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> Developers like simple sites like Hacker News. Nobody else does.

One word : Craigslist.

For being the behemoth it is, amazon.com has a relatively simple frontend. Most links are simple html that loads a new page. It's doing fairly well.

FWIW Amazon is moving away from this model in new code, e.g. the "business account" interface, and in updates to seller central.

I had a feeling that maybe Craigslist was declining in popularity, but it looks like they're still going strong: https://www.keranews.org/post/25-years-understanding-longevi...

(my intuition was probably based on the fact that it's not very popular in Australia, where I am)