As someone not involved in the development of pillowfort but am a web developer, I think you should lower your expectations, but not for the reason you think.
Pillowfort is a baby. A newborn. A smol bab. If you were here during the early days of Tumblr, think of that.
Pillowfort simply cannot be the immediate solution to your woes. It needs to be nurtured and cared for to become a mature and happy adult.
If you want Pillowfort to work, they’ll need feedback, advice, bug reports, etc. This is a chance to make Pillowfort the Ao3 of Fanfiction.net. It’s not gonna happen overnight, you need to give it time and love and it’ll get there.
If you don’t want to pay money to get into the beta, that’s ok. It will be open to the public soon enough and you won’t have to pay a dime. Their financial model moving forward sounds good (a subscription fee for super extra features), but even an Ao3 model would work swell for them probably.
We’re living in an interesting time on the internet. Governments across the world are cracking down on content and yet community run websites are starting to thrive more and more.
Tumblr once upon a time was what Pillowfort is today, but this time, let’s make sure Pillowfort can stay independent from mega corporations.
Due to tumblr’s TOS change that will effectively remove all nsfw content from this site, I’m planning to delete my blog.
I’m upset and frustrated considering how much work, time, and passion I’ve put into building a following here; I feel bad for the followers I have here that I know don’t want to make the switch over to twitter as well. I’ve been on this website for almost 9 years, but I can’t support a platform that is blatantly hurting it’s own content creators like this. This is a huge blow to so many of us and it’s incredibly disheartening.
I’m exploring other options (pillowfort does look pretty promising atm but it’s still under construction) but until then, please follow me on twitter; I post all my art there and have it organized a little through the Moments feature. All my other current links are here as well.
I’ll keep my blog here and updated until the purge goes through on Dec 17th, then I’ll be wiping my blog and will only leave links to wherever I end up re-locating my archive.
the same people who scream “I’m leaving, this is the final straw” every time staff fucks up are here five minutes later shitposting spongebob memes. let’s be real you were here through the porn bots apocalypse, you gonna be here through the titty prohibition.
I’m color-blind, but I can pick out that [Yves Klein] blue anywhere. I wrote 30,000 words on this color, and I never grew tired of it. The pigment is staggering. It’s amazing that a color can be so emotional. One can only hope to achieve that intensity in acting.
all hail eddie redmayne, patron saint of academic bullshittery
You have been visited by the Eddie Redmayne of bullshit, reblog to have plenty of bullshit to spew on your final exams
This is the level of academic fuckery I strive to achieve
This is a Blog 2.0 