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Experience Project #TBT

Did anyone on here use to use Experience Project? I used it all the way until the bitter end. I used to love that app. I use apps like these as an online diary/blog. I have so many posts on there that are literally gone. I hate that they don't even have reader mode anymore. They completely abandoned/deleted the site. I understand though. They had their reasons. Just wanted to know if any of you are familiar with it. I found this site about five years ago when I was looking for something similar (no pun intended) to replace Experience Project with. I only wish I could read some of my old posts. I was still in high school at the time, and I want to have a look at my younger mind lol. Now I am almost 26 wanting to see the gradual shift in my mentality lol.

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OldBrit · 61-69, M

I was on experience project on and off the last 4 or 5 years. Been here since the start. I never transferred my ep stuff here

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OldBrit · 61-69, M

@Grateful4you it was early on but clearly not now

Grateful4you · M

@OldBrit I was more concerned about losing touch with long time friends. Luckily, most are still here.

OldBrit · 61-69, M

@Grateful4you you could only move your posts when it was available. EP had an export option t that gave you a file you could subsequently load here. But you lost all the comments etc I think and no contact or profile information I don't believe.

Grateful4you · M

All my long time friends are like me. EP refugee's. Much like y ou most of us loved the site and it's primary mission as a sort of "therapy" I've forgotten the initial targeted membership and the original "need" So many happy memories of a quality site and great folks.

orioninthenight · M

I used to use it but I was kind of unable to speak my mind there. It was at the start of the huge wave of censorship of all opinions that were not corporation friendly that swept across all of the country pre trump.

Amylynne · 26-30, F

[b]they did abandon it[/b]. S[i]W was supposed to have archived all our stuff.
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but like here we all made so many posts. and so many of them were in groups thatno longer exist, the pots too
it has felt very dismissive, and so many complained nd wer basically told sorry yeah

but there may be hope in The Internet Archive. I think you can use it to look at things that have been other wise erased
not sure hwo it works but i did use it to watch a move posted on a free site that is gone, but the movie was still thereh
i LOVEd the old EP and yeah maybe I was too yung too. but made friends towrds the end tho it was getting pretty creepy
a bit liek the wa SW is getting now.

Nice to meet you Saucy

karysma · 31-35, F

I was on [b]EP[/b] too. I do remember I wasn't in a good place back then. I do like looking back on my posts too. I've been here for years and I find my old posts a bit disturbing 😅

lovelywarpedlemon

yep, i had the same username there as well. it's amazing how much i change even from week to week. lol

Saucylover · 26-30, F

@lovelywarpedlemon Haha same.

texasborn89 · 31-35, M

yeah I used it i wish I could go back and see my old posts

PatKirby · M

@texasborn89

You can, sort of. Type in your EP name at the end of this link and the Internet Archive Wayback Machine may have saved a little something for you:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110923231305/http://www.experienceproject.com/about/yourusername

ABCDEF7 · M

@PatKirby Thanks for the Archive link. But it doesn't even show my basic profile details.

https://web.archive.org/web/20131020055130/http://www.experienceproject.com/about/abcdef7

PatKirby · M

@ABCDEF7

This is the only remnant left out there of former EP accounts, and a memory it will remain in our hearts and minds. Apparently the archive saved only at root level one layer deep of people's accounts when it originally spidered it. Did the same with mine and everyone's. People who saved their material into a zip file as EP warned got the benefit of preserving everything. EP meant business, people didn't take it seriously. Oh well I guess we can't have everything.

jackson55 · M

I was on EP for 7 of the 10 years it was on. Was there when they hit the switch and turned it off.

Firegod74 · 46-50, M

I wonder at the real reasons it shut down. I know some shady shit was happening in the back ground (child luring/sex work recruitment.
Ive even entertained the thought that i went head to head with Maxwell of Epstien Island fame. If I could only get those emails back.

Other than that it was a fun site for the rest of us. I was closer to more people there than i am in real life. I just wishbi still had the time to put that effort into this one.

ShadowWorker · 61-69, F

I was on EP as well. It helped me to open up. Sometimes a little too much! Lol... I loved the site.

ABCDEF7 · M

They gave an option to export/download all your posts and communication in XML format. And I was able to import all that post here. Below is link to one of the post on EP that I imported here. You must have downloaded them. They kept this option open even for few days after the of closure of EP. If you continued EP till the end you must be aware of that.

https://similarworlds.com/self-help/archived-questions/2448724-What-is-the-Aim-Goal-of-your-life

Saucylover · 26-30, F

@ABCDEF7 I remember that vaguely, but as I said, I was in my senior year of high school. I didn’t really think they’d actually close it down. And then I just never remembered to save my posts. I thought that they would never really close the site. I was young and naive/in denial about the whole situation. I remember finding similar worlds like a year after they shut it down. By then it was too late to recover my things. I had also moved onto campus. I had a lot of other things going on around that time. So it wasn’t my biggest concern to transfer my things.

