I've really been wondering about the basic features for a while myself. I'm not a coder, but a lot of them seem like they would be easy to fix since they work on places like busy.org and other similar sites. It's a little weird that there isn't so much more development done on the site. I'm sure things are being worked on but there should be new updates rolling out left and right to get this place modernized and functional.
I started thinking I may have to bite the bullet and start using Busy, but I just had a look and it now seems to be stuck on the giant facefuck display option with the option to change it removed - so I won't be using the site with the retarded name after all
I can't get over the need to click to view the comments on busy. The comments are most times just as entertaining as the post and having to click that extra button to view them when I'm done reading each post is too annoying for me to hold my attention.