"Its business conditions began to deteriorate around 2012, due to careless management by executives, and the company lost its anime production capabilities following an exodus of its creative staff."

no creative, no business

Except they were operating for a decade without creative and they made the most money during that time…

yea, had latency problems myself.

not totally sure what the novel UX is here, felt pretty hard to get anything fun out of the tool

wow, i've had the Georgify extension (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/georgify/ofjfdfaleo...) for so long I forgot HN was actually "ugly"

here's one I have running now: http://jsfiddle.net/#collaborate&towtruck=K8oGvIGwOC

That's pretty cool. I added a colour changing box.

why are the css classes so funky? (e.g. class="TUdKmf-xhiy4-haAclf h1U9Be-xhiy4-qAWA2"). Are they randomly generated? what's the purpose?

It looks to me like they're just obfuscated words. If you look at one of the hierarchies, you see "TUdKmf-xhiy4-haAclf", then "TUdKmf-xhiy4-DKlKme-haAclf", then "TUdKmf-xhiy4". Seems like they're just taking a normal class like "note-body-wrapper" and "note-body" and obfuscating it.

What's the purpose of obfuscating css?

Make it harder to use userscripts for custom styling..?

I think it's auto generated from GWT?

That's true for all of their stuff. Look at GMail