Not sure of the exact point we started reading but it was in the early 2010s. The first new page we got to call upd8 on in our friend group was the intermission just before Act 6 began!
We got into thanks to an what became an RP group on the now dead and gone ponychan lmao, kinda fun having an existing familiarity with the characters going in.
Homestuck also acted as a catalyst on at least half of our identity weirdness so that's fun <3