I was one of the Founding members of EP when it launched in 2005 and I was 13 years old at the time, which was also the minimum age to join as a member.
At its launch date, EP was a website that was dedicated to sharing travel experiences and life experiences with young Muscular Dystrophy patients under the age of 20 who were either bedridden or simply never left the house.
That site operated in that capacity from 2005 to 2010, at which point EP was sold.
From 2010 to 2015, EP with it's new Webmaster, abandoned their involvement with sharing travel and life experiences and instead took on a new direction where it became nothing more than a wild west show, which near the end was completely un-Moderated and functioned like a freight train going down hill out of control.
Eventually, EP derailed itself in 2015 and left a smoking hole in the ground where it landed after running itself off a cliff at full throttle.
SW got started the following year in 2016 with the intention of being a 'replacement' for EP, but not a replica of what EP once was.
For one thing, SWs web platform is not capable of being 'just like' EP's was because both systems were very different from each other, meaning that what was done on EP was not possible to do on SW.
SW was never intended as an identical working model of EP, nor did SW ever promise that it would be!
What SW is today, is a Q&A format design whereas EP used a conversation-format that incorporated a FAR broader web design which allowed all conversation titles to be displayed on your screen at all times, making it easy to find what you're looking for at a glance.
SW was never designed to be a socially interactive website from the get-go like EP otherwise was.
SW was designed to be more like a game of solitaire where you could show up alone and play cards with yourself and not talk to anyone at all, yet spend hours doing it.
I have often referred to SW as be a virtual game of 'Trivial Pursuit', which in fact it is... which isn't a bad thing, but it is what it is nonetheless!
If you like playing mindless games of Trivial Pursuit (which I hate), then SW is for you!
