Okay, I know that i've been seeing alot of people asking how to add stats to the front page. after taking a look at how wpmu works (and fixing a few bugs), I beleive i have a simple solution that you won't have to reapply after upgrading (maybe, please correct me if i'm wrong).
I have created a plugin specifically for wpmu that adds a function that lists the last updated blogs on your site. the code is based on some code that i got from the edublogs.org home theme.
I have no clue if this will work for everyone, so please tell me if it does or doesn't.
here's what you do:
1) download and unzip this file:
http://extragoofy.com/downloads/fimii-wpmu-stats.tar.gz
2) put fimii-wpmu-stats.php into your mu-plugins directory (should be wp-inst/wp-content/mu-plugins if you're looking for it)
3) add the following line to where you want a list of last updated blogs:
<?php
if(function_exists('fimii_wpmu_last_updated'))
{
fimii_wpmu_last_updated();
}
?>
there are also a couple of parameters that you can pass to the function:
fimii_wpmu_last_updated($lim = 10, $domain = '')
$lim is the limit of blogs you want displayed, which defalts to 10 if not defined.
$domain is the domain you do not want to be included. for instance, on my site http://isthy.name/
fimii_wpmu_last_updated(10,"isthy.name");
Please tell me if you have any problems, anything i should add/remove/dismember, or if this is the entirely wrong way of doing things and that i shoud stop.