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Perlmonks Response Time Bottoming Out
1 direct reply — Read more / Contribute 		by roho
on Sep 22, 2025 at 23:08
    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."

perlmonks.com isnt indexed
2 direct replies — Read more / Contribute 		by Anonymous Monk
on Sep 20, 2025 at 20:19
    yet the updated the anonymous monk experience links to duck duck go site:perlmonks.com which returns no results —- wow
Moving and approving in "Approval Nodelet"
No replies — Read more | Post response 		by LanX
on Sep 20, 2025 at 19:34
    Hi

    This

    shows as unapproved, and can't be approved anymore.

    I moved the node and AFAIR did I try to approve it within the same operation, which might explain the resulting mess.

    Does it make sense to patch the process to only allow one operation at a time?

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    see Wikisyntax for the Monastery
Selected parts of the site are now static for Anonymous Monks
3 direct replies — Read more / Contribute 		by Co-Rion
on Sep 14, 2025 at 12:17

    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.
Perlmonks: How deplorable can it get ?
3 direct replies — Read more / Contribute 		by syphilis
on Aug 31, 2025 at 23:46
Link reposting in "Perl News"?
3 direct replies — Read more / Contribute 		by LanX
on Jul 18, 2025 at 11:23
Voting buttons placed way off screen when post has long lines
1 direct reply — Read more / Contribute 		by sleet
on Jun 07, 2025 at 06:36
    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.
Function Nodelet Broken
2 direct replies — Read more / Contribute 		by choroba
on May 30, 2025 at 11:06
    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.

    map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
Super search use DuckDuckGo link broken
2 direct replies — Read more / Contribute 		by Anonymous Monk
on May 01, 2025 at 17:22
    Links broken, the one anonymous see
Perlmonks site has become far too slow
5 direct replies — Read more / Contribute 		by stevieb
on May 01, 2025 at 02:39

    My title says it all.

    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.

    -stevieb
Anonymous Google Chrome browsers now under additional scrutiny
3 direct replies — Read more / Contribute 		by Co-Rion
on Apr 30, 2025 at 14:25

    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.
Unable to connect
2 direct replies — Read more / Contribute 		by choroba
on Mar 21, 2025 at 16:02
    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?

    map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
Login to the site doesn't stick
2 direct replies — Read more / Contribute 		by talexb
on Mar 19, 2025 at 16:26

    I noticed this new behaviour today -- I logged in, posted a Meditation, then used the same tab to go somewhere else. Half an hour later, I decided to come back to the site .. and I had to log in again.

    So, just now, I visited the site, logged in, then opened a new tab (in the same browser window), and once again I was prompted to log in again. That's odd -- has anyone else noticed this behaviour? I'm using Firefox 136.0 (64-bit) on Ubuntu.

    Alex / talexb / Toronto

    For a long time, I had a link in my .sig going to Groklaw. I heard that as of December 2024, this link is dead. Still, thanks to PJ for all your work, we owe you so much. RIP Groklaw -- 2003 to 2013.
Site URLs vary despite same semantics
1 direct reply — Read more / Contribute 		by etj
on Feb 22, 2025 at 08:30
    This is because the CGI variables are emitted in a random order - I expect there's a `keys` call.

    I believe it would be better to sort those, so that semantically identical URLs with CGI args will always have the same canonical "spelling", so one can most easily see at a glance whether one has previously visited them.
The title page is empty
1 direct reply — Read more / Contribute 		by choroba
on Feb 20, 2025 at 07:52
    When I try to open perlmonks with a domain where I'm not logged in, I see just a blank page.

    The browser shows the empty page loaded OK (200).

    map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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