I don't discount the impact that the /. community had on Bletchley Park's restoration, but that's not the issue here. You spent more time talking about historical effect than you did on the actual issue, which is Beta. Not only that, but you in no way answered my question. I don't find it unreasonable to ask for specifics on why the interface is bad. A critique that doesn't offer a solution isn't particularly useful. I'm sure you don't appreciate it when your customers ask you to make your product "less sucky" but it seems to be okay in this conversation. Apparently someone else does think I'm unreasonable, since I've been modded down (at least, that's how it appears, since I now have a score of 0 and usually I start with a 2. But that could be more of my lack of understanding on the moderation system here, which I really don't care much about anyway. I find the whole exercise to be highly amusing.)
I'm not picking on you per se. Your post was simply in the middle of a very large pack of complaints, the vast majority of which contain nothing but nebulous statements that something is bad, chest-thumping over how awesome the Slashdot community is, and outright threats of mass exodus if people don't get their way, none of which is helpful towards affecting positive change.
I'm sure someone else will be along shortly to mod me Flamebait again but that's okay; I can always use a good laugh.