Unlike most of the web 2.0 world, there is substantially more value in their content than in their design wizardry. It's a team with limited resources whose can barely keep up with the information they archive and is doing an impressive work, not at all devalued by the absence of some precious yetanothercrap.js.

It's true their site could be more navigable but they're doing the lord's work, so I let them off the hook.

Contacted the Archive Team about a few sites that would be otherwise lost and they archived them, and will eventually be progressively be uploaded to IA. Great folk there as well.

At times, it's ok to appreciate the effort and keeping your valuable feedback for some other time.

You can't get to every single piece of functionality, but there's this -- https://archive.org/help/json.php -- and this -- https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php, which you can output as JSON/JSONP.

For instance, this broken piece of shit was my attempt to do something about the LMA interface -- http://www.archive-ui.org/#/. (select a show, reload the page, then it'll work. got busy and lost interest).

The interface is as bad as you say, but at least they give us the ability to do something about it ourselves.

They have limited resources and already have a giant redesign in the works, according to Jason Scott.

I for one could care less if they don't have TheLatestFad.js installed. Give me the data.