I think this should be it's own thread.

Others like choroba are more qualified to argue, because this discussion is at least a year old.

personally

• I liked the old interface at perldoc.perl.org better
• I was told the maintainers are not responsive
• perldoc.pl allows easily to pick deeplinks, that is a killer feature
• The maintainer of perldoc.pl asked here for feature requests

I'm not sure if he's happy if we fix this! ;-)