Once I figured out what it wasn't, I had a hard time figuring out what it was. What sort of discussions is this for? StackOverflow isn't just for any sort of questions, it has a very clear purpose.
I forget who told me this, but someone once gave me design advice along the lines of figure out what the number one thing people want to do and make that thing twice as big as everything else. I often remind myself of that once I've finished building cool tech that could be used for anything and everything. I think that advice would be a good starting place for this site.
Aside from lack of purpose I can see a lot of potential in this sort of software as a platform.
I hope that's helpful. I'm hoping to post a "Review My Site" here next week and I'm already nervous about putting myself out there. But early feedback is good to get.
We can monitor solar systems, water levels, fuel levels, solar hot water performance, temperature, humidity, battery levels and yes AC power usage.
We can also do automation, controlling all sorts of stuff in all sorts of ways.
However, I'm focusing only on AC power monitoring on our site, at least for now. Anything else is hard to explain and install, and much more expensive to sell.
I like the look, it is clean and simple.
One small glitch: it seems that on the page http://boardlite.com/category/computers/list/ some vertical gray border is missing on the left side of "1 post" and "16 views", where the light blue headline becomes narrower and says "Tracking ID: 400000001" etc. Same problem on the FAQ page at http://boardlite.com/faq/ ...
Page load speed: instead of http://boardlite.com/media/js/lib/jquery/jquery-1.3.2.min.js you could use http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min..., see http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/ for details.
Also, on the homepage I get a 'welcome to boardlite', but I have to click on the message to find out what it's about.
Why not have a description on the homepage saying what boardlite is about. Also, why is the 'tracking ID' so prominent? Do you expect that to be something people will use?
(constructive criticism only, because my compliments won't make it a better website).
Why don't you make a bulletin board on a topic which interests people here and link to that? Then you will get meaningful reviews because without any content, it's hard to see what's great about your site.
The minimal design is of course nice, but usability is no good without usefulness.
