Lambda the Ultimate

When replying, if you leave the subject field blank the current default is to take the first n characters of your post and make that the subject. Alternatively, you can supply your own subject.

This leads to a mix of comments using both approaches. I would like to read the subject if the user supplied their own. However, if the user did not supply their own, I end up reading the same thing twice, which takes me out of my "flow".

Would it be possible to have the default subject be the same as the previous subject, with an "Re: " prepended? That would be a good visual cue when reading, to make it easy to skip over them.

Note that I'm not advocating in any way whether people supply their own subjects or not. It's nice to have both options and let the user choose.

It seems that the "SPAM-report" topic keeps on popping up at the head of recent posts. There seems to be other funkiness in recent posts but I can't recall the exact nature of the quirkyness at this time.

I'm sure a Haskell based forum system would solve the problems.......just freaking kidding:)

A SPAM post I located:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/944#comment-23957

Ehud--do you encourage reports of this sort? Are you efficient at removing spam yourself?

At the bottom of the comment input form, <quote> is mentioned as an allowed tag. Is it just my setup, or does it not work? I don't seem to see quotation marks nor a change of appearance of the enclosing text. Here's an example: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

A question on usability regarding the site theme:

Am I the only one who's getting eyes wet while looking at the bold blue links?

Also, the blockquote tag is rendered in blue... Every day I find myself clicking on it and wondering why nothing happens.

Surely presentation is nothing, but maybe anyone has similiar problems with the site?

How do I fix the date format used when I read the LtU forum?

I would like to see DD/MM/YYYY as is proper, not backwards MM/DD/YYYY.

(PS: I love making fun of American idiosyncrasies)

LtU had to be taken offline for about three hours earlier today, for unscheduled database maintenance. Everything should be back to normal now.

Ehud,

I have problems getting a number of the papers referenced on the papers page of LtU. I have noticed that

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com

doesn't respond but

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu

does. Please have somebody adjust the links accordingly. In addition some of the other links also time out.

both c and c++ design doc links are outdated.

the sites have moved to http://www.open-std.org

the new links are:

c workgroup

c++ docs or better yet c++ workgroup

hi,

Thanks for a still tremendous site!

Any chance of having the text of things be HTML w/out fixed widths? I am finding that even on a real, large display, things are chopped off the RHS and I have to scroll to-and-fro to read anything. I don't think any of my Firefox settings are causing this, I have tried dis/enabling things to experiment, with no useful results.

Maybe it is something about that particular page since others don't seem to have the problem. Hm...

[Firefox 1.5.0.6 on WinXP Pro.]