Keep the context onscreen in the quest explorer
How about making the "Explore" page for quests be more of an explorer. Here's a mock-up of the sort of thing I mean:

This would let you quickly browse multiple quests and categories, voting and commenting etc.
Sounds like a great idea. And not just for exploring, left column could be filled with your own quests if you go to the quest from your dashboard (I've just been thinking about the content of left column on the quest page).
Was thinking the left column could have "Tags" as well, but forgot to include it in my mock up. I'd have a go at doing it myself, but my own list of perl ideas & projects seems to be growing unbounded at the moment :-)
Yeah. I now imagine left column being the place for all kinds of issue lists and filters, although I'm not sure yet how to fit everything needed into one span3 column.
It reminds me about the upcoming issue filter in Jira 6, btw.