Weekly Recap: 25 October 2026

Phew, this has been an eventful week. Shutdown of Pillowfort Permalink to section 'Shutdown of Pillowfort' # On October 20 in my timezone, I woke up to an email from Pillowfort, announcing (Wayback Machine archive) that Pillowfort will shut down in early December. It was a bummer. I signed up on Pillowfort for the first time in 2018, then re-joined it not too long ago because of the positive things I have heard from people on 32-Bit Cafe, especially with essays like Coyote's "How Pillowfort Built a Comment Culture Worth Emulating", and I figure it would be a nice alternative to Tumblr, where I had stopped being active on since 2024 after finding interest in personal websites. In light of Pillowfort's upcoming shutdown, a Pillowfort archival team initiative (Wayback Machine archive), a community effort to archive Pillowfort, has been made and would appreciate help. A popular option for Pillowfort users to migrate to is Dreamwidth, a code fork of LiveJournal, and there has been a…