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Hi Pillowfolks!
We need your feedback to shape Pillowfort's future. Help us choose what to build next, give feedback on existing features, and more! As a reminder: We have used previous survey responses to guide our development decisions. Your feedback matters to us.
We're also holding a drawing. 3 winners will be randomly selected to received $25 in Pillowfort Premium credit. You must follow the instructions in the survey to be entered in to the drawing. Winners will be randomly selected and notified no later than April 28, 2025. Note: We will only use your e-mail address to notify you if you win. After winners are selected, all e-mails received for the raffle will be discarded from our records.
SURVEY CLOSES APRIL 8, 2025 11:00AM ET.
2/17 FUNDING UPDATE: $2520 / $7000 (36%) We need your help to make goal! There's still 11 days left in February. WHAT IS PILLOWFORT? We're a 100% user-funded indie blogging platform. No investors, no billionaires. We are dedicated to creating a space our users want. https://www.pillowfort.social/donations
1/24 FUNDING UPDATE: $4060 / $7000 (58%)
Hi! We're Pillowfort: a 100% user-funded and woman owned indie blogging platform. We need help to meet our funding goal. The Link to Donating is available by clicking on the image above. Pillowfort is: - PRO 2SLGBTQA+ - PRO NSFW - ANTI NFTs/Crypto/GenAI - ANTI Fascist
1/26 UPDATE: $4480 / $7000 (64%)
My friends won't use Pillowfort because you do not have push/desktop/real-time notifications or a functional mobile/web app. Delegating it to e-mail removes an entire level of privacy. Most the time the notification dashboard does not even work. These have been talked about for years and years. You are trying to farm for money right now because you are failing to raise enough to cover your monthly, and taking advantage of the terror in the queer community to do so. I would love nothing more than for you to be successful, but you would have had to have listened to numerous people in my family and circle in the years prior to do so. The way you went from communicative and approachable with certain people I know to ghosting them and ignoring them the moment you betrayed them and left them for dead was all I and those who know me needed to see to give up on you. Get better. For everyone.
Hi there! Thank you for the feedback. 1. We have and never will capitalize on the fear of marginalized communities, especially right now. We do have to remind folks of our funding goals because unfortunately in order to keep our platform online and to compensate our Staff it takes money to do that. We don't have venture capital and we do not have an angel investor. 11 out of 12 months we met our funding goal in 2024 and that also includes a funding goal increase during the later part of 2024. 2. We have been providing regular updates on the progressive web app since opening up our Pillowfort Dev Blog over a year and a half ago. 3. In regards to the notifications bug reports, we have stated in various updates on the PWA that the notification bugs will be fixed with the PWA. We are rebuilding notifications entirely to allow for push notifications with the PWA. We always aim to do better for our community. We are doing the very best with the limited resources and the dedication of our hardworking team.
1/24 FUNDING UPDATE: $4060 / $7000 (58%)
Hi! We're Pillowfort: a 100% user-funded and woman owned indie blogging platform. We need help to meet our funding goal. The Link to Donating is available by clicking on the image above. Pillowfort is: - PRO 2SLGBTQA+ - PRO NSFW - ANTI NFTs/Crypto/GenAI - ANTI Fascist
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
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* 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:
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.
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.
