Here at LQ, we realize that it's our members that make us what we are. Your feedback is critical to our success. On that note, we'd like to hear any suggestions you may have for us. Looking for certain functionality that you can't find? Have a suggestion you think we could use? Have a way we could be doing something better? Even if you just have a comment you think we could benefit from, we want to know. Please post your ideas in this thread. We really appreciate it and I while we may not implement every suggestion, I assure you we're listening.

--jeremy

My suggestion is to remove linux news from the 0 replys threads search. I use the 0 reply thread search to try and answer someones post. Sometimes this search will be loaded with linux news.

One thing I would like to see (or maybe have clarified how it works???) is in a forum, like "Linux - Newbie" I can click the column for replies and have it sort the list by the number of replies. When I click the little arrow to sort from 0 --> most replies, I'd like to see all the "0" replies also sorted by date. Right now I don't understand how they're sorted when you do that.

For example, in the Linux -- Newbie forum, when I sort by replies and hit the down carrot, I have a whole bunch of "0 reply" threads listed for the forum. The top couple have dates of 2-18, the next few say today, then 2-16, etc.

so I guess I'd like all the 0 replies to be sorted by today, yesterday, 2-18, 2-16 (or from oldest to newest, doesn't really matter to me) and all the 1 reply threads sorted similarly, etc...

comprookie2000, that was done a couple days ago.
pljvaldez, you can't sort on one key within another. You can sort by number of reply and pick a date range or you can sort by date. We have no plans to allow you to mix the two at this time.

--jeremy

I think maybe a place to talk about linux products for sale, like computers. I am looking to buy a computer and find the selection for linux computers to be slim. If there were a place here on LQ, people could post the deals they find or what not.

however, anti_microsoft, what use does an american deal have to me, an aussie, where tech prices are higher because of import/dollar weakness etc?
Or european to indian or whatever.

titanium_geek

Does not have to be an american only forum. Could have sub forums maybe? I like the idea. Eases the burden for those of us that would rather support linux in some way.

I also think it would be neat if you could get maybe an LQ computer? I know this is a not for profit site, but say if you donated at this level ___.__$, one could own a custom bult LQ box with a logo case and distro of choice. That would be neat. And you would be supporting 2 good causes, LQ and linux

Not everyone uses 1024x768 resolution. I would like to see the site be more dynamic, i.e. expand or shrink the horizontal width so that no horizontal scrolling is needed for 800x600 users.

Paul

I was just hunting around and I noticed the Tutorials section looked a bit... restrictive. Maybe a few more categories or maybe categories that fell in line with the forum descriptions? Something more integrated like the HCL would be lovely. I know that would be no small thing to do but you did ask for suggestions

I'll leave it with you

:disappointed: I am a very long time Windows/Dos user (ever since it was started) and I don't think anyone hates it more than I do. I have purchased a disc with PCLINUXOS from a E-bay seller, I downloaded a copy of SUSE LINUX 10.0.. I have tried to follow the instructions to the letter and I have yet to get anything to work correctly yet, except running Pclinuxos from the CD, which I will not do on an ongoing basis. If you are going to get Windows users to move over to Linux you are going to have to learn to write your instructions as clear and understandable as your code. I have not given up, but I have been set way back.
You have the only product that can compete with MS and I wish you all the luck.

shydrager7@sbcglobal.net

Paul_Vandenberg, the site does dynamically size...but only down to a specific minimum. We do strive to get that minimum as low as possible.

anti_microsoft, for a variety of reasons from geographic disparity to legal ramifications you probably won't see LQ facilitating any kind of sales (at least in the short term).

mastonp, this thread is for suggestions specific to LQ itself.

Thanks for the feedback - keep it coming!

--jeremy

One of the best features of lwn.net is the ability to set e-mail notifications to one's postings and responses for some period of time. Such a feature would be even more useful here since typical replies are of the nature, "I tried that, but now I get this problem/error/whatever" or "I don't understand that step--did you mean [this] or [that]?"

Continually polling the site for updates is inefficient, particularly for those with too little free time in the first place; think interrupts instead (or, really, in addition to the existing search/browse facilities).

Here's another one: don't lose old postings. I had between 10 and 15 of them as of a month ago--as verified by the "find more posts" link at that time, i.e., I don't have more than one login--and now, after a month of inactivity, I'm down to 2 (or 3 after this one, presumably). Nor is it a matter of the oldest ones expiring; my first post is still here, but all the intervening ones are gone. What happened?

You can get instant, daily or weekly updates for any arbitrary thread or forum (it's been like that for a long long time). We should *never* lose a post. If we did, there is a bug somewhere. My very first post from 2000 introducing the site is still accessible in fact.

--jeremy

Sorry, pilot error! I confused the Ubuntu forum here with the very similar-looking ubuntuforums.org, which is where my "missing" posts are.

Just to make this constructive: I think it would be much more intuitive to have a "Subscribe" button right next to the "Post Reply" button at the bottom of each thread. I did find how to do it under "Subscribed Threads" in the sidebar, and that's a useful way to do it batch-style, but it's not part of my "normal flow" for reading and replying to threads.

Thanks.