[icey]

I think the idea is great, but man the signup process is terrible. I went through it with a bunch of b.s. data because it's irritating to have to provide my birthday, zipcode, email address and gender just to take a look at the messages. I don't know if that's a ning thing or not, but it's a real turn-off.

[astartupaday]

Yep, it's a Ning thing. I'll see if I can cut out some of the signup options, thanks for the feedback.

EDIT: Just removed b-day, gender, and location. Thanks again, sorry for the poor 1st impression.

[icey]

Hmmm, it's still asking for birthday and gender when I try to re-register.

[astartupaday]

Strange, I just tried to register as as new user and the only options were for username, password, and birthday. I think b-day is mandatory for legal reasons around online child protection laws.

[icey]

It asked for gender and location on the second page of the registration. Now that I look at it again, it's not mandatory; but that's not very obvious.

Anyways, cool idea, it's just a shame that Ning's signup process is so convoluted.