Hello, I would appreciate some comments on UI of PokerDIY please (in general, but also specifically the Tour, and the concept of converting visitors into users). PokerDIY is more than just a community of poker players, it offers free tools, leagues and services for home poker players. For example, you can find games in your area, or create one. When you make a game you can invite your groups of friends or external people and they get an email inviting them to the game. When they RSVP on PokerDIY the event host receives an email and everyone can see who else is going etc. I am evolving the functionality constantly (limited invites, RSS feeds etc) but although I am getting lots of visitors, I am not getting many conversions to users, and I am trying to work out why. I am not a designer but be cruel - let me know if something sucks! Assuming you are interested in PokerDIY, why would you or would you NOT join? Thanks!
www.PokerDIY.com is a very professional website.. but I think most of the poker playing people are interested in gambling.. also the website takes too long to load.. might be due to windows hosting....
Hmm - I still think there are a lot of people who play live poker games and want to know where they can play - if you do a search on MySpace or Craigslist or the big networking sites there are THOUSANDS of people looking for other poker players. Thanks for the comments - I'll try to tweak the caching to see if I can speed it up - I also removed HTTP compression so I'll enable that again!