I’m a refugee from AB…or whatever it was called back in 2009. I pulled up the site one morning and it was gone. Site was there, but it was unrecognizable. They had changed everything. I had no interest in the new format they had devised and neither did many of the people I knew on there (on which I was known as @writemyselfaletter). Most of us migrated to Fluther, about whose existence I had no prior knowledge. I simply came because others I knew were coming.
There is a huge difference between the two sites. There were many things about AB that I really liked. Fluther tends to polite discussion. On AB, there was at least one brawl a day, most of which turned out to be fun. But I would stay on the site for hours. Here, I’m on for a few minutes a day, which is probably better, since I do have a real life to lead.