The first thing I notice is how ugly the website is - if this reflects at all upon how ugly the scm is (and it may well not), the it's not going to gain traction.
Ugliness is subjective: I really liked it, or more precisely, nothing about it annoyed me, and many of the design decisions on the web these years annoy me. You got me curious what exactly about it struck you as ugly. (You could reply to my email, which is in my profile, if you are worried about getting downvoted.)
i suspect he's talking about the general aesthetics of the UI. None of the developers (and i'm allowed to say this, being one of them ;) has demonstrated a particular gift for making apps look really pretty.
