Looks like qrz.com is down? Well it is for me 
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But hamqth.com is up. So a good opportunity to make the switch and adopt a EU based callsign database!
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Why do (almost) every hamradio website look like they are from 1998 ? I mean, just look at the logbook of the world … who wants to use that !?
Luckily sota team has done a very good job at making a very decent website 
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Maybe its the view of, it works, why change?
It’s been down for a few days.
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Maybe they are upgrading to at least 2015 state now 
So expect lot of rounded corners and ‘Flat design’ 
. Scroll for 5 minutes to get over all the ads 
73 Joe
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Because user interface quality is part of what makes something truly work . A program may technically function, but if the user has to endure an hour of command-line typing just to get a result, very few people will want to use it.
I see the same issue with websites overloaded with ads. At home I use an AdGuard DNS blocker, so I rarely see them. But whenever I browse without it and a site is full of intrusive ads, I usually just close the page and move on.
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TBH, very seldom actually look at the website. I don’t even use TQSL directly all that often. I do, however, have my logging program talk to it pretty much daily.
I do kind-of wish that there was one worldwide federated system (analogous to the postal bureau system) for exchanging and confirming electronic QSLs (and handling call-book functions, too, if the pigs aren’t merely flying but making it to orbit 
), rather than the piecemeal each-to-their-own patchwork of mostly non-communicating different systems we have today. The closest we get at present is that QRZ and LotW can sort-of co-operate…
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Paper logs. 
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qrz.com does logs? Never knew that. I thought it was just qth info and a big goon-fest forum.
QRZ has had a logbook function for ever but it wasn’t widely used until recently. There seems to be a trend towards maintaining logbooks on line (only) which, although I can see the attraction, isn’t for me.
LotW now allows agents other than TQSL to submit QSO data. Club Log started doing it a few years ago and I cannot remember the last time I actually used TQSL or the LotW web site - I just do everything via Club Log. My homebrew logging program, StarLog uploads QSOs to Club Log automatically in semi real-time. About once a week I get Club Log to upload my new QSOs to LotW and download any new QSL records, which I can then view in Club Log or StarLog.
As far as I am concerned, LotW is the worldwide federated QSL system. ARRL runs it free of charge for all amateurs world wide, only charging if you want to claim DXCC awards, as it always did long before LotW.
BTW, QRZ.com is up but extremely slow, so I expect they have lost a big network pipe somewhere.
Or being DDOS’d without Cloudflare protection.
for Club Log