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Just a basic comment. If you dont' have content for a page, don't put it in your navigation until it is ready. No one will be disappointed about a page they don't know exists. Coming Soon... is very 90's

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You may be right. My thoughts here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3212674

I thought it might help spur the imagination of the reader to show the nav.

It could have but the message didn't tie into spurring someone's imagination. Perhaps if you had something interesting such a picture, illustration, or even brief write up of what you expect this section to become it would have allowed for the user to imagine the potential. However, most of these pages just show "coming soon" or "tba". In many cases this leaves the user slightly annoyed by feeling tricked into clicking a link that had no content.

Tell that to Launchrock.

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