"You can also browse through its hundreds of published stories to find something to read" This point that you make leads me to belive there may be a glimmer of hope. It suggests that people do go there to read. I just got on board and I plan to give it a try, but only because I have hundreds of stories that won't cost me too much time to republish, and there's no need to hang around afterwards and interact. So once I post them, the work is done and no need to spend any additional time. Personally, from what I've seen after just one day, I think some of the problem is the category/tag selections. They''re limited and kind of "wonky" so it's hard to position your stories for the right audience. But I'm going in with this knowledge, so maybe I can figure out a work around. I'll keep you posted Margaret. Thanks :-)