Jlhzfromep · M

Same for me, I should have saved my old post back then

Highskirt · 56-60, M

I was on ep .miss it really. Its not any where near it on here

DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

I miss how EP used to be. I was on there for about 9 years before I finally left because of all the shitty changes they made to the site and it had become overrun with silly posts from perverts and teenagers.

PatKirby · M

Was your name Saucylover on EP as well? Type in your name at EP at the end of this link and your account archive may actually come up (mine did):

https://web.archive.org/web/20110923231305/http://www.experienceproject.com/about/yourusername

Saucylover · 26-30, F

@PatKirby No, and sadly I don't even remember what my name was. I used the same email. Knowing me, it was probably some short form of my real name. I was young at the time, so I probably didn't think of using a pen name. Smoked a little bit too much weed over the years, smh.

PatKirby · M

@Saucylover

Did you save any stories on your computer? Check and your old original name may be around in them. Keep trying, you'll eventually remember it...

jackson55 · M

I was on EP for 7 years and the day they flipped the switch.

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PatKirby · M

@jackson55

So it was like that, huh? I get the sense from what everyone has said here about how EP went out that the creator (Armin) was not fully aware how much they affected others. They didn't have any last day celebration, or final day goodbye fanfare - nothing.

Or maybe that rumor about a lawsuit against them was more serious than everyone thought and Armin just wanted out.

What I do remember of that time was that Armin mentioned something about going out because they noticed that social networks were moving from their "long form" to the "short form" of expression. If you look at most social networks today you'll notice this to be partially true, as it developed from the ground up and has now become the de facto form of social networking people prefer.

Either way it does sound a bit funny how for all the groundwork EP laid down there was no proper goodby equivalent that matched it or paid appropriate farewell. They could have at least had a nice week-long party type of send off, or something but nada. Oh well, I guess you can't have everything.

jackson55 · M

@PatKirby The law suit may have had some effect ? The feds wanting access to some of the content. EP said no. I’m sure there was pressure. I went to a user party in SF in 2011 I think ? They wanted to know if we, the users, thought there should be changes and what they might be ? There were some changes then the shutdown in 2016. I was told it was a experiment and the 10 years it was on it had run it’s course. Lots of speculation on the net why it shutdown.. We may never know the real reason.

PatKirby · M

@jackson55
Agreed. I think in the end it was a mix of different factors. I must say that I do think that Armin must've known (and probably still does) that it formed the basis of other successful sites to come using that format. As it remains successful today.

For example, would you come back to EP if they all of a sudden brought the site back up with your profile now active? I know I would, and expect millions of others would do the same. Armin must know this and have been reminded of it by the system administrators and most definitely by the business administrators at the company. So the decision is ultimately his. Although he did make a statement on the farewell graphic that they're 'taking a break' and look forward to 'meeting again soon'...

...apparently there's been no real indication that it ever will. It just seems like there's something in the background that's not evident, or being told. That's a lot of potential money dangling in the air on their coming back, if ever. Those are my 2¢ anyway.

Adstar · 56-60, M

Yes i was a member of EP for a few years.. met some memorable people on EP..

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PatKirby · M

@Adstar

One moment...

PatKirby · M

@Adstar

Sorry, none. Got any others?

Adstar · 56-60, M

@PatKirby Nope.. I like to keep things to one account on sites like these..

Strongtea · 22-25, M

Yes! I used to love that place! I made some super nice friends there, I miss it.

SethGreene531 · M

There was an option to import your profile info here; and perhaps posts as well, not sure.

Jeffrey53 · 51-55, M

I was on it from 2009 till it ended been on here since 2016

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Saucylover · 26-30, F

@geoam1 I wish I would have saved mine. I had hoped that things might change, but they didn't.

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YMITheWayIM · 46-50, M

Yes.

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YMITheWayIM · 46-50, M

@PatKirby Same screen name, I have imported my posts and groups to SW.

PatKirby · M

@YMITheWayIM

Ok this came up. Kinda limited in scope and linkage, but it's a little something for nostalgia's sake.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150613014601/http://www.experienceproject.com/about/ymithewayim

I remember "MrsLalaninjacakes" from your page. I wonder if she's here?

YMITheWayIM · 46-50, M

@PatKirby The name does ring bells. Not sure if she's around though.

ExtremeNext · 31-35

Look at my photo
I ran the joint

gdon39 · 41-45, M

I was there from the start

Josh1454 · M

I used it to the end as well.

GabbySA8 · 18-21, F

What was the experience project

Applepiedom · 56-60, M

Yes I was there as well.

AngelKrish · 26-30, M

I was in EP !

in10RjFox · M

Yes.. and EP provided a Backup feature using which I downloaded my messages & posts .. It may still be available for you to download. Do check the site.