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[psyducksgfx]

How to Roleplay on Pillowfort

With everyone freaking out over the sheer thought of Stupidr Tumblr eventually shutting down, I figured that I ought to reupload my tutorial on how to Roleplay on Pillowfort.

Now for those of you who aren't familiar with Pillowfort, it's definitely a Tumblr alternative that's still in the Beta Phase. It's also 100% user-funded. Does it have all the cool features that Tumblr has like an askbox? No. But it does have the following things that are pretty similar:

An Inbox for you to DM people privately (kinda like how Fan Mail used to exist way back when).

Built-in Followers, Following, and Mutuals sections.

Filters and Blacklist.

Blocked Users.

Enable/Disable NSFW.

Communities.

Queue.

With all of that being said, I will show everyone how to roleplay on Pillowfort under the Read More.

001. Open Post in a new tab. You will see how it ought to look in the two screenshots down below.

002. I zoomed out the page to show what's all included in the page, itself. You have the Title (optional), text box, tags box, and the whole nine yards down below. I will show you two separate posts on what they look like with an icon and without an icon (aka iconless).

WITHOUT ICONS.

WITH ICONS.

BOTH POSTS ON THE SAME SCREEN.

003. To reply, you will click on the comment box which then prompts a pop-up window to show up as seen down below.

004. Start typing out your reply, post an icon of your choice (optional) and then hit submit. It will look something like this when done as seen down below.

WARNING: Yes, the icon will look "oversized" as seen in the first screenshot. This is a site-wide bug that has been around for quite some time. And while there's no guarantee that you'll be able to resize your icon, there's nothing to worry about because your icon will appear normal after you submit your reply as seen in the second screenshot.

005. After you reply the OP will they reply to your post with me highlighting the widget you click and the two of you just go back and forth as seen down below!

And that is all she wrote! It might look pretty intimidating but it's not as scary as it looks. What is also super cool is that you can Collapse and Expand specific blocks of replies so it doesn't look as clunky or messy or stressful.

If you want to see what the responses look like in the tutorial then feel free to check the dummy post linked here. You're also more than welcome to reply to the linked dummy post to get the hang of how things work if it makes you feel better!

Now if any of you guys would like an invitation then feel free to shoot me an ask and I'll send an invite your way. We all get 10 single-use invites a week and 3 multi-use invites a week and then it restarts after the seven (7) days is up.

[psyducksgfx]

Roleplaying Pros and Cons [Pillowfort Edition]

PROS

NSFW POSTS ARE ALLOWED. I mean, hello?? This is super beneficial to those who enjoy writing smut and the whole nine yards. You can also toggle the Show NSFW Posts feature on and off for those of you who are uncomfy with NSFW stuff!

MUTUALS IS EMBEDDED BY DEFAULT. You get to see by default who you are mutuals with unlike Tumblr where you, unfortunately, have to install New Xkit just to find out who you are mutuals with.

THE QUEUE FUNCTION EXISTS. It has a queue system just like Tumblr for those of us who rely heavily on this function.

WHO YOU CAN RECEIVE DIRECT MESSAGES FROM. Unlike Tumblr, you can choose between NO ONE // MUTUALS ONLY // FOLLOWERS ONLY // ANYONE. This is a step in the right direction IMHO.

UNLIMITED TEXT. Well, sort of. It's a looooot bigger than Tumblr's by literal tenfolds, I kid you not. The same is equally true with the tagging system tbh.

FILTERS & BLACKLIST ACTUALLY WORKS. Unlike, you know, Tumblr. RIP. You can blacklist just Tags or go the Post Body and Tags route and you're good to go.

THE BLOCK FUNCTION ACTUALLY WORKS. I'll just copy/paste what @robot-horde said in their post: When you block someone you will not see any of their posts, even if someone you follow reblogs their post. They can’t see anything from you either.

YOU CAN ADD IMAGES IN THE COMMENTS. I mean, hello?? How awesome is that?! There's also no character limit, so there's that!

CONS

AESTHETICS (subjective). If you're all about the #AestheticsFTW, then you're kinda sorta SOL for the time being. The reason for this is because HTML editing, color coding, etc. aren't exactly a thing yet.

MUSIC & VIDEO EMBEDDING ARE NON-EXISTENT. Yeah, yeah, I know. It sucks. But you need to understand that allowing music, videos, and pretty any file that's HUGE in size costs a lot of money. In fact, cohost having infinite storage for images and such is basically why they shut down when they did. They just didn't have the money to upkeep everything and went into debt.

IMAGE FILE SIZE. Unless if you get a Premium Account, the biggest file size you can upload is 2MB. Lucky for us, it's hella cheap to get a Premium Account (legit only $64.48/year for EVERYTHING but you can also pick and choose what you want).

NO @'ING FUNCTION AVAILABLE. So, in other words, you have to DM your buddies to let them know that you made a starter for them. But after that, you'll at least get notifications for when they reply to your posts so that's something.

NO ASKBOX. This is definitely a huuuuuge drawback for those of us who enjoy receiving asks and whatnot. But it does seem like the staff is genuinely trying to implement this feature later on down the road.

YOU DO HAVE TO ROLEPLAY VIA COMMENTS SECTION (subjective). Since reblogs doesn't allow you to add stuff to it, you do have to roleplay in the comments section. But it's really not as bad as it sounds especially since I've made a tutorial on how to roleplay on here!

LACK OF SIDEBLOGS (subjective). This is extremely problematic to those who rely heavily on having hub blogs and sideblogs as their RP blogs. Worst case scenario, you can just have (what feels like) 50 different blogs and have (what feels like) 50 different web browsers installed like I do. XD