>>/8500/
> Figured I'd say hello 

Howdy.

> and see what's up around here.

That is on its surface a simple answer:
 >>/8505/
> However,that curiosity morphed into...well, something more complicated than we didn't expect at the time. None of us did really.

Though this heavily applies. 

/endpone/ is a community of varying levels of activity composed of a small main group of anons and other stranglers who pop in from time to time. Our history and how we got here are bit more complicated topic. Culturally we are a bit different then the larger groups that do or did exist (/mlp/, /mlpol/, ponychan, nhnb, etc) in the pony imageboard community and don't have as clear genealogy of a splinter point with the other boards but more of a mix of who showed up along with a lot of things that were just ad hoc. We are cousins with 8chan/8kun's /pone/, /flutter/ (though some have described /flutter/ in closer terms), and modern /mlp/, albeit the latter we tried to stray away from in the sense of the shitposting and obsession over nostalgia to the point of pure bitterness (though I will note they have improved some from the lows of 2018 and 2019).    

 >>/8504/
> I typically post on the /b/read on 4chan, though I've taken a rbeak the last week or two.

Your of the old /b/ community then. Interesting. I know one person from there though I have rarely peaked at /b/read  trash is too NSFW for me.  

> Someone I've known for like, 8 or 9 years now mentoined this place to me so I figured I'd come over and say hi as a result. pure curiosity really.

I can get that. I mean,  >>/8505/ :
> Pretty much what happened to the main users 5 years ago.

I often peak at different places just to see what they are like.