I agree with Ganesh on the load time. For something with no graphics, this takes an extremely long time to load. You appear to have some connectivity issues there somewhere. I ran a tracert from Toronto and here's what it outputted (it starts at 4 because the first 3 are my internal network):
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4 11 ms 17 ms 10 ms vl-201.gw03.ym.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.90.17]
5 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms te-6-1-0.gw01.ym.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [24.153.5.21]
6 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms so-1-2-0.gw02.ym.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [24.153.5.242]
7 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms so-2-0-0.gw02.mtnk.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.80.185]
8 25 ms 26 ms 26 ms pos-2-0.igw01.ny8th.phub.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.81.102]
9 28 ms 28 ms 27 ms 66.185.92.26
10 35 ms 34 ms 33 ms so-7-0-0-dcr1.was.cw.net [195.2.3.1]
11 111 ms 112 ms 113 ms so-0-0-0-dcr1.par.cw.net [195.2.10.118]
12 132 ms 120 ms 120 ms so-0-0-0-dcr1.fra.cw.net [195.2.10.141]
13 209 ms 122 ms 121 ms as0-dcr2.fra.cw.net [195.2.10.158]
14 145 ms 145 ms 145 ms fastweb-gw.fra.cw.net [208.175.236.58]
15 147 ms 149 ms 148 ms 89.97.200.42
16 151 ms 153 ms 149 ms EURNetSW07.eurnetcity.net [80.68.192.15]
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.
All those timeouts would go a long way toward explaining why people are having a hard time reaching the site in the first place.
As far as the site itself goes, my biggest problem with it is simply that it offers nothing original and, like every other social bookmarking site, does very little to nothing to assure me that the results aren't subject to spam manipulation. I registered, I clicked the activation link, I submitted my site and it showed right up.
If there's anything that other social bookmarking sites and Wreckipedia have taught us over and over and over again, it's that web marketers cannot be trusted to use these sites for ther intended purposes. As soon as people see an open door, they'll "submit their sites" and you'll end up with a social bookmarking site that is largely full of crap.
Someone should have to premoderate the listings before approval, although that's a complaint I have for every social bookmarking site. This is another example of "following the trend". Do something original with the thing. Put in features none of them have (I know the spam/pre-mod thing would be
huge if you were the first one to do so, for example.)
Next, the tag cloud. Tag clouds are ugly, I don't care what anyone says. A list of popular categories would be fine, but lose the tag cloud.
Finally, the submission process itself. Had I not read the low-contrast line right above the form after I submitted (something most people will miss) and had I not bothered to check to see if the site I submitted was listed, I wouldn't have known it had gone through. Don't present the form again to the user unless it's incomplete; give them some form of a "submission landing page" that clearly explains that the form was completed and submitted successfully (and put more contrast into that header.)
In other words, I think you've got an okay start to something, but you've got a long way to go before it's anything useful.
