I'm kind of appalled by all the comments complaining that people don't understand Ethereum after spending a very short amount of time on the site. If you think it looks interesting, investigate further. If not, move on. Not being able to understand something after 30s doesn't mean that thing has no value.
I learnt more reading the first few comments on here than what I got from the site. Like someone else said, I thought it was a programming language for doing decentralised things.
Not a single person said that it has no value. But the site does an arguably poor job communicating what it is about (to those who say "watch the video", understand that many people consider videos a last resort. There has to be a significant lure to even go that far, and for many of us it didn't seem worth it).
Comments about the site are entirely appropriate on HN (this is something that concerns most of us), and you could consider your own advice and simply skip over them if they don't interest you, instead of wasting emotions on being appalled.
Exactly as others experienced, I skimmed the site and found nothing compelling me to look deeper. The site gives the feeling of significant style but little substance (technologists usually put attention only on substance, which itself is seldom compelling. There is a middle ground somewhere in between).
