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.
We're not terribly shocked someone's done this. It's a drop in the ocean for us really. In our time in the plural community, we dealt with a fair amount of poor treatment. It unfortunately seems to be something plural devs deal with a lot. And it's a lot of pressure to be in a position like this. Can't imagine how it feels to be on the pluralkit team.
There's been worries popping up for us anyway. The database is almost completely full, so we'll have to go into read-only mode very soon. Exclusively because once as it's full, no one can insert data. Plus, with the state of the world, we find it less and less safe to be putting this stuff in an online repository. That's just a feeling about cybersecurity AND politics at this point.
At the same time, apps like Lighthouse that function offline already exist. So we're not sure what the point of having an offline app be.
At the very least, you can download your data on Lighthouse.
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.
