Ask HN: What site do you use that kept an old design?
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Perhaps not "use", but the site where I publish my hobby software, still uses a design made in 1999. Slightly updated (now it uses CSS!) but still the same table based layout :-) Why? Well I guess have better things to do than constantly updating my site with the latest trends. It does its job. It's not mobile friendly, but my audience is mostly using a PC anyway. Somehow I imagine that it portrays an image that a my audience appreciates and matched my software.
https://www.rlvision.com
https://www.rlvision.com
It's clean, straight to the point ! And even perfect for your category because I subconsciously transfer those qualities to the software that is displayed on stand. I just bookmarked it with a note to testdrive cctime asap!
http://www.rexresearch.com
It's spectacular
It's spectacular
Free Republic https://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index is a right-wing U.S. political forum that has not been updated for decades.
It's nice on the eyes and as an added bonus, it's uncluterred by ads ( which was my expectation for politics oriented sites ).
I just took a peek at the american conservative for comparison (https://www.theamericanconservative.com/). The sticky menu and the bottom advertising bar make the site so noisy, it's painful.
Emmy_Toy(1)
If you know a website that bucks the trend, like craiglist, please post it below.