#pfstaffupdate

Hi Pillowfolks!

Our developers just pushed another update to the site. We’re still investigating reports of users unable to password reset or update their e-mail in user settings. If you are experiencing either of these bugs contact our CS Team at info [at] pillowfort.social use the contact form on the About Us further assistance. Please include your PF username and e-mail address. This information helps our CS Team locate your account.

We are still on track for the release of the premium features suite at the beginning of 2023. More details soon. Stay tuned for more updates. Have a safe and calm rest of your week!

NEW Features

*NEW* Holiday Frames - Our Founder Julia Baritz was feeling festive and designed a new set of frames to celebrate the holiday season. Head over to your Account Settings to check them out. (Note: the avatar frame selection widget now displays the default user avatar inside each frame as an example to make it more apparent how the frame will look when applied. The widget now also scrolls vertically.

Claimed Registration Key Notice - We’re taking the guesswork out of figuring out if a registration key has already been claimed or not. If someone tries to use a registration link that has already been used, the page will display an error message.

“IntroduceYourself” Community - Beginning today, all newly registered users will be added to the IntroduceYourself Community upon completing registration, to help new users find people to follow.

Bug Fixes/Misc Improvements

Alt text has been fixed for images added via the rich text editor.  (Note: In our continued effort to improve accessibility on Pillowfort, we plan to add the ability to add alt text to images using the photo grid uploader as well in a future update.)

Fixed a bug where banning a user from a Community via the community flag system didn’t work as intended.

The Community Flags Page will no longer refresh after every flag decision submission, so managing Community Flags will be much faster & more efficient now. Submitting a decision on a flag will also auto-dismiss any copies of that flagged item in the flag queue.

The checkbox for whether to delete existing reblogs of a post when changing its privacy level was accidentally removed during the recent UI update. It has now been restored.

Updated the Rules, Watch, Unwatch, and Join button icons in Community headers to be more relevant to their function.

Changed the icon for showing a user’s blog sidebar on mobile to be more relevant.

Improved the wording on Notifications for Replies.

Fixed a bug where some users were unable to successfully save changes to their account settings.