Here are some of my thoughts as I went through my initial sign-on/browse process:

- A bit jarring that entering in the invite code simply took me into the site as a user. I was a bit confused at first as to what just happened. I quickly figured it out, and admit it is quite cool how you do it, but I'm not sure my father or other un-techy people would ever be able to understand it. Maybe an overlay or something explaining what is going on would be good. Or perhaps this is a beta only thing.

- The site let me change my name even though I didn't pay for any credits. I suppose I'm in credit debt now. Not sure if that was supposed to happen, so I didn't proceed to try anything else that required credits (creating a channel).

- It seems like you allow people to host pictures and files directly on the site, which helps prevent link rot as articles age, but you do NOT seem to store videos. You can only link to them on two sites. Oversight perhaps?

- I'm a little unsure about the "flirt" option. I get how it jives with the geolocation and people near you thing, but for a site that states "All 100% anonymous and proudly Facebook unconnected." it feels out of place. It's also just feels a little weird to have that pop up in "What's Hot" on the world channel next to other stuff. Maybe I'm just an old fuddyduddy though.

- When viewing a channel, it seems like the three tab navigation model comes up a little short. Say you get a busy channel, how would you find something that isn't a "best of" or "hot", but is old enough to have fallen off the "live stream". It seems like all I could do would be to keep whacking "More". Perhaps a "Today" tab and/or a "Week's Best" tab or something?

- I click on "cowboy" and the sidebar said I could anonymously post something by emailing the address. I did that and after 5-10 minutes, nothing appeared. Not sure how that is supposed to work? That said, it seems kind of strange that anyone can post anything on my "wall". I feel like it might be possible to get into trouble - socially or otherwise - with that. In the least, lots of clean-up controls would be good to have in place.

- I feel like I can't highlight or locate things from people I want to follow. What I think I want is a tab that I can add people to and just track anything they post. This way I'm not checking a million channels, a million individual walls, or trying to get everyone to use a single private channel.

- I feel like you could get into a position where "good" channel names can get taken up and left for dead by their owners. Say someone makes one called "Apple", is the only moderator, and then just gives up. Now the best named channel for Apple news is a desolate wasteland. It just seems like there is potential for a bad user experience because the most likely place to look for information is a wasteland. Perhaps there should be something in place to reclaim names after periods of inactivity? Then again, I'm not sure how that jives with people paying for them either.

Anyway, this is getting long, so I'll stop here. But all in all I think it is really cool. And, as someone NOT on Facebook, its refreshing to see a new site that isn't completely tangled up in it.