"ummm... i would submit that this is actually not a Good Thing To Do(tm)..."
Unless Jeff is a tyrant who bites the head off of unsuspecting people who email him with questions, then where's the harm.
"There probably isn't a living person with a definitive answer for that question, or it would be on the front page of the site... right?
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Actually I think they are preserving the frontpage in it's current form so that web historians in the future will be able to look at it and work out when v0.6 came out. Until then, it's not to be touched ;-)
Sheesh, now I'm getting just as bad as the ones assuming that no "News" means no development, and I know better than that :-)