#* ━ beta post editor + xkit rewritten user

[rohnniesmoved]

＃ｒｏｈｎｎｉｅｓ，an independent and selective low activity veronica lodge of archie horror comics. primarily portrayed as an original character with inspiration from various lore and mythology. told by: vivian — twenty3, she/they pronouns.

⁽ ᵃᶠᶠⁱˡⁱᵃᵗ��ˢ ⁾ , behttys, juhggies, anticheryls, archiba1ds, url.

ｄｏｃｔｒｉｎｅ． ｐｒｏｍｐｔｓ． ｓｉｄｅｂｌｏｇ．

[spideranomaly]

#ｓｐｉｄｅｒａｎｏｍａｌｙ, an independent and selective low-activity miles morales of the spider-verse trilogy. primarily protrayed as an original character with inspiration from various spider-man adaptations. told by: vivian --- twenty3, she/they pronouns.

𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳-𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 ⁽ ᵃᶠᶠⁱˡⁱᵃᵗᵉˢ ⁾ , url.

ｓｌｉｄｅｓ．　ｐｒｏｍｐｔｓ．

[theofficersacademy]

Happy July! Next month is our annual anniversary event, so this month will be relatively uneventful. Catch up on threads and relax.

Housekeeping

Current Month in TOA: Pegasus Moon (February)

New mission board tasks are available! You can find them [here]. Remember that at least one unaffiliated muse is required to complete certain prompts.

Tumblr's switch to the "Beta Editor" is scheduled to be complete by July 15th, resulting in users no long being able to access to Legacy Editor. Trimming beta threads requires downloading the XKit Rewritten extension. To create permanent titles for new threads, post an empty thread with just the title, save it to your drafts, and then delete the original. You can then write a new post from your reblog, and the title will be treated as a separate post when you’re trimming. If you move an older Legacy thread to a new Beta post, be sure to keep all thread tags the same and inform your partner about the switch.

A big shoutout to Ree for helming the vast majority of the Summer Arena, as well as a huge thank you to our volunteer Scorekeepers for their invaluable help!

Please don’t forget to leave feedback on our [feedback poll] for this month!

Event Incoming!

We will be holding our annual anniversary event next month! More information will be available later this month.

What to expect: Lore events in TOA are month-long events that typically split participants into multiple groups, each playing through a story campaign led by one of the mods. We place a high emphasis on making progress week-by-week, so these are our most energy-intensive events and require some commitment on your parts. Please keep this in mind if you decide to sign up. This event will incorporate combat, but narrative is the main focus. As always, make sure that your stats page is up to date.

Keep in mind that you still need to keep up with your activity during August, whether or not your muses are participating.

Important Reminders

Due to a concerning uptick in tensions surrounding shipping in TOA, this is a reminder that this group does not have any specific shipping rules.

It is not in the group's interest to enforce how certain ships are allowed to be viewed and discussed. We do not want to create an environment where "contrary" opinions are vilified and people fear retribution over disagreements. Please be respectful and considerate to your fellow members, and keep the following in mind:

1) When a ship is brought up that you don’t like, don’t engage. Just walk away. 2) If a ship is discussed that bothers you for whatever reason, whether it be personal, moral, or otherwise: politely ask the people involved to spoiler the ship or take it private. If this is something that comes up continuously or is being actively shipped within the group and you don’t want to see it, come to the mods with it and we will enforce a ship tag that you can blacklist.

3) The only shipping rules that we enforce involve the safety of our muns. Coercing someone into a specific ship, especially if that mun is a minor, is grounds for a strike or - if NSFW is involved - permanent expulsion from the group. The content of the ship otherwise does not matter to us as long as both muns have agreed to it.

4) Additionally, do not pick up a character or write with someone solely to ship with them. The mod team cannot enforce this, but we have received complaints lately about individuals who appear not to want to write with anyone unless they can ship with them. In general, this will not be well-received by the rest of the group and pressuring another person to ship with you will result in a strike, as outlined in point #3. Again, to reiterate, TOA has no shipping rules and conversations where any ship is talked about as if it’s better in any way, content-wise, morally, etc., should not happen.

