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Happy New Year! We’re kicking off 2024 with a Community Update after a very eventful end of 2023. We’ll give you a look at what Staff have been doing behind the scenes, an update from our Developer Team, and a preview of what’s in store for the platform.
Community Stats:
As of January 19, 2024 Pillowfort currently has over 170,467 registered users and over 9,928 Communities.
The rest of this post is under the cut.
In 2023 we have…
Avoided shutdown thanks to your generous support.
Launched Pillowfort Premium
Tested and launched Drafts
Added new premium frames.
Updated our Terms of Service.
Updated our Business Plan.
Continued work on the PWA & Queue.
Blocked ChatGPT Bots our platform.
Announced our upcoming policy on Generative AI.
Increased weekly invitations keys to from 10 to 50.
Continued patching bugs.
Welcome New Users!
Welcome to Pillowfort. We are so glad you are part of our community. If you haven’t yet, check out the Pillowfort101 Getting Started Guide.
Thank you for keeping Pillowfort Alive!
Your support during the End of Year Fundraiser helped us avoid ending contracts with our Staff and averted the end of our platform for another six months (July 2024). We can not express our gratitude enough to you. This has been an extremely challenging and stressful time for each member of the team.
We are going to work hard to keep Pillowfort online. You have motivated us to continue the fight to be a viable platform.
You may have noticed that our donation bar has reset to $5,000 at the beginning of January. This number is our monthly operating costs going forward. Each month in 2024 that we meet our funding goal it will extend Pillowfort’s life past July 2024.
Generative AI Ban Policy Update
We will be implementing our updated policy regarding Generative AI in the next site update. Prior to when the policy will be implemented we will share with the community what our definition of Generative AI is and our moderation process.
We're aware that there are concerns about how moderation systems surrounding generative AI have been abused and used for harassment on other sites: we have consulted with experts on how to avoid those issues, and the suite of moderation methods from international universities also assist with identifying harassment. Abuse of reporting systems will be taken seriously by Staff.
End of Year Fundraiser Limited Edition Badge Gift Form
The form for gifting the Limited Edition Badge to other users who couldn’t donate is now live! Click Here to Fill Out the Form. (Note: We’ll be also making a separate Staff Alert with the link as well.)
Updated Business Plan
The Pillowfort Premium subscription model remains our primary answer to generate the necessary funds needed to cover the costs of running our platform. We will continue to offer optional premium features which can be purchased by users a la carte. However, we will be working on completing the following major projects / updates as an expansion of our revenue strategy in the first half of 2024:
Release of the Progressive Web App w/ Push Notifications - The data is very clear that the lack of a mobile app is hindering our overall growth. A PWA will allow our mobile users to experience all the functionality of a native mobile app and will be much easier for our Developer Team to build & maintain than a native app. We also won't have to worry about App Store content restrictions.
Post Promotions & User-Submitted Advertisement Opt-Ins - Users will be able to promote their posts (as advertisements) by paying a fee. No subscription is required to promote a post. By default, this promoted content will only be displayed on a page specifically for viewing promoted content. While this will mean potentially less revenue, it is important to our philosophy to respect our user’s experience and not force advertising on everyone. However, users can opt into viewing promoted content in their home feed, and will receive a discount on premium features for doing so.
Subscription Gifting - Users will be able to purchase subscriptions that can be gifted to other users. Subscriptions can be gifted to a specific other user, or can be added to a communal pool for any unsubscribed users to take from. We will provide special badges for users who gift subscriptions.
Pillowfort Premium Price Increase - We will be adjusting prices to help us fund our overall operating costs. We will notify the community before any price increase is final.
Mobile Pillowfort Premium Frames - Add an option for mobile users to view Pillowfort Premium Avatar Frames in their feeds.
Other Goals for Completion in 2024 (Goals are subject to change)
Release Queue & Scheduling
Rebuild the post image uploader widget.
Rebuild the way notifications are logged & retrieved in the back-end to be more efficient & reduce errors.
Release an Onboarding Guide for new users.
Release Multi-account management/linking.
Add 2-Factor Authentication.
Enable Community Membership Applications.
Release Community Topics/Organization Options.
Help Us Keep the Lights On!
