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Pillowfort Is Closing

27 points BrenBarn 2 hours ago 15 comments

BrenBarn 2 hours ago | parent

Another lo-fi site trying to create friendly community without corporate greed bites the dust, in this case apparently due to burnout on the part of the main person running it. I hadn't used Pillowfort much but did browse and explore some blogs on there and it seemed like a positive community. Always sad to see stuff like this happen.

DiabloD3 1 hour ago | parent

I wonder if why people rejected the site is because there seems to be no way tos scroll the page?

LeoPanthera 1 hour ago | parent

You have to accept the cookie notice. If your user agent hides the notice there's probably no way to do that.

tdeck 1 hour ago | parent

Seems kind of cool actually. Unfortunate that this is the way I heard about it.

trueno 7 minutes ago | parent

i encountered it once. it felt like tumblr though i kept running into weird furry cartoon porn.

im sure this site has a lot of valuable media on it, woulda been cool if they just handed a backup over to internet archives.

bhaney 1 hour ago | parent

> This is, genuinely, the hardest decision I have ever made in my life

May we all be blessed with lives where shutting down the small blogging platform we've lost interest in running is the hardest decision we ever have to make.

n0tquitehere 42 minutes ago | parent

But they're not closing a hobby project. They're shutting down a business, laying off staff and ending a service that people were paying for. That should always be a hard decision.

Philpax 26 minutes ago | parent

And may we all be blessed with the compassion required to not say something like this about someone's potential lifework.

BrenBarn 24 minutes ago | parent

"Small" as in tens of thousands of users on a site that has existed for 10 years. I don't think most people in their lives wind up making a decision that has as broad an impact as that.

zipotm 23 minutes ago | parent

leave the past bring the future

dabinat 5 minutes ago | parent

It can be very difficult to walk away from things you’ve poured time, money and hard work into for a decade, irrespective of how many users you have.

JacobAsmuth 41 minutes ago | parent

What's pillowfort?

altmanaltman 40 minutes ago | parent

https://www.vice.com/en/article/buzzy-new-social-media-site-...

It was like AI slop pre AI. Great traction with the nsfw stuff but failed to capitalize on it.

andrewstuart 33 minutes ago | parent

What is pillow fort?

F3nd0 31 minutes ago | parent

At first I thought this was a Fediverse instance, but it seems like it was its own isolated thing? Shame.