The major aspect lacking from the last Development post was the complete lack of interface styling, and I want to make sure my opinions aren't off base.

I'm not particularly fond of some modern interface design, I think the strengths of what the site has lie largely in the simplicity of the layout and the fact it'll use the majority of the screen space it's allotted. After buzzing over a fair number of interfaces I'm seeing a lot of overly complicated designs that result in significant waste of screen space once you're past the menu and/or ads. Another bit I don't see the point in is the endless scroll interfaces, I get that people don't always want to click pages, but we have some massive archives and I'd much rather keep my place in them as I read through. So unless someone tells me otherwise I'm going to say the general layout is more or less acceptable and what the site needs is a general application of style and perhaps some tie-in functionality.

That tie-in functionality is where I'm most interested in looking right now. Things like a proper Archive and User header added to the site, along with a nicer styling of the existing menu. Still up top, out of the way, and not wasting massive amounts of screen space, but actually telling people what part of the site they're on and who they're logged in as. Another rather common bit of functionality I've seen and debated is the "repost this elsewhere" link set many blog/quote sites have, hit a button and repost/link to the material on any of a number of services. If people think they'd find it useful it's something I'd work in.

But, I do have one massive exception to my 'same layout' theory. Making comments, some way or another I will be finding a way to disassociate this completely from the page refresh. Right now I'm thinking a nice little pop up panel from a reply option that's processed asynchronously. What's that mean in normal people speak? You can hit refresh without double posting. One of my key goals, and frankly not that hard so long as I don't use any of what currently exists.

What would people like to see added to the site in such a capacity? Am I wrong on hating endless scroll? Let me know what you think. Also, yes I am skipping out on writing up submission guide lines, I'll do that this weekend.