Why is FIDE's website so bad?

When you look up your USCF rating you get a very clear, clean website with all sorts of cool statistics (score vs. different rating classes, most frequent opponents, score by year, norms history, etc.).

FIDE's site for ratings by comparison is horrible, full of dead links, no provisional rating (I've played 7 FIDE games & do not have a rating yet), not much in the way of stats.  Really, really awful.

Why is this?  Does FIDE have any plan to improve it's site or do they not care?

They are dirt cheap, they keep the money for themself.

Kirsan's intergalactic pals made the website. So it uses an alien style of web design. It's not designed to be used by humans.

Sounds like a bona fide question

European v American aesthetics I guess...?

It's similar with sites Playchess.com (German) straight-laced chess site; and Chess.com (US) with themes, forums and other stuff; 

what's your USCF rating by the way?

I think you need minimum 7 played games against RATED players,to get rating.

They're too busy counting your money.

9

yes 9; and against rated opponents with exceptions... (like in a ratings development round robin, where a certain % can be unrated & as long as each player scores at least 1 point).

The 9 games must be played within a 2 year period.

(I did a FIDE Arbiters course a few months ago :)

There seem to be a lot of dead links though, like when I goto click on some of my FIDE opponents I get "No data available" even though I know for sure that particular opponent has played dozens, if not hundreds, of FIDE-rated games.  Seems very poorly put together for the international face of chess whereas the USCF site (while tacky for trying to sell you stuff though @ least now they let you bookmark the segment for tourney listings & ratings) has never had dead links (in the ratings/tournies sections) that I've seen, updates quickly, etc.  The cool stats & whatnot are just icing on the cake.

I'm @ 2049 USCF. :)

Dead links in the sense, exactly what?

FIDE updates its list every month. So if you played a tourney something like 10 days ago, it won't work. 

Besides, you need 9 minimum rated players for a rating, not 7. So till then it will only give you your performance. 

Or if you want to calculate your initial rating performance, you can check their rating calculators. :)

By the way, 2049 is awesome. :)

uscfs website is pretty bad too. it looks like it was made in the 90s and never updated.