I love it!

Not a joke. Love the simplicity and quirky incorporation of graphics and imagery.

Did the prep work pay off? I know it's difficult to measure cause you don't have a control. But what do you think?

I'm relieved to see you are not this Billy Mitchell

I would guess it was in-house, no?

If you inspect the code all the comments are written in Kanji

Nice, and useful. I was thinking of something similar recently. What would be awesome is if you could package this up as a Chrome Extension. Is that possible?

Seems like the only way feedback + growth + questions + friendship type design communities work is if you create your own with a few like-minded people. Sort of like a Mastermind Group but less formal. A slack channel could be all that's needed.

Yeah, somewhere between 2 and 3 years ago

DN took a turn for the worse when registration was opened to the public. Hate to say it, but from my view that's what happened.

Personally, I was moderately involved in the earlier days but lost interest after open enrollment cause it just turned to crappy posts, poor self promotion, and cruft.

I still peak at the homepage a few times a week, but probably spend <10 seconds scanning the headlines and moving on.