There are LOADS of plugins for Discourse - many of which are ‘official’ and supported by the community. If you spot something that it’d be cool if the site does, let me know here, there’s probably a plugin for it, and I’ll go get it and install it. If there isn’t, we can turn it into a feature request for them.
One thing I’ll be adding is a friendly ‘holding’ page that you land on if the site is down/updating etc.
@Jon - could we get the Discourse Reactions plugin installed - I’m stuggling with not being able to “thumbs up” posts!