EP was a great place until
The last year or so, when it slowly swirled down the toilet. This place just kinda began where it left off. In the sewer.

I think it is actually better... no shade to the original EP site. In its time, it was groundbreaking. Those times have changed though. Too many people have romanticized the EP of the past to the point where nothing can compete with the memory they have fantasized it had been, but never was.

It's alright. I got kicked off EP, back in the day, as I was too young and talking about stuff - like I do now - that people weren't comfortable with.

So, I prefer it here.

Sarah 💋

I think this place is getting better than EP every month

I enjoy it more here and the block button actually serves a purpose.

not the same. no matter how i try. not the same

I loved Experience Project and met many of the persons behind the site. Here's an interesting wiki article about the founder of EP. He is a very intelligent man.

He is all into AI development with empathetic buildout.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armen_Berjikly

no sw is better

It seems to be a work still in progress. It looks as though some of the best-loved features of EP are still in development or improvement, some of the worst features seem to have disappeared without trace here at SW. Seem to remember that EP was also improving by leaps and bounds in its early days.
I'll keep an eye on the 'We're working on this!' display at the bottom right of this and the other 'story' pages

I've lost alot of friends from them getting rid of it but everything has pros and cons

I met my husband on EP. This site is nothing like it was. All the originals here left.

Not as good as ep was ... ep was my thing

I liked EP better.

EP way better

I think it's almost entirely the same except it has slightly more usability and the design is a little more professional too. Something I really didn't like about EP was the amateurish design.

I like some of the design features better, and they are improving functionality. Alhtough the people here have a different 'feel' as it were...

Some ways it's better.
Not as many harassers, although, I have had a few nasty comments here and there.

But,EP was special,we formed some bonds there.
I miss the interactive whiteboards and the feed that you could set to only include your circle.

I don't, but I don't know why. I had great friendships that I haven't managed to re-create.

Not even close. EP had SO many more participants, ,ore subject matter, etc.

I was a member at E,P for 6 years till the day it closed,I had a lot of women friends there,,not so many hear,

I like it so far. Wish they had a photo gallery though.

I wasn't on ep long enough to know much.

I'm not sure I do. Are you still active on here?

EP was a lot better. When I joined there was even instant messages you could have with friends. Of course there were some creeps but nothing like this place.

It's not, in my opinion it is pale in comparison.

not me lots more features on ep

No I do not think so

No, not a patch.

M x

Not as big as EP and that's the way I like it 👍🏻 it's like a family website and no BS.

Not even close.

I don't

Its not

No

There is actually two parts to your question that need answering. Just to give some perspective, I joined the 'original' EP back in 2005 during EP's original inception when I was 13 years old, which happened to be the minimum age to join, though it mattered not because there was no adult content in EP anyway.

EP then ran for exactly 5 years from 2005 to 2010 where the original webmaster who was a Physician, pumped a bunch of money into his website and upgraded it with all the latest bells and whistles for the time and really turned a rudimentary website into a much more professional-looking and socially functional thing of beauty.

In that same year 2010, EP was then sold and the new webmaster took over who was actually a total novice at being a webmaster, meaning he didn't have a clue what he was doing, nor did he give a rat's butt that he didn't know.

EP then started going downhill immediately thereafter from 2010 onward until the trolls committed an Insurrection on the henhouse and by the end of 2015, EP was nothing more than a smoking lawn dart sticking out of the ground, resembling nothing even close to what the "original EP" was all about from 2005 to 2010. EP lasted for exactly 10 years, almost 11 before it imploded.

In early 2016, SW started up on the heels of EP by a few months and what SW started out as was pretty much what we still have today, whatever this is.

Yes, there have been improvements along the way.. like the addition of games for example for those who still like to play games at this juncture in life, but the SW web format itself remains very restricted in what it can technically do as a website platform because of SW's inherent, rudimentary design concept. Case in point, you only get what you pay for.

Even if the owner of SW decided to replicate EP tomorrow because he had our best interests in mind, he could NOT do it, even if he scrapped what we have here today and started all over again with a clean slate while using the same old web platform this website is currently constructed on.

An upgraded version of SW, but using the old web platform would not upgrade anything at all here because SW's web platform is incompatible with the ideas and protocols that were already in place during the last 5 years of EP's tenure.

The first thing this should tell you is how old SW's current web platform really is if EP was light years ahead of it back in 2010, right?

The only way to turn SW into what EP was in the year 2010, would be to scrap what we have here ...and I mean take it right to the dump in the back of a truck, then invest some serious money into a new web platform and launch a new website that is based on the "original EP" concept from 2005 to 2010, not what EP ended up as in it's last 5 years of it's operation.

Like my grandmother always tells me, "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear", meaning that what starts out as a sow's ear will always look like a sow's ear, no matter how much lipstick you put on that old pig to make her dance right.

Who knows. Then is then and now is now.

There seem to be less haters and rude people here.

The longer it is gone the kinder people are than they were on EP. Fond memories lol. Not they aren't haters here but there seemed to be more there with more freedom to hate.

Does it matter? It’s not like there is an alternative lol.

It was easier to meet local women there.