Other

July Mun Birthdays: Boltz (3rd), Lucius (11th), Nic (14th), Heckles (24th), Leo (22nd), Jam (24th), Jae (31st)

July Muse Birthdays: Caspar (1st), Tana (5th), Caeldori (6th), Cordelia (7th), Kris (M) (15th), Odin (15th), Rutger (22nd), Forsyth (26th)

First-year mun anniversaries this month: Rosie (12th)

Second-year mun anniversaries this month: Tiff (9th), Red (12th), Vio (15th), Lucius (24th)

First-year muse anniversaries this month: Edain (2nd), Lyn (4th), Randal (12th), Marianne (12th), Leanne (17th), Roy (19th), Shigure (28th), Leonardo (29th)

Second-year muse anniversaries this month: Micaiah (4th), Pelleas (14th), Katarina (15th), Deirdre (17th)

Muses who have been in the group for a solid year will also be granted an Academy Brooch to put in their inventory. It doesn’t do anything. It just lets others know your character has been around the block. These characters are also granted a new opportunity to change houses if they wish to do so.

- The House Leaders

[resovrceful]

COPY + PASTING GIFS IN BETA EDITOR

AND HOW TO AVOID THE IMAGE URL APPEARING BELOW THE GIF. i know that for a lot of roleplayers, storing loads of gifs on computers or external hard drives just isn’t feasible. what i’ve seen a lot of since the switch over to beta, is (particularly legacy) roleplayers complaining about the fact that when copy and pasting gifs for threads, there is a new link that shows up beneath the image once the post has been made. this tutorial explains how you can avoid saving your gifs, and not have the image url on your gifs in your new threads. 

before you even start copy and pasting gifs, as a gif maker it is my duty to remind you to check the rules of the maker, that you can use the gifs that way and for the themes the thread contains! gif makers spend hours upon hours producing their content, so please be polite and adhere to their rules. thank you!

in legacy editor, users were able to copy and paste gifs via the image url without much issue. when following that same process using the beta editor (which is now widely being rolled out), the following happens:

for some reason, we end up with the url sitting below the image of the gif, and it just kind of takes away from the thread. i for one find it distracting, and also doesn’t look particularly great to me. while this is only an issue on the dash/dash view of blogs, i’ve had a number of people express their discontent with it. in order to get your gifs looking how they did in legacy, while you are editing the post you will see a link button appear in the bottom left of the gif when you hover over it:

by clicking on that button, it pulls up the image url of the gif you’ve just pasted. you can delete that link, and the gif still remains on the post. just make sure once you delete the link you click done or else it won’t delete.

you can then save your post to your drafts (i recommend just to check it worked) and you’ll see that the link below the image has gone. 

like so! i know this tutorial is purely for the aesthetics of it all and not necessarily functional, but sometimes that’s how it is! if you do wish to look at other tutorials of how to use the beta editor, i’ve included some reference links below:

a short and easy workaround for reblogs with beta & xkit rewritten, by @heartxshaped-bruises​ how to use beta editor + trim reblogs, by @brekkersource  how to use xkit rewritten / trim reblogs on mobile, by @rpclefairy​  upload gifs to a page with the beta editor, by @spacejams  what is going on with cutting posts? by @rpschtuff​

[soulrph]

Xkit Rewritten Nonny here! Something that’s really important to note is that you can run both New xKit and Rewritten at the same time, but anyone who still uses New for the editable reblogs (if you’re only using Rewritten) will also make it so that you cannot cut with Rewritten. The way Rewritten works is that it doesn’t allow you to actually edit their reblog, but it cuts all old trail items out with a single button. It’s a lot more user-friendly with less room for errors (and I know some RPers have occasionally expressed irritation about mutuals altering the formatting of their posts at times).

