#octocon

No simplyplural (shuts down in june)

No octocon (shuts down in 2 weeks)

No ampersand (undergoing a change in ownership; major device limitations)

No writelighthouse 2.0 (in development)

No pluralconnect (supposed security issues, very early development)

No concordia (in development)

No halvex florality/project jasmine (entering closed beta on March 17th, and entering open beta a few weeks later)

Now what? Here's some names I've heard tossed around:

Antar (private)

Anytype (private unless shared)

Carrd (public)

Fortelling (private unless shared)

Google Docs (private unless shared; generative ai integration)

Google Sheets (private unless shared; very compact information)

Google Slides (private unless shared; will lag for large systems)

HiveMind (private; app-breaking bugs soon to be fixed)

Intendi Garden (privacy uncertain)

LibreOffice (private)

Masquerade (stoat bot; no imports)

Microsoft Office (private unless shared; generative ai integration)

Mystagram (private)

Neocities (public)

Notes app (privacy varies depending on platform)

Notion (private unless shared; heavy AI integration)

Obsidian (private; heavily customizable)

Oceans Symphony (privacy uncertain; still in alpha)

Physical paper journals (private unless shared/found)

PluralHost (private unless shared; decentralized)

Pluralkit (discord bot)

Pluralkit XYZ (public; requires pluralkit)

PluralSpace (private unless shared)

Pronouns.CC (public and/or private)

Rentry (public)

System Connect (privacy uncertain; allegedly made with generative ai)

Thumper (discord bot; still in testing)

Titan (stoat bot; can import from tupperbox)

Tupperbox (discord bot)

TwiNote (private)

WriteLighthouse 1.0 (private; sign-ups open?)

I may update this list if or when I find more, but as of now I need to focus on our own system.

Remember to take care and breathe. This has been a very stressful month for systems/plurals. Please remember that you can always step away and come back when you're ready.

It's ok to be scared, upset, uncertain. Thing's will get better; things will get easier. /g

A good SimplyPlural and Octocon alternative has FINALLY arrived. And can I say this is such an overpowered application?

PluralSpace.App (iOS and Android apps coming soon).

A few of our fav features

- in built system mapping (created by listing your internal relationships within each alters profile)

- multiple format supports for custom fields; markdown, rich text, plain text, colours, dates, numbers only etc

- Massively detailed fronting statistics (and because we imported from simply, we have 4 years of front history to work with)

- custom front tags per alter

- four privacy tiers for friends including permissions to add friends to edit your system details. Permissions can be tweaked for your systems preferences.

- in built journalling, notes and a chat space

- polling that allows for multiple votes per alter

- thoughts of the day, visible to your friends

- public profiles, if you so wish

- API integration coming soon so you can use apps like IFTTT with it

- IN BUILT TWO FACTOR AUTHENTICATION.

- support for multiple systems per profile (including subsystems)

- system customisable term preferences (ie. Pick between alter, headmate, sysmate, member etc. Fully user set.)

Ykw yeah. Yeah atp i *am* mad abt both SP and Octocon shutting down and Ampersand going on hiatus/considering shutting down. ESPECIALLY Octocon. When it was *just* simply plural, like, i understood why people were mad, but at least the creator was keeping the servers running for as long as possible and shit. Do i think there are other, better ways it couldve be handled? Yeah. Do i understand why the creator took the route they did? Yeah! I could deal with it

But octocon, OCTOCON. The app that was explicitly said by the SP creator as a good alternative, that ADVERTISED ITSELF AS A GOOD ALTERNATIVE, SHUTTING DOWN. WITH A 2 WEEKS FUCKING NOTICE. AFTER THEY SAID "we dont have any plans to shut down the project". WHAT THE HELL.

People have already went through losing a very accessible and good disability aid with SP being discontinued. And now Octocons fucking leaving us high and dry?! Look. I understand having mental health issues. I understand that the octocon dev has been under a lot of stress since the SP shutdown. But just shutting down a popular disability aid which was ADVERTISED AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO ANOTHER POPULAR, DISCONTINUED DISABILTY AID, is SO FUCKING CALLOUS. You could have just gone on hiatus! Hired someone else to handle it! anything BUT SHUTTING IT DOWN. OH MY LLLORD. I dont wanna say its stupid but its STUPID. AND SO FUCKING CALLOUS. And its breaking a promise, on top of disappointing thousands of people, pulling the rug out from under them, and taking away a disability aid. You can take care of yourself without doing shit like this. Im pissed tf off.

Along with that, Ampersand going on hiatus/possibly shutting down makes this issue compound. It feels like the plural and CDD communities are just getting basically left in house with like. 3 ingredients and no cooking knowledge and being told "have fun!!" While the people leaving take the rest of the food with them.

Using this post as a template for my alters, with some "alter"-ations of course ^^ I've been pretty pleased with how things look so far for the profiles that are most complete!

Here's some examples of other fields in the template too!! I really like how detailed it is, it's nice to have a place to store all this info.

Worth noting : Obsidian is offline and keeps all the info on your device (though there are ways to sync your info across devices). This has pros and cons! For me personally I loved using octocon to share info with my partner, but having it all private takes a lot of stress out of keeping trauma and trigger details in profiles (which I'd like to! It helps us to keep the info we know written down!).

Here's a front log and chat feature we got from this post!! Sorry for the crude language erm. That's just how those two talk.

The front log is really nice to us and easy to edit times and such!! Plus it links to the alter's profile. We haven't used the chat too much yet but it looks nice :] you get to choose what color your name shows up as!

Another thing we like about obsidian is that we have a place to keep all of our flags and stamps and blinkies and dividers and ough!! Everything!! And storing images in obsidian makes it really easy to then use them in alter profiles :]

Last but not least we also use obsidian to track other mental health things. We have a lot of trouble remembering things like when we've last eaten or showered because. Disability. But. Using that same table from the front tracker we now have an easy way to track these things!!

I'm really happy about obsidian being so customizable :] I'll miss octocon for sure (having been using it since the app was up and running), but having a solid offline place to store this info until I have an online place for sharing info is relieving.