I like the improvements to the home page. If I am right, I think you increased the margins between articles. Right? This really helps with the readability of the home page. Thanks.
I'm not really seeing anything different this beta. The big change for me came with the addition of the graphics in β2.
Now that you've mentioned it, I'm staring at the spacing trying to see if it is different but It's just not registering for me.
I notice the spacing too. Looks much cleaner.
Spacing is first step....lot more to be done to make this workable from a visual perspective....