losing experience project was like burning books

It wasn't a social media site. (MySpace wasn't either)
It was around before the phrase was coined.

The concept was for users to share the life experiences that mattered to them, and to write stories about their personal experience with those life events, in order to connect with other users who could empathize with them, and provide support based on their shared backgrounds.

Translation:
Collect stories from the users of the site to sell books.

I think I killed experience project. I had like so many tips I dropped for the police over sexual predators cause I was underage that I'm sure they got a lot of pressure over that.

I think Armen Berjikly had enough of EP which had started out as a MS support site...I told them to send my "profile" and not keep it online..they did neither😡

I really don't understand why people ate still longing for EP. We are 7 years down the road now. If we got EP back now, we would laugh about it, nagging the bot Ally. I was there since 2009, but we had to move on.

I lost wonderful stuff with Bleedinglovelust before she went off and came back as someone else, before she left completely. I wish I had some of the stuff she wrote and the pictures she sent. It all vanished like in a puff of smoke like an art gallery burned to the ground

EP did give notice though and gave users almost a year to download their content.

Didn't they give a notice to download one's profile before it shut down?

So relatable.

I lost so much of my stuff.

Yes. some of my cringiest posts on there. So relieved it's gone. I didn't export a single thing lol

I feel it's true what you say.

Eventually all sites turn sour.
There are ones I wish were still around but I know ultimately they had run their course.

I was barely on EP so I do not know much about it.

I was given a notice when Deviantart was changing and it didn't help because my focus was on EP or SW. 😕 I should have taken it more seriously then.

Yup. And Yahoo answers showed the manipulation of the public discourse during the 2016 election by the Dems in real time. Oh well! The truth is what the ownership present to you.

EP gave a notice to save your content prior to shutting down. I saved it.

Why you were not able to get download of your content in XML format?

Yeah, It is sad... i had so many writings there. I don't think there is anything on the net that is even close to EP. In the old days we could say that things get better with age. (Like a fine wine). But now we say things get worse with age. (Like the smell of a pile of crap).

They got screwed over by a federal agency demanding files that they didn't have time or interest in providing so they took the alternative....

Thing is the internet in general has gotten worse. I noticed that with the invention of the iphone bringing the internet to a broader range of people. But it also brought it down to the lowest common denominator.
Even if EP and MySpace came back it would be flooded with the absolute worst of humanity. Because the internet is a breeding/feeding ground for the worst of humanity. Trolls, sadists and psychopaths learned that they can use it to feed their evil so they flood everything. A good site/app has about a 5 year lifespan before trolls bring it to it's knees. So I'll just remember MySpace and EP as they were. It's nostalgic.

They did give plenty of warning that they were shutting down and warning people to backup their posts.