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.)

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drafting notes

[osteophage]

Oh I've been rebuilding my text file of future blogpost ideas, and by now there's plenty of backlog. Here's some of the prospective posts off that list:

- updates to my GME post
- more WebDiscussion posts (Loforo, Pond - unless Lav wants to make those)
- a few other community posts
- thought that came to mind while rewatching the Jenny Nicholson video "Nobody on the Planet Remembers Beastly"
- thought about the country song "Wild Horses"
- another batch of links to Reddit scary stories
- maybe some quotes I've pulled from my grad reading homework
- vent post about this annoying move I've noticed with some people's metacommentary
- excerpt from an article I found about how to argue with people
- excerpt from another Reddit scary story (from r/nosleep, so a fictional one this time)

oh gods

[cassildra]

Everything I've posted on Dreamwidth in the past day has been stuff I wish I could post to pifo! It's just not got the same feel here. My reading list is much smaller, too.

That said? I'd kill to talk about MUSHing on pifo. I think it has better reach there than here, ironically!

[always_sundae]

Before PF went down, I was really planning to make a post about the movies-I’ve-seen-in my-whole-life project I did and my review of the site I did it on, trakt.tv and some realizations I had while doing it. I was also planning to make another post in the same vein about my childhood experiences around the different ways I had access to movies; a kinda nostalgia-based narrative type post instead of a an informing type one.

[yourlibrarian]

I happen to have posted about this recently! I am really really missing the image posting function. I very rarely embed videos and I can still do that here with no more difficulty than at PF. And while I sometimes link embed there I can easily link out from here as well. But images? My only workarounds are time consuming, and I got very used to the ability to not only create photo posts but also easily reblog them to communities.

I can still do that here -- for example, I just shared something today on common_nature that I posted on my own account the day before. But the original image host is a clunky process that means I am in no way going to post many photos the way I did there.

[kara_mckay]

I wanted to post to PF about a positive experience I had with one of my residents at work. He'd been in a very stressful situation, and was picking at his fingers, so I talked with him a little bit about how I have a bad habit of picking my fingers when I feel upset, too, but how it's not good for either of us to do that. I showed him my fingers and told him that I know his fingers hurt at night because my fingers hurt too, and that we need to find something better to do instead of hurting ourselves when we feel bad. And, then he gave me the nail clippers he'd swiped earlier -- he'd had them stashed in his hoodie pocket for later, and I hadn't even known he had them. I can't even describe how I felt when he did that. Knowing that I'd said something to him that made him re-think his earlier decision to self harm really... well, like I said, I don't know how to describe the feeling. Good, and also humbling. I wanted to post about it on PF because I've talked a lot about my job there, and I don't feel like my DW suscribers (what a word!) have enough info to really understand how big that was.

[bookscorpion]

The *biggest* think I wish I could post to PiFo is my Witcher Wheel of the Year event. I started that with PiFo in mine and while it runs on other sites, I miss the PiFo Witcher people.

And yeah, photos is a big one. I can host elsewhere, but that's a bunch more clicks and it actually raises the mental spoons I need for every post a lot. So I mostly don't. I miss desert pics, and bugs, and just general sharing what I see during my day.