That's primarily not a website, but a hacker zine. That's just the format they come in for historical reasons, similar to RFCs. I personally also don't love it

That's primarily not a website, but a hacker zine. That's just the format they come in for historical reasons, similar to RFCs. I personally also don't love it, but fortunately, hackers have the technology to reflow legacy fixed-width text files to any format of their choosing :)