[thiht]

I came here to say just the opposite. The first thing I did when seeing the frontpage was to leave. It just felt overcrowded, unreadable and aggressive to me.

It's fun to see how different our opinions can be about this kind of things, I really didn't expect it in this case but here we go :)

[derbOac]

I think page design standards need drastic changes, but to be honest I thought this page was broken the first couple of times I visited. I'm still not convinced there isn't some broken elements involved in its appearance.

That being said, I'm all for distributed systems so I hope for the best with this (without meaning to imply anything about it one way or another relative to other similar things that have been developed).

[ljm]

I didn't like it at first, but it's grown on me since. It makes a bold statement and feels unique.

[enriquto]

way offtopic, but can you point to a couple examples of websites that "have a soul" according to your personal criterion?

[arafsheikh]

Not OP, but I feel Wikipedia “has a soul”. The design doesn’t get in the way, is consistent and the information density is just right.