Interesting post. I think you made a bunch of mistakes. 1. Underestimate the importance of good content to attract people. 2. Overestimate the importance of r

Interesting post. I think you made a bunch of mistakes. 1. Underestimate the importance of good content to attract people. 2. Overestimate the importance of real names. 3. Design. Either make it ugly (which would have been fine), or really good looking. Both your design and the designers' design where in-between meh. You should have kept it ugly and focused on the content :) 4. Pulling in feeds makes the content worse, not better. Automated content doesn't create community.