I agree. For my personal perspective, as a potential volunteer, c blocks a and b. If a job is even 10% harder than it absolutely needs to be, I'm'a complain about it. I think without c, a and especially b (Ajax voting, readily available data, tagging system, all the things that make StackOverflow pleasant), is more than 10% harder.

With the state of JS today, you could essentially do a complete rewrite of the site using the backend as little more than a data store but you'd be constrained to the schema, the encoding quirks, the sub-HTML rules, and more, I'm sure.

The reason I come here is the community and culture as much as the expertise and this is a text based profession so, again personally, I don't care that much about the design and old-fashioned UI. Some monk with reading difficulty is going to assert I said nothing should be done. I didn't. I'd love a revamped site. I just don't volunteer others for jobs I'm unwilling to do.

In reply to Re^7: Update the GUI (What we want?) by Your Mother
in thread Update the GUI by Anonymous Monk

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