Hey folks, long time no see.
To cut a long story short, now that Pillowfort is tentatively scheduled to exit the beta and open to the public at the end of this year/early next year and a few of the active blog admins have been trying it out, we’ve decided to start building a Pillowfort community for Art and Sterf.
Given the lack of functional search and tagging systems on tumblr, and the issues we’ve reported to tumblr over four years ago that still haven’t been fixed, we’ve decided to cut our losses and move to a better platform.
Communities on Pillowfort not only let us reblog references and tutorials like we’ve always done, but they come with the added bonus of forums, which enables people to get advice and support from fellow artists in a way that tumblr doesn’t really allow for.
However, rebuilding a catalog of 25,000-something posts is not going to be easy, so we need your help!
We will be going through the blog and asking each artist we’ve reblogged content from if they would like to have their content hosted (with full credit and links to the source of course) on Pillowfort, if they would like to join and host it themselves, or if they do not want their work hosted at all, but given there’s roughly 25,000 posts on this blog we figured we’d ask everyone as a whole first to see if anyone’s willing to help make the task a little easier.
If you have tutorials or resources you would like to share, or would like us to share, please let us know by providing a link to the post on Pillowfort so that we can reblog it from you, or by providing a link to your post on tumblr and we can add it as an embedded link on Pillowfort that links back to you - Whatever you’re most comfortable with!
We’re hoping to start building up the catalog of references and tutorials in the community now so that when Pillowfort is opened to the public there’s already a decent selection of resources available to artists that join the site.
What if I don’t have a Pillowfort account but I really want to join and/or have my resources reblogged there?
People who already have Pillowfort accounts can now generate invite links to let you sign up for free, though to avoid overwhelming the site each user is limited to generating three invite links a week. A few of the mods have accounts and would be happy to start handing out invite links - as far as we know, once you have an account you can also start handing out links to your friends, so you only need one link.
What if I don’t want to join Pillowfort?
That’s totally fine! There’s no pressure to join. We will still be maintaining this blog to ensure that nobody loses access to the resources hosted on this blog, we just most likely won’t be updating it with new content anymore. If you still want to be a part of the Art and Sterf community, we do have a discord server that you can join as well. Just send us an ask and we’ll give you an invite (We need to limit how many people join at once to avoid overloading our server too!)
To those of you that have been following this blog since its humble beginnings, and to those of you that only joined a little while ago, we thank you for all the support you’ve shown us. We hope that you will come join us on Pillowfort!
- Admin Pasta
