Font size for the featured post is too large.
Letters of the font used for right panel is too widely-spaced.
If you fix the above two, I will have a lesser tendency to skip looking at them.
I think it's been mentioned in the previous version of this thread, but pastel colors just aren't exciting enough.

And that search box... you know how some forums have their search boxes appear when they mouseover or click on "Search" in the menu bar? The search box sticks out like a sore thumb floating on the top of the page. Would be nice if you can do that mouseover thing, as well as group all the menu tags together instead of having some on the left and some on the right.