Personally, I like the perlmonks community, but I think the website just plain sucks from a design point of view.

Ah so. What is it that sucks? IMO its a lot easier saying that than actually offering a detailed review and critique that pmdev can use to improve things.

I'd like to know what you consider to be good design. You mentioned a link in one of your other sites that I followed, but the page doesnt seem to load properly. Is that what you consider good design? Frankly a lot of sites that ive been pointed at by web designers as example of good stuff have themselve been really pretty, and basically useless. PM otoh, is not entirely pretty, (although given how customizable the user experience is this is only an issue for the anony monk), it is quite functional. Super Search works well unlike most sites search features. We provide XML feeds of just about everything we can think of, and seem to be able to provide an enviornment where programmers beginner and experienced can find a place to contribute or learn from. What exactly is it that we doing so wrong?

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In reply to Re^2: Open sourcing perlmonks by demerphq
in thread Open sourcing perlmonks by BUU

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