Your ten minutes are up.<p>I just tried to use your site. I created a board, claimed it (and created an account).<p>The response page to claiming the board said "Success: The claim has been filed. It will normally be processed within 24 hours (probably much sooner)." I'm not going to wait much longer than five minutes to try something new, yet you put up this roadblock that would seem to depend on human action. That's not going to scale.<p>I think this might be the eventual URL for the board:<p><a href="https://plainboards.com/!Plainboards" rel="nofollow">https://plainboards.com/!Plainboards</a> query on Hacker News/<p>I created it to see if we at HN could briefly eat <i>your</i> dog food; since it's a discussion site, I thought it might be interesting for HN to carry on part of the discussion/critique of your site <i>on your site</i>.<p>But when I posted the first thread, I got this response:<p>"Success: Your thread submission has been successfully added to the system and will be checked (and hopefully accepted) as soon as possible, often within hours or the same hour. You can see its status at any time and (possibly depending on preferences) you will be notified via a PM."<p>You're inadvertently right: this <i>is</i> ridiculous.<p>If I'm going to use any forum-like site, I want to create a "board," and possibly an account if absolutely necessary, and then I want the site itself to get out of the way.<p>In general, if I can't use a site instantly, then it's instantly forgotten.<p>My opinion is that you have some serious re-thinking to do.<p>Posted with the sincere desire to be helpful.<p>P.S. After about 20 minutes of stumbling around on your site, I see this on my account page: "You currently don't own any boards."<p>Dude.<p>Edit: Just checked the PM message area (I think), where I think I'm supposed to be notified when the board or messages are "approved."<p>"Your private conversations (globally)<p>Nothing here. Nice and tidy."<p>30 minutes.