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Is Bluelight dying ?

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Shambles said:
I would say it is undeniable that EADD - and maybe BL overall but I don't get out enough to know myself - is going through a fairly fallow period. Won't be the first time and won't be the last. For me it seems clear there are a combination of reasons why this is the case...

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Aside from that there is also the NPS Act coming into force. Whatever one's opinion of RCs, there is no doubt they accounted for a great deal of traffic - especially when it came to new members and people migrating from other subforums. Whilst discussion of "traditional" drugs has always provided the backbone of EADD, the situation that resulted in what pretty much amounted to a "worst of all worlds" scenario of legal drugs with almost zero regulation (aside from the strict regulations on HR info, dosing advice - information of any kind beyond price and weight for that matter - and the latter was hardly reliable) did keep a steady stream of new members joining up.

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I guess that is the main reason for my impression of traffic decline.

Does the UK-NPS act cover every substance class ? There are new stimulants coming, derived from a promising, not established skeleton.

I did not realize that evey-conspiration at all, as I sometimes cannot differentiate between ironic and serious posts on EADD. :D

Regarding alternative discussion platforms : Still I don't understand the raison d'être of reddit. If I have a technical question I'll use a specialized board from the stackexchange family. For everything else there are Web 1.0 kind of forums with far better usability and design than reddit, which literally has the worst interface I've ever seen. I don't want to start a fanboy-war. But that platform not only obviously sucks, but has only redundant, inferior content. Even for bullshit-chatting there are better platforms, for instance 4chan.
 
One Thousand Words said:
Menopause must be such a bitch to live with
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Saidie's to young for that. Now I'm in the menopause and it's great, no periods! Slap on the oestrogen patch baby and its all great %)

Being a bloke, you haven't a clue eh .... about much do you.

Just you wait, Mrs Busty will know all about it soon enough ;)
 
One Thousand Words said:
A short mum haircut is usually the first sign so I'll keep an eye on her
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Lol you do that. But I doubt CotB will go for that. Neither Sadie or I have short hair ;)

Bit off topic here - but will you 2 have more kids? Congratulations on getting wed btw. Fantastic pics of you both %)





Apologies for the off topic mods

BTW - great to see some discussion again. EADD is back!!!
 
Sadie said:
Tell me more about it busty. The future scares me.
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Just to be sure, that the NPS-law has a proper intention behind, can you name 2 substance-classes, you have prescriptions for, as a teaser :

Does one class start with S and ends with something else than diazepine ?
 
Ziiirp said:
Just to be sure, that the NPS-law has a proper intention behind, can you name 2 substance-classes, you have prescriptions for, as a teaser :

Does one class start with S and ends with something else than diazepine ?
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ha i was just about to say that etizolam has legitimate, prescribed medical use in some countries? does that count? :P
 
Sorry, I am a bit drunk. What I wanted to say : This person (sadie) has gotten 5 prescription.

If one of them would include a class, that starts with "S", then the NPS-law would not be completely wasted, since he got a better alternative to some of the RC-substances of that class.

I just want to hold the straw of some puree, that contains a positive intention. Is that sensible ? %)
 
Don't get too excited there Ziiirp. Tis nothing exciting :B6, thiamine, an antibiotic, omaprazol and DHC. Tbf I used to be on 3 more on top of that bringing my total to 8. Thankfully I no longer need those.

So yeah, nowt very exciting I'm afraid.
 
Right, it's a fukkin haul mate, a total fukkin haul! I'm swimming I'm demz drugs ;)

Just a dig at busty pal. He knows the score.
 
The fact you were once on 8 actually reinforces my point.

Hypertension, thyroid conditions, reflux and diabetes are often related and treatable if you know what you are looking for. All four conditions are often a result of breathing issues or even sleep apnea. If you are tied to a GP who throws zoloft at you because you are feeling a little blue because the Summer Sun is fading or your football team is being relegated and you see how ridiculous a shopping list of meds can be.
 
Nah man, it was organ failure and many complications. Two diuretics due to abnormal swelling, vitamins, dhc for pain, antibiotics for infection and Omaprazol because I couldn't keep food down but because of the vomiting my stomach acid was intense and causing my throat damage. Oh and steroids for good measure :\
 
Not sure about bluelight dying, as a whole, but the end can come pretty quickly for sub forums - just take Aus Social as an example of a forum that was thriving and is now all but dead.
 
Forums generally have far less traffic than they did ~10 years ago due to the rise and mass proliferation of social media.

Bluelight is rather unique though, and we still provide something pretty special to our members and countless lurkers.
Hell, this thread has had over 120 replies in just a few days.

What Shambles said is right - the UK has just had a thriving quasi-legal drug market (made up of newly emerging, ever-changing substances) essentially shut down in the last few months.
Of course that will affect traffic.

The Australian subforums (social and drug discussion) have been quiet for years, which i would bet is partly due to our drug scene being fairly stable for some time.
A drought here, a glut there...but we didn't really have the same easy access to RCs that much of the world did/have - so discussion kind of runs out of steam eventually. There are few "brand new drugs" on the scene that people register to find out about or report on - thanks in part to our strict "cover-all" analogue legislation, as well as the dedicated work of our "Border Force" militarised Customs service snooping through our incoming Internation mail.

As has been said before of AusDD - people come for the HR, but stay for the community.
I like to think that bluelight generally offers both, and that they are nicely intertwined and that the social side of things acts as harm reduction in itself, given how isolated and marginalised many at-risk drug users tend to be.
 
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