Someone pointed out to me that the intro text of the Big Update Friday, “decided to work on XKit”, sounds like I only update XKit whenever I feel like it.

I would like to point out that I have a university that I have to graduate from, and have a job, I write code both at work and at home to support myself.The free time I got today was the result of skipping work since I was not feeling well this morning.The rest of the free time I have, I use to relax, since I need it. Even with that, when Tumblr breaks something, XKit is usually the first extension to be compatible with it.

No software is immune to bugs. If a huge multinational corporation with thousands of employees can sell applications with bugs in it, I think I can be excused for releasing one, as you should see that I am only one person with limited resources.

There are over 200,000 people using XKit. I would like everyone to experience a bug/trouble-free XKit experience. But I am only one human, after all. I try my best, test each extension on 3 different browsers, and under different scenarios. But Tumblr is always changing things, making it hard to spot all the bugs and broken stuff.

I just would like you to keep in mind that XKit is not a commercial product: it costs you nothing to install it, uninstall it, file a bug report or reset it. On the other hand, it costs me money (on web servers XKit uses to update and install itself) and time. And sometimes, my sanity.

And on donations, I would like to clarify that I don’t use them as bribes or anything, just use them to minimize what this is costing me. And please don’t think I receive $200/day on donations or anything.

I really appreciate all the thank you asks, promotions, bug reports, feature requests, and donations. I would appreciate this whole thing if people stopped acting like they’ve paid $150 just to download XKit. This is a personal hobby, made publicly available so more people can enjoy Tumblr better, and save time.

Thank you for your time and understanding, and for using XKit.