So, the site is up, we’re posting, we’re guest posting, we’re interviewing Stumblers, and we’re taking your comments. I suppose that means that we are officially in business and that the original rush of construction is over. We have dusted everything, such as it is, and sanded some of the rough edges. All that having been said, we have a long way to go. To that end, we have some questions. Please give us your answers in comments. Keep it clean, people. :)

How does the site look?

(I should note here, just to avoid confusion, that I redesigned the banner and changed the color scheme late in the evening of 02-29, based on comments to this post. I also increased the size of the comments text. This may help to make the comments more understandable when you get to them.)

I know, that’s just cosmetic stuff, but it is still important. I saw a comment somewhere on SU that we had the ugliest banner header ever. That may be going a bit far. ;o) Or not. It is supposed to be clean, simple, and recognizable. In a room holding 534 people, you could probably get at least 537 opinions on the design of anything. But there are some important usability issues:

Can you read everything?

Is all the text clear and on a properly contrasted background?

Can you tell where the hyperlinks are?

Can you find all of the navigation controls?

Can you find the RSS feed?

Is there anything else screwed up or missing?

How’s the subject matter?

A very few people have made it clear that they don’t feel that we should be in existence at all, and that we are a waste of space in their pure SU world. My advice to those people is to not come here. If it hurts to do that, people, don’t do that. For that vast majority of you that are not offended by our temerity in building such a site, we want to give you what you want, which brings up the following questions:

What sorts of things would you like to see discussed?

Are we missing any important Stumbler Interview questions?

Would you rather have how-to’s or why-do-we articles?

Do you want comparisons between SU and other social media sites?

Would you like to see polls / voting on the site?

Please give us some feedback. We have had a lot of positive feedback, but most of it has been pretty general in nature. While we appreciate that, the only way that we can make the site better is by figuring out what the readers (that’s you, by the way) want. Do you have something on your mind about StumbleUpon that nobody has covered yet? As you have seen (great post, Webdoodle), we’re open to guest posts and would be happy to work with you on yours.

The thing is, we’re here to stay. As long as we’re going to be here, we might as well be making you happy. So talk to us. Tell us what you want. That’s what the comment section is for. :)