helpingout
Bluelighter
- Joined
- May 16, 2024
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Blue light is a great domain for gathering information about how to practice drug use in order to reduce harm from drug use.
It does an excellent job at helping people to do this.
But, Bluelight is also a living document.
The posts are made by living people who often die. Their posts forever echoing their thoughts. The shrine full of mourners professing their impact.
It’s a kind of heavy place in some ways.
Likewise, there is levity. People have great discussions on here. Private messages go off and relationships are formed. Bluelight is an incredible resource to connect with other like minded individuals.
The forums themselves though are static.
If I understand things right. A thread is supposed to be a permanent installation and users are intended to answer self generated questions by using the search function to identify threads which possess an answer to their question.
Many people on Bluelight use it as if it were not intended to be a repository of information but instead use it as a resource to connect themselves to people who do know the answer to their question.
Oftentimes this occurs when an answer to their question could be found more easily, more rapidly, and more accurately, by using the search function.
Now, I am not here to say that people aren’t using Bluelight correctly, rather, I am here to say that;
Bluelight would benefit from the creation of a space where people on the forums could interact with one another in a nonstatic environment.
Discord comes to mind but is very temporally bound, meaning when you jump into the conversation often defines how you’ll understand the conversation because going back and reading for context would then prevent you from reading the present moment and you would lose the present context.
A space on Bluelight for people to engage with other posters that is not separate from the site but connected to it, meaning one must be present on the forum in order to be present in the space, while also allowing people to engage in realtime conversation or specific sub conversations with certain members. Like a chat function for people
Who are logged on to the forums to communicate with other logged on users.
The lounge doesn’t meet the need for a space of this kind. Chat functionality would bring something really special to Bluelight.
It does an excellent job at helping people to do this.
But, Bluelight is also a living document.
The posts are made by living people who often die. Their posts forever echoing their thoughts. The shrine full of mourners professing their impact.
It’s a kind of heavy place in some ways.
Likewise, there is levity. People have great discussions on here. Private messages go off and relationships are formed. Bluelight is an incredible resource to connect with other like minded individuals.
The forums themselves though are static.
If I understand things right. A thread is supposed to be a permanent installation and users are intended to answer self generated questions by using the search function to identify threads which possess an answer to their question.
Many people on Bluelight use it as if it were not intended to be a repository of information but instead use it as a resource to connect themselves to people who do know the answer to their question.
Oftentimes this occurs when an answer to their question could be found more easily, more rapidly, and more accurately, by using the search function.
Now, I am not here to say that people aren’t using Bluelight correctly, rather, I am here to say that;
Bluelight would benefit from the creation of a space where people on the forums could interact with one another in a nonstatic environment.
Discord comes to mind but is very temporally bound, meaning when you jump into the conversation often defines how you’ll understand the conversation because going back and reading for context would then prevent you from reading the present moment and you would lose the present context.
A space on Bluelight for people to engage with other posters that is not separate from the site but connected to it, meaning one must be present on the forum in order to be present in the space, while also allowing people to engage in realtime conversation or specific sub conversations with certain members. Like a chat function for people
Who are logged on to the forums to communicate with other logged on users.
The lounge doesn’t meet the need for a space of this kind. Chat functionality would bring something really special to Bluelight.
