I use it some. I too dislike the interface intensely. I much prefer a good web board like this to the newsgroup style interface, especially since it is a private newsgroup, not carried by other servers.
One other gripe I have is that the search function on the server doesn't seem to work. I have been able to do topic title searches by download ALL the blasted headers to my computer, but that is cumbersome, to say the least.
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