I think the philosophy of the site is to keep it barebones and traditional, to appease the purists. But there's an API and many community-made frontends, either

I think the philosophy of the site is to keep it barebones and traditional, to appease the purists. But there's an API and many community-made frontends, either in mobile app form or as alternative web services. On Android I use Harmonic, for example, which has a dark mode and much better usability across the board. The one thing it lacks is good replies management, though.