I'm surprised it took so long, but wow, what a terrible UI! Whereas the majority of the other StackExchange network sites have fairly clean, sparse, and well whitespaced designs, this apple Q&A site is a real eyesore! It looks like a site from.... 2002? with too many colors and too many icons all packed together.
I'll admit that it is a little busy (and there are a lot of gradients), but I wouldn't call it terrible. If you have specific suggestions, the designer is open to making changes:
> * The active item in the active | featured | hot | week | month link row doesn't appear to be on the same baseline as the inactive items.
The metaphor seems to be radio buttons; I would expect a depressed button to have text lower down than a non-pressed button, but that's not the case here. I did some pixel peeping, and the active item's text is in exactly the same horizontal pixel line as the inactive items. Frankly, though, I think they look fairly slick.
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* Poor, low contrast on text across the site
* The nav links at the top have a different baseline than the search box and StackExchange logo.
* The active item in the active | featured | hot | week | month link row doesn't appear to be on the same baseline as the inactive items.
The metaphor seems to be radio buttons; I would expect a depressed button to have text lower down than a non-pressed button, but that's not the case here. I did some pixel peeping, and the active item's text is in exactly the same horizontal pixel line as the inactive items. Frankly, though, I think they look fairly slick.