If I ran X-Pilot the homepage would be filled with beautiful pictures of Kittens and puppies with an occasional unicorn thrown in there.
From a marketing perspective it would lure people into the content of the website much deeper since they will be in a state of complete bliss... Plus bring tons of irrelevant traffic to the site, who doesn't like visitors?
Additionally I think somewhere on your site you should have user submitted poems and rebrand your homepage with "X-Pilot we are deep man" you could potentially generate more traffic with the hipster crowd thus brining more traffic to your site.....
Another good idea would be a link on your homepage that brings you to an additional board so we may discuss religion and politics, nothing brings people closer together than a good healthy pro life or evolution versus creationism debate......
You should really start making these changes and give 100%, I highly suggest you start ignoring those pesky add-ons you're so involved with....
Cameron you're doing it wrong, I'm not offering up any help but if you don't listen to me your efforts are going to be the next AOL......just sayin