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I have had a small exchange of mails with Dries, and he suggested that I post my input on the site.
Here is my first take on what could be added and or altered in the Drupal interface design (I do include some key functionality in the administration system - because it has to do with usability).
The general idea is to make the system easier to use, and more flexible.
It would be lovely if you could choose how blogs are ordered. I've been working on a module that imports Livejournal into a Drupal Blog. That work fine.
But when you view "my blog", you get the imported entries first. Why? Because they have later node ID's..
Could this be sorted by date please? Yes. I know it's work and will be more expensive in processor time to create the page. I may just write a (cronable) script to reorder the database based on date.
In busy forums, moderation can be a useful tool for gently enforcing good behavior. Drupal is pretty flexible in its support for moderation, but it could go farther to make moderation more effective.
Plastic.com, to take one example, uses moderation in ways that are different from Drupal's in some major and minor ways. The two most important differences are: 1. Limited pool of mod points, and 2. Karma points accumulate.
I just wanted a note of this before I forgot it again. Mark all as read, or unread, would be useful for keeping track of when I had or hadn't read something in a forum. This should be on a "to-do" list if it's not already.