[8] In March 2011, Canvas made its discussion threads viewable by users who were not registered, while remaining in closed beta status.

[2] Poole called his newer project, DrawQuest, "by all accounts a success", but noted that it had been created (in early 2013) "after the failure of our first product, Canvas".

[14] Poole told TechCrunch that his team was "never able to crack the business side of things in time", that the value of their user community was not apparent to investors, and that they could not sufficiently monetize in-game purchases.

[15] Canvas was an imageboard that allowed for anonymous and non-anonymous sharing and commenting on media,[16] as well as the "remixing" of posted images, and the adding of music to animated GIFs.

[20] Despite the ability to act anonymously, the site received some criticism, especially from users of 4chan, for at first offering Facebook Connect as the only signup mechanism.