Michael
as a software engineer myself I completely understand why ... You have to remember that mudcat was up and running when other people were just talking about have a web forum . In fact most major companies did not yet have a website when Max launched it... It was absolutely state of the art at the time ... as far as enhancements ... well yes but that takes time and money ... Remember this site makes no money ... Max does it out of love and people donate their time and resources to keep it running. Yes today their are far more powerful technologies ... sure it can use PHP, Ajax, or Java JSP with an XML layer. Do you want to pay for it ...

That is the reason