"Allow people to use a predefined CSS design instead of writing your own."

Several of your historical responses have informed you that css is customisable, in terms of a single pre defined change see Display Settings -> 'Theme container'.

"And the website should allow people to post pictures if they want to."

People can link to an image should they wish, outside of home node images I see no benefit to the burden of hosting them here. It'd add more janitorial work.

"Have the ability to upload a zip file into each person's profile."

This creates more problem and janitorial headaches than it solves problems, github (along with their gists), gitlab (along with their snippets) and a multitude of other sites and services provide this. People already do this and just link to the information. It's a wheel that no one need reinvent here.

Yes, but it's not so simple as just upload your files. There's a bunch of requirements on CPAN. Module have to be a certain way. You can't just upload any random files to CPAN.

There are plenty of other sites which can act as filestores such as gitlab, github, google drive or even your own neocities site. There's no reason not to use one of those instead.

And the website should allow people to post pictures if they want to.

It already does. And you know this.

when I search the site, there should be a switch that allows me to search for part of a word...

There is no doubt that our search could be more capable. But how about, instead of getting into the details here, we simply say that the new site should have powerful, modern search capabilities. We'll probably use some existing, off-the-shelf technology (Lucene, maybe?) for searching. And we are not going to re-invent Google. You know you can already use Google to search PerlMonks, right?

The site should have the ability to upload a file like a zip file containing a bigger program than just a code snippet.
Have the ability to upload a zip file into each person's profile....

Absolutely not.

That being said, we could probably have better "integration" with external filedump sites such as github and pastebin.

the website should allow people to post pictures if they want to

Unlike some others here, I am not fundamentally opposed to this. We'd want to be sure to limit the capability, e.g. max size, max dimensions, max number of images uploaded, etc.
And users (readers) should be able to choose how "embedded" images get rendered — either in-line or as links they can click on (rather like how we treat spoilers).

There is no doubt that our search could be more capable. But how about, instead of getting into the details here, we simply say that the new site should have powerful, modern search capabilities. We'll probably use some existing, off-the-shelf technology (Lucene, maybe?) for searching. And we are not going to re-invent Google. You know you can already use Google to search PerlMonks, right?

Google, and (TTBOMK) standard settings for existing off-the-shelf technology, are geared to search for words, and totally fail when you want to search for a string in which non-word characters are significant. Being able to search for posts that contain, eg, (?=...) should be a quality test for any PerlMonks search feature.

Good point, and I would never suggest that we would defer all of our search capability to google.
Search engines like Lucene have lots of knobs to twiddle, including "what's a word?" and "search only whole words".
We would also continue to support direct access to the database's native search, so e.g. text like '%(?=...)%' would be no problem.

Today's latest and greatest software contains tomorrow's zero day exploits.

If we allow pictures, we certainly should enforce limits (pixel size, file size, number, images per months, minimum XP required, etc). Images in posts could certainly be helpful, both to illustrate a problem and to show solutions.

On Telegram, when communicating with my fellow humans, it's often much easier to post a screenshot with a big circle around a checkbox or button (with a helpful note "Click here"), than it is to describe in textual form on what to click.

Of course, to distinguish us from the rest of the internet, we need to find a way to block cat pictures... :-)

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we need to find a way to block cat pictures... :-)

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Use another separator like | so you can surround the words with spaces:

https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=3989;BIT=%7C%20webp%20%7C;BIS=%7C

Ok this will miss ",webp " and " webp." but works reasonably well.

> Allow people to use a predefined CSS design

We already have "themes"

For example, when I search the site, there should be a switch that allows me to search for part of a word or whole words only.

If we go for my PageCamel framework, there are two ways of achieving this:

• a SuperSearch like feature with all the options
• a user setting that defines the behavior of the default search boxes