I'm not sure that matters. For all that I care, a site like HN or Slashdot might as well look as if it came straight from 1997. What killed Slashdot was the ab

I'm not sure that matters. For all that I care, a site like HN or Slashdot might as well look as if it came straight from 1997. What killed Slashdot was the abysmal quality/delay/editing of posted stories.