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You can designate a node to be your "preferred default node". Go to your User Settings and enter a node ID in the box labeled Preferred Default Page. (NB: this must be a node ID, not a node title.)
If you navigate to the node named default, it will redirect you to your configured default node. (If you have no node so configured, it will redirect you to The Monastery Gates.)
This "preferred default node" is also used on the Login page, as one of the suggested places you can go next, after logging in.
In the future it may be used for other things as well. Suggestions welcome.
The list of new CPAN modules looked stale to me so I checked on MetaCPAN and found that the last date with new modules is Sept. 30. This seems unlikely. Does our widget grab from MetaCPAN?
The way forward always starts with a minimal test.
At the risk of stating the obvious, Perlmonks response time has bottomed out again. For the last several days, 9 out of 10 page requests return with "perlmonks.org took too long to respond." Does anyone have any ideas how to solve this?
P.S. It took the better part of an hour just to submit this post.
"It's not how hard you work, it's how much you get done."
Selected parts of the site are now served from static HTML files instead of being dynamically generated on-demand.
The update process for these pages is still manual, so if you reply to an older node, do not be surprised if the reply is not visible to Anonymous Monk.
Currently, the export is from April 2025 and affects all users and replies up to node id 210000.
Ideally, this will reduce the load on the site so that logged-in human users can actually use the site.
See this recent post for an example: converting binary to decimal
All voting buttons for all nodes on the page are placed way off the screen because of the long lines in the initial node.
It seems the Function Nodelet links are broken: Instead of leading to substr, they lead to ?node=doc://substr which doesn't work (and even logs me out). First reported by adamsj in Chatterbox.
Sometimes it responds immediately, but mostly it takes many seconds (into the 10s sometimes) to load the main site, then again to load "Recent Threads".
This is going to push people away, including long time users of the site.
Is this a bandwidth issue? A DB issue? An issue with an overwhelming number of bots swamping the site?
A discussion needs to be had about what can be done to keep this very valuable resource usable.
If you are browing Perlmonks using Google Chrome and are not logged in, your browser needs to send the sec-ch-ua header, otherwise your anonymous access to the site is blocked.
We are constantly being hit by crawlers claiming to be Google Chrome, so this is a first step in the rat race.
Several times today (11:24, 18:11, 20:43 Europe/Prague) I got "Unable to connect" from firefox when trying to connect to RAT. After several minutes, the page was back up. Is it a new problem, or one of the old problems reappearing?
