Andrew, thanks for chiming in. I have been following your adventures with Habari through RSS and it has been really interesting to read your thoughts on it and how it differs from WordPress.
Regarding the whitespace of that UI — I must have made a mistake by putting that My Tasks bar in there on the front page. It does look a bit cluttered that way, but what do you think about the Design section. That secondary navigation bar is absolutely unnecessary even there. I put it in just to show the flexibility of common design elements such as this vertical navigation bar which is also used for the tasks list on the frontpage of the dashboard. Users page doesn’t have it.
Do you think that even without the secondary navigation it looks too crowded?