Thanks! I read The Time Machine but not The Time Ships. Looking forward to it.

This is all great to hear. Thanks for the response.

Otherwise, you become a wall-flower and get little out of the experience.

So no use-case for lurkers?

Thanks for the response. Out of curiosity, what are the mechanisms you guys think about when implementing features for this site? And what is the mission here?

Also, we are adjusting the algorithm so that it is more reflective of activity than time of post.

This. I'm very new here, but I have studied online conversational spaces. And one of the biggest challenges for Hubski seems to be giving users the sensation that they aren't at a party by themselves.

If a subject is interesting, why wouldn't it be worth commenting on regardless of when it was posted?

I'm posting this now, but I am quite confident nobody but you will read this -- and if you don't respond, I will be writing into the vacuum that is the internet, so there will be no feedback loop for me. So I think you guys are on the right track as far as indicating the "activity" of a post. But I'm finding it very difficult to create a pleasant community experience here because, as a new user, I constantly feel like I'm in an empty room; my home page is the "feed" which is only populated if I follow people I dont know; the first page on "global" is the newest posts, where nobody has arrived to the party; clicking on "chatter" is just awkward for me because I don't actually know anyone there; and I can't follow tags to populate by feed, which means I can't find people to follow without going to "discover."

Anyway, I really want to like hubski and will continue to give it a chance!

I love alternate creation myths, too! I especially enjoy it when they aren't mutually exclusive. Any other favorites you care to share?