Why hasn't this platform exploded in usage?

They beat us when you're gone... Don't tell them I said anything or they won't give me anymore stale bread..

SW WAS EP...the Experience Project. When EP first started, it was as a support group, so that people who were disabled could interact with the world and share their thoughts and feelings. EP eventually developed some problems...mostly the users.

When EP went out of business, it morphed into SW, and a lot of the original kind and caring people who WERE EP continued here.

It's not for everyone. It's support and caring.

This site is a mess IMO. It's often difficult to follow threads. I have to dig a little to know who is replying to who in a thread. Then sometimes dozens of post are hidden and easy to miss. Threads on the same topic need to be merged.

This morning there are at least three threads on trump changing his mind and now calling for the release of the Epstein files. There may be five or six by the end of the day. Do I post the same thing to all or do I post to the one I think will not die.

I think one of the problems with promoting this website is the inability to post good links.

From Inside this website you can't post active links to any pages outside. Not even Fox News or CNN or Wikipedia. Most of the links I would like to post would be to major news sites; surely the admins could maintain a list of 50 sites safe to link to.

From the outside, you can post a link to a question, but not to a specific answer or thread within the question.

The best way to get more eyeballs to a website (aside from expensive marketing) is to make it findable in search engines. Search engines consider a page "good," and therefore high in the rankings, if it has "good" links to it and "good" links from it (yes, it's a circular definition of "good;" search engine math deals with it). Since we can't post out-links and since in-links aren't specific enough, we are almost invisible to e.g. google users.

I don't think they do any outside marketing of the site that i know of.. i always thought they should tho like billboards in the city of something 😅 but it’s almost like nobody wants to tell
Anyone about the site because it would ruin their secret hideout type thing, you know? 😏 private rant site

Authentic community??
What does it mean?

Power of anonymity

I suspect if it really took off they would have to start charging, just to keep the numbers down. It is all bandwidth on their servers, plus a ton of storage requirements.

I think more should be done to promote this website

It says you're new, that may be true or maybe not, you could have other accounts. But if you are new, how did you find this site?

you must not know us well enough

It's a niche platform.

Censorship and control from Admin.

They won’t fix the feed order.