Userstyles To Fix Tumblr's Updates

Userstyles to Fix Tumblr's Updates

Since tumblr keeps insisting upon changing things few, if any, people want changed and that tends to lead to some… aesthetically unpleasing results, Stylish has become a necessity to many tumblr users. These are the styles I’ve collected to undo the design team’s questionable choices.

Post Editor Changes:

Tumblr Text Edit Always Visible - does away with the need to highlight text in order to see formatting controls

Tumblr Post Form Tweaks - addon style for the above ‘text edit always visible’ style; attempts to make the edit form look a bit more like it used to

A Readable New Post Page -has comments in the css to guide you through customizing if you’recomfortable with coding; fairly simple but gets the job done in makingthe new post form more tolerable

Post Display Changes:

Tumblr Post Improvements - offers several options, including restoring old read more style and fixing blockquotes among others.

Smaller Text Post Titles - standalone style; does exactly what it says on the tin

Old Style Dashboard Titles - standalone similar to the above style

Fix New Tumblr Font - standalone to get rid of the blurry font tumblr uses now

Old Tumblr Dash Links Style - standalone to fix the horrid, new link style; the author says it bestin questioning the ridiculous choice by tumblr to use a background image for link underlines and ignore that there’s literally two far simplermethods of underlining links that everyone who’s ever touched coding should know

Post/Reblog/Close Swap - standalone style to restore ‘post’ button to the left and ‘close’ button to the right

No Full-Width Posts - restores the old post style as best as possible and applies to all post types; you may need to turn off the option to add padding in the editor as it works a little oddly (give it a shot and see how you feel,basically)

Fix New Tumblr Photo Widths - similar to above, but a bit more complex in some areas and simpler inothers; defintiely worth a try and usually the most-linked version ontumblr

Tumblr Image Width No Rescaling - haven’t tried this one myself, but the most recent review says itworks; it should make it so that 500px or 540px images stay at theirtrue size and don’t get squashed or stretched

Pre Tag Fix - prevents horizontal scroll bar on <pre> elements

Readable Sub & Sup - makes the <sub> and <sup> elements less tiny

Rebloggable Ask Fixes - general attempt to make the ask style change of 2014 go away and bring a more pleasing aesthetic to ask posts

Rebloggable Ask Fixes (Remix) - my personal fave compared to the one above, but a bit more complex andlikely to break with random tumblr updates; I use this one myself,however, so whenever I notice something broken I try to fix it andpublish an update to the style

Rounder Post Borders - in case you think it’s weird with square-ish borders

Fix Classic Reblog Pages - generally only for the mobile or ‘severely outdated browser’ crowd,since there’s so many issues from useragent masking these days; takescare of some horrible visual and functional flaws caused by tumblrabandoning this post form

Restyle Tumblr Links - gets rid of that horrendous, giant green and returns a more suitable style for dashboard link posts

Significant Dashboard Changes:

No Scrolling Avatars - because motion sickness ain’t fun

Static Tumblr Avatars - similar to the style above; try this if that one’s broken

Tumblr: the Old Design - didn’t try this one since I have others installed, but from a glance at the code it seems to fix some of the recent dashboard changes

Tumblr Dashboard Cleanup - customizable cleanup for several of the crappy changes tumblr’s made lately

Fix Tumblr Header - nobody likes sticky things on their screen ;) the primary function ofthis one is making the header look closer to the old style and stopsticking tot he top when you scroll

Tumblr Sidebar Fix - does away with the flat aesthetic of the sidebar, and offers a few tweaks to make it waste less space

Tumblr Sidebar Fix for Custom Themes - same as above, but made to work with many custom dash themes

Declutter Series: Tumblr - stays as true to the standard tumblr layout as possible while removing annoying clutter

Fix Borders and Header - an alternative to trying to change post styles back; adds padding while keeping the new size of photosets and alters header

Other Dashboard Elements:

Bring Back the Old Tumblr Blue - in case you can’t stand the new background

Remove Blue Bits - if your custom dash theme has random blue gradients popping up all over the place, this might fix it

Rainbow Tumblr Notifications - cycling rainbow colours for the new post and new message bubbles on the dash; haven’t tried this one myself, but it looks fun

Custom Coloured New Post & Mail - colour the bubbles how you see fit!

Remove ‘Buy’ Button on Posts - does exactly what it claims (or it should)

Remove the ‘Explore’ Compass - out of sight and out of mind for those who dislike the ‘explore’ feature

Remove ‘Follow’ Buttons on Posts - makes it harder to accidentally follow people

Hide Reblog ‘Follow’ Button - more aid in avoiding accidental following

Remove Tumblr Web Buttons - hides the ‘web search’ buttons

Tumblr Search is for Tumblr - similar to the above, but uses different coding

Notification Font Size Fix - makes the dashboard notifications less huge

Tumblr Reply Wrap - word wrapping for notifications of post replies

Miscellaneous:

Remove Tumblr 404 Background - to avoid exposure to triggering or just plain annoying, stretched images when reaching the 404 landing page

Hide Tumblr Sponsored Posts - say what you will about ad revenue, but the point remains that there have been cases of triggering images in these sponsored posts and it’s every user’s right to protect themselves; this style helps by removing the sponsored posts from the dashboard feed

Remove Radar on Tumblr - simple way to hide the tumblr radar

Wake up this morning and my entire blacklist is on XKit wiped...

