Pre EDCO

Growth is an understatement to say the least in the beginning. Myself and the couple of Admins helping were brutalized during and after EDC Orlando 2021. It was bad fam, really bad.

I was very active in many Facebook Rave groups at the time so, I started discretely “poaching” new members in comment threads. Any time I would see one of those “over 30” memes, I would post a link to our group. Sorry Admins.

This yielded us about 40ish members by September/October of 2021. It was all good. We would be happy if we could find 500 lost souls to bring together so we were happy with our growth. Things were simple and every member basically knew each other online and started planning how we could actually meet in person sometime.

I was a member of some EDCO groups, so I chatted with a lot of people and told them about our little group. All of a sudden, we started seeing more member requests. Cool! One of our long time members, now Moderators, reminded us of how we had no membership questions when she joined “long” ago. LOL

By the end of EDCO, we had 250-300 members. We were astonished to say the least. The group was still a very small tight knit little community and we were all loving it. No one could believe that “so many” of us old souls not only existed, but had found each other.