Going forward it will be more important than ever for those of us who are anti-fascist and anti-bigotry to band together. Pillowfort is a social media platform that is pro-LGBT, pro-NSFW, and notably not owned by a megalomaniacal MAGA billionaire. Learn more at the link above.

DEV BLOG: January 2025

Hey all! Just a small update for you. We are still working to get the PWA/mobile app ready ASAP! We’re continuing to polish some rough edges and making sure there are no major issues. I actually ran into a pretty confounding bug a few days ago; once in a while in software dev you run into a bug that makes you feel like you’re losing your mind, because the way the bug is behaving defies your understanding of how your own project should even work, and this was one of those bugs. It took me two days to even figure out what was causing it, but I finally did, so now I have to figure out how to fix it! Hopefully it will not take too long, and once that’s done we’ll be just about ready to launch. Thank you as always for your patience as we’ve been working on this!

Best,
Julia

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FUNDING UPDATE - NOV ‘24

$3570 / $7000 (51%)

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN   Thanks to your generosity we have made goal for October!   Any extra funds raised between now and 11:59pm ET on 10/31 will add even more padding to our available funding! We will let everyone know the final funding amount for October in early November.ALT

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃

Thanks to your generosity we have made goal for October!

Any extra funds raised between now and 11:59pm ET on 10/31 will add even more padding to our available funding! We will let everyone know the final funding amount for October in early November.

🚨OCT FUNDING UPDATE 🚨

▶️$6160 / $7,000

‼️WE HAVE LESS THAN 32 HOURS TO RAISE $840‼️

Pillowfort is a user-funded woman-owned indie blogging platform. We are Anti AI & Pro NSFW. All funds raised go to keeping the lights on + paying Staff.

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Site Update - 10/16/2024

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Hello Pillowfolks!

We hope you are safe and well. Our Developer Team has released a new update to the platform. We will be monitoring closely for any new bugs, so please let us know if you run into any.

Thank you again for your support! Our next major update will include the release of the Progressive Web App!  Be on the lookout for our next Dev Blog for info about our progress. 

Have a great week!

New Features / Improvements

*NEW* Community Pinned Tags  -  Community Moderators can now designate specific tags to be pinned at the top of a Community for easy navigation through that Community’s posts. For example, one could organize a fandom story-writing community where posts are grouped by “prompts” and “fills”… just thinking out loud 👀

*NEW* Collapse/Expand Comments -  The days of endlessly scrolling through long comment threads are over. Comments now feature new buttons to collapse all the replies to a comment for easier navigation. You can also click on a new button to easily take you back up to the ‘root’ comment from any reply.

New Premium Frames - We have added the following premium frames, designed by our Community Manager, Midnight: 

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  • 90s - Booyah! We’ve added a 90’s-inspired frame that is the bomb dot com. 
  • Cottage Core - Midnight wanted to flee the crushing pressure of society and disappear into the woods to befriend mushroom fairies, but alas, they can’t. So they made this frame instead. 
  • Rainy Day - It’s giving *whimsical weather.* 

Reblog to Community Citations - When users view a post and click on the list of reblogs for that post, the list will now note what community a reblog was submitted to if applicable.

Donation Page Verbiage - We’ve improved the verbiage on the Donation Page (now the Funding Page) to help clear up confusion regarding fundraising on Pillowfort. 

Bug Fixes

Deleting Blocked User Comments - We’ve fixed a bug where users were unable to see or delete comments from blocked users on their own posts. 

Post Scheduling Fixes - Fixed an issue where editing the publishing time on an already-scheduled post caused the post to fail to publish. (We are still investigating the other issues with the queue, so please continue to provide us any details you can about the queue bugs you’ve been encountering.)

Reblog Count Inaccuracy - We’ve fixed an error where deleting a reblog caused an inaccurate reblog count on the original post.

Our developers are preparing to push a an update to Pillowfort this evening. There may be intermittent downtime until the rollout of is finished. We will update you all when the update is done!

Heads up to our GIFmakers, artists, and animators on Pillowfort: We will be introducing an Upload Limit Increase option of 10MB for $5 as part of Pillowfort Premium no later than Dec 1, 2024. 🎉

Heads up to our GIFmakers, artists, and animators on Pillowfort:

We will be introducing an Upload Limit Increase option of 10MB for $5 as part of Pillowfort Premium no later than Dec 1, 2024. 🎉

Regarding the 2023 Fundraiser Pop-up

It has been brought to our attention that new accounts and users who are logging in for the first time in a long while (hello by the way! we are glad you are back!) are still receiving the 2023 End of Year Fundraiser Pop-up. It looks like this:

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This is old and outdated information! In fact, thanks to our community we were able to meet the 2023 end of year fundraiser goal. We are still here and are hopeful to remain online past Jan 2025 with your support. If you want new funding information check out the Sept 2024 Funding Update

Our Developers will be disabling this pop up as soon as possible!