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I just would not like to see PerlMonks with all it's history flushed.

You have persistently misunderstood my points. I adore this site. It’s the code that I think is a problem blocking modernization, new features, patches, bugfixes, and easy contribution. I would change nothing about the history or the ethos of the place at all. It is, to me, an ideal forum.

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Re^16: Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others)
by PerlGuy(Tom) (Acolyte) on Feb 05, 2020 at 20:18 UTC
    I do understand your point(s), and as I said, I completely agree.

    Your original post though, mentioned flushing, but nothing about preserving.

    I also doubt it would be possible to port PerlMonks to a new platform.

    At best, the old forum could be archived.

    Tom
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      It is absolutely possible to port it. Huge swaths of it are trivial. It’s just a serious commitment and only senior level webdevs—and it’s time to put a finer point on that point, that Venn does not include anyone who thinks this is a fix for anything: s/\n/<br>/g—and especially ETL pros are qualified to try.

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        I would think just allowing the "return" or newline to go into the database unprocessed and unmodified and to spit it back out, unprocessed and unmodified, would be a not good scenario.

        What is to prevent me or anyone from just holding down the return key for an hour and posting 7 million lines of whitespace?

        Tom
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        "that Venn does not include anyone who thinks this is a fix for anything: s/\n/<br>/g—"

        I believe I said: s/\n/<br\/>/g; which is something of a simplification, but what in principle do you think is wrong with it. (<BR /> as a general replacement for "return".)

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