

display vote counts on polls

show poll results without clicking (no more skewing polls or "see results"!!)

disable tumblr domains

add polls to reblogs

disable "post without tags?"

show ns.fw posts

and other things that i probably missed copying this from the settings!!

so how do you do it? it seems scary but it's easy actually. take my hand

(note: i did this on firefox and tested it on chrome, i'm not familiar with other browsers, also use firefox if at all possible fuck chrome)

how to install dashboard unfucker

step 1: install either tampermonkey, tampermonkey beta, greasemonkey, or violentmonkey (if you don't already have it)

note: im using tampermonkey as an example because it's what i use

step 2a: go to firefox extensions/chrome web store/your browser's equivalent

step 2b: look up "tampermonkey" and click "add to firefox/chrome/whatever" and confirm

step 2c: you're done! yayyy

step 2: click this link. look under "installation" where it says "Click on unfucker.user.js to install or update". and click that

(ID: a screenshot of the tampermonkey install page, showing dashboard unfucker v5.7.8 installation information, the source code, and the install/cancel button. end ID)

(it should open in a new tab and look like this)

step 3: click install! (when i did this it didn't look like much happened and i got scared. dont get scared take my hand)

step 4: go to www.tumblr.com and to the right of the dash it'll have the dashboard unfucker label to the right!

(ID: the default dash again, but with the dashboard unfucker title at the top right of the right-hand side of the dash. end ID)

step 5: click the little gear icon and all the options will pop up! u can fuck around with em to ur heart's content. i recommend exporting after ur done and saving it somewhere in case u have to uninstall/reinstall to troubleshoot or smth

you're done! now u can see the results of polls without clicking them and other such things

(ID: a poll i have not voted on. it has 17 votes and 23h 56m remaining. the title is "poll :)" and the answers are "answer 1" "answer 2" and "see results". there are no percentage labels, but the amount each answer has is indicated by light blue bars in each result, as they would be if i had voted. end ID) note: i'm not sure how/if this aspect of the extension is indicated for screenreaders

THIS POST IS TRANSGENDER BTW!

[carpisuns]

Hey sorry reddit refugee with a quick question, I dont really identify with the super-fandom side of tumblr. A lot of my feeds get a lot of random like (character)x(character) fanfics and I'm wondering if there are a few common tags i could block to minimize seeing them?

Hey there, welcome to tumblr! Sorry if I tell you something you already know but I think this info is really important for curating your experience here.

While tumblr does have an option for a feed based on an algorithm, I’d say like 90% of users don’t use it. We use the “following” option, which shows only posts from people you follow, in the chronological order they were posted—with no additional posts chosen by an algorithm. If you’re on mobile it looks like this.

I just wanted to make sure you knew about this because if you are not interested in seeing certain kinds of content, I’d say the best way to not see it is to not follow people who post it a lot. Fill your dashboard with content you enjoy by following people who post the kinds of things you like.

That being said, of course no one is gonna share your taste 100% and the people you follow will likely post about things you don’t care about. Blacklisting tags will definitely help with that. People usually tag fandom posts with the fandom name or an abbreviation for it. so for example if you don’t want to see posts about the owl house you could block the tags #the owl house and #toh. (Also, if that’s the case, you should probably unfollow me, since I post about that a lot lol.)

Most shippers use a specific ship name, usually a combo of the two characters’ names, so figure out what it is and block it if you don’t want to see that ship. So for example, #zelink for zelda x link. I think that’s a much more common way of tagging ships here than character x character or character/character.

When you come across a post you don’t like, it might be helpful to check how the reblogged or the op tagged it and then block those specific tags.

If you don’t know how to block tags on mobile:

Tap the person icon on the bottom right of the screen. Then tap the gear icon on the top right. Go to general settings > filtering and add each individual tag you want to block. (On desktop I recommend downloading XKit—it has a lot of helpful customization options.)

