Some hopefully constructive thoughts: There's nothing about the landing page that makes me want to sign up. Could you show me an example of how it works, what it looks like?
Ideally I think you'd want to seed it with pre-existing conversations, so that new users don't feel like they're signing up for one more thing that doesn't have any obvious value.
Chicken-egg problem– Quora, Reddit, and I'm sure HN itself all started with a small group of people who were having interesting conversations.
> There's nothing about the landing page that makes me want to > sign up. Could you show me an example of how it works, what > it looks like?
Stop using Unsplash images. Please, don't do it.
+1 like the idea.
Adding the ability to post "anonymous" comments was partly motivated by people who might not want to sign up. If a conversation is "open" then anyone can start commenting without having to sign up.
You can drastically reduce the actual adhocracy functionality to a simple pro/con discussion platform.