I asked Jon the same thing in alpha testing in the suggestions thread
here. The following is what I said just in case you don't want to search it:
Is the "active threads" link always going to be there, or is it just for alpha/beta? I really liked how CB1 focused the top 5 threads in order of last postings on the main page, especially with the user next to it. :) One of the reasons I liked the threads on the main page was that I could immediately see the thread titles on there.
Anyway, I understand you might have put the thread titles in the floating menu (or whatever you want to call them) to probably avoid having a long thread title be eaten up by the frame. I would think that could be an easy way to fix that by limiting thread titles by characters or something like that. Whatever it may be, I'm just curious if you're planning on keeping it like that, or if you're going to change it for the opening of CB2.
Thank you for taking your time to consider my suggestion.
Jon replied with the following:
It's a space saving move more than anything else. Don't plan to change it. To be honest, I liked it better the old way too; the bright side is this way I can put 7 instead of 5 in it for "free."