Strange? its not strange at all lol. The fact is User Experience is extremely important, how a site works and looks is important. if you think forums are jsut a place to read text, then thats your choice. For me it isnt.
Everything just looks like a wall of text, especially on front page its just an eye sore you cant say that looks good in the slightest. This is my constructive criticism, may not be yours but thats my feeling on it. It feels like they have just thrown a forums container in the middle of the website. Certainly does not feel like a Eve site in the slightest.
Oh an every site supposed to work on mobile etc, thats the norm, doesnt mean you have to have crap design!
Honestly i dont think its the forums per say, its just the design