Funny enough, this comes up fairly often. The basicish feel of the site belies its true nature, and it's downright intentional. Also, only brainy smarties would

Funny enough, this comes up fairly often. The basicish feel of the site belies its true nature, and it's downright intentional. Also, only brainy smarties would intentionally go to a 90's looking website to talk about technology and whatever else nerds and geeks discuss. The negative sentiment usually comes from front-end oriented folks that have things twisted. I'm not disparaging, simply noting on my observation.