I've read it was shut down partly because it was used to facilitate a murder

I can't find the details, but two users who met through the site ended up with one of them murdering the other. The founders' statement for shutting it down after this said that they were concerned about being able to protect users' privacy, and since the site was intended to be anonymous, their only option was to close it.

I only found EP a few months before it closed. From what people told me, it had significantly deteriorated since its apex; even the UI wasn't as good. The site was begun by Armen Berjikly as a way for people with cerebral palsy (I think - it could have been a different condition) to share their experiences anonymously, but it quickly morphed into experiences of all kinds being shared.

Before it shut down, users made several suggestions for substitutes, including Relatetothat (also shut down, although it was heavily moderated), Vent (short form, more like Twitter), and a few others I don't remember. SW is the closest to it.

Anyone interested in the EP murder story it’s portrayed on a show called Web of Lies, Season 6, Episode 3. The name of the episode is called “The Devil’s Pact.”

More than 100 murders have been linked to Craigslist yet Craiglist has never shut down because of what some of its users have done

Facebook has also been involved in homicides

Websites are rarely held responsible for any bad thing some of their users might do

Which is why I don't understand why the whole EP-shut-down-due-to-a-murder narrative periodically resurfaces and keeps getting so much traction akin to urban legends

It was bought out and shut down, from what I heard at the time. Whoever created it took the money and ran, I guess. There was even talk the film director Peter Jackson had something to do with buying it and had plans for "cleaning it up" or whatever.

I ated it

I ate it

🙄 Who cares?

It experienced some issues

After the muder , they closed it because they didnt want to all their users personal data to get leeked ,they had the choice between that or closing.

I've heard several reasons, murder being one of them

That's what happened...

I heard a scary story that people used it to commit murder/suicide so they shut it down.

It died

It is on Wikipedia i think.

One of the issues was the US government trying to subpoena records from EP. So, instead of complying with the US government, they decided the safest option for them was to shut the site down.

After 9 years, not much?

It cocooned and re-emerged as SW

I guess the guy that ran it stopped doing that.

It got out of hand and they closed it

Not a lot... it's been dead for 10 years now.

Similar Worlds is similar to the Experience Project, only the users are different.

A couple vultures picked the bones

It became a school of fine arts based now in Brussels!!

"Gone with The Wind"

It went to the end of a rainbow

Murder and Billy madison

SW came along

No idea 🤷

AI

Good riddance to bad rubbish? You think any of thr owners of this site are the same people?