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ok can u let me go now

........please

How do people do the coolest shit with their simply plural? I see some people with the prettiest images with those masks and I am a clueless person who has never image edited in my life.

I am in awe and silently hoping someone may bestow this knowledge upon me.

Pretty please. With a cherry on top. 🙏

I like picking fights with him -🪲

System stuff can be so silly. Also the new SP update is fun

(what if I just post a bunch of silly system stuff?)

tiny (20x28) pixel flags! pt. 1 / ?? — neurogenders & related terms

autiplushic + autivafem + autivamasc

high-empatix + low-empatix + no-empatix

memoromen - neuropresentix - traitblur

made with hypnopuppy's flag base! like / rb if using!

Would anyone be wanting to be friends on SimplyPlural?

If you send a friend request, just put in the description you're from Tumblr

For the comfort for people in system, only friend if CDD (traumagenic) please

SP; GoldenError404

#too many damn nemonas

*forgets to update SimplyPlural/Octocon because I assumed I was still fronting instead of having blacked out for six hours*

"why are you typing on your phone so much"

us: *texting ourselves on SimplyPlural, Octocon and Antar*

us: *tracking triggers and switches*

what we say: uh- uhh- uhhhhh- talking to a friend...?

At least for me, making my SimplyPlural profile pretty feels like waste of time and somewhat like fake claiming a disorder as "only fake systems have time to make pretty profiles" (..yes it's a ridiculous belief, but one im working on)

and to that I say, fuck it. I did it anyway because SP is one of the few spaces where I can be me, and be me unapologetically. So to anyone who has been having the same fears..

Make it pretty. Make it you. Make it safe.

I put a couple flags in my SP bio today and I cannot be happier :)

thank you @zero-templates for the tiny flags <3

For anyone wondering how to insert images, type ![x]() and insert an image URL between the brackets ()

Happy imaging fellow systems!!

After about a year of having Simply Plural, I finally organised it beyond a few scattered categories

Role (with a toilet paper roll, bc why not), goes to this, which then breaks into alter lists.

Syskids breaks into age groups (I love the term syskids sm it's so cute... and i really hope it's not a endogen term)

Interests/hyperfixations breaks into multiple tags so we can see who shares interests.

Almost all alters are in at least two categories :)

"some sort of cryptid" is eternally going to make me grin a lot of our alters have non-human traits (it's a long standing way we process lol) but we don't know what to call them... cryptid it is 🤣

I sat down last night and took inventory of as many animals that I've met in the inner world (basically, they just appear but can't and won't front)

anyway

We have

A LITERAL TARANTULA

I HATE SPIDERS especially BIG ONES

BUT NOW

EvERY TIME I OPEN SIMPLY PLURAL

I have to see THIS

And she's so close to my name in the master list 😭🫠

[pic under the cut: arachnophobia warning]

*cutely redesigns your DID flag*

Playing around with our DID design assignment, tonight, and I made a thing...?

Look, it's just for funsies (and the assignment), I'm not expecting everyone to suddenly use my flag lol but I'd like to know, what do y'all think?

Coined for DID/OSDD (ie. complex dissociative disorders).

I took inspiration from the existing DID/OSDD symbolism in the Venn diagram (which is also a logo I'm using in the assignment). The colour scheme is inspired by the existing orange for DID, and the teal used in the OSDD flag coined by a deleted user on r/OSDD (and I've always thought of DID/OSDD as teal and orange!). The stripes are uneven to represent the fluctuating nature of having a CDD system, alters. The greenish-brown stripe is for amnesia and jarring day-to-day interruptions. There's a bit more meaning in it, but I can't remember right now.

I did a reverse image search with it, and it seems to be rather close to the pro non-traumagen "PMSC&" flag (according to pluralpedia..) and a little close to "venngender" which I hadn't heard of either until literally now... but…. apart from that little overlap… I think it's okay! Besides, there are only so many colour combos in the world!

Hope you like it!!

I can't tell anyone not to interact with this post: this is the internet, after all.. but we would appreciate it if it remained in DID/OSDD/trauma system spaces only.

Simply Plural on our end! The feature set works better for our needs, we're in the beta group, and we have too much data stored in it to happily switch to Octocon without a lot of effort — maybe once Octocon is on web, and we can quickly copy/paste from our current SP profiles we might more seriously consider switching (pun not really intended, but I'll take it).

We struggle to understand how to view Plural Kit information at a glance, and by the time we had access to PK, our system had already got used to the keyboard shortcuts for Tupperbox so we don't use it — if we're messaging on Discord, we use Tupperbox or nothing at all.

