[pierrefar]

I like the idea, and I think you're missing two tricks. I think you have two key metrics that if you grow will end up making the website grow nicely:

1. Visitor engagement measured as time on site, pages viewed per visit, number of comments, etc. I say you're missing this trick because there is only one story as far as I can tell. Give me more! I really wanted to read more but there wasn't anything. Get a few (10?) stories up there as "seed" content.

2. New stories posted: you want people to register and post stories. You have no massive call to action about this. Yes there are links to register but where is the Big Red Button that says "Post your story"? Make it extremely obvious how people can post stories and make it extremely easy to do so.

On making it easy: how about accepting anonymous submissions and then asking the user to sign up and when they do their anon submissions are claimed into their account automatically?

Or how about just making the site user-moderated with anonymous submissions without the need for accounts?

I'm not saying you should do these, but they are ideas to get you thinking about what you're comfortable with.

Edit: The contact page says "My Fieldset". Rename it :)

[webgambit]

I'm hoping that posting here would help with #1.

On #2... maybe I can throw some color in the 'Submit your story' block in the top right. It's already set to accept anonymous stories.

Thanks for pointing out the issue on the contact page. It has been fixed.