I love that this gets some love.
I found it odd that the website is in itself not very pretty (like... that kind of goes against the main selling point of the community).
People who want to create actual value for other people, don't spend time endlessly polishing look and feel of their landing page.
The content of this is informational value and networking for people, not polished graphics.
Companies can throw money in design because they get revenue from it. Individual open source contributors who are not paid for their effort don't get revenue from the design but rather reward from the actual value they provide to other people.
In fact I wonder the rate of drop vs new user retention as it is hard to follow a thread, there is no clarity in the headline differentiations... it is really a tough argument to say that it lacks nothing and / or is a good example of function over design...