AFTER THE WAR THE BEHEMOTHS LOST THEIR PURPOSE, MAN BECAME AFRAID OF THE DESTRUCTIVE CAPABILITIES OF ITS OWN CREATIONS.
THE IRONY IS THAT IT WAS THEIR BLIND OBEDIENCE AND UNQUESTIONING LOYALTY THAT WALKED THEM DOWN INTO THAT PIT, ENTIRELY UNRESISTING.
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:
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and here is the old dashboard in separate tab container that hasn’t received the update:
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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.
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ANOTHER UPDATE:
The script now automatically hides the Tumblr radar, as many of you were already doing with uBlock filters, as well as making the “Following tab” the default for new accounts that would otherwise default to the “For You” tab.
between tumblr being found guilty of moderating lgbtq content unequally during the 2018 ban in court and @ sorryforpartyrocking being nuked for suggesting one of tumblr staff may have investment in defending terfs to now many different trans women having their text posts and selfies being flagged as mature without the opportunity to appeal in any meaningful way (one of which was nuked herself)… it’s very. hmmmm. it’s a bad look. as if staff wasn’t already on thin ice for refusing to engage in any effective way with hate speech. “queerest space on the internet” my ass