As the site grows, it's important to remember that we are here for you, the LQ member. If you have any questions or suggestions on how we can improve or ideas on things you'd lke to see here, post them in this thread. Thanks again for making LQ the best Linux forum on the web.

--jeremy

Yes, set the site so you can just just type www.lq.com in the address bar.
Noah

lq.com (and lq.org) are not domains that are available.

--jeremy

Any improvements to the searching functions are always welcome.

I'd like to see the 'Search this Thread:' field moved to the top of the page.
(I never noticed that down at the bottom of the page until today. )

Also, it would be nice to have a 'Search this Forum:' right up next to the 'Search any Forum:' field on the main forum pages.

Since searching is such an important part of using the forums and is recommended on a regular basis, then any extra opportunities to search could only be a good thing. Or, so it seems.

Edit: Oh, I see there is a 'Search this Forum:' field at the bottom of the main forum pages. Can that be moved to the top next to the "Search any Forum:' field?

I try to make the layout as balanced and even as possible. Moving everything to the top would quickly clutter the page (and possibly make things even *harder* to find). I encourage everyone to take a look at the whole page as your browse the site. You may be surprised what great features you have been missing. That being said if there is a consensus on certain layout changes that a majority think would improve the site then let me know.

--jeremy

I get the daily 0 (zero) replies email (to Outlook, I'm afraid, and I have to click on each one to read, and then minimize my browser to click on the next.

If only there was a way to access 0 (zero) replies on the website, perhaps a forum 'pending items'?

Perhaps there is another way that the unanswered could resurface somehow.

Also it would be great if we had some sort of 'closed' questions system, as we do on Experts-Exchange - they even have clean-up crews.

You can currently access threads with 0 replies on a per forum basis or on an all forums basis.

--jeremy

Hi there!!

Fisrt of all, thanks for the opportunity to sugest something...
Jeremy, you site is very good!! Congratulations...
I have a point..
What do you think about a "dotefiles" section....
As far as I read, I feel that a lot of questions could be answered just watching "dotfiles" ...
For instance,
.emacs
.vi
config - from mplayer...

i think could help a lot...

Best Regards

Slackie

In the past, it was possible to show all posts in the printable page view of a thread. I found this to be a very handy feature when saving a thread for future reference. However, the "show all posts" function no longer does that. Would you restore that function?

What is the right place to ask questions about the best way to use the wiki? As a first time user, I have questions like:

1. How do I add links to my messages?
2. How do I sign my messages?
3. How do I create a new topic?
4. How do I add a subtopic to an existing topic?

spurious, You can do that - click on "Show Printable Version" then "Show all XXX posts from this thread on one page".

TomF - there is one thread mainly about the wiki:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5&pagenumber=5

As well as the mailing list:
http://lists.linuxquestions.org

but to answer your initial questions:
1) You can use [http://www.google.com Google] or [[Some Wiki Page]]
2) Just type "~~~~", please only use this on talk pages though
3) Create a wiki link as above then when you view the article just click on the link - if the page doesn't exist you can create it.
4) Same as in 3 - it will just be a new page.

Please take a look at the help section especially the Manual of Style - most of your questions will be answered there:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/....org_Wiki:Help

For the searching threads for your answers, instead of using the provided search thing (which I find hard to use) is it not better to go to google and put in:

EX: Logitech mouse in slackware site:www.linuxquestions.org

Because I believe that searches the site for this, and it worked when I just did that. I find the search option is a bit too find any little reference to any word in anything, I get too many ones I have to pick through.

Does anyone else do this? Or am I just some sorta freak

Actually, the "Show all XXX posts from this thread on one page" no longer works. I'm using Mozilla, with JavaScript enabled.

I had to limit it as a result of some threads having 1000's of replies.

--jeremy

There are forums sorted by hardware, or sorted by Linux Distributions. However, I did not find any
about portage of Linux distributions on different architectures (Intel i386 etc vs PPC, ...).
To have such a forum would be great.