It's a bit like throwing a party. If we open the doors and we're the only ones home (as awesome as we are), people who stop by are less likely to stay and get involved than if there's a crowd of people already partying that they can join.

So we're keeping the alpha closed at first, so we can fix things and grow our userbase to a decent size without embarrassing ourselves. We do want to open up as soon as possible after that.