The current XKit/Tumblr/Mobile problem...

I’ve been experiencing this only on Firefox, and it seems okay on Chrome, but I wanted to address this with people that are having the ‘constant loading’ problem, seen here and here. *There will be a tl;dr at the bottom of each major section of this post fer easier reading.

Fer those of you that don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s the short and skinny:

Some people have tried to edit posts/drafts on sideblogs and are stuck with this constant, obnoxious load screen that never ends.

Here’s what I’ve noticed:

It’s not technically XKit because disabling XKit... the loading was still there.

It’s not Userstyles

It is FIREFOX and their new update; at least on PC.

I’m 100% unsure about Chrome/Mobile

Part 1:

This image has been haunting me since the last Firefox update, and I haven’t been able to stop it, until now.

There are a couple problems I’ve seen, and I’ll tell you now what I’ve experienced, so that you can avoid it (if not escape it entirely like I have).

The update fer Firefox hit that caused XKit to do something else fer me that was really annoying. As I run several side blogs, I practically require the quick queue/post/draft buttons that people use on the dashboard, but when I would do that, fer some ungodly reason, they would only go to my main blog queue/post/draft. Which was a serious problem.

I responded to that by rolling back to the last Firefox version, aka 35.0.1, and that one was the one that, while I queue/post/draft perfectly fine, I get stuck with the loading screen.

Both options sucked.

Tl;dr:

Here’s what I was experiencing:

Firefox 35.0.1 - Constant loading screen when editing posts/drafts.

Firefox 36.0.4 - Queue/Post/Draft kept going to my main blog instead of side blogs I assigned them to.

Part 2:

Since I was still stuck with this a month later, and the XKit guy hasn’t updated at all (or had even posted in a month) I decided to see what would happen, once more, when I jumped back to 36.0.4.

I updated, queued and drafted a few things just to test the waters and the same thing happened, as expected; they kept ending up in my main blog queue/drafts respectively and not on my side blogs where they were SUPPOSED to go.

So since I definitely couldn’t deal with that crap, I went back to 35.0.1, and considered the alternative others have been talking about.

But low and behold... the loading has stopped.

I have no clue why, as it is the same old version I was using before, but I’ve tested it numerous times and it still seems like all is well. Both problems have gone away, and I have no clue why.

Tl;dr:

I tried update Firefox and it was still broke, then reverted and somehow unknowingly, things are all fixed.

Part 3:

I don’t know why it werks now, it’s likely something will break or it’ll stop, but it’s werking so far fer, me so I’m gonna offer you the two options (keep in mind that these are likely temporary, and might not werk at all fer you):

What I did (a possible cure? Until the next update at least)

This might not werk at all fer you, but it also... might. So it’s werth a shot, right?

Go here, scroll halfway down until you see this:

I still want to downgrade — where can I get the previous version?

It’s large, so you can’t miss it.

There will be a set of bullets under that headline and you want to make sure that the first one says: Firefox 34.0.5, and not a different version. Alternatively just click the link I just provided you and it should werk.

Download it, close Firefox completely, install the old version and allow it to reopen Firefox. Check both problems I’ve mentioned in this post and if it’s fixed, it’s fixed.

If not, I advise you to install the newer version and then revert back to the old version once more. To do this simply click Help > About Firefox, there should be the option to update there.

And to go back, well, you’ve already done this once before, just repeat those steps.

I had to revert back TWICE myself, and now it werks fer me, so I dunno if trying it once or twice is the trick. /shrug

Like I said, this may not werk fer everyone, it may not last long, but it werked fer me, and... well, I wanted to offer my option just in case it saves you a lot of frustration.

What others do (a kinda werk around, fer now, in hopes that the XKit guy returns)

First of all, this method doesn’t make it so that you can edit drafts at all. All yer drafts can’t be edited with this method. It only werks on editing things that are posted.

To edit drafts, my only alternative fer that has been to open them on my page, copy, and paste them into a new post entirely, edit that and then post immediately. Making drafts to edit later doesn’t werk at all with this method, but MY werk around made it so that I could actually edit them; fer that, scroll up to the section above this.

Aside from drafts, if you only want to edit posts that are already up, just do the following...

Go to XKit and Install ‘Go-to-Dash’ if you haven’t already.

Go to the post on yer blog that you want to edit and click this button:

Just as before, if it werks, it werks. Others use this werk around and I’ve tried it, but now I don’t need it.

Good luck, everyone, I hope this post helped! If it did, feel free to reblog and share it.

If you have any questions just ask me.

Mars Tea - I went All In

A blend of rooibos vanilla, cream, and rooibos almond; with an accent of coconut.

It just didn’t fit with the rest of the page and seemed rly weird. If you agree, this is the userstyle fer you!

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help :(

anybody knows why tumblr isn’t letting me edit any posts? it stays like:

forever?