How to:

morgynleri:

morgynleri:

… use certain things that tumblr has made less visible, the idiots. It might have been a while, but I haven’t seen a thing on how to use things go around lately, so.

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Reblogging this because (a) it is probably useful for people still, and (b) because I am going to add a little more on how to add extra stuff to text posts, particularly on embedding videos.

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Ok, one more this evening! 🙂

@rising–dawn – this one’s for you, because yes, replying to replies is a pain. 🙂 Especially, as I understand it, when you don’t have anything beyond the base of tumblr, which doesn’t have options for replying to replies, other than as a reply to your own post. Which is… less than helpful.

For how I get the ability to reply to replies, see the image-heavy below the cut.

First, you will want to go get @new-xkit-extension, because otherwise this won’t work.

You should see this in your header when you have it:

Once you have x-kit, you will also have this, because it comes as part of the basic extension:

This is once of the best things about x-kit, in my opinion.

You get options with this. The two I have circled are the most likely to slow down or even crash your browser:

I don’t use the in-dashboard reply because I get enough notifications that I don’t have them show up in my dashboard anyway.

So, you’ll want to be on your activity page, reachable either here:

or here:

Once you are there, you hover your cursor over a reply, and this should come up:

Sometimes you’ll get a little x first, which is annoying, so if that happens, move your cursor away, and try again. Might take two or three tries. I tend to glare at my computer at that point.

Once you click on that little arrow, you should get this:

You can also reply to multiple replies/reblogs, just hold down the option key while clicking the little arrows, and it should look like this:

Then you click without holding the control key on any one of the little arrows, and it should come up like this:

Changing the names to @ mentions involves deleting the linked names and redoing it as mentions, which is going to be less likely to crash than trying to do it through x-kit. 

And if anyone would like me to add further tutorials with images to this post for things on tumblr or with x-kit, let me know! I will do my best to make one of these for it. With the caveat that there are some of the x-kit extensions I don’t use, because the more you add, the more chances of slowing things down – and also, sometimes tumblr breaks things too much to use a particular bit (like editable reblogs. I am not dealing with losing large chunks of posts with that again).