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I'm only a single data point, but you've lost me because I have no idea what gravity is upon first glance at the site and I don't want to watch a stupid animation of stick figures talking gibberish.

Make it really obvious what your site does or keep making inconsequential first impressions.

Make that two data points :)

The site is unwelcoming, and doesn't tell me why I am there. The About page is a lot better, but doesn't tell me why I want to use Gravity and not go to pre-existing communities. If I want to talk to people about video games, for example, I could visit NeoGAF or the Penny Arcade forums and talk to them.

If I want to talk about tech, I come to HN :)

Why do I want to go to Gravity? Why do I want to go to it over Quora? (which, BTW, doesn't answer the pre-existing communities question either)

The explore page reveals the functionality, but is overwhelming.

I didn't even get that far. I don't like watching videos on the Internet, mainly because I usually have other music playing, and they don't play so nice with linux. I don't want to have to stop everything I'm doing just to see what some - probably irrelevant - website is doing.

Get earcandy. It automatically fades music players once a flash video or a video player starts playing: https://launchpad.net/earcandy

Edit: regarding Gravity: I agree. While I do enjoy video's, because often they get the message across incredibly fast. This video doesn't. It's cute, but once I click explore and see a forum, it's a letdown.

The thing is, I don't want to have to stop my music just because someone wants me to watch their video. I like my music! What's the big problem with text these days?

Hear hear

Another one here! Not even a quick slogan to give some idea why I might want any type of gravity apart from the type that keeps me stuck on the world's surface.

Also, I don't have sound so even if I did give enough of a crap about a site I've never heard of that does some undefined thing to watch a video I still wouldn't have been able to find out.

OK I really tried to like this. However, most of the content seems to be at this level:

"Favorite historical person of importance?"

"Madonna. She was so extreme in her youth, that she made it safe for everyone else to be edgy."

I wonder how much that domain cost?

As others have said, the video tells me nothing so I look at the about page - the description sounds great but provides no incentive to sign-up. You need to get me interested in a topic straight off the home page, without having to register.

it's a ..... drumroll ..... web forum. With shiny web2.0 gradients.

Close, but I'd agree with ihatemummies in that it's closer to Yahoo Answers (at first glance at least). It seems more like a collection of forums (although I'm stretching that description as well).

But with a new scrollbar.

After looking at a few of the discussions, I can non-authoritatively say this looks like a glorified version of yahoo answers.

Congratulations! I'm confused.

Apart from hating the video, I also didn't sync my Twitter "friends" because gravity asked for write access. Reading should be enough to find my friends.

Looks like public Waves work just as well?

WHY did this get so many upvotes?!

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