The re-design didn't kill fark.com, it was the attack on its users, which started with the "crackdown on misogyny" which meant cracking down on anything negativ

The re-design didn't kill fark.com, it was the attack on its users, which started with the "crackdown on misogyny" which meant cracking down on anything negative against women and then has expanded from there. The re-design and this were the one-two punch on that community. Since then, it has been a shell of itself. You can argue about the merits of those changes, but it is those changes that changed the community, practically fatally so. I think this also marked the death of the early 2000s internet culture, which had been formed on places like fark.