When introducing people to Hubski I have repeatedly run into three complaints/small annoyances. The first is that the URLs aren't "pretty". There is often a "?id=" on URLs, which only saves four characters when removed, but it's an annoying four characters. Obviously, I don't know how your systems work so I assume this is more complicated than a bunch of RewriteRules. A few past posts indicate that it's not that simple.
The second is that the number of comments is far to the right of the links, tags, and so on. This doesn't bother me, I like the spacing. But it is annoying to some. I guess the way to fix this would be move it towards the other information. Maybe make the whole column thinner based on the max title length. Opinions?
Finally, a live preview of how your markup will look when finished would be nice. Although editing afterwards works just about as well.
Thanks for considering these.
For me, the content is far more important than the stylesheet. That said, I wish the stylesheet were a bit more customizable. White people problems, of course: Reddit looks like Reddit, while at least Hubski lets you make things look like a Vellum scroll.
Speaking as a serial abuser of markup, Hubski's markup will be hard to preview successfully because Hubski's markup borks rather a lot. I've requested we switch to Reddit-style markup a couple times but have been assured that it's a star-spangled pain in the ass to do so.
The important thing, I think, is to remember that you're on a hobby website. Everyone involved in it has some other job paying for them to spend their free time on this place. Reddit is owned by Conde Nast and it looks like Reddit. Hell, Craigslist pulled in $166 million last year and it looks like Craigslist.
I don't know how long the crew spent on "Illuminated" for April 1, but it wasn't quick. And it's totally awesome. And it's not without its flaws. And I think that's pretty much the spirit of the place - not perfect, but a damn fine effort.