Admin Post: Discussion Post: What are you yearning to Pillowpost?

[prettyarbitrary]

First a bit of comm business:
The What do you want from this community poll is still open. I'll let it run for another day or so. We have over 25 members (already!) and less than half have voted, so if you've got opinions, feel free to make them known!

But so far, there's strong consensus in favor of:

• "Connect with other Pillowforters"


• "Updates/conversation about Pillowfort"


• "Members can post things into the community"


• "Conversation starter posts from the mod"

So let's get started with those discussion posts! Our first topic: What do you wish you could post on Pillowfort?

What's the most recent thing that had you thinking, "I should make a post about that?" Or the thing that's overpoweringly making your fingers twitch because you keep thinking about it and have nowhere to put it?

Tell us in the comments here--or heck, make your own community post about it!

(Fun fact: on DW, you can track comments for a post or comment thread! If there's a convo you'd like to follow, look along the bottom of the post or comment for the 'Track this' icon--it might look like a little bell--and click it to turn tracking on or off. If you add tracking for a comment, then you'll get notified of any comments made in the thread from that comment on down. You can find all your notification settings in Account Settings>Notifications, where you can turn them off at any time.)

Comments

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This, absolutely missing. That was one of the attractive things about tumblr (remember when there were attractive things about tumblr?), that oh-so-easy image posting. And Pf was smart to hold onto that as a must-have. I've been meeting online for over 20 years now with a group of friends, and although we have a custom text-based website we built for this and years of expressive conventions, we've somehow mostly migrated to slack because of that ease of posting images and links that auto-snippet.

Yesterday I did upload a couple photos here to post, and while it wasn't much more complicated than posting to my wordpress blog, there were all of those steps which are not just straight-forward html but involve DW code. Plus, just now, opening my html editor because I didn't want to mess up the link to my post with a typo and break the page, simply to make this reply.

I think that not only are those of us who can do the html nonetheless happy with the convenience of not, it definitely opens up use by those who can't and don't care to take that time and fiddly effort. And that ultimately makes the conversations richer, I feel.

[yourlibrarian]

Easy image posting was Tumblr's killer app, it was what made the site. And you're right about how one comes to expect that. I found I couldn't do it on Discord and was surprised (there was an option for gifs and emoticons, but not images from my desktop).

Ooh kitty pics! Always worth seeing 😺

I know that another thing that got me using PF was the fact that while it didn't use HTML, I didn't have to recode a post to share it there either. If every site has its own markup options (or doesn't have any) this is a headache which means one will reduce cross posting. However I quickly discovered that I could simply copy the finished post from here and paste it there and it would be an exact duplicate with markup and links intact. The fact that you can't do that in reverse at DW however has surely got to be a major roadblock for someone whose main accounts are somewhere else. While I often found this irritating at PF (all the people image posting their Tumblr or Twitter posts even though you could just do link embed, or you could just copy the text itself), the fact that people want to do this means DW is going to be used less.