I have a few suggestions. 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. Right now if I type in something such as "webp" if I want to look for conversation on webp processing, then it will list a bunch of results containing "webperl" and "webpage" which is not what I want. I saw no way to tell the search engine to search for whole words only.

Another suggestion: Allow people to use a predefined CSS design instead of writing your own. It's nice that some people say, "hey, you can use your own design. You can configure the site's look and feel in any shape or form," but imagine if someone does not want to spend a whole afternoon customizing his experience on PerlMonks. Let's say I want to have a cool configuation in 3 seconds. There should be a drop-down menu that offers me to choose between site designs and pick one instead of me having to do all the coding. What if I don't want to do the coding?

The site should have the ability to upload a file like a zip file containing a bigger program than just a code snippet. And the website should allow people to post pictures if they want to.

Have the ability to upload a zip file into each person's profile. For example, each person would get maybe a 100MB storage space to upload a ZIP file which might contain modules or work that the person wants to share. This again, could be searchable. You might say, "Well, there is CPAN. That's precisely what you're describing. Upload your files and it's searchable." 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.

In reply to Re^6: Ideas for PerlMonks 2.0 by harangzsolt33
in thread Ideas for PerlMonks 2.0 by jdporter

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