I want to thank you for doing this, but for a different reason: it reminded me how much I appreciate the vanilla HN layout.<p>I viscerally HATE all the news sites that look like your project.<p>I've sought alternative sources of news with a more old-school look, without success.<p>I used to think it wasn't <i>just</i> the pictures. I found the average quality of reporting went down, along with a rise in clickbait headlines and stories, around the same time mainstream outlets adopted the new format. I figured that may have been part of what conditioned me to hate it. But now I realize the cosmetic factor really is quite substantial.<p>I like being able to digest lots of information in front of me at once, and the words on the HN site pack in better density (I guess it turns out not every photo is worth a thousand of them). Yes, the timber roof photo looks great. But too many of your crowdsourced pictures feel almost generated, rather than authentic to their associated piece, and I find them distracting.<p>Thank you YC, for sticking to your guns and keeping the 'boring' layout all these years!