Lambda the Ultimate

While spam is a Bad Thing, it occasionally has the effect of drawing my attention to a page that I've never seen before, bringing old topics to the front for some fresh attention.

The current design of Lambda the Ultimate makes it quite difficult to locate old topics. The use of Search helps if you already have a topic in mind, but if your mind is at all like mine then you often browse LtU hoping only to find the topics at the top of the heap interesting rather than knowing in advance your destination.

I suggest adding support for bringing random topics to the top of that heap.

The possibility my mind seems to be stuck on is adding to the 'Active forum topics' and 'New forum topics' a third column entitled 'Random forum topics' that includes five random topics.

If the idea is accepted, these topics could be chosen randomly on a periodic basis (so everyone sees the same five random topics), and perhaps on a rotating basis (e.g. each of the five topics rotates off the top and a new random topic is injected periodically at the bottom). Alternatively, they could be random on a per-view basis. Some experimentation here is possible.

Are there other thoughts on this possibility?