Their new site feels tacky and generic kinda like this blog post. Taken together with less news on larger batches of startups in recent years, it feels symptomatic of a slow dilution/degration of the YC brand.
Despite its warts and un-sexy image, WordPress just works for most people's needs when it comes to a simple blog, has a wide range of plugins that solve most anything someone would need from a CMS, can be truly customized, and allows them to move on and spend time on more important things.
We wanted to make it easier for people to find posts. WordPress gave us more control with templates and plugins.
Totally agreed that we have work to do re: design. Will be pushing more updates in the next few days.
I have some feedback as well, Firefox tells me the following: "Connection is not secure. Parts of this page are not secure (such as images)"