"Yes, PerlMonks is good enough, but I keep wondering what holds it back from becoming just a little bit better. Any insight to satisfy my curiousity is appreciated so I can quit wondering."

I suppose this comes down to what you define as "a little better". Improvements to functionality are added from time to time. From a UI perspective such topics are touched in periodically in Perl Monks Discussion:

You can see from these posts and resultant discussions that the topic is discussed, proposals are made from time to time, UI changes prototypes and discussed. There are other interfaces to the chatterbox (Other CB Clients).

In reply to Re: So what's the deal with PerlMonks not changing in like 16 years? by marto
in thread So what's the deal with PerlMonks not changing in like 16 years? by nysus

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