I like the idea but I have a refinement. I don't tend to visit the front page much and if I do it is usually just to click through to Newest Nodes. My home node is where I tend to gather stuff I want to refer to (looking around here others seem to do the same). So instead of having a seperate front page configuration a seperate home node configuration might be more useful. I'd certainly appreciate being able to have different nodelets on my home node instead of on the front page

This wins on performance too because in most cases home nodes will be smaller than the front page any-way :)

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