Besides, we feel safer with the little amount of information shown in a Tupperbox profile (and yes I am aware PK settings can be changed so that certain data doesn't show up: we just use TB, it's a personal preference).

Us personally use both SP and Octo but slowly transitioning to using Octocon only.

What platforms is SimplyPlural on? Ik its mobile, but idk what kind, or if it has browser version too. Thanks :3

All of the above, anon! Web, iOS and android :)

Links attached to their respective platforms - and link to SimplyPlural's main website.

There's also Octocon that has similar functionality as well as having discord integration similar to PluralKit and TupperBox, however it's only available for android at the moment - last I heard it's been planned to hit iOS in late 2024/early 2025; unclear when a web version is on its way.

We use a combination of TupperBox and SimplyPlural and have found that to work best for us as we use multiple operating systems, but use whatever software works best for you. <3

Let me know if you'd like a breakdown of why we use SimplyPlural + TupperBox; I'm most happy to do so :)

Small note with discord applications; messages can be traced back to your account - PluralKit especially has some issues regarding privacy as alters are automatically shown as public, and every PK user has a unique code attached to their system that allows anyone to look up their info. We wrote a post about it here.

Hi! I'd love a rundown of why you use PluralKit and Tupperbox! I've not looked much into did management apps before tbh

Awesome! This is adding on from this post about SimplyPlural.

Your main options for tracking apps are SimplyPlural and Octocon.

Octocon is currently only available on android while SimplyPlural is on web, android, iOS and can be run as a program/pinned to taskbar on Windows (I don't know how but one of my sysmates installed it as a web app program 😅).

Main options for discord proxying (or messaging as an individual); PluralKit, Tupperbox and Octocon. All three are added to a server as a bot, and allow for a proxy/app message that displays as a different username but remains linked to your account.

Using commands specific to each application, users can find out who posted each message.

Okay so back to the question

Why do we use TB and SimplyPlural instead of the alternatives?

SimplyPlural

Super easy explanation: we've been using SimplyPlural longer than Octocon has been around. We've got about 16 months worth of tracking data, friends, 40 or so custom fields saved in it, along with all our alters and personal info. Making the switch to Octocon was something we tried when it was first announced, but we decided against it after giving it a test run as both an app and as a discord bot. We had some issues with importing custom fields and image hosting.

For those of you who don't know, custom fields are categories, or questions that you can ask an alter to fill in; some come built in like favourite colour, food etc, however you can also add your own as needed. Ours include everything from name, internal relationships (e.g. alter A hates alter B but adores alter C, alter C is alter D's child, alter C and B are siblings etc), skills, favourite things, and positive/negative triggers, amongst other things. We use them all the time, and a fair number of our alters have filled in the questions - losing that information was not something we wanted to do (..or heaven forbid... copying all of it over from existing SimplyPlural profiles). I suspect this is something that Atlas, the developer, is working on.

Presently, Octocon doesn't have the functionality we need/are used to from SimplyPlural. Sooo, onto some positives; things we adore about SimplyPlural

>The ability to host images within custom fields and alter descriptions, using '' allowing us to do things like this...

Kaden learnt how to do this and posted about it at the time, since then he has since been slowly explaining to the rest of us how to do it.

Our SimplyPlural profiles are one of the places where we can be fully ourselves without worrying as much about the collective's outward appearance etc; some of us dress our profiles up with collages, fancy text, banners, and flags while others just have a bit of information or an empty bio; it's completely up to the individual (and not being biased or anything, but our personalities really show up in profiles).

> Front history

Having a full breakdown of fronters past (as long as they log it) is super helpful, especially when our therapist wants to check in on triggers etc. It also helps us to figure out when an alter may have gone dormant or may only appear at specific times. I specifically like that it gives you a visual breakdown of who was fronting during what time, and it holds information on individual alter profiles about when they fronted, and for how long.

>Privacy buckets

This is something I posted about a few days ago. The current beta version has reworked the privacy settings from public (all friends), trusted friends (selected people) and private (your system only) to entirely in the user's control. Instead of having 3 options, you can make specific categories for groups of friends, or even label each of your friends with one bucket and choose each alter, custom field and custom front they can see.

@persmo made a really detailed post on this in late August that I've linked here.

>Friends

The ability to change the amount of data friends are able to see (eg. ee shared members, see fronter etc)

>Message Boards

Each profile has their own message board. Messages left on boards send a notification to the phone when that specific alter fronts, meaning if someone forgets to check the shared chat, they still get the information. Notifications will continue being sent every time they mark front until that alter marks the message as read.

