#so i turn off 'Hide my own posts on the dashboard' on the xkit Tweaks menu'

[chaos-is-my-lifeblood]

What the fuck is going on with Xkit

[aria0fgold]

What are your Tumblr settings?

Maybe there's something you need to turn off and then on again.

Check to see if Tumblr Labs is on, in which case try switching it off.

Do you use Tumblr on Mobile, Laptop, or Desktop?

(I ask because I only use Desktop, so I might not be able to help on the other two)

What Browser do you use and what extensions (if any)?

I use an extension called "uBlock Origin" to block some things, maybe a Tumblr feature isn't working that you should block.

I don't have tumblr labs on and I use desktop tumblr on firefox!

I have dashboard unfucker and xkit rewritten for tumblr (I don't have any filters for it in uBlock)

This is how my settings for it looked!

I don't remember if I changed stuff on unfucker's advanced config altho I remember putting those 3 settings on in the general config.

For the Tweaks settings of xkit I have: Restore links, turn the Changes/Shop and etc. links into a separating line, Hide my own posts in the dashboard, Hide the "Now, where we we?", Hide the Tumblr Live carousel.

I don't know when my dash started looping 😔but when it did my settings stayed the same during then (I think, not sure bout unfucker cuz it had an update and I can't remember if I changed stuff then).

[brightgreendandelions]

tips for scrolling thru your dashboard faster:

block the tags of stuff your only mildly interested in

try not to follow people, who regularly hit the post limit (i am very good at this (lie))

use desktop

install the XKit Extension, and enable the following features:

Sean Posts or Tweaks -> Turn the Changes/Shop/etc. links carousel into a separating line. this helps you find where you left off

Tweaks -> Use a slim layout for filtered posts and Hide my own posts on the dashboard. just saves space. why are filtered post so big by default anyway??

Show Originals and enable both checkmarks. this one is a bit buggy, but i use it if in a hurry, when i only want to see the stuff my mutuals ✨made✨. it makes you miss out on some reblogs of viral posts if you leave it on all the time

Oh the wise greetings-inferiors, may you teach me the ways of tumblr? I am but a humble reddit refugee, and I ask:

How do you read all the daily posts of all the people you follow? Or should that basically be accepted as impossible? Do you catch up? Or do you just read whatever tumblr throws at you first?

I ask you because you were the first actual blog I followed on here and you led me to a lot of great people and now I’m struggling to read all the posts they make.

Thank you!!!

p.s. sorry for anon, just not that comfortable on here yet

Thanks for letting me be your first! You always remember them, after all <3

And it’s okay if you don’t want to show your face, my grace is pretty radiant

(Cocky persona over)

How I do it is I only follow like 30 people, a lot of which very rarely post. Every day when I wake up I scroll tumblr till I’m satisfied. I make sure to prioritise mutuals, if I haven’t gotten to the point where I left off, I go through my favourite mutuals’ blogs to make sure I haven’t missed anything (y’all are really cool). You shouldn’t treat tumblr like a game with daily challenges, because then it’ll just become a chore. And I know fomo is a very real thing, and I’m here to assure you that it’s okay, I swear it doesn’t matter, and if you interact with people that are online now instead of when you were asleep, you’ll have a lot more fun. Lurking is completely valid, but I couldn’t bear to keep quiet. This hellsite is a collaborative medium, interacting with others is most of my enjoyment. I don’t follow many people for their blog, I mainly just follow people I like talking to and the odd art account or niche blog that REALLY spoke to me.

I’m so glad that you liked the people that I like!!! I try to make sure to only be mutuals with people that I genuinely really like talking with (if I interact with you and don’t follow you back, I probably just forgot to lmao), so that probably means I have good taste hehehehe

So, in conclusion, I use my probably-adhd-or-autism powers to scroll through my dashboard in one sitting every morning, check frequently throughout the day, and if I’m bored I use the for you page to find some thing I might like. Sometimes it’s useless but sometimes it can be really really good, like when it showed me all those Noelle x Susie posts lmao. I make sure to use the app more like a messaging social media than a content social media, with the odd meme or heritage post sprinkled in.

And the most important thing: have fun! The hardest part of tumblr is that initial hill where you don’t follow enough people to enjoy yourself, but once you’ve found your group/blogs then you can go a long while without follow anyone new, and still enjoy yourself! I’d recommend to not follow TOO many people, because then you’d be missing the posts of the people you care about. Your dashboard is like a garden, tend to it!!!

I believe in you, Random Reddit Refugee (alliteration my beloved)! This hellsite is an oasis for weirdos and obsessors, so go nuts!

[transienturl]

hi! you seem to know a great deal about this xkit rewritten. im a tumblr user back from the early 2010-2016 years or so and i always used xkit. however, my question now is, do you have a suggestion on what are tumblr setting preferences should be AND what our xkit rewritten preferences (disable/enabled, etc) should be to get it as close as we can to the old tumblr dashboard? Many thanks!

Hello there!

Hmm, let's see. I made my blog in 2011, so I guess I was around in that era. I don't remember the exact details of what the Tumblr UI was like at particular times super well, but I can go through my settings and just kind of see what I think a returning user might be interested in off the top of my head.

I might or might not go into detail on what every XKit Rewritten setting does (I've been thinking about things like recording a video going through all that—maybe when we start running out of new scripts to add), but I'll call out things that stand out.

