[luvcraft]

here you go!

http://reccr.com

I refrained from posting a link of mentioning the service by name in the original post, because I didn't want it to look like a "stealth ad". But maybe all the crap about not promoting your own services in forums has just made me over-cautious. :)

[olegious]

Looking at your site (static/welcome), some more thoughts:

1. where's the FB "Like" button? I see the Google +1 prominently displayed, but no Like button. Make it as easy as possible for people to share your site.

2. in my opinion there is too much text on the main page. You can remove the majority of the text and replace it with a stronger sign up call to action as well as some elements that demonstrate community activity- something like "most popular games over the last week", "trending titles"- something to show that it isn't a dead community, this would encourage sign ups.

[luvcraft]

OK, I've applied #1 and also cleaned up the welcome page quite a bit. Let me know what you think!

The "what's going on now" stuff will require a little more work, and a lot more thought because I've been consciously designing the site to let users be as private as they want to be, which has had the unintended side effect of making it hard for some users to be as public as they want to be.

[luvcraft]

good suggestions! I'm implementing those now...