#pfupdates

Hello everyone! We’ve been hard at work this week developing a new feature to help curb the submission of spam content to Communities. If you are a Community moderator, you can now toggle a new option when creating or editing your Community:

Turning that option ON will make all new posts submitted to the Community go to a “pending posts” queue. If you are a moderator, just click on the “Flags & Review” button in the Community navigation bar (formerly just the “Flags” button) and you will be taken to the flag review page, where you will see a new tab for reviewing submitted Community posts. You can either Approve or Reject a submitted post.

Because we had to develop this feature rapidly, it’s being released without some “quality of life” features we’d otherwise have included such as email notifications for new submitted posts.  Also, at this time, the user who submitted the post will not be notified of their post being either rejected or approved. Let us know if you encounter any bugs with the new screening system and we will do our best to address them speedily.

A user who is about to submit a post to a community that screens new posts will see a message on the form above the submit button notifying you of the fact. While Community moderators will also see this message, posts made to a Community by a moderator of that Community will automatically be approved and go directly to the Community feed.

In addition, we have made a couple other small changes to the site:

Posts from deleted/banned users will no longer show up in Community feeds or the home page.

All notifications from banned or deleted users will no longer show in a user’s notifications feed.

Thanks for being patient as we worked on these improvements! We are still working on the UI update as well and hope to have it released before the end of the year! Thanks as always for your ongoing support.

Hi Pillowfolks,

We would like to provide an update to our community on our premium features suite. Our initial projection was to begin rolling out our premium features suite Fall 2021. That plan, unfortunately, had to be postponed due to higher priority unexpected challenges such as the security audit at the beginning of the year as well as the site-wide trolling situation which required an immediate response from Staff.

However, our developers are still working to fast-track the premium features suite in our developer pipeline and will have more details available soon. These details will be made available in an updated FAQ and Business Plan. (Note: As of this writing the FAQ and Business Plan are slightly out of date. Both pages will be updated as soon as possible.)

Back in May we also ran a survey asking our Community for feedback on an optional opt-in “Promote Your Content” premium feature where users could be able to pay a fee to have their content promoted to other users on the platform. 459 users answered the survey.

When asked if users are in favor of Pillowfort developing a Promote Your Content feature the results were:

46% Unsure

34% Yes

20% No

When asked if users would consider paying to promote content on the site the results were:

38% Unsure

12% Yes

50% No

Your responses have helped guide our plans for this feature, and we will share the specifics of the plans for this feature in the future as we continue to refine it. Thank you all for your input.

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Since Pillowfort’s inception our entire team continues to maintain the stance of never relying on venture capital investors. Being user-funded allows us to continue to operate as a platform beholden to our user base, not to corporate interests. We can continue to operate without compromising our content guidelines because of this.

While Pillowfort doesn't have investor funding, this does create many challenges. Relying only on user payments and donations limits our resources significantly compared to other sites that receive millions of dollars in investment funding. We also pay higher payment processing fees because we allow adult content. Our continued survival depends on the generosity of our community until we can implement a long-term business plan such as our premium features suite.

As of this writing (9/24/2021) we have only met 31% of our $6647 monthly goal. This is only a fraction of what Pillowfort needs in order to keep the lights on. While Pillowfort will not have to shut down immediately if we do not meet this month’s goal, it is in the best interest of the site to reverse this trend sooner rather than later, lest we do reach a point where we do run out of finances.

If you haven’t yet, please consider supporting us with a one-time or recurring monthly payment to help keep Pillowfort online. Any money donated to us now will be applied as a credit to your account when we release paid features & benefits in the future.

Thank you all for the generous, continued support during this challenging year.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Hi Pillowfolks,

In our last announcement we provided an update to our Premium Features suite as well as shared the progress of meeting our monthly goal. While on 9/24 we had only met 34% of the goal, we have now met 56% of our $6647 monthly goal thanks to your support as of 9/29. Thank you for your generosity.

Our Donation page provides a budget breakdown of Pillowfort's current monthly expenses. Note: These expenses are subject to change based on several variables such as level of site traffic.

Budget Breakdown Text Version:

Hosting: $850 Fees for hosting our services, as well as uploaded user media such as photos.

Service Fees: $350 CDN services, email server management, etc.

Staff Compensation: $4500 Payment for our web developers, customer service, and content moderation staff.

Misc: $150 Other costs such as development tool subscriptions, etc.

Processing Fees: 12% The percentage of our income that is billed as processing fees.

Total Needed: $6647

We want to reassure our entire community that if we do not meet this month's goal Pillowfort will not have to shut down immediately. We have been fortunate to have saved up a ‘safety net’ of funds from previous fundraising drives and periods of high revenue, which allows us to continue working on the platform at a deficit. It is, however, in our best interest for Pillowfort's longevity to begin meeting our monthly goals going forward so we do not face a situation where we eventually do run out of finances.

If you haven’t yet, please consider supporting us with a one-time or recurring monthly payment to help keep Pillowfort online. Any money donated to us now will be applied as a credit to your account when we release paid features & benefits in the future.

Thank you all for the generous, continued support during this challenging year. We will have more updates available soon!

Best,

you should’ve gotten an email about it. check ur spam folder.

The only email I got was from Applauze right after I bought the ticket in June. :/ I never saw anything in my spam folder

You may believe me, you may not, that is certainly your choice and I am in no way trying to force this on you. If, after all of this, you decide to walk away and continue believing her, by all means, I have no intentions to stop you nor do I condemn you for it, but it needs to be said. You may consider me a bad person for this but I only hope to spread honesty throughout this fandom as to the true person your admin is. 

Ley carries a reputation not only in this fandom but in several others. She has made bonds and subsequently burned the ties to those bonds in a short matter of time and has never stayed in a fandom for very long because she hasn't been allowed to. In the k-pop fandom, she manipulated, lead on, and deceived several people by swooning after them, claiming them as her respective lover, and then shortly after she finds someone closer and dumps them with little to no warning. This has happened quite a few times -- one of which, might I add, she faked a pregnancy and a following miscarriage. 

What kind of person would toy with such a serious matter? What kind of person belittles the actual experience and trauma of such a horrible thing?

She has also ran several groups and has, yes, kicked people out of them unjustly. She has picked up several admins along the way in each group and has cut them loose because they took her spotlight. After another one of her previous final fantasy groups failed, she completely abandoned it and left it to another member who became so stressed out from what she left behind that they quit roleplaying completely and no longer found enjoyment in something they found a happy escape in.

After being presented with (constructive, polite) criticism on how things had changed in her previous group, she proceeded to throw what can only be described as a tantrum and post passive aggressive posts about their opinion (which had been offered in private) on the main group page for all new members to see. When the people that were unhappy with the group politely and elegantly stepped down, she continued to post passive aggressive posts about them, including a very aggressive leaving post that was both unnecessary and rude. When more members began to leave and attempted to find solace in another group, she decidedly destroyed any and all friendships with them simply because they were not in her group. She then deleted her own group, left the fandom, and did not come back for quite a while.

Hayley Marie Tiller is not a good person. She is manipulative, she is a liar, and she presents it all in a very nice, very sweet package. She has talked about members behind their backs. She has outright insulted her former admins to their faces. She has absolutely no leader qualities (I'm afraid making a big post about a member leaving and calling them names all the while cursing at them isn't very mature) and she WILL leave whenever things seem to be turning against her.