I haven’t spent much time, but just a few key things:
You need to find a balance between amount of content and readabiity. Now I can see maybe 4 or 5 recent or recommended diaries at a time whereas before I could see 20 or so. Same goes for comment threads/replies, etc. Scrolling is fine when you know what’s already there—NOT to find out what might be there.
If I don’t know what’s on a website within a few seconds of looking at it, I’m not going to stay on that website. I thought that clicking on those Recent or Recommended tabs up top would be useful—but it’s not.
In short, the spacing is absolutely insane. Trim it by 60-70%
Currently, it is unnavigable.
As for the higher spacing in the comment section—it makes it easy to read but it’s only good for short blog entries—anything long and you’ll be scrolling for days.
Font is too light—go several shades darker on the text, and the white screen is hard to look at—go to more of an off-white color.
As for functionality—I do see lots of nice improvements, but if you can’t read the site it’s worthless.
Some initial thoughts.