1

Thanks for the small miracle.  There is nothing more irritating to see that a website changed their look so they could 'look modern' or because the old design was getting too boring.  Inevitably, the changes tend to make the site harder to read (Sometimes, literally so - the change to a light font on a light color background is most irritating.).

...And that is not including malware coming from the ads, bad scripting which leads the page hanging, and changing all the internal page names so that my favorite links will no longer work...

2 Same design at RACS for 14 years. We've run it thru the wash cycle every Jan-Feb for 7 or 8 years now, but can never come up with anything better, just fancier and more 'modern' looking. And our old clunky site looks great on a tablet. Most importantly, I still like it. No plans to change here unless we have to.

3 Thank heavens for small blessings, Bob!

4 Bob has a point about the inexorable march of the technology forcing site changes. The trouble is, most sites adopt to tablets by making poor decisions and blowing money on fraudulent consultants.

5 I'm pretty sure BakaBT made a number of their less popular changes to make the site more 'mobile friendly'.  (eg. more items that were on the page now under menus to take less screen real estate.  The real tip-off is the way they put bookmark, wishlist, etc under a menu icon made of several horizontal lines, a standard mobile iconology)

Like most they seem to have ignored that mobile friendly = less desktop friendly. (RACS being a positive exception!)

6

I can't think of any good reason why BakaBT should become mobile friendly. How many people run torrents on their mobiles?

Anyone looking for a torrent to download is going to be doing it on a standard computer, not a mobile.

7 The JPL site recently turned into a gigantic pile of suck.

8 Believe it or not, some people only own a smartphone or tablet, and not a laptop or desktop computer. A subset of those people run torrent clients. There are 50-100 million installs of the µTorrent for Android client on Google Play alone (and 1,379,232 reviews!). I would have guessed the install base was in the hundreds of thousands before looking it up.