[H3g3m0n]

I really, really hate those 'tile' layouts. And I don't think they are appropriate for this kind of site.

You are given absolutely no idea what order stuff is presented in. Even if they are in some kind of order the 'double sized' ones will throw you off. There's no way to browse or sort by things like date.

Tiles are okish for ethereal content (although personally I hate ethereal content too), but something like a database of datasets should have more structure to it. I'm not trying to 'discover' what data exists, I will likely have something specific I wish to look up.

Cant they just stick to a standard list?

Or why not take a page from file managers and let you choose the layout.