myluckyseven

Tumblr Note Savior

Not the drawings I promised yet, but I think this will interest a lot of tumblr folks anyways?

So I was messin about on the internet when I thought to myself: “Tumblr Savior seems to work great for hiding unwelcome posts. But people still suffer from an influx of notes for posts that they’d rather not see. There’s no reason the same idea couldn’t be adapted to tidy up notifications off the dash, right?”

and then because i am a big nerdy nerd i dived right into doing just that. unfortunately I do not know even a little bit of javascript? but luckily I have a dad who’s been doing js for a living lately! so he confirmed my guesses as to what did what, and I banged out an edit on the ever-popular Tumblr Savior script.

With any luck, someone who actually knows a lick of JavaScript will pick this up, tidy it, and add in whatever’s needed to put the “first_notification” and “last_notification” classes back when they’re hidden. Then they can put it on userscripts or make it an extension for Chrome or whatever, this was kind of just proof of concept for myself.

For anyone who is also a giant nerdy nerd, and wants to use/edit it, here’s the script and how to use it:

PASTEBIN CODE LINK

Add it to whatever Userscript extension you’re using, however you do that. I dunno if Greasemonkey even supports manually adding scripts? Google it or something, I guess. Then edit the code as follows…

Block posts like this, with their permalinks:

var blackList = new Array('http://your-url.tumblr.com/numbershere/post-name', 'also a permalink', 'and again like this for every post you want to block');

I left the whitelist in case maybe you want to see if a certain person liked one of the posts you are sick of being inundated with. Put their username in like this:

var whiteList = new Array('i am a username', 'and so am i');

And boom! Notes hidden! Any reblogs of the post by people you follow will still show up, this is purely for notifications.

edit: Check the note eraser tag for the new, finished version of this!

Attention: anyone who uses a mobile device to browse!

Do you have a minute? If so, I think you can help me get together a little holiday-time present for Tumblr. :) After much frustration dealing with Tumblr’s poor implementation of tags in its app and mobile site, and how lacking its optimized mobile theme is for blogs, I decided “screw it, I’ll make my own.” I think I whipped together something nice: small but packed with the basics that you’d have on any full-size tumblr theme. Unfortunately, testing this sort of thing is pretty hard. Browser emulators aren’t very good. That’s where you come in!

Here’s what I need:

1. Get on your smartphone. Use wi-fi, don’t waste your data on me haha
2. Go to my main blog page, http://wraithlike.tumblr.com
3. If it appears the same way it does on a proper computer, clear your cache and try again. If not, continue.
4. Give it a look! Go to some pages, tilt it sideways, click a thing. Just do some stuff to test how it works.
5. If you have any suggestions, or especially if anything is broken or unusable, please send me an ask, a reply, or an email. Make sure to note what browser and device you were using!

I’ve tested in 4 browsers on my Droid Bionic- Android’s default, Firefox Fennec, Dolphin, and Opera Mini. So far Opera is the only one that displays anything funky, but it seems to be handling a lot of sites strangely, so I’m unsure how to fix that. I’ll give it some research.

Once it’s been tested and tweaked, I’ll make it available for everyone, with full instructions on how to change the colors and install it!