Lastly: the beta editor has way more features than the legacy editor anyway. It will apply dark mode if you use dark mode tumblr, it now has HTML capability, it allows access to reblog controls (don’t want people reblogging your headcanons? Reblog controls stops that), you can edit tags without having to delete the whole tag, and as far as I know they’re also rolling out draft auto save as well (that may also work with legacy, haven’t tested it but it was working with beta). The thing to consider is that eventually, the legacy editor will just be… gone. It uses old outdated code which means everything does have to be upgraded to new standards to keep up with said new standards, so frankly… the sooner you get used to it, the better off you’ll be. I know the creator is working on rewriting most of the modules the old xkit versions had, and is pretty quick to add new features as Tumblr changes things (remember the post footer change? Rewritten had a fix out to revert it within a day). I think a lot of people sleep on the features Rewritten actually has in the RPC without taking the time to actually look into/at it, and may end up in a lot of trouble if the older xkit versions just stop working entirely.

RPC RESOURCE THURSDAY!!

and another amazing cinnanon roll coming to the rescue with super solid info about key resources for the rpc!! i will be tagging these posts with "( rpc resource thurs. )" for those of you who want to read these and get all fancy and efficient! thank you, my wonderful angel!!!

[luckylewis]

consider this a speed-run of all things beta that may be causing legacy users issues. if there's anything else that needs explaining, i'll update this post! let's go beloveds. 🤭

🟠 BEFORE YOU SWITCH TO BETA.

if you've been previously using new xkit, you will need to download xkit rewritten. that can be found:

here for google chrome users.

here for mozailla firefox users.

once you've installed it, you can install whatever add ons are your preference from new xkit. the one that you'll need to install and enable to cut posts on beta is called trim reblogs and it looks like this:

🔴 SWITCHING TO BETA.

switching is pretty straightforward for any former legacy users and you only have to do it once.

step 1: new text post.

step 2: a pop up for the new editor will show in the top right corner. click lets go!

step 3: press let's go again.

step 4: voila, shiny new editor.

🟡 USING BETA.

for the most part, beta has condensed features of legacy to be more intuitive, which means you need to remember less keyboard shortcuts. once you've written anything in the editor itself, highlighting it will bring up this dropdown.

the list of functions in the vertical dropdown are for the following:

regular is tumblr's standard font.

bigger is, you guessed it, bigger.

i think u can figure what biggest is KSJGSHJ

quote is for if you want any part of your post to look like the quote function.

chat will turn your font into the chat format (typically used for text/sms threads!)

indented will put your paragraphs into a blockquote for those that prefer them.

bulleted list is how you create a bulletpoint list like this one you're reading.

numbered list is same as above but with (spoilers!) numbers. 😎

the list that goes horizontally is for the following:

s with a strikethrough allows you to strike through text.

b is for bolding (the keyboard shortcut still works for this).

i is for italicizing (the keyboard shortcut still works for this).

<s> is for small text (the keyboard shortcut no longer works)

the link symbol is for adding or removing links (will be utilicized further in the gif url section of this tutorial)

and the paint can symbol is for changing the font colour if that's something you want to do.

🟢 CUTTING POSTS WITH BETA.

for any of y'all that are like stark, we don't care ab this, we just wanna cut our damn posts. firstly, feel that. secondly, it needed it's own section so let's goooooo. once you get used to cutting posts on beta it becomes seamless.

there's two ways to do it.

the first one is: after drafting a reply.

the process for that is as follows:

step 1: draft your reply.

step 2: once the reply is drafted, locate the scissors symbol in the bottom row of functions.

step 3: click it and trim the post you want to be rid of, in this case for me it's my previous reply.

step 4: click trim! and hey presto, you have a cut post that's all pretty and ready for you to reply.

the second one is: after posting a reply.

step 1: go to reblog the post.

step 2: write a reply (a better one than this one SHGSHJ) and click reblog.

step 3: i know, i know, it looks like a triple reply but it only will for a second. just like step one, locate the scissors, click it, trim! your previous post and then it will be cut.

🟣 REMOVING THE URL FROM UNDER YOUR GIF IF YOU COPY AND PASTE ONE.

step 1: paste in your gif.

step 2: click the link button in the bottom left of the gif.

step 3: highlight or backspace and delete the url, click done.

step 4: no url under your gif.

⚪️ MISC ADDITIONS.

this is the button for read mores, for all u spicy legends.

this is to upload an image.

this is to post a song.

NEW FUNCTIONS BETA OFFERS:

editing tags: you no longer have to delete every tag that follows if you made a typo in one. siiiick.

auto saving drafts: a life saver (especially for this post!!) tumblr auto saves your post to your drafts as you type into it.

