It does use JavaScript (otherwise we would all be experiencing refreshes when voting and the timestamp of submissions and comments wouldn't be calculated), it's just not required or necessary for the site to function.
Yeah it's based on an older version. Forums for example can have CSS made by normal users instead of only those approved by admins. This got removed in later versions due to the maintenance tax involved. Another removed featured that jstpst still has is the ability for forum moderators to edit any submission in their forum (now only admins can do that)
nitori wrote
Reply to comment by cute_spider in the postmill running here is pretty different than on raddle by eyrie
It does use JavaScript (otherwise we would all be experiencing refreshes when voting and the timestamp of submissions and comments wouldn't be calculated), it's just not required or necessary for the site to function.