I was perusing some areas of the site I hadn't visted before, and I noticed that the book reviews are organized alphabetically. I wonder whether it might be more useful for them to be arranged by date, most recent first.

I see that there aren't a lot of them -- by their nature (books take a long time to write and read, and often have useful lifetimes extending far beyond the ephemeral) -- so organizing them by date might well be missing the point. But nonetheless, some are significantly older than others, something one can't figure out just from looking at the alphabetized list.

Also, I've noticed that the "Newest Nodes" page categorizes "Perl News" nodes as "New Perl Announcements," which doesn't seem to correspond with what that section is often used for (and in any case doesn't have the same name, which is potentially confusing). The "Perl News" section says it isn't serving its original purpose any longer, but people still post new things to it, so I wonder whether it might be worth disambiguating its function.

I've really no idea how much work goes into changing something like this, so I could be suggesting something unreasonable. Do these changes seem worthwhile and/or feasible?

BCE
--Bocce is like a second language to me.

In reply to Organization of reviews? (and new nodes) by BorgCopyeditor

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