Isn’t it beautiful? It’s one of the few actually popular counterexamples to the Web Obesity Crisis.

Hacker News is another good example. Rest in power, Aaron Swartz.

I was going to say it looks like they ditched using CSS between 2006 and 2024, but the slight differences in font and link color and whatnot might just be due to taking screenshots of different browsers with different defaults.

Many web site changes are for the worst and are just change for change sake.