> Useit didn't change its design over the years. By the Web 2.0 period, it was seen my most in the web design profession as being hopelessly outdated.

Oddly enough, I much prefer it to the corporate NNGroup site. And that last version reminds me a bit of HN itself. Simple, clean and usable — really simple, really clean and really usable, not mindlessly aping a trend (and getting it wrong) but intelligently setting its own trend.

I wish more sites adopted that style of design.