# Be kind. Wait between fetches longer than each fetch takes.
...
Disallow: /*node_id=3989nCrawl-Delay: 20
[download]

Cheers
LanX

(via Tor, IP probably blocked because of greedy downloads ;-)

UPDATE

Never mind, I found a way to throttle wget and bend it to my needs :-)

I'd like to locally mirror this site for personal use. Need at least access to my thought processes of the last 2 decades.

Problem is that I don't want to put even more strain on the servers.

I looked at the wayback machine as alternative source and unsurprisingly it had problems accessing threads since "the AI" started its distributed denial of service attack.

I suppose a compressed tar ball would be in the range of 0.1 to 1.0 GB and could be offered as a torrent. (Unfortunately AI wouldn't be "I" enough to use that instead)

Hmm ... Alternatively to plain html maybe only the XML versions of the posts plus a mojolicious app running the search engine and rendering the posts.

Parts of this post rather belong to meditation, feel free to move it if appropriate.

My first page after logging in is the "Newest Nodes". And there I sometimes do not see any posts because the last one is older than a day. Sure there is a dropdown to show older posts. But, I think hitting the empty list is a bit discouraging to discussion. Can the posts "disappear" in 2,3 days instead? Or just show the last 10 posts irrespective of age, unless their age is ridiculously old? Unless there is a setting I am not aware of.

On the positive side, navigating the site is absolutely fluid. Thank you PM!

bw, bliako

This is the first time I've been able to reach PerlMonks this year. To be fair, I've only been trying for the last two weeks and only once a day at around 20:00UT. But I try once and if the RAT page fetch times out I move on to other things. Is there an expectation that the page timeout issue will improve?

This is a project I started working on in late October, before I knew that there's already a rework project in progress, i.e. Taking advantage of E2 improvements

It is an old idea, but got some new life from Ideas for PerlMonks 2.0 (nearly a year ago).

• https://github.com/arunbear/monk_world
• https://github.com/arunbear/monk_world_api

Update 03-01-2026, Replaced demo with screenshots

• Threads
• Search
• A node

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?

P.S. It took the better part of an hour just to submit this post.

This

• Commify function regex in Perl vs sed

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?

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.

I noticed that in Reddit's r/perl brian_d_foy and others keep posting just one liner links as a kind of newsfeed.

I was thinking of mirroring this here in News because then we could easily discuss them here.

I already made sure Brian is fine with this. He also suggested to me to use the RSS as source for simplification.

This would significantly increase the number of posts in Perl News so I wanted to ask beforehand. Another alternative target could be Meditations

For clarification: These are curated links, I'm not talking about total automation.

I'd probably use a nodelet hack to check the RSS and prepare the post here to be mirrored

Examples from Reddit

• Classes in Corinna and Camelia ~ Matthew Stuckwisch - TPRC 2025 - YouTube

  https://youtu.be/IqHUB3J0w3w

• The underbar podcast: "Metacpan"

  https://underbar.cpan.io/episodes/3/

• Keep on Mocking with a Key, Girrrrl - DEV Community

  https://dev.to/duffee/keep-on-mocking-with-a-key-girrrrl-53oj