Hubski has a certain type of feel going for it. It's community centric, individual driven, and generally works as an open platform. It certainly wouldn't work as an invite system, seeing as it's already designed to be the opposite (instead of inviting users to join the club, users 'invite' other people's curations to be part of their feed). Requiring an invite would essentially make it a 2-way street, rather than a 1-way information feed that it currently is.

I could see it turning into something closer to Facebook, than hubski.

When I first joined up, I loved that I could hop right in, not cause any disturbance, and curate and tweak my experience as I liked. I eventually realized the problem is that I don't really have much in common with anyone here, which makes curation of content difficult. An invite system would've turned me off entirely.

Invite systems are used to create exclusivity and closer communities. But Hubski is designed to be open/public, and have a self-curated community. Which means the potential pool of people needs to be huge, not miniscule. Which means an invite system would be counter-productive.

All that being said, I must admit that hubski doesn't quite seem like the place for me (despite me coming back every now and again). But I feel like the main problem is the types of people already here, and the type of people hubski attracts (as great as you guys are, I'm just not like you guys at all). An invite system would only contribute to the selected type of people, and make hubski even more difficult to jump into. Which I personally think would wreck the point.