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For those who were on EP: How have your posting and commenting habits changed from what they were on EP?

On EP, the default setting showed posts from friends, experience groups we had joined, and the Question of the Day. The only questions that showed up were questions from friends. We could always opt to see all the questions or all the stories being posted, or if we wanted to check out questions on a particular topic, we could do that too.

But on SW, we can either see all the posts (unless we’ve opted out of viewing adult material), or we can see posts from only friends (which is a bit too narrow for me), or we can see all the posts from our friends, all our experience groups, and all the question topic groups that we've posted questions in as well (unless we choose to view only stories, which would mean we would see no questions). I usually choose this last setting, as it seems to be the most reasonable middle ground available, but I still end up having to wade through, or scroll past, all kinds of inane posts.

On EP, I responded to almost all the posts that showed up in my feed on the default setting, because they were almost always posts that interested me. But on SW, I find that I’m much more picky about which posts I respond to. It’s frustrating sometimes to have to look through so much crap before finally finding something worth looking at. But I keep at it, a little bit each day.

If my posting habits have changed, it’s because there are different things going on in my life now, and the stuff that I had posted about on EP is now old news. Also, the last presidential election got a lot of people (including me) talking about politics, which, believe it or not, I usually don’t talk about too much.


So how have your posting and commenting habits changed, and why?
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Starcrossed · 41-45, F
I was on EP for many years and even on that platform my habits changed as their site evolved its default settings. I originated with a story and blog focus only, I actually didn't participate in Q&A for a year or so when it was rolled out. If I recall, at one point viewing only friend activity was a setting you had to select. I preferred that there, but as this site isny as active nor do I have the close friends I did there - I don't mind seeing everything.

I prefer EPs old Q&A which was more forum like though I barely remember it.

I think stories are under utilised here because of how they're set up and marketed.

And the blogs and confessions ... I miss those feature. I've been told by mods here blogs likely will never happen here.
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
@Starcrossed I liked the formatting of EP better too, but I agree that it was also better because there were so many more people there. So there were still plenty of posts to read even with the way the posts in the main feed were filtered.

I also miss the dream and confession sections. I guess those posts are just part of the stories section now. I suppose the mods figure that it's good enough to have those in with the rest of the posts. :/

I hope this site gets big enough for it to be worth having more filtering options available. I guess in the meantime we'll just have to be patient.