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I doesn't belong in that list. I had to supersearch to find this thread to find the doc — it's not like it's hard to see, but it's very well camouflaged by being the odd one out in the middle of an otherwise uniform list of things of a completely different type.

It needs to be visually distinct.

Mockup of a proposed interface:

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(The mode doodad is a dropdown+button here.)

That visually groups together the things that functionally belong together, and makes different things look different. The current look where a list of config options are all visible all the time and are simple links just like the long bunch of in-page anchors following them makes it hard to scan the area for units of functionality.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^5: Help wanted on Recently Active Threads
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Jan 18, 2005 at 13:32 UTC

    I'd be fine with applying a patch that made these changes.... :-)

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      Ok. I don't have the time right now, but will do it tonight.

      Makeshifts last the longest.

        No rush. :-) RAT is more than a little bit of a rats nest... Sorry.

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