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Turns out Pillowfort does have a business plan

Mon, 23 Jul 2018 02:36:53 GMT

It's paid accounts and opt-in advertising:

Premium Account Features: Essential site features will remain free from a paywall, while users can pay for premium features. (For example: being able to upload larger file sizes, uploading gifs to a library, personal analytics.)
Advertisement Opt-Ins: All Pillowfort blogs will not feature advertising by default. Instead, users will have the choice to opt-in to advertising to help support the site. This means overall less ad revenue, but we believe it is important to respect our users' experience and not force advertising on anyone.

Which is something? I'm dubious as to how many people will opt in to advertising out of the kindness of their hearts.

In related news: Today marks the first time someone actually posted in any of the several Writescrib communities I joined a month and a bit ago.

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Writscrib update

Tue, 05 Jun 2018 05:38:36 GMT

A crosspost of this writscrib post where I test everything out:

People got back to me about some of the misconceptions in my last post.

* the gift art is user submitted which makes the varying quality more understandable
* tags are done as hashtags, eg #writscrib, and have a nice autocomplete dropdown
* formatting is done with BBCode
*I still haven't figured out how to view all the latest posts from all my groups at once but am quite willing to assume the problem is me being dense. There's a discord to ask questions on I may ask when feeling less self conscious. https://discord.gg/K5KAnRv

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Writscrib! (and a little bit more about Pillowfort)

Sun, 03 Jun 2018 17:23:08 GMT

To complete the set I also signed up for Writscrib, another attempt to cross the best bits of tumblr and lj. I'm sqbr there as well. It's in open beta.

They have an actual income stream, which is something, via paid accounts and the ability to send people tokens that can be swapped for money, as well as paid gift art.

I am finding it a little unintuitive. Overall, like Pillowfort, it has some nice features but is lacking some features I am strongly missing, though not the same features.

I joined a bunch of (mostly very quiet) communities and there doesn't seem to be any way to read a stream of their recent posts. My settings say I'll be "notified", which is something.

Making posts is very simple in a tumblr-y way. You can lock posts to mutuals, or to a custom set of friends, though the interface for custom locks seemed painfully clunky. There doesn't seem to be any way to mark posts as unrebloggable, though I'm assuming locked posts can't be reblogged. Comments aren't threaded.

You can subscribe to keywords which would be cooler if tags had been implemented, but it seems to work pretty well just based on searching for words in posts. There's no blacklist feature. EDIT: You can use hashtags a la twitter.

While the site is very quiet the people seem friendly and similarly creative/queer/fannish to Dreamwidth and Pillowfort. It's quieter than Pillowfort right now but afaict they were pretty similar before the recent influx of new beta Pillowfort users.

Something about the vibe reminds me of both Facebook and DeviantArt, which are not super positive connotations, but if I end up liking it that'll wear off.

I can't figure out how to add formatting/links to my posts?? This is making Pillowfort's "only rich text" option look better /o\ EDIT: BBCode!

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