I can see your point, but the current system works for me because 95% of the replies are in answer to a Seekers of Perl Wisdom question (or a Meditation or Perl Monks Discussion like this one) and so they seem to "belong" with the others. I don't really have strong feelings one way or the other, however, and I may only prefer the current way due to it always being that way for me. At the very least, I'd like to keep the Breaking News and the Q&A sections at the bottom, as they are different enough from the other sections to warrant it, IMO. Both Tutorials and Cool Uses are rare enough that moving them would not really bother me much. My pet peeve is people who change the title of their replies, so that one cannot tell what thread it belongs to unless you read all the root nodes and memorize the titles as you go. True threading on the Newest Nodes page would make a very nice feature and fix that problem.

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