As much as I like a CLI, I wouldn't use it to read Bitcointalk (or any other website). I've only used console browsers for troubleshooting ("how do I get that broken X server back up?") when I have no other option.

But LoyceBot would love it! I still can't post messages from my bot. I can think of so many cool things to do!
And for scraping, an API would be much better than "manually" searching through HTML (which is what I do now).