I like it for the most part. Much cleaner.
- The slideshow is wayyy too big. The important news isn't even on my monitor upon loading the site (1280x1024)
- Holy crap the gradients! Gradients everywhere! I prefer the new forums to the new site, simply because there's less gradients and the blue's less bright.
- No real background image?
- I can see what the other guy means about the logo fading.
I think I might mess around with this in photoshop later.