ANY OTHER Q'S:

feel free to hit me up and i'll help you if i can for anything specific!

this post will be updated with anything i forgot about.

[a-earthssprout]

🌻🍯 OOC. hello there, & welcome to the blog ! 💖 this pinned post has everything you might be looking for regarding Ari & the guidelines that this blog follows. a few quick things are provided below:

OC, MULTI - MUSE, MULTI - VERSE & CANON friendly ! 🌻

in case it is not understood despite otherwise mentioned, Ari is 6 YEARS-OLD ! please keep this in mind when sending asks / wanting to interact. mun, however, is 21+ ( 23, to be exact ! ) & despite there being absolutely no 18+ / nsfw content on this blog whatsoever, I do prefer to only interact with writers who are 18+. 😊

Ari is a child that loves nature 🌼🌿 often she’s found outside exploring & placing every little critter that she finds on her body to join her on her adventures. this means that she is often searching for or carrying around bugs, snails, harmless snakes, butterflies, frogs & other creatures alike, & that their company may come with heavy description of feeling and / or appearance in our threads. PLEASE let me know if you have triggers or issues with these sorts of creatures being mentioned in writing or otherwise & specify exactly what makes you uncomfortable so I know to not include it in our threads ! as for content on the blog, everything reblogged that includes the above will be tagged with a TRIGGER WARNING ( i.e. “bugs tw” ) your comfort is very important, so please do not feel bad reaching out with requests for anything to be tagged / things to not be mentioned 🌷

ACTIVITY can fluctuate due to mun’s current afflictions / things she do be goin’ thru. to briefly outline—mun is autistic, has ocd & anxiety, & suffers from chronic pain ( back, jaw, wrists ) sometimes I can get a little overwhelmed by these hurdles & need a bit of time to recover from flare - ups 😔 but I appreciate your consideration & understanding ! know that if you’re going through anything yourself, you always have my support & patience 😊

this blog is using the beta text editor w/ the Trim Reblogs function from XKit Rewritten. any threads that I have with those who are have not made the switch from legacy to beta / are still using Editable Reblogs from New XKit will be tagged as ' legacy post. ' these posts may not look as neat as others. to all legacy users who are writing with me: fair warning that our threads may look wonky ! 😥 feel free blacklist the tag ! thank you for your understanding 🌷

mun info: winnie 🍯 // she / her // 23 // pasta obsessed 🍄

below you can find some fun links to things you might need on your time here !

🌻 carrd / permanent starter call / interest checker / inbox memes 🌻

BLOG RELATED THING - O's:

✉ ask box: open & accepting ! 🌷

📝 threads, starters, & plotting: always accepting ! 🌻😊

as always, the ask box & im’s are open to any questions that you may have. we hope to see you outside ! 😊

[keikakudori]

✖ How has Tumblr RP changed since you started?

the salty af munday meme

i feel like there's not a lot of fun in it these days for new people.

like, when i started in on tumblr rp waaaaay back in 2010 ( shut up I know I've been here a long time ), we didn't have great things like Xkit Rewritten or stuff like that, though i do remember i was using Missing E a lot back in the day before that was broken and then we got Xkit which led to NuXkit and then to Xkit Rewritten so i've been through a lot of tumblr changes and i think one of the things i see a lot is a lot of griping over things that aren't really such a big deal. tumblr adapts to the changes that staff throws down.

now, that's not to say i don't understand things; the recent issue with trimming reblogs that was going on a couple months ago was something i was on board with but now i've settled into using the beta editor and have been using it for a while now and it's really not that bad. would it be a pain in the ass to try writing without it? oh yeah, absolutely. it would be a tremendous pain in the ass. i probably wouldn't have bothered until the fix rolled in. but i'm honestly not that bothered by the beta editor so i suppose i'm just used to dealing with how staff will change this website in those ways.

but it does feel like there's this air of exclusivity going on. that if you don't know the right people, you can't really break into the rpc. i always do my best to be welcoming to people returning to the rpc or those who are trying to get into it. you never know what kinds of friends you'll make if you block people out and i'd love to see folks return to having fun and generally goofing around. like, i remember when gif wars were a thing. gif wars. if that doesn't date me as the kind of tumblr user i am, then i don't know what does.

