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You should provide more information on how the service works and what it does before asking for an e-mail address to sign up.

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I haven't yet decided on how much of "how does it work" I want to make public.

Regarding your second question. I thought the landing page and the tour would answer "what it does". Sorry. Obviously, I'd be very curious to know what it didn't tell you. But if you haven't registered, you probably can't answer this question.

I'm not blocking any email domains, so feel free to use some trash mail address, if you want to have a look without sharing your email address.

I almost didn't sign up because I couldn't really tell what this was. I went ahead anyway and when I finally saw the landing page I thought, "Oh it's a dating site. No thanks."

Do you know what made you think it was a dating site? The wording?

I thought "meeting people" was quite neutral.

The gender requirement. Even if you removed that stuff it's already too much work to maintain my LinkedIn account the couple other social networks I'm on. I'm not sure what you can do to mitigate social network burnout while still achieving your goal.

Actually, there isn't a gender requirement. It's optional.

I am not sure if there is a general social network burnout. Maybe it's specific to social networks with lots of noise, likes, shares, news, ads and so on?

At least one new user told me that this was a social network that he can actually imagine to use.

Asking for:

  - Looking
  - Orientation
  - Gender

And then, 'what do you intend to do with people' or similar wording on the next page.

I realise it's all innocent, it just sets an odd tone.

I'm open for suggestions on how to improve the wording. Quite tricky that languages are so overladen with all sorts of meanings. Especially challenging if it's not one's first language.

By "how it works" did not mean the internals but how the usage flow looks to the user and what the actual functionality is.

Re "what it does" - might have been my Saturday morning slowness, but I completely missed the tour link/page.

You could do some tests on the landing page using http://fivesecondtest.com/ to see what others notice and understand there. Good luck!

Thanks a lot for your clarification and for the very interesting link!

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