Way too much content on the page you linked, especially since it's what seems like a self post by a user? Why not link the main page that identifies the goals/target of your website right off the bat with some cutesy one liner or animation or 3-step website flow so I know exactly what I'm getting as soon as I visit?
Your UI is supposed to make me want to stay. It's very bland, right down to the logo. Where are the colours? If I stay more than 10 seconds clicking around and I don't love it, I'm gone, sorry but there's millions of sites out there I could browse.
I don't understand how it works. I click the links on the left (why are they randomly generated?) and it just generates more random links, and for some reason has peoples avatars on top? Why? What happens if you get 100,000 users, what function will the top avatars serve? Why not have a members directory?
Why did you link me a link that says /essay/? Is that a users self post? Shouldn't this explanation be summarized for easy consumption by the user upon first visit to the root domain?
Really think about the flow of your site and the UI/UX. Right now, I am very uninterested in using this website. No offense but if you want this to go somewhere, the benefit has to be painfully obvious.
Sorry for being harsh but I was just typing the thoughts as they came right to my head as I viewed the page, this is how I think and I'd imagine how a lot more users think.
Right now this seems like a cute side project, put in the time to make it a real product.
Your UI is supposed to make me want to stay. It's very bland, right down to the logo. Where are the colours? If I stay more than 10 seconds clicking around and I don't love it, I'm gone, sorry but there's millions of sites out there I could browse.
I don't understand how it works. I click the links on the left (why are they randomly generated?) and it just generates more random links, and for some reason has peoples avatars on top? Why? What happens if you get 100,000 users, what function will the top avatars serve? Why not have a members directory?
Why did you link me a link that says /essay/? Is that a users self post? Shouldn't this explanation be summarized for easy consumption by the user upon first visit to the root domain?
Really think about the flow of your site and the UI/UX. Right now, I am very uninterested in using this website. No offense but if you want this to go somewhere, the benefit has to be painfully obvious.
Sorry for being harsh but I was just typing the thoughts as they came right to my head as I viewed the page, this is how I think and I'd imagine how a lot more users think.
Right now this seems like a cute side project, put in the time to make it a real product.