i also feel like one of the most ridiculous things in the rpc these days is Sinday. fuck that, i'm not confining my horny to one day of the week. i'm gonna be horny on main and y'all can deal with it. people are horny! i am going to write spicy things and throw them on the dash! i'm not gong to hide that!

i absolutely miss things like follow forevers/bias lists and celebration of blog milestones. the concept that those were like -- bragging things or whatever is ridiculous. do you know how many new people i got to find to write with thanks to follow forever lists? i think i'm going to make one soon, a follow forever/milestone celebration post, because those were fun. you get to see these gorgeous lists and witness people saying NICE THINGS ABOUT PEOPLE THEY WRITE WITH. let's bring that back. those were always lovely. why can't we have those again? i want to see people gushing about their friends.

[rpclefairy]

Excuse me please,

I just saw your post about BTE and LTE and I'm confused. I currently use the LTE on firefox and I have the older version of xkit on here since that's what works for me with the control panel and everything. Is there a problem where posts I edit using LTE with xkit are not able to be edited by someone using the BTE and some other version of xkit? I'm not sure what all is going on.

this post explains everything!

but basically. tumblr introduced the beta editor as the editor that corresponds with the new post format that they implemented in 2018. they're still working on the editor itself so that's why it's called beta.

posts made with the legacy editor use the old code, which has a lot of glitches and errors.

because the coding of posts has been rewritten, xkit rewritten's trim reblogs feature does not work with posts made OR reblogged with the legacy editor (because it converts the post into the old code)

plus, to edit legacy posts you would use new xkit's editable reblogs. new xkit has not been updated or maintained in years, so it's causing a lot of glitches. most notoriously the glitch where drafts get posted when you try to save it.

new users no longer can toggle between beta and legacy, there's no toggle at all. and from what i've seen on the dash a lot of older accounts are beginning to lose the toggle as well, which means tumblr is retiring legacy posts altogether (as it was always planned)

the problem for us roleplayers is that if you make a post or reblog a post with the legacy editor, other people won't be able to cut their replies. so we all need to switch at the same time.

i hope that explains it! still check out that post, they include screenshots and it's easier to follow.

[hobo-rg]

Tumblr, unlike most React based sites, has a publicly documented function which returns the whole map which ties those cryptic minified classes to human readable ones.

That's how user-made extensions like Xkit Rewritten work. You CAN make the CSS injection trick work by injecting two or six lines of js.

Try window.tumblr.getCssMap() in the console.

(Referring to this post about getting rid of the dashboard tags.) I have to post the actual answer to this question in a follow-up because ask answers are forced to use the horrifically broken beta editor. You don’t want to know what it did to my post after I ignored the “unsupported HTML tag” warnings.

[expvrgction]

I can hear the distant calls

There is no easy way OUT OF HERE, There is no easy way, PERSEVERE.

There is so much more beyond these walls

There is no easy way OUT OF HERE There is no easy way, PERSEVERE.

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ESTABLISHED ON AUGUST 3RD, 2021. LAST UPDATED ON APRIL 28TH, 2023.

Multimuse blog for canon and original characters based on video game titles under ZENIMAX MEDIA INC. and characters from other media, and original characters based on them.

Semi-selective. Interaction priority to mutuals, but non-mutuals are still welcome to interact!

Canon and fanmade characters under related media are headcanon-heavy and canon-divergent. AU and crossover friendly.

Blog is for audiences 18+. Dark topics WILL be tagged accordingly for you to blacklist. Please do not follow if you’re below the specified audience rating.

I follow back from the-world-spear!

Primarily using the Beta Post Editor, paired with XKit Rewritten. Ask if you prefer the Legacy Post Editor instead and I will adjust threads to it.

Low activity by default.

RULES (ALT. LINK FOR MOBILE USERS) | CHARACTER LIST (ALT. LINK FOR MOBILE USERS) | PERMANENT STARTER CALL MASTERPOST | THREAD TRACKER (May be shared with other roleplay blogs I run)

[bytemoth]

Got curious about how much things have changed on here, so I scraped together a timeline of some Tumblr features from the past decade. Sourced from a combination of stuff found in my tags, posts on changes/engineering, Wikipedia's article, and websearchin' around.

