the topic picking thing always looked like a huge mess to me
generally you just pick a few threads to keep up with and that's about it, but it looks fine these days anyway

and i don't really care for not having usernames on posts.
that's a reasonable complaint
LTT and tom's hardware
dunno the first one, and tom's hardware is a site focused on tech support so i don't really feel like you can consider it a standard for anything