[sysk]

Yes, among other things:

- You often had to scan through the comments for a clickable IMDB link.

- Movie meta data was manually entered by uploaders who didn't really bother with it most of the time.

- Titles contained a bunch of metadata which shouldn't have been part of the title (e.g. encoding, source, quality, uploader name, etc.).

- There was sometimes an extra comment page that was empty.

- No moderation whatsoever in the comments. Impossible to find the interesting/useful comments without reading all of them one by one.

- A bunch of annoying ads (one of the download buttons was an ad if I recall correctly).

There's a recurring meme on HN that all UIs are automatically good if they are old/non-trendy.

[jimmaswell]

The only meme is that old UIs are the /bad/ ones. Those points are all very minor. A major problem would be having an inoperable half-assed mobile version that you were redirected to on mobile.