Please do not call out other files or authors in forums, and you can’t really compare a file being submitted today to one that was approved 7 years ago.
I am no designer (and quite like the social bits - except the shadow on them), but it appears quite basic for today’s market, the typography could possibly be made better, the “login .v. create an account” more distinguished, and given that features of the form, which is in itself very simple, do not align perfectly - it could be improved.