[Animus7]

This doesn't feel as much a social network as an unstructured dumping ground of noise vaguely related to "programming", in an insultingly naive sense of the term [1].

Maybe there's some grand plan here, but I don't see it. As it stands no self-respecting "programmer" is going to use this site because it serves no purpose, nor does it solve any problems. We'll use StackOverflow because it does.

[1] see the landing page photo.

[jofo25]

Suddenly this thread comes to mind http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396747

All you comments may be valid, but for me it just came across as quite vicious.

[DominikR]

After all HN is a forum with lots of programmers, which may feel that this landing page image is insulting.

It's not that I'm against the concept itself, since I wanted to test the product immediately after I read the headline here, but that image instantly killed off any desire to try it.

[FrancescoRizzi]

I second DominikR: img/bg.jpg was really a turn off (and I like to think I'm smack in the middle of the apparently intended target audience)

[norswap]

It might be a little bit aggressive, but the core point "because it serves no purpose, nor does it solve any problems" is totally valid.

[bsenftner]

insulting: a definition of C++ that includes how to pronounce it as "see plus plus".