| Two things I think will help you: 1. Leverage other social networks I know it sounds ineffective, but other social networks are a great channel to go through if you make sure people understand you offering more than they can find there. Think Pinterest, who also ask you to sign through Facebook. 2. Provide guarantees you will not be a place for creeps This again can be achieved through 1. Think Chatroulette here. Phenomenal space for people to communicate but their efforts to dwarf the creeps came in too late. Besides these two points, here are less important ones: - I think your value proposition needs some work. Start with examples first and highlight your strengths (the fact that this leverages people around you). - Communicate why usernames such as mine are not valid. - Why is it that your Facebook posts redirect to your homepage? All in all very good concept and a lot of potential. By the way you guys are not English speaking right? ;) I recognize it from how your keyboard renders the apostrophe. |
The reason it redirects to the homepage is that for now, you need to be logged in to see any content. We intend for anonymous uses who haven't logged in to be able open direct links to posts, we just haven't gotten around to implementing it yet :-)
If you tried to register using why-el as a username, I see no reason why you shouldn't have been able to do that. We'll have a look at the rules we've set for username and see if we're a bit too strict with what we will or will not allow. And, yes, none of us are native English speakers :-)