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Comment by ScottWhigham | Hacker News Reader

Okay - I don't see why. I already have Facebook thus the people I'm connecting to on Facebook fit the "People who like what I like" bill to a certain degree (generally).

You need something more than just the static graphic I saw to get me to try.

If it matters, I'm running FF w/ Noscript. You might have had some fancy JS-based or Flash-based something or other that I didn't see.

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We found that Facebook doesn't make it too easy to find people who like the same things you do - even if they are your friends. We definitely want to have a more animated image which will reflect multiple "likes" and not just vampire movies. Thanks for you feedback.

Content discovery is something with loads of room for improvement. You just need to convince me that you've improved it. A major unanswered question is whether it will help at all with discovering people who are not also users of your service. Another is what I need to do to use your service. "Log in and I'll tell you" will lead to a high bounce rate.

It would also help to inform users as to how the process affects them - and their personal data, their account, and what nuisance factors it will introduce to their routine. This does not need to be extensive, it just needs to be there given rampant abuse on Facebook's platform in these areas.

I checked it with and without JS. All you get is a static image about finding people who like vampire movies. It would appear to be a Facebook for current Facebook users who like vampire movies.

Thanks for your feedback - our goal with the vampire image is for it to be an example of the capability vs. the focus of the site. As mentioned, we'll get some new interests rotating through :)

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