There really isn’t a way to guarantee you don’t see any shipping fanfic posts on your dashboard in general, but again, if you don’t want to see that, don’t follow people who post it a lot. And don’t feel bad about unfollowing if you need to. I feel like the culture here is a bit different from something like twitter or Insta because our follower counts are private so they’re less of a focus. I wouldn’t worry too much about someone being offended that you unfollowed. Most people understand that we’re all trying to curate our experience.

Hope this helps! Have fun :)

[quinnhills]

Good to know you're feeling welcome! :D this is our little place in the internet, and we've decided to make it trans and gay as hell (n i gotta say, i did think "they-them gang! :o" when i found out you started using they/them too a while ago X3 ) n if you received this ask more than once, my tumblr bugged out before i could finish, sorry (。_。)

anyways, and sorry if this is long, but Woe- More Tumblr Things Be Upon Ye:

there used to not be an image limit before, causing a few- interesting posts… tho that changed a few years ago and recently, at first the limit being 10 images per post to now 30 images per post (you can also move the images around a bit)

if you plan on staying long term on tumblr and use desktop the most, i recommend getting the browser extensions Xkit &/or New Xkit cuz… yeah, tumblr is pretty nice, but it sometimes gets hard to use. it also adds extra useful things to the tumblr experience, which is nice to have. i'd say tumblr is like living in a cheap apartment in a calm area of the city. the place's great for what it is, just gotta be sure to leave rat traps near holes and dont worry about the Beast down the hall,

speaking of rats, we got an infestation. you may or may not have heard of it with the voter fraudage going with the polls a bit ago; since tumblr has little to No email verification, people outside tumblr buy bots to get in here and start posting malicious links. tho the bots are surprisingly easy to identify (often times blank blogs with very weird descriptions + stolen picture of lady or ai generated. you'll know it when you see it), and the protocol here is block and report spam so staff can deal with it

and btw if you want to keep a post for as long as your blog stands, i recommend rebloggin! thanks to how tumblr is build as, even if the original post or that blog is gone, the reblog will stay with you (+ tags on reblogs dont really make a post expand outside of your own blog, so many use this to create Very intricate personal tag systems to make easier finding posts, bc once a blog gets 1k+ post in it, it gets hard finding anything on it... <- knows this from experience u.u)

oh and last thing before i go again (and something i found out recently), another browser extension ive been loving: Stylus! with it you can customize a ton of sites to your liking And with a specific style found in the archive of this extension, you can change how the dashboard looks! even changing the background to any image you might want :D

so yeah, thats it, for now. i got more info if you want it, just lmk 👉👈

and you probably already noticed this, but there isnt really any word limit for posts or asks around these lands. tho on tags, the character limit on a single tag is 139. but you can put a Lot of tags, so there! be free mx quinn, no character limit holds you down no more ヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ

Thank you so much for the knowledge!

Some Quinn Facts:

Mx., Ms. and Miss are all acceptable :)

I use “gay as hell” as a sort of tongue-in-cheek shorthand, but I also identify as trans as hell, queer as hell, non-binary as hell, lesbian as hell, and anxious/depressive as hell

I’m a vegetarian

My favorite food is pineapple pizza (controversial, I know)

For a few years in the early 2000s, I was a licensed auctioneer

The most times I’ve ever cried during a movie is 5 times during Happiest Season

I like the idea of books, but I’m bad at reading them

Overalls give me gender euphoria, and I don’t know why

I hope to release a solo album within the next year

I hope to direct a feature-length film by the time I’m 40

Coming out was the best thing I ever did

[ranidspace]

Firefox Android update!

over 450+ new extensions were added to Firefox mobile!