At Pillowfort we do not receive any funding from venture capital or other outside investors because we are committed to keeping our user experience a priority, and not being beholden to outside interests. While this approach allows us to stay true to our ideals and content guidelines, it also presents many challenges to our team in the form of limited resources, personnel, etc.
Our continued survival depends on the generosity of our community. If you are able to, please consider supporting us with a one-time or recurring monthly donation to help keep Pillowfort online. Any money donated to us now will be applied as a credit to your account when we release paid features & benefits in the future.
Bug Bounty Reminder
We are still offering a Bug Bounty. If you find a bug on the site, particularly one that could pose a threat to the security or functionality of the site, contact Staff through our Contact form or directly at [email protected]. If you are unsure if we received your report, you can send us a DM to the Staff account here, or DM one of our social media channels to check on the status.
We sometimes do not receive all notifications from users on other social media. DMing the Staff account on Pillowfort to check on the status is the preferred method.
The first individual to notify us of a certain issue will be eligible for monetary compensation, depending on the severity of the issue found and the information provided.
Abandoned / Modless Communities Transfer
We are taking Ownership Transfer requests for Abandoned and/or Modless Communities. The form is available here.
Pillowfort Dev Blog
Follow our very own Developer Blog for the latest updates from Lead Architect & Founder Julia Baritz.
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Best,
Pillowfort Staff
#long post#pillowfort#pifo#pillowfort.social#community update#january 2024#pillowfort.soc#pfstaffalert
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Whew, it’s dusty in here. Been a while, huh? A full year since I’ve even posted on this thing. I’ve been busy, sure, but it’s still a shame what has happened to this place. Guess it’s time to clean this place up and get it running again. It won’t be easy, of course, especially with my writing skills as rusty as they are, but I want to try. My new years’ resolution for 2024 is to bring this place back to where it used to be, and here’s my plan for doing so:
1. Completely clear out the inbox and open it back up. Not muscle through the prompts like I had been- I mean actually clear them out. Most of what is in there has been there since about 2018 and chances are a lot of those users have forgotten they even sent anything in. I want to open it back up so that active users can have their wishes granted! Know your prompt is in there and have been waiting all this time? Send it in again and it’ll re-enter the queue, probably closer to the front than it ever was. No worries!
2. Update the FAQ and “How To Wish” guides. I want them to be easier to read and understand. I would also like to add a clear section about common wishes we get around here and how to keep them fresh and interesting. Just so we don’t end up with the old issue of getting a dozen prompts wishing for the same thing again.
3. Promote the discord server again once interest has renewed in the project. It has been largely inactive these days but I know there are users who would love to see it make a return. I may update the server some to make it more functional than it is, but honestly it’s been fine all these years so changes will likely be minimal.
4. Get back to a regular upload schedule. I know we haven’t had one since… well, probably 2018 before I graduated high school. But now that I’m a grown woman with a work schedule and no more classes to attend, I just have to make myself more disciplined and take time out of my weekend to write a little. It may be shaky for the first couple weeks, but I would like to get to the point where I am updating twice a week. No promises, but that is the goal! If I can do more I will, but we will have to see.
Some changes to the above may be made, as in i may keep a couple old prompts to help promote this blog again before new work comes in, but otherwise that’s the goal. Happy new year, everyone! Let’s clean this place up and make it as great as it once was. With all the love in my heart,
Mod Mami 💛
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hi everyone!!! happy new year! i just wanted to update you guys on some things:
there's a slight change i will be updating the form to make it smaller and easier for folks who are always on mobile.
there's a new kpop tag! it will now be kpop band rp because i have been getting requests for folks that are not apart of bandom and it confuses me a lot haha.
i haven't decided, but i will be removing the timezone part of the form due to people saying they are not getting plots due to the timezone. but you guys are responsible for telling your plot partner(s) what timezone you guys are in.
i will be updating tags and only tagging the plots that are requested THE MOST, ie. angst, fwbs etc. and extra plots will be tagged as "etc"
and i might start doing plot queues on friday. again, haven't decided on this, but this might be done because i am busy during the week and fridays are USUALLY my slow days.
last but not least, THANK YOU for keeping this blog active and continuing on sending in your requests!
i love you all and here's to wonderful and long lasting plots in 2024!!
