@Winter Icefox That's because the shoutbox wasn't made to be a chatrom, more of a "say something, come back sometime later and see who replied" thing until a bunch of people joined.
I started at 'cade. I actually liked it a lot regardless of the constant scrolling, but I saw a few of my friends on cade talking about paint early 2010 or late 2009, put off checking it out, then a couple months later remembered it again and joined.. I stopped going to cade altogether within a few weeks.