The technical side of the redesign is impressive, merging 100k posts since 1990s across 12 databases and 17 blogs into 1 WordPress install (@MarcusWohlsen )
I'm a little mystified as to why they chose WordPress, though. It doesn't strike me as the kind of platform you'd want to build a... well, a platform on.
There was load of blog sites which kept posting up new stuff with links back to Rapidshare in the footer, but older page just ended up have dead links as the content got deleted.