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This is a short-ish log. I know I forgot last week, but I'm sure you understand why :P
There was the AMA on that Saturday, and I was sPENT.
Teatime with a Vampire
IT IS OUT! The thing I've been working for almost a month, which I thought I'd be done in a week... It's way too long for its own good. But you CAN PLAY IT.
If you like vampires and smooches, and slightly about-to-get-steamy scenes, but also weird wtf moments, then this is perfect for you!
While you're at it, play some Queer Vampire Jam games. There's some good stuff there.
French Comp Entry
Currently writing it. An epistolary one. The base UI is ready. I have half the passages drafted. And one week to finish it.
Website update
Last week, I've been working on updating my website since it had been a while, and a bunch of new projects needed to be added. (also ended up fixing some lil things in the process). Check out how cool the first page and project-list pages are now!!
And over on itch, I've updated my page to include neat collections to find games easier.
DOL-OS
The IFDB Awards were announced and DOL-OS won the Outstanding French Game of 2023!!! I'm reeeaaallllyyy happy about this!
It was also nominated for a handful of other ones like: Outstanding Twine, Trailblazer, and Outstanding Sci-Fi!
Thanks to everyone who voted at the Awards (and for me :P )
Next is the Xyzzy... any day now xD
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I think that's all for what I've been doing. I need to add more to the @manonamora-if-reviews queue, cause I've been reviewing a bunch of stuff lately too!
If only the IFDB and Tumblr would "talk" to each other so the posting would be automatic xD
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IF Events for next week:
The Smoochie Jam, the @seedcomp-if and the French IF Comp are ending very very soon! But there is still some time to submit!
The SpringThing will still accept intents to submit until March 1!
I've started the Interactive Fiction Showcase 2024 over on itch to try to find more IF release during the year. Consider sharing the post on Tumblr!
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And that's it for now :)
The end of the month is approaching, which means a new check-in will happen (and lots of admin too... ;-;)
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New Post has been published on https://lovehaswonangelnumbers.org/20th-july-2020-new-moon-black-moon-29th-degree-cancer/
20th July 2020 ~ New Moon & Black Moon 29th Degree Cancer
20th July 2020 ~ New Moon & Black Moon 29th Degree Cancer
From Sarah Varcas
Choose Love, Choose Life!
All dates are UT
This black moon – the second of two new moons in the same zodiac sign – arrives at a time of immense change and uncertainty the world over. In Cancer, the sign of true family, it reminds us that we cannot and does not live apart from others, no matter how isolated our existence may at first appear. In the past few months, we’ve been taught to fear each other, to withdraw into our homes, behind masks, two meters apart. To abandon the everyday expressions of intimacy and affection that affirm our humanity: a handshake, a hug, a smile to a stranger, an arm around the shoulder in a time of distress, or a handheld in moments of intimacy. For some, even sexual intimacy – the most private and personal expression of openness and trust – has been denied by governmental sanctions on who’s allowed to commune with who, how, and when.
What is health anyway?
The assumption that this is all in the interests of our health raises important questions about what health actually is and what really compromises it. Do we truly stay healthy by avoiding each other, fearing each other, dehumanizing each other into disease vectors? Or do we remain healthy by freely expressing love and affection, by socializing and sharing intimacies? By enjoying the freedom to live a positive and creative life right now, not one diminished by the dread of the present and fear of the future. Do we, in fact, remain healthy by embracing life, including its risks and challenges, knowing that in doing so we are telling our bodies, minds, and spirits that life is not to be feared but to be lived, experienced, and savored? That even those things that we fear have the wisdom to share if we let them.
When triggered by fear, Cancer retreats into ‘us and them’ mentality. Suspicion grows, self-preservation takes over. We withdraw from a relationship with all but those we deem ‘safe’: our closest circle of trusted people who we cherish absolutely and without hesitation. Don’t get me wrong, Cancerian cherishing is a beautiful thing. It feeds and nourishes us at all levels. Expressed as a lovingly cooked meal as much as a heartfelt declaration of love and support, it helps us feel safe when we’re under attack and protected when we feel vulnerable. It is the overwhelming love of a mother for her new-born child or the coziness of a crackling fire and a steaming bowl of soup when it’s icy cold outside. We all need some of this nurturing, even (and especially!) as adults. But it’s diminished when our love for those around us is defined by our fear of those outside that circle of trust.
