Nice research and writeup!

Please bear with me as i ask, why do we need to do anything? What exactly is the problem? If the site fills a need, awesome. If it just isn't popular, who cares? To put it another way, do you want PM to have a large userbase and nodes just because? Or, are you afraid that the potential userbase is satisfying all their perl related needs elsewhere?

Maybe PM is just reflecting the state of Perl in general. It used to be more popular, for whatever reason. If that's the case, the answer would be to make Perl more popular, not PM, per se.

The community here is knowledgeable and the website provides a particular type of forum. I don't think the forum is particularly perlish; it can be used for other language too. Much like (iiuc) Javaranch became Coderanch (at least in name), PerlMonks could become CodeMonks with multiple monasteries, representing different languages. Assuming the forum and its presentation is nice, it should be popular with other languages too. Then again, this assumes the site is to be grown for the purpose of growth.

It really boils down to, what exactly is the core problem? You have only (but nicely!) delineated its ill effects.

In reply to Re: Terminal decline? by chacham
in thread Terminal decline? by BrowserUk

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