[heretohelp]

>As someone who knows the technology well, it can make great sites

Example?

[untog]

Stack Overflow, for one.

[nopal]

SO is built with MVC, which encourages good development practices. T-Mobile looks to be using Web Forms. I'm sure there are good sites out there that use Web Forms, although as a .NET developer, I've found a that Web Forms encourages practices that I consider bad.

[untog]

Oh, agreed. It's just a shame to see the whole framework judged by the crappy WebForms implementations you see out there.

[nopal]

I agree. But I hate the crappy abstraction that is Web Forms. It throws so much garbage on top of the HTTP request-response cycle, and so many developers are content to remain ignorant of what's going on underneath or how the Web actually works.

[cmelbye]

StackOverflow and its sister sites.

[joshu]

Orkut!

[glassx]

Only up to 2006, at least according to this link:

http://www.quora.com/Orkut/Why-was-Googles-Orkut-built-on-AS...

[recoiledsnake]

NewEgg.