There are direct quotes in comments sometimes and, sometimes, after reading them, I don't want to visit the site anymore.

This is not the case.

Whoever wrote what you're quoting made me feel like he wrote it especially for me. He managed to describe one of the worst problems that, in my opinion, Internet has and he promised that this problem won't be present on his site.

I'm grateful for this quote. Thanks to this visiting the site suddenly become my priority and I feel that I won't be disappointed.

However, having an abstract if you are going to present lots of information is definitely always good style. The scientific community require them on all papers - to help people decide if they should bother spending time to dig into the material or not. Not to make the material accessible for grandmothers.

That is exactly what a good tl;dr provides.

EDIT: Fix borked sentence.

"Nice try kid, but it's not actually 'text' unless you typed it on a proper Model M."

Open source projects are not always about marketing, adoption and being friendly to everyone. Heck, this particular project didn't even have a stable release for over 10 years...

...meaning the self-absorbed wank is even less justified. And I'm a fan of E.

There are two ways to deviate from a neutral, professional presentation. You can be snarky, mean, or just plain evil (negative), or you can be silly, colorful, and nice (positive). Each of them breeds more emotions of the same kind - excepting those who would wish for a professional presentation, regardless. I want to live in a world where everyone would wish only to breed positive emotions, or none at all.

Also note that E17/EFL is supporting Wayland (http://wayland.freedesktop.org/toolkits.html) - forward looking indeed.

Bo