as 90% of desktop users have probably found out, today @staff released an update that for some insane reason COMPLETELY remodels the dashboard to replicate twitter’s. this is of course in the wake of numerous other thoroughly hated changes and a continued refusal to fix any of the site’s actual problems, half of which stem directly from site management.
HOWEVER, thanks to the power of jQuery, i was able to throw together a userscript that remodels the dashboard back to its original look almost perfectly.
here is my dashboard right now, with the script active:
and here is the old dashboard in separate tab container that hasn’t received the update:
it’s hardly perfect; i had trouble making it force reload to the fixed layout when switching between other pages and the dashboard, and it currently only fixes just the dashboard. it’s also completely untested on browsers other than firefox, and chances are it looks a bit screwy on ultrawide monitors. but for now at least, it’s a good fix.
the unfucker is a tampermonkey userscript. all you have to do to use it is install the tampermonkey extension, hit “create new script”, and replace the default code on the page with the script (link here) and save it.
Tumblr literally just updated their chat feature. It is sleeker, but now no longer reflects the unique nature and color choices of the user. It now appears to be reflective of your dashboard settings. Whichever theme you have installed. I have classic blue so my dash, post maker, and now chat are all Tumblr Blue.
I used to be able to at a quick glance tell who I’m chatting to just on the color of the chatbox. Now they all look the same. And honestly, look worse. It looks like every other fucking chat interface.
Update. You can’t even click to your friends blog from chat anymore. Unless yous scroll to the top of the chat (good luck good friends)
Why are they trying so hard to break the site? Clicking back to a blog from messages is useful. Making the site less useful is really stupid.
