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I would also like to see Perl News added to the list. There have been several time in the past when I dearly would have loved to be able to Front-Page a particularly relevant item.

There is little enough traffic in News, that it shouldn't cause an appreciable increase in the number of items at the Monastery Gates. Also, News is far enough down the Newest Nodes page that it can easily be missed in the cloud of SoPW's; making News more visible would be a goodness. (Is News even on the Monastery Gates? (Or was that something that I had to enable in my Settings?))

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by Argel (Prior) on Jul 11, 2007 at 23:04 UTC
    Maybe what we need is a Table of Contents at the top of each page (or at least the Monastary Gates). Then people could see the titles of the current posts and what category they are in and easily jump to ones that sound interesting. This might help promote the sections buried beneath the SoPW posts and help encourage better choices for titles. And if soemthing like this was done in SoPW it would make it easer to see what posts have not been approved yet.
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      Maybe what we need is a Table of Contents at the top of each page (or at least the Monastary Gates).

      FWIW I consider that a wonderful idea, well if not applied to every page that is, but certainly to The Monastery Gates. Particularly useful it would be, if it were possible to somehow manage to make it "unconventional" in that rather than being a single vertical list, would it include several columns, with most of the sections visible at a glance. Perhaps, to make things easier and not too obtrusive, only a very few nodes should be indexed anyway: chosen amongst those that have been frontpaged, of course, but with the higher reputation... so yes, that would form a bias too... but at least equally divided amonst all sections.

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        I agree about using multiple columns. Or perhaps it could be done via a nodelet? Then people could easily turn it off if they do not like it. Another possiblity would be to have a summary page, listing categories and recent activity (titles and date).
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