Lambda the Ultimate

(Dunno how much control there is over this feature vs. it being super baked into Drupal.) It seems to sort by original-article-posting-date and then by are-there-any-new-posts. So I can see pages of nothing new and then suddenly posts with the red asterisks. Personally, dunno if this is universal, I'd like it to sort the other way around or something, so that I see all of the articles with new posts before articles with no new posts.

hi, when looking at a new post on a page that has a long discussion, it can be pretty hard to figure out what is the parent post it is replying to. if there were some more nuanced way of the hierarchy being shown that would be neat. dunno what that would be off the top of my head, but thought it could be a metric used when evaluating possible future new default look-and-feels.

i haven't found a way to list all pages posted in e.g. chronological order; i can either get the forums list, or i can scroll through the front page. is there such a view? if not, might it be some day something somebody who knows drupal could enable? :)

e.g. one of the pages about OO has an interesting discussion that becomes ever harder to read with the default ui template. any way of having a default template that somehow avoids that problem yet still shows threading?

That would seem to allow us to use discussions for everything. Also when front-page only items are posted too after some time has passed it's hard to notice. I know there's the feed, but I thought I'd ask :).

Chris Okasaki's post '10 Years of Purely Functional Data Structures' reminds me that there have been quite a few links to blogs on LtU over the last few years, e.g. Philip Wadler's blog, Joe Armstrong's blog, Jacob Matthew'sblog, the PLT Scheme blog, etc.

Could we add a page collecting links to these and other PL related blogs?

Could it be a good idea to demonstrate policies by making them the easiest thing to do?
Like, add a "OOB discussion", or "Complain" link in addition to "Reply" link, which would just start a new "Site Discussion" thread with a body conveniently containing a backlink to the post to be meta-discussed.

I realize that it may be even better to discuss some topics completely out-of-band, but as noted, there is no single shared private channel between any arbitrary LtUers (emails seem to be hidden?).

1. The link for posting is "create content". However the general convention is for this to be "Submit". (or at least "Post").
2. The links at the left are right-aligned instead of left-aligned which makes them harder to read.
3. Some of the links do not start with an uppercase letter.
4. The FAQ is one monolithic text, instead of a list of bolded question + answer, with a ToC. For a good example, see my FAQ.
5. In http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/add , there isn't any link for adding a post to the front page. This should be added even if it is just a pointer to an empty page.
6. The navigation menu on the left could use some "<hr />"'s, spaces or Re-organisation. At the moment it's too dis-organised.

Regards, Shlomi Fish.

LtU's database was upgraded tonight from MySQL version 4 to version 5. The user session table didn't survive the upgrade, and repairing it would have kept LtU offline for hours, so instead it has been zapped. This just means that if you had an active login, you'll need to log in again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Some other upgrades are still in progress, so there may be periods tonight during which LtU is temporarily unavailable.

I was thinking it would be useful if LtU supported sending personal messages. Perhaps with an account setting to disable it if you don't want such messages? I don't see this as a big need, but on occasion it would be nice to have the option.

As a proof of existence, I did a quick search and found a "privatemsg" module for Drupal.