Here are some that you may want:

XKit Rewritten (doesn't work for the tumblr app, just the mobile website)

Tamper/Grease/Violent Monkey (userscripts might not work)

Sponsorblock (again, just the mobile website for youtube, not the youtube app, though there are apps that incorporate it)

Stylus (userstyles might not work, and ublock can do css changes as well)

SteamDB

Indie wiki buddy

Homestuck companion (please read it using the unofficial collection, but yeah, it doesnt have a mobile app)

Translate Web Pages (may be obsolete soon as firefox is adding one, but currently doesn't detect most languages)

Ruffle (flash emulator, i dont know how well this works)

-And some addons that were also available before this update you should get:

ublock origin (no privacy badger or other adblockers or local cdn or whatever privacy addons are on the top. they're all null because firefox does that shit automatically. in other times ublock can do it as well, theres settings go look through those and enable more filter lists, this goes for desktop too)

Video background play fix (what it says on the tin, fixes videos not playing if you turn off your phone or move to a different app. this wasnt an issue for me, so whatever)

Google search fixer (lies to google and says you're browsing on chrome so they fix all the dumbass issues they added to the site to get you to switch)

In conclusion:

Use Firefox! (for android)

[nocturnalsleuth]

Hey friendo, to help you out with avoiding flashy videos or GIFs, what tags can I use to help you out? I know it can vary from person to person...

The big go-to tags would be 'seizure warning' or 'flashing lights' (i also tag 'rapid cuts'/'animated text' but i think that's just me getting too specific, and some people use 'strobe lights'/strobing lights'/'pulsing lights')! The other tags I use are just for sorting/filtering purposes that aren't for content warnings ('video tag'/'gif tag'/'gif set').

But for the most part, I'm covered, even if something isn't tagged properly!

I have videos and gifs set to 'tap to start/play' with the accessibility settings on my phone, and xkit adds accessibility options and video player settings on tumblr desktop which do the same thing (and there are various gif/video/animation pausing extensions for firefox as well)!

It was definitely more of a concern when we were younger and it took several years before I was on meds that completely stopped the seizures. So unless I miss something like, two and a half days of doses (the amount i missed last time i had a seizure, i think it was December 2016), the chances of me having a seizure from a few seconds of an internet video are basically nil ✨✌️😎✌️✨

honestly the worst thing that'll happen with the miniscule chance smth DOES slip under the radar is the little bit of panic that came with. y'know. years of hat-wearing/shade-wearing/trigger-avoiding-at-all-costs. lol

Fun Fact for those who dont know me irl: it was mandatory for me to wear a hat when I was outside at school and when I hit my teens the hat of choice was. A trilby. I still have it. Somewhere.

[phoenixyfriend]

#on desktop at least#i can get to whetstones reblog of this through the time stamp on the meatballs menu#and to who they reblogged it from via whetstones post#neither of them have tagged but i think id be able to see it?#in two clicks#i never went looking for prev tags so i dont know if this is more difficult than before#i do know that it is the least intuitive thing imaginable#i only know bc ive seen a psa#also have seen people who work at tumblr#failing to bring it up when asked hey this useful feature is gone?#theyve all been like yeah that was on purpose :)#not yeah we moved it where no one will ever look :)#but i dont think its an xkit thing?#anyway the big loss to me was opening posts in new tabs#and i can do that through the timestamp (via @canutegoodman)

See, the thing about this is that a number of tumblr accounts do not have a site, just a dashboard view. Most of us have opted into having a [url].tumblr.com link after the Weirdness that defaulted a lot of blogs to dashboard-only, but there are still plenty that are limited to just tumblr.com/[username]. Also, only some blog themes include a 'via' link, so there's that, too.

Reminder that there are currently no workarounds to following a reblog chain back.

"Prev tags" is not going to work. It was always inconvenient and controversial, but it is now impossible.

If someone brings up the "click the empty space next to it" thing, they are mistaken. Here's an example:

If I click "sergeant-angels-trashcan" I will go to the top of that blog. If I click the white space below the username, I will go to this post on that blog.

If I click fucklestat, I will go to the top of that blog. If I click the white space next to that username, I will go to this post, at that specific comment, on that blog. This is how we avoid additional comments we don't want, like when you have three people in a row that were just tagging another person or going 'omg this' and you want to cut back on

(That doesn't apply to this specific post, where the dedalvs addition is actually super cool, but the fact that I have multiple reblogs in a single post was important for the example.)

