This website a good example what's wrong with a lot of open source software (and don't get me wrong, I love FOSS, in fact, I make a living out of it). Complete ignorance of form. There's plenty of awesome function and amazing minds behind it, but humans are visual beings and sites like this (completely unscannable) make it really difficult to separate what's important and what's not. The only reason to visit a site like this is if you're given a good blog post with a direct link.
Yes, I know it renders on everything properly, but that doesn't make it right, UX, after all is where most of the technological products fail - because users do not know how to use them properly - or at all. Apple and Tesla understand that.
Yep, it's important for a site to be easy to skim, but beyond that, you'd be surprised at how little people care about or note good design. I mean, you're posting this on Hacker News, which can't even be bothered to set a reasonable text column width.
Are you seriously comparing someone's personal wep page to Apple and Tesla? If that's supposed to be a satire on Silicon Valley's startup culture, I think it's hilarious.
I think his page is really great because it has lots of high-quality content and nothing in the "UI" made it difficult to access it.
Your feedback is fair, but does if anything particular to do with FOSS vs software websites in general ? Beyond perhaps that bad UX can kill a business faster than a volunteer project, so bad commercial websites tend to disappear
Do you have some reason to believe that? My frustrations with Apple hardware began and ended with their single button mouse. Tesla's cars are having their firmware modified without their riders fully understanding the implications of the modifications, resulting in entirely preventable, physical accidents.
Yes, I know it renders on everything properly, but that doesn't make it right, UX, after all is where most of the technological products fail - because users do not know how to use them properly - or at all. Apple and Tesla understand that.