I'm probably missing the obvious, but what is the difference between the "Home" view and the "Latest Posts" view?

My preferred view would be similar to http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/ which shows the three most recent threads grouped by forum with minimal additional clutter. The Home/Latest Posts view shows multiple posts from the same thread, and the forum view shows only the most recent thread per forum, with a bunch of additional clutter.

Just offered for consideration ...

I like the news feeds, but it strengthens my call for a better view. The Active Threads view goes part of the way, and is currently my preferred view. If Home and the default Latests Posts view are in fact the same, then surely it would make sense for one or the other to default to Active Threads to save me from having to do the awkward hover / select to get to it.

I don't believe adding more options to the Latest Posts menu is the right solution. Taking whirlpool as an example again - one view, just happens to be the right one. I can't say whether I'm a typical user, but I don't want to have to switch between views to get to the information I'm after. I want to come to the site and be presented with a view that lets me see easily what I am interested in. The whirlpool style approach achieves that quite well without the need for latest this, latest that. A toggle option to show / hide news may be useful enhancement (but not as another view, just an easily accessible toggle on the view, with default customisable in user settings).

In the mean time, could the Latest Posts menu be made available when not logged on?