SNPtheCat said:
Join the ranks, invite everyone else to partake too

honestly im more amazed so few people use these. Well over 100k users and there's only like 10 people who use them consistently.

LeopardSpots said:
honestly im more amazed so few people use these. Well over 100k users and there's only like 10 people who use them consistently.

WAIT THIS SITE HAS OVER 2 MILLION?! When I first joined forever ago there were only like 200k 😭😭

Blips is kind of a pseudo-deprecated feature, at this point, now just functioning as a sort of dedicated Twitter-esque "uninversal off-topic forum thread" typea deal. they used to be attached to the user page, with blips sent both to and from a user showing up there.

unfortunately that "blips to a user show up on said user's page" bit was, like, just asking for people to abuse it. and, since all public user communication is handled exclusively by a small group of volunteers, the and there was no way to block/hide a user's blips, any abusive message would remain visible on said user's page until the report ticket was processed, which could be hours. and unlike post comments there's no downvoting it past a threshold or anything either.

it was so bad that, if you check out some Wayback archives of user pages (particularly of NMNY but probably others, too), it's not terribly difficult to find these exact types of blips.

LeopardSpots said:
honestly im more amazed so few people use these. Well over 100k users and there's only like 10 people who use them consistently.

Kinda fits the bill. In the past year, I think it's usually these folks on the blips:

furballs dc
W0LFB3AT5
SpuriousZabaione (yours truly!)
Voltage-controlled
SNPtheCat
dba afish
coyotebear

Not that it's bad... it's really bad! Do join in folks every now and then!

Also thanks for the companionship. These might just be bits and bytes but they make a heart or hearts warm and grow NaN times