Would it be possible to make the Discourse navigation available in individual threads?

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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).

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Is this something that could be introduced without causing too much of a problem?

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Instead of using the SitePoint Logo, which causes a page refresh, then another click for latest, with yet another page refresh…

Try selecting the top right hamburger, thee parallel lines icon and then select Latest.

Only a single page refresh.

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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…

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Yes, I agree that it’s a design fault of Discourse. I think they are pretty set in their ways on that, though.

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Another option would be to use the keyboard shortcuts.

g,l will take you to the “latest” topics from anywhere on the site.

? opens the full list of shortcuts, or there’s a link to them from the “hamburger” menu.

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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.

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