Being able to leave messages for each other has been a literal lifesaver.

>In-system Chat

SimplyPlural has a section where you can chat solely within your system. It functions a bit like Discord in the way that you set up sections with individual chats inside of them.

We use them for fun things like silly quotes, reading logs, infodumping, as well as more serious things - if something happened to someone we love, we'd mark it in there to make sure the information is passed on to those who need to know.

>Groups

Alter groups are incredibly helpful for us, even though we're a relatively small system. We use them as tags for interests, roles, ages and tagging sources for our few introjects.

Tagging interests and roles often ends up looking like this 😆 I promise it makes sense to us... ish.

>Analytics

System analytics is one of the features we use a lot in therapy, especially now that we have more than 6 months data saved in SP tracking. We can see at a glance how much one alter has fronted in a set amount of time, and how many times they have tracked as fronter.

>App reminders

SimplyPlural allows for users to set reminders at specific times (eg. everyday at 3pm take your meds) but also that the reminders are sent after an action happens. We have an automatic reminder set up for a set amount of time after someone marks front, to make sure they are still fronting.

>Honourable mentions

System polls

Switch notifications (both for our friends and for when our system friends switch)

'Quick front entries' - adding a member to front history if they didn't track

User reports; reports generated by SimplyPlural that remain attached to a URL that can be sent to family, friends, therapists etc without giving your SimplyPlural username or making them get the app.

Cross platform support: SimplyPlural runs on android, iOS and web, meaning as long as our friends have a log in they can use it... and we can run it on all our devices.

I've totally missed some things, but they're the most important points

TupperBox

This section is shorter, promise.

We chose TupperBox over PluralKit and Octocon as we didn't want to have any personal data (beyond names) linked to our discord. PluralKit has the capacity to have member profiles, however the trade-off is having a system ID number that is attached to every member profile (no matter how tight your privacy is) that can be used by anyone to pull up any linked information that's marked public. More information on why here.

PluralKit makes users automatically public with commands and the online portal being the only way to change it. Unfortunately, many treat PluralKit as if it's private and often include extremely personal things in their descriptions (triggers, sexuality, etc). More conversation on that here.

Unfortunately, I don't have much experience with Octocon's integration on Discord, but I have heard pretty good things about it.

Tupperbox has less functionality than PluralKit and Octocon in that it's mostly streamlined for role-playing simplicity. All that displays when you send a proxy message is the name of the tupper/user and an optional profile picture, which we drastically prefer. It sucks not being able to bring up a profile to say who we are, but we'd rather have that than have our PluralKit leaked.

All of this is personal preference, use whatever you find works best! :)

trying to decorate my simply plural be like:

[a bunch of memes about fake PNGs]

I finally find out how to make my bio cute just to be hit with the transparency issue™️

For anyone wondering how to format SimplyPlural

Bios and custom fields with markdown support enabled use these commands

Allowing you to do things like this (and a LOT more)

Hey! Saw your post about Octacon, just wondering what your experience with it is/if it's worth checking out as an alternative to Simply plural? We're just not personally fans of Sp's layout and have only just heard of Octacon

It's 100% a viable alternative to SimplyPlural if you're on android - it's not on iOS yet, last I heard iOS is in development and aiming to be launched in late 2024/early 2025. Octocon doesn't have the web app version (yet) so if that's something you use a lot then it may not work out as well.

SP vs Octo layout

If you find SP's layout pesky, definitely give Octo a go! Currently, Octo doesn't have quite as many features as SimplyPlural but it's a very new app atm and it's improving very quickly :)

If you use discord a lot; it also has a baked in set of features, similar to TupperBox and PluralKit that allow for proxy messaging

There's a lot of information available octo's discord if you're curious: link (https://discord.com/invite/octocon)

[and a little reminder that octo is aimed at CDDs but they aren't banning any systems with other origins from using it — full details of post in alt text]

Plus, Octo has a minecraft server for Patreon supporters if that's something you're into XD

We have another post explaining our personal usage of SP if anyone is curious

Privacy buckets are now readily available on SimplyPlural for all users, just make sure your app has updated to the latest version :)

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Important link: https://docs.apparyllis.com/docs/help/features/buckets/intro

Dude, we need more SimplyPlural friends.

Here's our SImplyPlural: EvanGold

Also, no discourse is allowed on this blog, please and thank you!

We may create a side blog for civil discussions to be had, but no discourse of any kind will be tolerated here <3