Is SW getting any better?

@Convivial I agree right

@Convivial It had more substance of all kinds - serious as well as humorous.

@hunkalove Bye. Don’t let the door hit ya where nature split ya on the way out.

@Carissimi I agree with you.

@MartinII I completely agree with you. ☹️

@originnone Yes. They give meaningless short winded answers. I have witnessed the mental decline of many here. Signs of the times.

@Zonuss I'm not sure all these people are that mean....I think they hide behind the anonymity of the internet. None of my friends know or care what my political views are, but they do know all my sports interests....just the opposite of here.

@MyMonstersAreReal well said

@Musicman Well that’s probably true. But another major problem is that it’s impossible to access everything that’s been said, or even everything one’s friends have sad, at the same time. Twas ever thus here, but not on EP.

@OogieBoogie It's a social conditioning experiment. Needless to say that this place has caused the mental decline of many users here and has reopened the wounds and trauma that they already had. A few have healed but this usually happens when the person has had an awakening or leaves the site for a while or permanently . They simply cannot handle what the machine has forced upon them. Social media can be good and bad, it just depends on how you utilize it in your daily lives. However some just abuse it because they themselves have been abused. The experiment itself becomes the reality that many create it to be. It becomes a monster. It becomes something too big for some to handle. It's just like the Twilight Zone. Its far more real than you think it is. 🙂

@Zonuss oh I agree on this completely !
One decides what one chooses to reply to , what one posts, and what one chooses to say.

True we can't control everyone, but we can control ourselves ....and it's very easy to 'walk away'.

Ive watched this place change so much over the years. Some for the good, some for the bad.
I do sometimes feel it is still an experiment .

And you're right ...it does become some sort of reality ....for some, too much of a reality .

It seems it's in our nature to prefer to change our environment than ourselves .🤷

@SandWitch wow .. Well said

@SandWitch the reason why the feed is so poor is that you are only seeing an algorithmic section of it .
This was implemented over a year ago and had caused many long time users to leave .

I remember a time when the feed was so thick and fast it was seconds between posts.
It was chronologically structured and so much easier to use....and enjoyable .

With such a great influx of material to choose from, it made it more fun because you could find more posts that inspired you .

Now the feed is waaaaaay thinner . I'd guess, ...maybe a tenth(?) of what it was .

Plus we lost all our really personalized groups, which was a shame and people felt offended when that happened, as they were male by users .

So there is a reason why you don't see many dedicated users , they left. They left because the community they helped build got cut, sifted, leftovers smooshed together and renamed and then damned by the algorithm so only a tiny part of it got through.

It hurt them badly .

Investment has nothing to do with phone access and such - it's a personal thing ....we had phone access way before the change in culture , and it wasn't a problem .
If anything ....SW was busyier and had more posts than ever .
And THAT'S why people became invested - they met more people, jad more replies , saw more posts : it was more engaging.

@OogieBoogie Yes, and it's still a mystery why they ruined the feed. There used to be some tricks to obtain a complete chronological feed (by typing "the" in the search field, for example) but they disabled that too. I have no idea why, they never told us. It's an "eat it or go" approach.

@crownedwithlaurel97 Sorry to be pedantic, but the poster used it as a noun - misguidedly, I think.

@crownedwithlaurel97 The only way I could describe it was abortion. By the way abortion is a noun not an adjective. If you were there for EP's demise, and if you attempted to substitute EP with relatetothat.com, then you'll get it. RTT was an abortion.