Having read all the above posts let me offer my $0.02:

PerlMonks is slow but it's backed up by five years of development. Why throw all this away? Because it's slow. We've learnt a lot in five years and you can't tell me that there are no legacy remnants in the Everything code that are 'too embeded' to remove. Of course there are! Caching for one seems to be a problem.

Set the code free I keep hearing that there's problems that people will be looking at when they get the time, however why not make the source open so that we can all take a look? Surely the reason why most of contribute to open source is that if everyone can post a small change then we end up with a lot of goodness added. And before you all reply telling me that I can download the Everything source, let me make the point that the Perl Monk's source is very different from the Everything. Sure you can get a grasp on how it fundamentally works, but you can't write a MonkPatch.

Parallel Rewrite What I'd suggest is a parallel open-source rewrite. We colaboratively rewrite the Perl Monks site using everything we've learned in the last five years, starting with data design, then moving to data migration then onto the actual site. Don't think of this as 're-inventing the wheel' but as 'inventing the pneumatic tyre'.

In reply to Re: redesign everything engine? by BigLug
in thread redesign everything engine? by Jaap

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