However, if sergeant-angels-trashcan were to tag this as "prev tags," with no additional information, then the reading is "sarge appreciates the tags from rainbowwificonnection. I need to find this post on that person's blog.

Previously, I would click on their name up here, and it would take me to that exact post on their blog:

It does not do that anymore.

Like the other 'click on the username' situations, it takes me to the top of this person's blog. However, clicking the white space above, below, or next to them will take me to Sarge's post, not rainbowwificonnection's.

Can I open up the notes and dig through the tags? Sure, maybe. If it's a post that's gone viral, though, and it's a few days out of date, it will be next to impossible to find the specific post and specific tags. Could I go to their post and scroll down until I find the post? Sure, if this isn't a queued post, and the post is from the last day or two instead of a few weeks. Remember, searches don't work consistently on this site.

And beyond that, if the previous person has reblogged a post multiple times, you can't be sure you've found the correct one.

"Prev tags" only has meaning to the person you reblogged from, unless you copy the tags out and include them in the body of the post or into your tags with "<< prev tags" as an indicator.

So yeah. Stop using prev tags. They've gone from inconvenient to downright impossible.

[makowo]

Here’s the ad! It’s all over mobile Tumblr, I’m surprised desktop doesn’t have it.

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OHHH ok i know her now. i rarely use tumblr mobile so i have a low chance of coming across it on there, and it might be on desktop BUT i have both an adblocker and xkit, so i just. dont get ads or blazed posts at all. she might be here but i live in a stronghold keeping everything but content i want out of my sight.

[ineffableplan]

alright between my social withdraw symptom being a pain and my phone being horrifically slow and firefox disabling all extensions and making the internet a sudden hell of disorienting advertisements, i might be offline for a bit, or on only sporadically 👍

[0hi0-is-4-l0vers]

an actual, not joke guide to tumblr for new users

tumblr as it stands is VERY anti-capitalist. most brands and celebrities that come here should just be ignored and left to rot. the only person i know of that seems to defy this rule is neil gaiman but thats mostly because hes been here for so long

that being said, this rule DOESNT apply to small, user owned businesses. If you have a small business like something on Etsy or Redbubble, promote it.

tumblr doesnt really run on algorithms the way twitter does. you need to go thru tags and actually find people you like and want to follow. otherwise, this website will be VERY EMPTY. you can follow tags which will recommend you random posts from random blogs in that tag youre following, but otherwise you NEED to curate your own tumblr experience

Most users will block empty blogs that have no icons. this website has a bot problem, and a lot of bot blogs will be empty with no icons. If you dont wanna be blocked, you need to update at least sometimes and have a bio with an icon and maybe a header.

If you use tumblr on desktop, GO GET TUMBLR SAVIOR/X-KIT RIGHT NOW. this will make navigating tumblr on desktop SO MUCH BETTER. You can block certain posts if theyre annoying without blocking op, you can turn off ads, you can turn on quick-reblog to make reblogging shit easier. its so fucking good

Blocking someone on here will not stop their posts from popping up on your dashboard if theyve been rb'd by someone else, so to prevent this you need to go to account settings, go to content you see, go down to "filtered post content" NOT FILTERED TAGS and add ops username. If you have Xkit be sure to turn on tweaks, and select "hide filtered posts entirely". this stops working when OP changes their username but its better than nothing

While twitter did have the option to turn off replies, it did not have the option to turn off quote retweets, but you can turn off reblogs here and turn off replies!

tumblr has a LOT of different kinds of communities, some of which have rarely breached this website. If the idea of someone who thinks theyre Naruto or a dragon reblogging from you makes you upset, either build a good tolerance from some of the "weirder" aspects or use the block button and filters to your advantage

tumblr doesnt have the same policies as twitter does when it comes to 18+ content. Tumblrs CEO has already made a post describing why. people still post adult content anyway with different tags

Tumblr does not have the same censorship rules the way twitter does. Yes you can use the words like "death" and not have to use something like "unalived" or "d3ath" to prevent your post from being suppressed or having your account shadowbanned/blocked entirely. its actually ENCOURAGED you use the original words so tumblrs filtering system will pick it up

i have been on this website for the last 10 years across multiple accounts. If any newbies have questions, PLEASE ASK, and i will do the best i can to answer. Fuck the gatekeepers, welcome to tumblr, twitter refugees!

