Community Spotlight Bluegate

What brought you to The Escapist in the first place? What made you so passionate about helping out the community with your app? Do you plan on using these tech skills for a future career or apply them anywhere else? I started thinking of the creating the app after the Popular Forum Posts widget was removed and people were missing it, I first created a ‘user script’ that reinstated the widget, but as installing and managing user scripts can be a pain in the butt, I started thinking of creating a more user friendly way to do it which lead me to creating a browser add-on. From there on it all snowballed a bit with extra features, some thought up by me, others requested by users and currently what keeps me going is the joy of learning new things and having to think creatively to implement the things I want to do and seeing the app being beneficial to people. What video game character inspired you to be the person you are today? Can you tell us anything about what other hobbies you have or what you’re into? Now that I think of it, I used to use the name of a hacker character of an RPG as my screen name for all sorts of things. I never had aspired to becoming a hacker, but I guess that it fits some of the more tech related things I keep myself busy with. What are some of the most difficult challenges you’ve came across in life? Anything advise you would like to give to the readers / viewers? Something you feel everyone should know? Dealing with this situation was one of the more difficult challenges in my life thus far. I envy people that have the determination and drive to say “I want to be X!” and fully go for it, I really do. If you would like to nominate someone for an upcoming Community Spotlight, hit me up (Caramel Frappe) via PM or in the thread. When nominating, please tell me why this user deserves to be in the next Community Spotlight, and provide links if possible. Also check out The Escapist Community Spotlight Group if you want to keep in touch with future Community Spotlights. And with that I would like to thank the people who read through all of this, I personally don’t like to talk about myself very much so hats off to anyone who read it.