General discussion

if i hide my navigation from the site...how do i reach it...

as i found out that if the login for th euser is kept hidden...u can reach it www.example.com/user....

if anyone knows...please pass it along...id love to know...

After reading "Wordpress vs Drupal; what's in a reputation?" http://drupal.org/node/29364 I felt I needed to open up some of my own thoughts and start a new thread on improving Drupal for Bloggers.

I'm going to bitch and complain a lot, please take into account that I love and use Drupal, I think its great, you guys are doing a wonderful job, its just NOT easy to use for beginners.

From a blogger perspective that came from WordPress to Drupal after wanting multiple blogs / sites with more functionality and I found Drupal's learning curve far too high to get something basic to my liking up and running. Nothing seemed easy and I ran into many module bugs, had to learn CVS, patching and terminology.

To make it easier I feel there should be a single admin interface by default but allow custom interfaces through theming. Sooo many of the Drupal themes were buggy with the admin interface when I first came to customising drupal. That really put me off. I had to install the sections module and that was a pain in the arse. Someone please core an option to have a single admin interface thats designed by a designer, not a coder!

SEO permalinks, why doesn't Drupal core do this yet? Pathauto is only half a solution. WordPress' descriptive permalinks make so much more sense than Drupal's default "Clean URL's".

Theme's. People are individuals! Everyone wants to customise their blog/site. It should be easy to do it and should be flexible. Only recently with the flexiblock module is it made more flexible. Core it or something like it. Left and right aren't enough places.

September 2012, Google stopped his weather API, so my module does not work anymore. I don't plan to fix the situation.

Something like Schedule Module (allows a time-out or expire to be set) but when the creator of the node logs in and edits the node, the timer is reset.

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Purpose:
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If possible through the Drupal environment, how do I add a time limit for sessions so that they will close/log out after idle time? Simply put, how do I fix this? I need Drupal to log out sessions when all browsers are closed. Lets talk about it!

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Situation Background:
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Drupal is a great package. The only thing that I just realize by studying it, is the problem with the login/logout functionality.

I logged in on Thursday at 10 am as an administrator. I didn't log out. I just close my web browsers and turned off my computer. On Friday around 10:30 pm, I typed in the http location of my drupal site; and behold, my session as an administrator that I logged in on Thursday is still there. This is a serious "no no" for me.

If possible through the Drupal environment, how do I add a time limit for sessions so that they will close/log out after idle time? Simply put, how do I fix this? I need Drupal to log out sessions when all browsers are closed.

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Test Case:
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Say some user in the public library logs into my Drupal site, and forgets to log out. Some other person using the same station/computer can make changes logged in as the previous user. This is a sercurity problem.

Since the module download section is an alphabetized listing. I think it would be really helpful if recent additions were flagged by date or a new (by two weeks), perhaps a sort option. I've noticed myself checking at least once a week to see if anything new has been released/updated, with nothing more than my own memory to reference.

Hopefully you will take this into consideration.