Lighthouse is an app designed to help those who have alters. Alters have their own separate, private journals to write down whatever thoughts they may have. The entire system has a Communal Journal to write together about whatever is needed. If you are a trauma-based system, your system can also utilise a handful of interactive worksheets for grounding and processing memories.
Please send us an ask for support with the site, or if you've found a bug.
www.writelighthouse.com
The developer is not a medical professional. Please do not ask the developer to diagnose or treat you. The developer cannot answer asks about sensitive topics or emergencies.
Journal Template below if you'd like to make one. Skins on the site may not reflect the interests, opinions or beliefs of the developer.
Github repo is here.
Discord server is here.
FAQ below the cut:
Will Lighthouse ever have a social feature where I can share an alters page with friends? Why or why not?
First, we want to say it's awesome you feel comfortable enough to share your system. Unfortunately, the manpower needed to properly moderate, develop, and maintain a social media website/app is just not feasible for us (The Lighthouse System). If we absolutely had to do that, we would want a paid team as well as a lawyer, should the worst happen.
Who can use Lighthouse?
Anyone who thinks this kind of journalling can help them is welcome to use Lighthouse. The developer is a trauma-based system, aka a DID system. The app was originally designed just for the developer, so a lot of the app functions for DID. Having said that, the developer doesn't want to gatekeep who can and cannot find a use in Lighthouse. That entire topic is highly controversial, and the developer doesn't have the medical credentials to say who can and can't benefit from a resource.
Can people see what I write on Lighthouse?
Nope! What you write is encrypted and decrypted on the front end. Basically, any middleman or attacker would get a jumbled mess of gibberish instead of what you wrote, without the key to decrypt whatever the gibberish says. Not even the developer can read it.
Thoughts on Pluralkit, Tupperbot, etc?
The developer encourages users to use whatever apps that they find useful to them. Lighthouse's aim is not to replace these apps, but to supplement them.
I just got this message when I tried to access the site:
Application Error
An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. If you are the application owner, check your logs for details. You can do this from the Heroku CLI with the command
heroku logs --tail
I have no idea what this means. I've never gotten anything like this before
Thinking the database credentials got refreshed on us. We're out at the moment, and will get to it when we get home.
ive seen in the changelog that alters can be in multiple different systems but how exactly do you do that? the only option ive found to change what system an alter is in just moves them from one to another.
also this website is a lifesaver thank you so much for making it <3
If you go under the advanced section for an alter, you'll see a dropdown. Mind you, my custom term for system is "group", so any instance of "group" in this will come as "system" for you.
In that advanced section, click on "Other systems [alter name] is in" to expand your selection. You can put them in up to 5 other systems!
Is there a limit on how big of images u can put in forums/journals/innerworld descriptions? The site doesn't seem to like it when we put images into them ^^
Oh, we've been meaning to fix that. I think if you use image URLs, they should be fine.
Hello! Is there a known issue for there being a cap on how many alters/parts can be imported from SP? We are having an issue where it won't import more than roughly 45 at a time, and we have a large system to try and import over.
Currently a known issue, seems to be from the amount of data browsers will allow to be transferred from itself to a server.
hi there, we're a bit confused on whether there's a mobile app as we've seen mentions of it but haven't been able to find anything. Thanks in advance for any info :)
One of the big pushes for Lighthouse going open source was to make it self-hostable. If you check out our Github repository, you will now see that thanks to pau1ie, configuration for an instance of Lighthouse completely divorces it from this current instance (www.writelighthouse.com). If you follow the README and set up your environment file correctly, you can run your very own version of Lighthouse and customise it to your own liking.
When importing Lighthouse data is implemented, then moving data between instances will be much easier.
how secure is this app? i remember another system app (i forget the name) becoming used recently that had a huge security risk, with people able to get the passwords to users very easily.
from what i've seen lighthouse is rlly reliable, and i haven't heard anything bad about it, but i'm paranoid that a breach could happen like it did to that other app. is lighthouse safe? apologies for the paranoia.
So, to be bluntly honest: No software, website, or anything that connects to the internet is 100% safe from breaches. This includes Pluralkit, Octocon (while it's still up), and Simply Plural (while it's still up). We know wording it this way can potentially worry users, but we figure it's best to be completely transparent on that. Some folks haven't wanted to switch to Lighthouse for that reason, and we totally understand.
Cybercrime and cybersecurity are in a constant arms race to come out on top, and it will always be that way. We have done everything we can to keep Lighthouse as safe as possible. And as we learn more, we'll keep adding security to the site. Despite that, there will always be a risk as long as you are online.
If the risk is too much for your safety, or if you're in a situation where storing anything online is a risk, we recommend using apps like Hivemind, Mytter, Mystagram, or Antar. If you have iOS, you could use SelfTalking, but that is primarily meant for note taking and also has a space to chat online.
We kind of remember one going around with that issue called systemconnect? The devs themselves said that it's made with AI, and once you create an account, you can't get rid of it.
super sorry to bother but i can’t log into my account and when i do the email request to change the password it isn’t sending one, is this a me issue or is there an issue with the platform?
Hey! Would you be able to DM us offline or perhaps hop into the discord so we can assist you further?
There's an issue right now where our reset links aren't sending. We're working on a fix. In the meantime, we can at the very least send you the reset link and the info you'll need to reset the password once we get a message from you!
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