There's a simple explanation for that.
We three Musketeers and very busy IRL, and all of our schedules are different.
Sometimes I work on weekends, sometimes Caleb has weekends off, sometimes John only has weekends from 4pm-onward.
As such, the conversations we have here can be picked up + continued at any time, whereas if we talked IRL (which we still do, when we have the time), our conversation would have to be finished right then and there, without interruptions, because if we didn't, by the time one of us is actually able to continue the conversation, the others have clean forgotten what we were even discussing.
Ah, are you unaware that I am a double account?
My main account was @Roguecog_Anglepinner.
He officially joined in March 2017, but I had found the game many months earlier.
Also, siblings don't always join at the same time.
@Scarlettcog_Coppershine, our sister, has yet to show (much) interest in her older brothers' steampunk game adventures, though when she has the free time, she will sometimes come here and browse around (without a login though, she's needlessly dedicated to remaining anonymous for now. I wonder where she gets that from?), or ask one of us IRL what's been going on lately.
It's been almost six years since we three Musketeers have joined the Aetherlight game, and five years since me and Caleb joined the forums aroundabout the same time. (with much cringe-worthy adventures ensuing, I might add).
John, though, learned from our mistakes and was reluctant to join until late 2018.
(Also, I'm not trying to "convince" you by writing this long posts, my posts are just naturally long and detailed XD)