Thanks for taking this for a whirl!

Starting with #2 – The tagging game is specifically designed the way it is because we don’t have google-like traffic. In other words, it’s pretty rare to match people up in real time, so we don’t offer ways to do that – it would be pretty frustrating to have a chat feature with no one at the other end :) If our Posse gets really big, that will change and then the dev time would make a lot of sense (hey, I can hope, right?) Our next step is simple communication stuff like easily following threads in comments, which we don’t have now but need to implement. #1 is an interesting idea – I’m slightly hesitant on it because too much direction infers what people should be seeing and we want the opposite – whatever they do see, but some direction is a good point and it seems worth trying to find a middle ground that would help give some direction without too much leading. #3 that’s an easy text fix that we can get in next week! Thanks again for giving this a try –

A few comments:
1. as a person without much art knowledge, I don’t have a lot of skills looking at art, and therefore, I felt nervous that I might be putting on the “wrong” tags. I would love prompts (maybe optional?) with questions you’d like me to answer, like “what colors do you see?,” “what emotions does this make you feel?” so I know the kind of thing you are looking for. I know tagging should be free-form, but since I don’t have a specific use case for the tags I’m providing, I don’t feel well-directed. When I tag things on delicious, I’m doing it so I can find them later. When I tag things on your collection, I have this hazy sense I’m doing it to help other future visitors find things they’ll like… but I’m not really confident about what would be most helpful to them. I want your guidance.

2. It would be awesome to have live presence via chat or similar with others who are “playing” at the same time as you. I’m not used to looking at art alone or often. I tend to do it as a social experience and this could be a great way to connect with strangers around the collection.

3. It wasn’t clear to me whether I was playing real-time with others or just passing their all-time counts. When I got to the final screen about the matches, it wasn’t clear whether those were matches during my session or for all time.