I love the concept, but it has a disgustingly bad interface.
However, I am willing to put up with this for a while until maybe I can create an alternative client or something. Private communication is pretty important to me :)
Apparently there's some separation of front-end and back-end, with the possibility of running alternative front-ends. See near the end of this blog post: https://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/using-retros...
We're talking about saving the very foundations of democracy, these days (things like: free speech). So I guess our UI sorrows will have to wait a few days...
But just a little bit of patience: the more users join the platform, the sooner somebody graphically talented is going to step forward and make this excellent piece of tech shine on the surface as well...