In my opinion, being "dated" isn't entirely a property of a site's design, but of its functionality and usability. With HTML5, a plethora of new features and to

In my opinion, being "dated" isn't entirely a property of a site's design, but of its functionality and usability. With HTML5, a plethora of new features and tools are available enabling new accessibility, semantic, and usability options. They may not seem strictly necessary, but they can greatly improve the quality of life of e.g. blind/disabled users, mobile users, search engines, users with slow or intermittent connections, users with bandwidth limitations, and a host of other things I'm forgetting off the top of my head. This isn't to say I'm being judgmental of the distrowatch site, I think they have accomplished great things, I simply mean to say that I believe that a site update has much more value than you may think.