heads up before you spend $$ on pillowfort, especially note the paypal thing. the io domain concern does not seem carefully enforced but is in the TOS so 🤷
For my friends considering pillowfort.io.
They have already posted that they are planning to move away from .io. No update on the GDPR or Paypal situations, though I would guess that these are both things they’re planning to deal with by the time the site is out of beta (which still isn’t for another 6 months or more). Hopefully staff will comment on both of those soon, as many people have been pointing them out.
(I’m not shocked they’re using Paypal right now, as it’s simply the most-common payment platform out there and so it’s just the easiest for everyone while they’re just taking money for beta keys. They haven’t set up their payment platform for premium features yet, so no report at all on what that will look like.)
Ah, turns out they have explicit plans to address the Paypal thing, too. The FAQ specifically says that one of their top priorities right now is “Developing and implementing a sustainable payment system.”
They are clearly aware that PP is not “sustainable” for this site, or else they wouldn’t need to say this.
anyway there is literally no other platform that’s somewhat functioning and that can welcome fandom.
We all have to be united in this, or it ain’t gonna work.
We are Logging Off in protest of the policy causing glitches and interrupting our blogging experience, not to mention taking away the freedom for artists and other workers to profit through their platforms.
Complaints have not been met with solutions. Log off and make a statement.
Log off and show them that we mean business and we won’t stand for this foolishness any longer!
It’s something I’m happy to do, but could someone please confirm this is a widespread thing we are going ahead with?
Some good news, I’ve been talking to two developers now and got them working together, we just had a meeting with the guys behind an existing large (millions of users) site similar to Tumblr, with a vibrant and open-minded community, and more importantly, it has open-minded owners who believe in free speech. They think we can get something done here to rescue the whole community.
I’m not allowed to reveal the site name yet. I can tell you it’s mainstream, open to everyone, open-minded and welcoming. (It’s not WordPress or any site owned by Facebook or Twitter. It’s not Pillowfort, that’s in closed beta. It’s not Ello, that’s mainly for artists. It’s not kinkspace or fetlife, those are too specialist. It’s not jux, that seems to be closed. It’s not Soup, that seems still in development and too small.)
One of the reasons for delaying the announcement for next few days is they don’t want a “land grab” where people take the names of current popular Tumblr users over there (cyber squatting). So they are looking at ways for existing Tumblr users to keep the same names on the new site.
More info over the days to come.
The plan is, broadly:
1. By December 9th, announcement of the new site and how to secure your username there
2. By December 10th, an online tool for bloggers to copy their existing content to the new site automatically, with the same tags and captions.
3. Bloggers will need to copy their content across between December 10th and December 17th if they want to use the automatic tool.
4. My understanding is that after December 17th there will be no public access to any “flagged” posts on Tumblr, but the original poster will still be able to see the flagged post (for a short time at least). Therefore, the original poster may still be able to manually download a post to their own PC or phone, after December 17th, and manually upload it to the other site. But if you have lots of posts that will take a long time, it will be better to use the automatic tool before December 17th.
Please understand that these dates are approximate and may change for technical or other reasons.
There may be a few rough edges or not so perfect looking site design on the transfer tool. Everyone is doing their best. The main goal here is to help as many people as possible preserve access to their content, in the short space of time Tumblr has allowed us, and preserve as much as possible of the Tumblr community spirit somewhere new.
The new site will cater for photo, GIF, text and html posts. It will not offer video and audio posts, due to cost reasons – maybe in future, but for now you will need to preserve video and audio content yourself in some other place.
If your Tumblr blog has a mixture of original content and reblogs, or all reblogs, all of that can be copied over to the new site. Reblogs will become “your” original content if nobody else posted them yet, otherwise they will be shown as reblogs. The devs are looking at ways to preserve attribution of reblogs back to the original Tumblr poster, if that person also moves to the new site.
Important: your Likes cannot be copied from Tumblr to the new site. You will have to go find the same posts again on the new site, and like them afresh.
(Similarly, existing reblog comments, asks, messages and other user interaction on Tumblr cannot be copied to the new site – that’s just too much to do, in the short time available.)
If you want to preserve any of your existing Liked posts on Tumblr, you will need to either: (1) download the post to your own PC, or: (2A) reblog it now to your own Tumblr blog, and then (2B) use the automatic tool, before December 17th, to move your whole Tumblr blog across to the new site.
If you have Liked a lot of posts here on Tumblr, the gridllr.com webapp should be able to help you do steps 1 and 2A quickly, I mean download or reblog.
(Someone complained to me today about the appearance of Gridllr on a phone. It’s best to use Gridllr on a PC, Mac or Tablet with a large screen.)
If you have liked a post here on Tumblr and the original poster decides to delete it, or even to delete their entire blog, some time before December 17th, then that post will be permanently lost. So if you want to be sure to preserve any of your Liked posts, you should best download or reblog as soon as possible. If it’s reblogged to your own blog it is safe from deletion, at least for next few days.
Obviously, you will lose access, after December 17th, to all past posts you have liked, if Tumblr has flagged them as NSFW. Again, the steps (1), or (2A) and (2B) covered above will be the only way to hold on to these posts.
Oh I so hope this works. It would be great to get this out so we can try to get as many people as possible all back in one place and not split up all over different platforms.
Please reblog
Here’s hoping
everyone who see’s this from Me PLEASE reblog this!
~Uncle R.
Guys, check this out.
We now have a plan to save this Tumblr community!
Help is on the way!
More to come!
I want to personally thank all those volunteers who are involved in this project.
Is there any interest in a more adult FFXV discord server? More adult as in:
No censorship.
No list of trigger warnings. People using their common sense and good judgment to decide the appropriateness of the subject.
People leaving the channel if they don’t like the current conversation instead of demanding that it be shut down.
Specific channels for shitposting and AU talk so that memes don’t clog up every single channel.
I know there is the “official” one which is great for canon discussions and a few smaller servers for specific ships and characters, but I’d like to be in a general FFXV one that has both canon material chatter and fanworks/shipping chatter. This won’t be a discord for trolls. It’ll be a discord for people who want to be able to enjoy fandom without being told they are problematic and/or toxic.
I’m willing to throw it together and be a mod if there is enough interest! Please spread the word if you would be game.
SquireofGotham 