This fear of the ‘other’ is being vigorously stoked by mainstream narratives in the media and political discourse these days, which is why this black moon feels so important. Because it reminds us that these narratives only take hold when we let them. They only become ‘true’ when we act them out and propagate unhealthy suspicion rather than nurture a healing sense of community.
Hold fast to inner wisdom
Saturn opposes this Moon, suppressing our sensitivity, intuition, and relationships if we let it. But we don’t have to! The ‘expert’ pronouncements – new ones every day it seems – are rarely, if ever, incontrovertible fact, despite their representation as such. For every voice saying one thing, there’s another saying something else. But that second one is likely being silenced, ridiculed, censored, or banned. This is Saturn in Capricorn opposing a black moon in Cancer: the authorities (Saturn) decide the narrative and shape it accordingly. As a result, we become increasingly estranged from our inner knowing and wisdom (Moon in Cancer) about what’s truly best for us in the unique circumstances of our life. This is how we lose our instinctive relationship with a higher truth, rendering us even more vulnerable to the ‘truths’ of those who many would not trust on any other matter! Truths designed to spread the virus of fear.
Introducing my mum!
I’ve thought about my own mother many times in recent months. She died five years ago and I’m glad she’s not alive to witness the world we’re living in today. In her twilight years little was more important to her than her freedom to ‘pop to the shops’ as she put it. This was her community. She would chat to the people at the bus stop, in the checkout queue, behind the till, and was always ready to smile and exchange kind words with a stranger or reach out a steadying hand to help someone frailer off the bus.
When I was a child my mum taught by example the value of reaching out to those around us in the course of our every day. I can’t begin to imagine how deeply being confined to her home for months on end would have rapidly eroded her well-being. This black moon exhorts us to remember those the world over, hidden from view, who don’t grab the headlines every day; whose lives, livelihoods, physical and mental health, relationships, and aspirations have been decimated, not by a virus but by lockdown and its many consequences. Because they matter too. They’re not just ‘collateral damage’ in a war against an unseen enemy to whom we’re all expected to defer.
The two faces of the 2020 Saturn/Pluto conjunction
This all began with the Saturn/Pluto conjunction in January. This was not an augur of disease but a symbol of totalitarian power imposed from above. In my January 2020 update, I wrote ‘Relying on those in power to take action for our collective wellbeing may be the biggest mistake we could make this year! And being the change we want to see in the world, our greatest act of power’.
And I meant it!
Since then, we’ve been experiencing the most life-denying, oppressive face of these energies, echoed in the opposition from Saturn to this black moon. But that’s not their only face. Saturn aligned with Pluto also reflects immense healing potential: the wise manifestation (Saturn) of personal sovereignty and inside out change (Pluto) which realigns power and authority (Capricorn) to serve a higher and more liberating agenda (conjunction). This agenda, which will begin to take greater shape in December of this year when Jupiter and Saturn are conjunct in the first degree of Aquarius, is ours to shape. We’re not beholden to the grinding, dense energy of our current Saturn/Pluto world: the least creative, most oppressive expression of the conjunction energies. We can choose to lift them to a new level and express them in more constructive and life-affirming ways. This new black moon cycle will help us do exactly that.
Between now and November 2024 when Pluto completes its journey through Capricorn, we will be tested for sure. But we don’t have to be broken. Absolutely not! These years are the crucible in which immense alchemy can occur, alchemy potentized by our refusal to be divided. There will always be different perspectives and priorities, beliefs, and opinions. There’s over seven billion of us after all! But a world in which only those who agree with the ‘official narrative’ are given credence or respect and everyone else is fair game for ridicule at best and more often vilification, censorship, and abuse is not a world in which love, respect, and companionship can win the day. And all of these are vital to health and well-being, whoever and wherever you are.
So let’s welcome this black moon and embrace the new cycle it begins: a cycle of love and compassion, intimacy, nurturing, and affection. We can only be divided if we choose to be and, as with all things Cancerian, this moon exhorts us to embrace each other with affection, not reject the ‘outsider’ in fear.
Learn more about this Black Moon Cycle here
Sarah Varcas
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