You need to give people something very specific to do or look at, otherwise it's not even interesting or useful once, forget coming back to use it again.
Yeah - well ultimately it would be better defined but in the first instance we wanted to release something.
We can iteratively add features when we have any requests. As it stands it's quite nice to be able to message people and find others around you who like similar things.
The message notifying stuff is all AJAX driven so it should be near real-time. It sends an email notification if you don't reply/login within 15 minutes.
