Beta testers wanted: Is my webapp too unintuitive?

For the final project of my Interactive Media degree, I worked on a website for making discussion more organized. Having graduated, I decided to take the project forward and make it into a proper working web application yoomoot. It's now at the stage where it can be tested.

The problem it addresses is the loss of millions of good ideas posted on forums to the oblivion of ten-page-long threads. Standard forum threads don't make good information resources – most people can't be bothered to read more than the first dozen or so posts. The idea with yoomoot is that it makes big discussions more manageable, so that it's much easier to navigate through big discussions and digest them easily.

The problem is that you don't really get to see the benefit of this until after the discussion is had. When you're actually having the discussion, the 'yoomoot way' requires you to think carefully about what you're saying, so it's not as intuitive as talking in a normal discussion. I'm concerned that it's actually too unintuitive to get going.

Anyway I thought some of you might be interested in testing yoomoot out. Any kind of feedback would be very helpful, even if it's just to give a big and say no more.

If anyone is interested I would be extremely grateful. Just give me your email address (either by replying here or by emailing me at nicolas <AT> yoomoot <DOT> com ) and I'll send you an invite.

yoomoot perfectly safe and harmless I promise :)

You can google 'yoomoot' to check its authenticity if you like. For example, I got an article published in TechCrunch: Echo won’t kill comments — they’re already dead

yoomoot discussions have to be worded entirely in questions and answers. So instead of scrolling through a mess of undifferentiated text, you just glance through a short list of questions to find the points that interest you. Additionally, users can usually edit one another's answers, so instead of having lots of slightly different answers, you have one combined answer for each point of view.

It's not the same as standard Q&A forums like Yahoo! Answers and Stack Overflow. Q&A 'Discussions' on those sites consist of one question and a single set of answers. Everything else must be said in standard 'free-form' (i.e. messy) comments. In contrast, yoomoot's unusual interface facilitates a web of interconnected questions.

They're the key features. There's a lot more to it than that though. I'm more than happy to explain things in more detail if you're interested.

Oh dear I don't think I explained myself too well. It's not really a search tool at all – it's a whole different way of structuring mass conversations.

I do intend to have a look around, and hopefully contribute to, this forum. I was recommended to it by a user on the Civilization Fanatics forum as somewhere where there was high quality of debate.

It requires a plug-in and you know what SANS says about "plug-ins"--