The #1 reason I made that style is to avoid loads of pictures being on my screen because my workmates will know that I'm not doing work immediately.I've removed avatars for that reason. It's not meant to be pretty by any means, though. The original idea was to have it look like the archive, so if we wanted to go ahead with that, we'd have a long way to go.
The #2 reason was for dialup users since if I'm going to make a simple style, I may as well make it so that it doesn't have to load up many images at all. I think I got some pages to have like... two or three image altogether, and they were tiny, too.