2012-01-04: FanMail introduced

2012-12-04: Final release of missing e

Yahoo Era

2013-07-18: Activity page introduced

2014-03-07: Dial-a-post introduced (Audio posts via phone calls)

2015-01-14: Final release of Xkit

Early 2015? Notes stopped appearing between posts on the dashboard

2015-07-20: First release of New Xkit

2015-07-30: Full reblog post chain editing removed (major pain in the ass for the RP community)

2015-09-02: Dashboard reblog display changed from nested to flat

2015-09-03? Sidebar replaced with Account+Blogs menu

2015-10-30: Tag tracking removed

2015-11-10: IM system rollout begins, links to FanMail system phased out (but the infrastructure lingered for a bit)

2016-01-19: All external links passed through t.umblr.com redirect because analytics (later replaced with href.li)

2016-01-26: HSTS toggle made available in blog settings

Verizon/Oath Era

2017-10-18: "Best Stuff First" algorithm added

2018-02-??: Dial-a-post silently discontinued

2018-02-09: Safe Mode dashboard filter introduced

2018-07-20: Obnoxious "This post was created in the Tumblr app and cannot be edited on the web at this time." error messages

2018-12-03: Porn ban announced in desperate bid to return to App Store because iOS users command higher ad rates, while a hilariously undertrained image-recognition algo constantly flagged innocent and allowed content (including staff's own announcement)

2018-12-17: The Sexodus (Blanket porn and nudity ban causes 33+% traffic drop over 6 months)

2019-01-30: Hideous oversaturated dashboard color change that I didn't notice thanks to Midnight Lizard

2019-02-06: Posts limited to '100 text blocks'

2019-04-22: HSTS now mandatory

Automattic Era

2019-09-??: Random posts on blogview appear in reverse postchain order due to NPF shenanigans

2019-11-??: Group chats introduced

2020-02-24: Post IDs abruptly jumped from 191 billion to 610.9 quadrillion

2020-05-20: Final release of New Xkit

2021-02-04? NPF/Beta Post Editor introduced on web

2021-03-01: First release of Xkit Rewritten

2021-04-06? Dashboard color schemes introduced (Change palette)

2021-07-21: Post+ introduced

2021-09-22: Group chats deleted

2021-10-25: "Better tagged/search decoding" toggle added which stops hyphens in /tagged/ URLs being interpreted as space characters

202?-??-??: Custom Theme must now be enabled, dashboard slide-out replaced with default web view (www.tumblr.com/blogname/)

2022-02-24: Ad-Free introduced

2022-04-20: Blaze introduced

2022-09-27: Community Content Labels introduced

2022-11-12: Nudity reinstated specifically so I can't unironically state "four years of boobless Tumblr"

2023-01-19: Polls introduced

2023-03-17: Must now be logged in to send anonymous asks

2023-05-24: LEGACY EDITOR toggle removed except on text and photo posts

2023-05-26: Tumblr Domains registration established, later made mandatory for the Custom Domain feature that used to work with anything

2023-08-16: Major dashboard layout change

2023-10-24: You can now Reply as a sideblog instead of just your main

2023-11-24: href.li yeeted

2024-01-24: Tumblr Live and Post+ shut down

2024-03-05: Ad-Free users now get extra sidebars (Patio)

2024-06-01: Tipping discontinued due to low usage

2024-07-25: Ad-Free ($40/yr) replaced with Premium ($70/yr) because FUPM

[quantummindclassicalheart]

Also, a reminder that the beta post editor supports image descriptions natively on Tumblr!

Tumblr doesn't have a built-in option for users to view image descriptions added in this way, but Xkit Rewritten does have this option through the AccessKit extension:

It looks like this:

All the images in this post have alt text added. Using the AccessKit extension also lets you read some of the great image descriptions other users have added to the images in their posts!

Edit: it looks like there's a new ALT label you can click on for images with alt-text!

does anyone have links to any good resources on how to write an image description/id? i want to follow whatever procedure is standard here on tumblr (do you use read-mores? brackets?)