Tumblr whinging again

[sholio]

I haven't reblogged anything on Tumblr in a few days, and I noticed when I put my wilderness survival post over there that they have changed their reblog interface so now you can't edit what you're reblogging; it treats the reblog text as a unified block, so you can only reblog it as-is or delete the whole thing. (Dammit. I used to edit typos a lot, and/or quietly remove things I didn't want included.)

Still, that's not so bad -- I can see why they'd do it, at least -- but now, on a photo post it also treats any caption/attribution in the same way it treats other reblog text, which means you can remove the attribution with a single click ... and might, in fact, easily remove it by accident if you click in the wrong place.

How is it possible that every single "improvement" tumblr makes LITERALLY MAKES THINGS WORSE?

Comments

[rachelmanija]

You have a wilderness survival post? Could you copy it here?

[sholio]

It is! See previous post to this one.

[rachelmanija]

OOPS. Reading backward through my f-list, obviously.

[sholio]

Ha, no worries. :D Sometimes things post in a weird order anyway, when the posting window has been open for awhile. (Actually I thought your comment about writing a wilderness survival series had to do with that post. Apparently not!)

[rachelmanija]

No, I just really like "Wing and a Prayer." Your wilderness survival stories are all really good!

[dira]

New XKit has a "editable reblogs" extension that fixes that. :)

[sholio]

Thank you! ♥

[sholio]

Ahhhhh! Is this a different fork of XKit from the one that's not being updated anymore?

[dira]

It's a fork where they've picked up the no-longer-updated version and are trying to fix all the places it broke and add new features. If you use Firefox, it may be able to port all your old XKit data pretty seamlessly and update whatever extensions you had running. They're at new-xkit-extension.tumblr.com

[sholio]

Thanks! :D I'll check it out. I kinda vaguely knew there was a new version, but hadn't gone looking for it yet.

[ratcreature]

I had totally missed that there was a new xkit! It's ridiculous how you need to install extra software to make that website halfway usable...