great alternative view of metrics. If I go to Canvas and not smile we are failing.

I go to Canvas sometimes and do not smile. That's a strange metric.

 NO, it means some days he's not getting it right. or perhaps you are not the audience. But I like the idea of an emotional metric. What should people on pandawhale feel?

I'd like people on PandaWhale to feel connected.

Connected to what they've seen here, and interested in finding more.

 to sound totally hipster, canvas was better in beta

It WAS better in beta. It lost something between then and now.