1) Make that ol' fashioned signup link just a little more obvious...
2) Could the two welcome emails be combined (can't the activation link come as part of the second if the subject line makes it clear)?
3) I couldn't help but laugh when "What are your best memories of graduate school? Worst memories?" came up as a prompt under "Life". There's something amusing about this question being posed so innocently after "Did you have a pet?".<p>Anyway I think the site is actually pretty fun, and I'm glad I signed up despite not being able to tell what it was just from the homepage (might want to change that). I was just about to go to bed and jot down a few things I wanted to write about the coming morning but after poking around I may just spend some more time poking around with some of the topics here.
Recommendation to the founders:
Change the flow:<p>1. Story writing. As a guest, let me write my story right away. Give a few story ideas.<p>2. Sign up. Make it optional. Tell me I can share my story anonymously but if I want to keep it forever, allow me to sign up then.
Nice design and concept. I could see myself using this, no doubt.<p>That said, I have some suggestions:<p>- Let me remove stories I don't like. Bonus points if:<p>-- I can drag them out to remove them (it was my first instinct, and I think it'd work well)<p>-- The system learns from that, after some time.<p>- Please, let the "bar" stay fixed. It's only distracting when I'm reading a story or enjoying a photo.<p>- Let me read more of a story in-place, by expanding the "card" (downward?).<p>Good work, and I'll be looking forward to what you build from here.
Please, this is how you execute this idea......<a href="http://cowbird.com" rel="nofollow">http://cowbird.com</a>. I did not sign up because i have no idea what the product does and the alternate to Facebook login blends into the background and is hard to notice.
Some of those stories are pretty intense
Ex: Nick Slater (Palantir's designer in Palo Alto)
<a href="http://www.storylane.com/nickslater" rel="nofollow">http://www.storylane.com/nickslater</a>