First off, I always install Palettes for Tumblr (download link in @addons!). I personally use the "circa 2016" palette, i.e. "old blue," but April's also got an even older blue in there, and it's fully customizable if you want any other color scheme you can imagine! I change the font to Helvetica Neue and bump the font size down by one as well; do what looks good to you! Also check out Outbox.

Okay, Tumblr settings...

Account:

Community Labels:

Set the toggles to whatever you want; I go for "blur." Take them off "hide" unless that's really what you want; it'll hide flagged posts completely from your dash with no indication that they're there!

Filtered tags and filtered post content:

Use these like you would use Blacklist or Tumblr Savior to hide any content you don't want to see! This will apply to your account wherever you're logged in (mobile apps and desktop web), and will hide post content with a visual indicator that you can click to unhide it.

Absolutely enable the option in XKit Rewritten's Tweaks to use a slim layout for these (this should just be changed on the site, imo), and optionally hide filtered posts completely.

Here's some detailed info about the difference between the two that I wrote for something else:

Filtering a word or phrase as a tag will hide any post with that exact tag (no wildcards) and reblog chains whose original root posts contain that exact tag.

Filtering a word or phrase as post content will hide any post with the specified word or phrase anywhere in the post text or in any usernames, including in the middle of a word (filtering "ash" will hide posts with "dashboard" or "fashion"). It will not search the post tags.

Yes, there's no way to do a wildcard search that works on the post tags right now. Yes, this sucks.

Dashboard:

If you like visible timestamps, I suggest turning the "show timestamps" option on here. Additionally, I use Timeformat in XKit Rewritten to make them more detailed (I use MMM D, YYYY · h:mm A; feel free to experiment with the options here).

I turn "shorten long posts" off. Up to you! XKit Rewritten has its own Shorten Posts script with more customizability over how long a post has to be to be lengthened, if you'd like.

Turn off the "best stuff first" and "include [etc]" options under preferences if you want your main dashboard to be the old-style, just-the-blogs-I-follow-in-reverse-chronological-order.

Ad-Free Browsing

If you have the money to spend, I encourage it. The site is super fast without ads, and Tumblr needs revenue to pay for developers, moderation staff, and servers.

If you do, I personally allow Blaze ads; they can be kinda fun sometimes. Up to you!

Privacy

Decide if you want to let others see if you're active.

Labs

I absolutely love the Blog Subscriptions tab, which lets me make a mini-dashboard of only the blogs I really want to see every post from, so I turn that on. (To subscribe to a blog, open it up on the dashboard, hit the three dots menu, and click "get notifications." This will give you push notifications on the mobile apps.)

Heavy queue users may appreciate the fast queue button, but if you're an XKit Rewritten Quick Reblog user, there's already an easy way to do that.

Per-blog settings

If you leave/turn "enable custom theme" off, your blog will only show up inside Tumblr itself, which is actually my preferred way to view people's blogs (it's very good now!), but you'll probably want to turn it on to enable [yourblog].tumblr.com.

Decide who you want to be able to leave replies on your posts! (I use "everyone.")

XKit Rewritten scripts:

Tweaks:

If you use Tumbr's filtering options, I recommend the use a slim layout for filtered posts or hide filtered posts completely options, as mentioned.

Turning the changes/etc carousel into a line is a fan favorite. It acts as a "here's where you were up to on your dash" indicator if you turned off the algorithmic stuff in dashboard settings, as mentioned above. If you like it being a carousel, you can turn off the animations in AccessKit.

Remove the sticky effect from the dashboard tab bar. That's the one that appears/disappears when you scroll. (Lots more in here to hide UI elements you dislike, if you dislike them).

Quick Reblog is the renamed version of One-Click Postage, which is of course a fan favorite as well. Turn "Show the comment field" on if you want to be able to add text when quick reblogging (though the regular editor form is usually better for additions). "Suggest tags from the post being reblogged" is great; click in the tag text box and they'll all pop up so you can select the ones you want to copy. Set the limit on saved reblogs higher (imo there's no reason not to).

You can set a queue tag here, but it'll only be added automatically when you use the Quick Reblog popup; put it in Quick Tags too so you can easily add it when queueing a post using the full editor form.

Quick Tags: Add your saved tags here and they'll show up in the Quick Reblog popup!

Classic Search: I don't use this, but many people want pressing enter in the search bar to go to the tag page, as it apparently used to?

Open in Tabs is kind of broken at the time of writing (just a note in case anyone is confused).

No Recommended: Pretty self-explanatory; if you don't like recommendation carousels between posts, enable the "between posts" ones.

AccessKit: This is where Disable Gifs is, if you were looking for it.

Quote Replies: Used to be called One-Click Reply! (This only works on the activity page at the time of writing, not in the activity dropdown menu that you can access from anywhere.)

Tag Tracking+: Many people apparently thought this used to be called something else, but if you're looking for that big sidebar with all of your tracked tags, here it is.

TimeFormat: I mentioned this earlier when we talked about timestamps! (I prefer this over the Timestamps extension, which we kind of semi-retired.)

Trim Reblogs: This is the new way to trim down roleplay threads in a way that's actually supported by Tumblr's UI! To use it, draft or post a reblog with your additions, then navigate to it and press the scissors icon. You can pick which reblog trail items stay, so if you and your RP partner start with a post with just a title, you can keep it on top. This requires the thread to have been started with the new post editor (or on the mobile app).

There are definitely more scripts that I swear by, but I think this is long enough! Also, there are some bits of classic XKit functionality that we haven't quite gotten in yet. I might edit this post later if we add something relevant, but I probably won't. Feel free to check, though!