[anigbrowl]

You need to put this on your landing page. I can see the things that make it different, but felt reluctant to invest time in finding out by experiment. The 'Declaration of Principles' is a nice idea but read as vague and pretentious, a grab-bag of feel-good phrases. The prompt 'how do you feel about what's going on right now' doesn't help.

I don't get the requests and responder roles, it feels like quora, and the filters are also confusing (perhaps because there's no examples to peruse). I'm guessing that your favorite conversations are ones where you learn something useful or thought-provoking, or break a complex topic down to its elements and show how their interaction plays out, kind of like freeform Socratic dialog...but I'm not sure if this is the correct interpretation.

I suggest you communicate to users through plain rather than high-flown language, summarize your vision of what's interesting and valuable (rather than just what is not), and maybe spend a month filling it with some team conversations so as to provide users with a sense of what sort of social space it is.

Finally, aesthetics. I get the reference in the title but I'm not sure an Elvis Costello song title is the hook you think it is. The background art feels nostalgic but that doesn't seem ideal for a new product unless you're aiming for a community of people who explicitly reject existing internet culture. The fonts are too small on desktop.