What brought everyone to SW?

I found EP during my darkest time. I was depressed and suicidal. EP helped a lot. I left EP before it was shut down because I had become far too dependant on it. When i looked it up some years later I was sad to see that it was no more, but was glad to have found it's replacement.

Didn't come from EP but a site like it. I left there because I was going through living hell on the site I came from and it was pushing me to a really dark place again.

I'm just here to make people laugh and get stuff out of my head because therapy has been a joke 😒

Was told I could meet hot guys here.

i googles what is a nuthouse.. and BAM..
a link to SW popped up

EP brought me here and still miss the EP gang

I was from EP originally and joined THAT thinking it was a forum only on anxiety or abuse. I was quite wrong lol. I stayed because people were kind and uplifting. And I enjoyed the connection..thats why I decided to join SW too. Although I didn't right away after EP. About a year later. I get more from it than the off days of trolls or a few rude replies. So I always felt it was a decent place to come back to🦋🙂 How about you?

A number 19 bus 😂😂😂🙂

Came from EP. Here for a few people and an outlet. I enjoyed EP for the people, fun, laughs, openness

I wasn't sure really. SW stands to be the same thing I hoped EP to be and in a way it is - a place to vent to people who don't know a thing about me.

A world separated from my reality - where I can talk about how I feel without feeling ashamed or that I have to be a certain something.

What I found though is that when I vent, it's not as supportive as I remembered it to be. Tended to be ignored so I only really vent here now when I'm truly at the end of my rope.

Santa Bunny and his eight flying field mice brought me here from EP after a brief stop at his West Pole mansion 😋

Court order

Was on EP to figure out who I really wanted to be if I didn't have the social restrictions. I have sometimes gotten as much insight about myself from my time here as I have from any therapy session. Lots of times the two go hand-in-hand, where my SW experience becomes the springboard for a conversation with my therapist.

Usually I will hang out on SW for a month or so before I lose interest and drift away. This round I have been here for I think four months? I have more connection in the DMs this round.

My friend @Guardian brought me here

Because I being banned on the other site we were on together.

(If you must know the other website said I was too controversial for their platform)

I wanted to meet people in a place that I wasn't worried my IRL friends would discover.

A need for companionship via community

I was on EP and wanted to keep in touch with a couple people.

I had left EP for a long time and was looking for it in the net. Got SW instead and came to know that lots of users have joined from EP. Though it’s not the same, I joined and stayed.

I was looking for a fun question/answer site since a lot of the original ones/ones I liked shut down. Reddit is sadly monopolizing message boards and Q&A type sites, it seems!

I was in EP for about ten years. Came here after EP closed, eas looking for someplace similar

EP first SW later. It came out of a Google search.Trying to find a site much like EP.... here we are

Fun. Curiosity. Possibly friendship. I was originally on EP for similar reasons

Interacting with others.

EP - Experience Project

I came to bring the pain

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Lol not really. I just like that song

Justice for myself

Someone who was very special to me.

EP Refugee.

The devil made me do it

Ep same name. I hate ppl irl

From EP originally, but once that went to sh** I came here. Twas good.

I came from EP because it closed, you can see on my profile I have been here since the start.

I come here for the originality. 😃
https://similarworlds.com/groups/similar-worlds/4995710-What-do-you-want-out-of-Similar-Worlds-and-do-you-get-it

I was one of the original dozen or so Founding members at EP's inception which occurred back in 2005. EP was originally designed as a descriptive writing site for worldly people to share their travel experiences with young people who had Muscular Dystrophy and were therefore unable to travel. Those home-bound and often bed-ridden MS patients would then experience a life of travel vicariously through those who did travel extensively and were willing to share those memories of traveling the world.

At the time, I was a teenager in high school and the only traveling I did was on a team school bus going from one sports venue to another for regional gymnastics competitions. Who I'd been contributing my experiences with on EP were people who flew on private jets, plus those who traveled cross-country in RV's.

For me, EP started out as a creative, descriptive writing outlet which others could benefit from as they'd interact with our short stories, but then EP came to a grinding halt after the site was sold to a new webmaster who had no interest whatsoever in continuing the original objective of EP in being a website devoted to sharing travel experiences, hence the name Experience Project.

EP shut down in 2015 after it was allowed by that new webmaster to turn into a wild-west show for the 5 years preceding EP's eventual demise. When SW was then started up in 2016 following the implosion of EP, this website was and still is marketed as the official replacement or alternative for EP, but in fact is nowhere near what EP was nor ever will be, even at EP's darkest moments in time.

The reason SW is no good whatsoever for creative writing is because it's web format was originally designed as an online game of trivial pursuit as evidenced by it's Q&A style of interaction, thereby leaving nowhere on this website that is actually dedicated to writing short stories like EP had been set up to achieve right from it's original inception.

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