[olderthannetfic]

See like- DNIs I think are rather dumb, BYF (what DNIs used to be before the reblog banners started being a thing and Those have an unhinged bullshit history you would NOT believe I could unload but back on topic) is a great choice for stating boundaries & blockable offenses & stances without being like 'if you dont stalk my blog to the most unreadable carrd known to man hidden in an unmarked hyperlink to see if your on it Im Allowed to harass you'. DNIs... Well I gotten passive aggressively bitched at before for not going on desktop and clicking through someones unmarked hyperlink about pages to read their DNI (not even the hovertext bio, UNMARKED desktop about link that didnt show up on mobile) before reblogging to an aesthetic blog that they wouldnt know I was on their DNI for unless they stalked MY blog for reblogging a post with hundereds of notes. Thats the real purpose of a DNI over a BYF in 9/10 cases- to have permission by social cred to harass anyone liking/reblogging their posts for 'violating their dni' because they didnt stalk the blogs of every post they liked or reblogged.

Like a BYF does everything all the people claim a DNI does, and like most of the people on a DNI are NEVER gonna respect a DNI or think the DNI doesnt apply to them so its really only useful for the excuse to entrap someone in a callout(which is shitty) or as a way to signal to potential new followers what your disk horse opinions are(what a BYF can serve as).

Like 'please dont send asks about x or follow if you are y' are reasonable boundaries, but 'dont touch my posts if you are a freak' (which is like 50% of dnis at this point) is.... not a concrete or reasonable boundary.

If (general)you need to have a DNI for trigger reasons, get xkit and disable avatars, then blacklist a bunch of stuff. If you still cant be safe with that, it might be best to just. Not have a tumblr.

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I find BYF kind of dumb as a term too. I'll state what my blog is like, but you following or not following, reading or not reading is up to you, not me.

I can ask people not to send asks on topic X, but there's no guarantee they'll even see that. It's far easier to just ignore asks one isn't interested in or to block people one doesn't want to talk to.

[joniksj]

apparently this feature exists?

apparently you can post things in the past? i dont know if it's a tumblr desktop thing or an xkit feature but nonetheless it Exists

anyways ive dated this post on the 14th of october 1066 (battle of hastings) ö77777 actual post date is 11 july 2021

[syupon]

the whole site actually had a big redesign like a few months ago and xkit has do redo almost all the extensions because they dont work with the new site. it's tons of work of course!! so old sidebar might not work for a while (or maybe never again idk) they have a discord or github or something where u can check with the updates that have been fixed/ are worked on currently.

AH I see BTc I hope they manage to fix it, thanks for letting me know I a) obviously haven't kept up with tumblr and b) just recently got my hands on a desktop pc since YEARS

[scatterpatter]

I OPENED TUMBLR DESKTOP AND FOR WHATEVER REASON DASH IS NOT WHAT I WANT IT TO BE

POSTS ARE HUGE I DONT NEED THEM THIS BIG

Z+TAB WONT SWITCH ME BETWEEN BLOGS

IM GETTING ACTIVITY NOTFIS DESPITE HAVING THEM TURNED OFF

FOR WHATEVER REASON J/K SCROLLING JUST AUTO-CUTS TO THE NEXT POST INSTEAD OF SCROLLING THROUGH IT- MORE OF A NITPICK BUT STILL

I KNOW XKIT IS SUPPOSED TO GIVE ME A “USE THE OLD DASHBOARD” OPTION IN SETTINGS BUT FOR WHATEVER REASON ITS NOT???

SO LIKE IF YA KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS PLS SHOOT ME AN ASK OR DM BECAUSE I DO NOT LIKE THIS SDKLJFNSDJBGJKBSD

[zippers]

desktop tumblr without xkit is legitimately painful to use when u have multiple blogs and i dont know how people do it