what happened to Experience Project?

Bleak · 36-40, F

No idea 🤷

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.

ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

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.

catastrophecarnival

I ated it

caPnAhab · 26-30, M

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

OlderSometimesWiser · F

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.”