HOW TO VIEW THE SAME POST UP ITS REBLOG CHAIN
Not 100% a solution, but there's a way.
This post by @suffusionofyellow linked here points out that if you click on the timestamp below a post or reblog, it'll take you to that post or reblog (thanks OP!).
But the tip only works for reblogs of the original post that have the timestamp.
Here's a screenshot of how it looks on my dashboard:
If you click on the timestamps below @bengiyo, @willowcrowned or @suffusionofyellow (in the reblog, not in the above screenshot of course) you will be taken to their specific post or reblog.
But if you want to read anything that @distant-screaming might have added in the tags of their reblog (@bengiyo having reblogged this from @distant-screaming), you can't get there from this page. Clicking on their name distant-screaming will only take you to the landing page of their blog, not their specific reblog of this post.
But it IS possible to view @distant-screaming's specific reblog, if you perform one more step – you have to change @bengiyo's reblog of the post from Dashboard View to Blog View by moving text around in the URL address.
In Dashboard View, the address looks like this:
tumblr.com/bengiyo/723508700217769984
In Blog View, the address looks like this:
bengiyo.tumblr.com/post/723508700217769984
In Blog View (linked here) there is a link to @distant-screaming's post:
Clicking on the link in Blog View will take you back up the reblog chain to @distant-screaming's reblog, and you can read the tags each step of the way.
Staying in Blog View will allow you to go back up the reblog chain this way. So clicking on the link in @distant-screaming's reblog (visible in Blog View), you can view the reblog of the person they reblogged it from (@bleekay, reblogged linked here). And so on and so forth.
HOWEVER, some blogs do NOT have Blog View enabled, and their posts/reblog only appear in Dashboard View. So if such a blog reblogged a post somewhere along the chain, I think at that point you're stuck and not able to go further back (because the link in Dashboard View will only take you to the previous reblogger's landing page).
This is how I understand things work at this time. If anybody else has anything to add, do let me know. Hope all of the people tagged here don't mind me using your reblogs as an example! Just trying to make sense of Tumblr navigation.
This is a great explanation. Just a small addition: you don’t need to target the timestamp specifically. You get the same result if you click in the general region on the right of the blog name. It turns grey (or another colour if you’re using a different colour palette) when you hover on it.
There’s another solution (I would say a more straightforward one but YMMV) if you want to see the post in the blog the one you follow reblogged from.
Let me introduce you to Xkit:
- Get the extension for your browser.
- In the Xkit control panel, turn on “Tweaks”.
- And then select “Restore links to individual posts in the post header”.
Now, when you click on the name of the blog your mutual or the blog you follow reblogged from in the post header (the name that is on the right of the reblog icon), it will open the specific post on their blog.
XKit has so many more options, I really recommend getting it.
