I do not own this site – nor do I care to.   I merely use it, for the information that it contains and for its ability to provide quick answers to thorny Perl questions – thanks to the many very-knowledgeable members of its community.   And, that is probably why everyone except the gods comes here, too.

Nevertheless, PerlMonks looks the way it does, and remains more-or-less the same site it was a decade ago, (a) because it works, and (b) because far more time is spent by certain people in the apparently endlessly-entertaining pursuit of sniping and bickering when anyone dares to raise their helmet above the trench-line.   And using Anonymous Monk to protect something that is all-important to some people:   “experience points (XP).”   (As was done in the OP of this thread.   Someone, who will remain Anonymous and intended to be so, wanted to snipe at the way the site looks without risking his “PXP = Precious XP” for having made a potentially-negative comment.)   To each his own.   If an integer matters that much to you . . .

PM’s CSS, actually, is not bad.   I can change the size of the window, for example, and everything obediently sticks to the left or the right-hand margin as it should, and does not overlap other screen content even at improbably-small dimensions.   The most distinguishing characteristic of it, in addition to the clip-art that has never been anti-aliased, is the fact that it uses a Serif typeface for all of its text and makes no use of color.   However, this is not necessarily a bad thing at all:   the page content is basically a reference document, and Serif makes text more readable.   And, I certainly do not miss animated-GIF “smileys” at all.   Text will do nicely.   :-)

No, what drives PM is the extreme helpfulness of its (sometimes, extremely prickly to the point of rudeness) membership of active participants.   Many sites provide answers ... some even cravenly attempt to sell them for a price.   But no one comes close to PM.   IMHO, no other site holds a candle to it on this subject, and no site provides better answers faster.   And where else would you find something like the “10**21 Problem” thread that is now going on over in Meditations, in four parts?

So, I don’t care how the site looks, and I don’t want to see changes for the sake of change.   Classification, taxonomy, usefulness-indicators that are more specific than just a single number, and the ability to search based on these additional bits of metadata – I wish that those things were “done yesterday.”   But they probably never will come, and I know that.   Tim did a very good job.   The site – and, the community associated with it – is admirably good at what it does.