Whilst I rather like the way Discourse looks, there one small weakness for me, and that’s that the navigation doesn’t appear within individual threads themselves. I tend to view what’s happening in the ‘Latest’ view, but getting back to that view after reading an thread requires a couple of clicks via the Sitepoint logo. It would be helpful if the navigation strip, or a subset of it, was available in the threads themselves (see highlighted section below).
I’d not noticed the ‘Latest’ option in the drop-down. It’s an improvement on what I’ve been doing, I’d still quite like the nav option to be right there though, but that’s just me…
The keyboard shortcuts are pretty cool, except that I’ve got a bad memory for most of them. So as an alternative, I’ve made browser toolbar bookmarks out of the pages I visit most often.