#unfunsite migration

[nomadicism]

My Ask Queue and Pillowfort

Thank you to everyone who have sent me Asks in the past few weeks and throughout this year!

I have a lot going on right now, but I hope to answer more of these soon. I know that I post something like this quite a lot. ‘Tis the Lament of Adulting.

Anything that doesn’t get answered before I finalize my move to Pillowfort, will either be answered on Pillowfort, or I may open up a mirror on Medium. Still a chance that I’ll stick around Tumblr till PF is stabilized enough to leave closed beta. I dunno. I am fully against Tumblr’s content changes, even though my blog is safe.

Unfortunately, Tumblr is very good at what people use it for, and no other social media platform replicates Tumblr’s features and user experience. Even Tumblr’s weirdness and problems aren’t enough for most users to leave over it. Meh.

[saltwife]

so tungles has finally gotten around to censoring some of my posts, and I’m finding their choices... hilarious. Picture of Haxus and Sendak lounging topless? Not on my good Christian Internet!! Haxus’ bare ass draped over Sendak as Leather Daddy? A-OK! Haxus in hot pants, a jacket and boots on the back of a fully clothed Sendak’s motorcycle! Not on your life you WHORE. But Haxus in a fuckin bondage harness.... that’s fine!

The annoying thing is that I can’t just contest these from the tag; I’d have to scroll back through my whole ass blog and I’m... not going to do that.

EDIT hahaha the Throk ‘right in front of my salad’ post IS still there, as is the ‘Thanksgiving stuffing’ one. OMG tungls, ffs.

[saltwife]

looking for pillowfort blogs!

As more of us migrate over there I’m looking for more folks to follow! If you’re a voltron blogger over there and post Lotor, Allura, Lotura, Coran and/or Galra stuff, drop your url in the notes! And if you want to follow me, I’m at https://www.pillowfort.io/saltwife

Oh and this probably goes without saying considering my preferences, but no antis.

[dear-kumari]

In light of recent events

So I know this will come as a disappointment to all, uh … twenty-three of my followers, but I’m afraid that I don’t have any active social media accounts outside of Tumblr.  I joined only six months ago after several years of observing the platform; it has its toxic user base, sure, and a slew of performance bugs, but I liked the idea of having my own personalized blogs on which to build an art portfolio and rant about my niche interests.  I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the good reception I’ve had for what little content I’ve produced; and, yes, I was preparing to make a long-term commitment to my art blog here.  I wish that investment of time and energy wasn’t threatened by maliciously incompetent company heads, but here we are.

I’m going to keep posting here as long as there’s an audience, and as long as the nonsensical flagging system doesn’t smite me.  I’ve backed up both of my blogs, though I’ve no idea where else to set up shop.  Twitter, Facebook, and DeviantArt aren’t very attractive to me; I might try out Instagram eventually, but I doubt it’ll hold my interest.  Pillowfort sounds nice, but I’d like to wait and see where it goes before jumping in.  My sparse, slowly evolving Redbubble page is linked in my main blog’s header and I think I made a Youtube account at some point.  That’s pretty much it for me.

I really hope Tumblr recovers from this phase and retracts its latest decisions, but it may already be too late.  To those of you I’ve interacted with who are definitely leaving, let me just say that it was really nice to meet you.  I’m just a boring college sophomore who likes cartoons and never starts conversations and writes like a forty-year-old woman, so knowing that people find my art good or my posts funny or insightful has really taken the edge off of my semester.  I really wish we’d had more time together, but if I were more established on other platforms I’d probably be ready to move too.

In conclusion:  Stay well, twenty-three followers and others.  I’ll be here or nowhere if you need me.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[nomadicism]

Being a Great Beta Tester - Betabound

Tips on how you can be a great beta tester on every Betabound beta test you participate in.

Here are some tips for those of you who are trying out @pillowfort-io​. The tips are written for Betabound, but they are general enough to apply for beta users. It’s a quick read, and there is no shortage of advice on being a beta tester on the Internet for those who want to search for more information. (the tip about secrecy is irrelevant though)

While y’all are users, and not testers, the general concepts behind being a beta tester still apply, the big difference is that you’re not literally trying to make the product break.

Providing clear, concise, and polite feedback is the most helpful thing that we can do when using a product that is still in beta development phase. Second most helpful thing is being patient.

[nomadicism]

What /is/ Pillowfort?

Hi thank you for the Ask!

@pillowfort-io is a blogging platform that is in closed beta. Has features of Tumblr but content control of LiveJournal. You can read more about it on their Kickstarter page, and their Tumblr blog has posts with information as well.

Pillowfort appears to have most of what I want in a blogging platform. I think the challenge for them will be related to useability (speed is key) vs the cost of server space, hosting, etc. It’s a huge challenge, especially since there is now an impending need to solve the problem of Tumblr’s content purge.

I would not be surprised to see a startup with Silicon Valley funding popup within the next few months with promises to be the next Tumblr. Pillowfort is relying on donations and crowdfunding, which takes much more time to accrue the amount of money needed to for development and server/hosting costs.

[nomadicism]

Why is Tumblr taking the fall for Apple

“Tumblr’s decision was very clearly forced on it by Apple, which removed Tumblr from the App Store until it cleaned up its act. This is the equivalent of the death penalty: Tumblr can’t survive without access to the Apple ecosystem, so they have to do what Apple tells them.”

Small take from Mother Jones.

[nomadicism]

I don't know if its only me xC but I receive notifications that you're posting something and when I click on them it takes me to your blog and show me your last post of the nipple :s I try to refresh your page and it doesn't work xC

Oh interesting! Any one else having this problem? Though I suppose they wouldn’t know if they’re having the same problem. Are you on desktop or mobile?I’ve had reblogs of content that I’ve post after that nip:/ple reblog, so someone must be able to see my stuff.Tumblr is out to get me now!