Hi Martin,
Ian, I also like it that way, but I noticed that other sites don't use that design anymore. And when I asked some youngsters they said the webpage is "old school".
I know, they want stuff that fits on a tablet/smartphone screen. They also like things that you can 'click' through with your fingers on a touch screen, with bright and animated screens, they don't understand the data or work cost involved, all very instant gratification for themselves with the strange notion that anyone with a webpage has a developer on staff to look after it all, oh, thats you

I think we have been around to long but I notice my daughter as she gets older is slowly evolving to the same likes as myself, probably because she is finding a lot is actually easier on her laptop than her smartphone. Another way of saying that once the novelty has worn off, something more practical becomes appealing. I think you would also have to reduce the number of items in each front page list to cope for tablet/smartphone users - I think the current number is good as long as your using a PC but then PC's are apparently for dinosaurs
From the POV of smartphone/tablet users, I will admit that os2world.com needs work, or maybe my fingers are just to big. Is there a front end that can reformat for smartphone like some other websites are doing, and what sort of work is involved ? Is there a big enough need or can it be left for 'later' ?
Keeping in mind a lot of that front end software lists OS/2 as O*=Mobile device so we have to keep changing our UA tag to something else. At least if someone that uses OS/2-eCS is involved the UA problem will be sorted reasonably quickly the first time they use an OS/2-eCS based browser.
You could simply change the color scheme ?
Also look at other front end themes that keep the basic data setup but mabe modernise it.
Just throwing stuff out there.