A week ago or so, Tumblr implemented this thing they call DashboardGL. (I’m guessing GL stands for Ghost List, but not sure.) What it does is, it “hides” photos so you can scroll the page at greater speeds. It increases the performance of the dashboard.

But -at least on the test machines I’ve had - it caused problems with XKit, with avatars becoming white boxes. Since I have no energy left to reverse-engineer and read code with variables and function names like “a”, “b”, I’ve just written something called “XKit DashboardGL”.

What this does is, it checks the avatars that is in the view (visible on the screen), and if they still have the blank avatar, it “fixes” it itself.

The reason why I’m writing this is I’m not too sure about it’s performance. I’ve recently pushed it, and you’ll get it soon (with XKit Patches), so if you experience a slow dashboard after it arrives, please let me know.

Each time it works, it calculates and displays the time it took to do it’s job on your browser’s console. On Chrome, you can open this by right clicking the page, selecting Inspect Element and then Console. It should be something like “XKit dashboardGL: 2.012ms”. I would appreciate if you can send it along with your ask too.

Thank you so much! =3